Bir Hami Olarak Kınalızâde Ali Çelebi ve Muamma Türüne Katkısı

Although the support of Ottoman administrators as patrons for the artistic development of poets and writers and the circles of poets and writers they bring together around themselves are well-known, the question of whether the patrons engaged in collaborative production with the poets/writers within their circles is frequently ignored due to the absence of detailed analyses on this subject. In this paper we discuss the issue of and bring new evidence on the question of whether the patrons, who, by taking various names under their protection, helped them develop aristically, might also have sometimes contributed to the development of a genre themselves on the basis of a case study on Kınalızâde Ali Efendi, a member of the Kınalızâde family and the famous author of Ahlâk-ı Alâyî, and the enigma genre.