@article{Dānişmendnāme:4730,
      recid = {4730},
      author = {Lachenauer, Isabel},
      title = {Artūḫı Wept: New Approaches to Reading Emotions in  Dānişmendnāme (The Book of King Dānişmend)},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2022-08},
      pages = {236},
      abstract = {	A fourteenth-century redaction of an earlier, now-lost  text, Dānişmendnāme is a religious-heroic prosimetrum  narrative well known for its themes of ġazā and  confrontation with the Christian Other, but vast lacunae  exist in the study of this text. Its myriad poems have  never before been considered and its prose has long been  denied scholarly treatment that goes beyond its obvious  preoccupation with war against the infidel. 	This  dissertation argues that Dānişmendnāme’s rich depictions of  emotions distinguish this text from other examples of its  genre, making it a unique representative of Old Anatolian  Turkish religious-heroic prose narratives and a natural  subject for the history of emotions. Dānişmendnāme combines  both formulaic and novel language to elicit emotions. The  use of formulaic language does not preclude it from being  worthy of study; rather, the narrative’s preservation and  repetition of emotion words illuminates what kinds of modes  of emotional expression were valued by the redactor, ʿĀrif  ʿAlī, and his emotional community in fourteenth-century  eastern Anatolia.
	ʿĀrif ʿAlī makes explicit in his poems  that he intended for Dānişmendnāme to affect the emotions  of his audience in appropriate ways at specific times. He  successfully achieves this through different literary  devices, such as that of mirror characters, analysis of  which allows us to appreciate the relative psychological  and emotional sophistication of this text. An examination  of ʿĀrif ʿAlī’s historical and political context allows us  to speculate how Dānişmendnāme’s depiction of kingship  might in fact reflect the redactor’s contemporary political  context. It also reveals the importance of the emotional  relationship between king and warrior, which is a central  motif of the narrative.
	This project’s methodological  approach to the study of emotions in Dānişmendnāme unearths  the contours of the emotional community of ʿĀrif ʿAlī and  his audience, bringing a long-overlooked historical subject  to the fore. 
	Works of popular literature, especially  ġazā-oriented narratives like Dānişmendnāme, have been  relegated to specific, limited roles in the study of late  medieval Anatolia. By historicizing and redefining  Dānişmendnāme within the literary and cultural history of  the beylik period, this project sheds new light on a  familiar text and proves that Old Anatolian Turkish popular  literature can contribute to the nascent field of the  history of emotions in medieval Islamic studies. 
},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4730},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.4730},
}