Tugra In The Classical Turkish Poetry And Tugraiyye As An Example Of Literary Genre

Being a branch of calligraphy, the imperial monogram (tugra) is one of the subject matters of the classical Turkish poetry with regard to its form and its function within the Ottoman social life. The poems written only to describe and praise the monogram of a statesman should be called tugraiyye implying the name of the genre. In this article, definition for the genre has been made considering the examples of tugraiyye which we could find out. Also we have studied the form of a monogram and descriptions of monogram in poems.