Culture of the Ottoman Empire
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Literature PoetryMain article: Poetry of the Ottoman EmpireAs with a lot of Ottoman Turkish artforms, the poetry created for the Ottoman court circle had a durable influence from classical Persian traditions[citation essential] a significant quantity of Persian loanwords entered the literary language, and Persian metres and forms (this type of as individuals of Ghazal) were used.By the 19th century and the era of Tanzimat reforms, the influence of Turkish people literature, until then mostly oral, started to appear in Turkish poetry, and there was growing influence from the literature of Europe there was a corresponding decline in classical court poetry. Tevfik Fikret, born in 1867, is often considered the founder of current day Turkish poetry. ProseMain report: Prose of the Ottoman EmpireMain article: Turkish literaturePrior to the 19th century, Ottoman prose was solely non-fictional, and was much less extremely produced than Ottoman poetry, in element since considerably of it followed the rules of the originally Arabic tradition of rhymed prose (Saj'). Nevertheless, a number of genres - the travelogue, the political treatise and biography - have been current.From the 19th century, the escalating influence of the European novel, and particularly that of the French novel, started to be felt. emsettin Sami's Taauk-u Tal'at ve Fitnat, extensively thought to be the initial Turkish novel, was printed in 1872 other notable Ottoman writers of prose had been Ahmet Mithat and Halit Ziya Uaklgil. ArchitectureMain report: Ottoman architectureOttoman architecture was a synthesis of Iranian-influenced Seljuk architectural traditions, as witnessed in the structures of Konya, Mamluk architecture, and Byzantine architecture it reached its biggest enhancement in the big public structures, such as mosques and caravanserais, of the 16th century.The most important figure in the area, the 16th century architect and engineer Sinan, was a Muslim transform of