HÜSAMEDDIN MOLLA (MUSA AKYİĞİTZÂDE)

Name: HÜSAMEDDIN MOLLA (MUSA AKYİĞİTZÂDE)
Author: Musa Akyiğitzâde (b. 1865 - d. 6 September 1923)

Title	HÜSAMEDDIN MOLLA (MUSA AKYİĞİTZÂDE)
Author	Musa Akyiğitzâde (b. 1865 - d. 6 September 1923)
Publication Date:	25/04/2022
Subject	Turkish Literature in the Renovation Period - novel
Type	Book
Language	Undetermined
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Library:	Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works
Record ID	husameddin-molla-musa-akyigitzade-tees-1947
Date	1886
Notes	Musa Akyiğitzade's novel called Hüsameddin Molla. The work is considered the first example of the modern Tatar novel. The novel Hüsameddin Molla was published in Kazan in 1886 as a Tatar text with Arabic letters. The work consists of 13 chapters. The main character of the novel, Hüsameddin, is a Tatar young man who returned to his village after receiving education in Istanbul. Hüsameddin educates children in the new way in a room of his house in his village, designated N., not far from the İdil River, whose name is not clearly given in the novel. The imam of the village, Bikbulat Molla, is an old-school person who criticizes Hüsameddin's education for children. Just as he opposes Hüsameddin's education of children in the new way, he speaks against Hüsameddin at every opportunity. When Hüsameddin Molla went to the city and stayed in the guesthouse of merchant Abbas Efendi Biktimiroğlu, he fell in love with the young girl he saw in the garden. The young girl is Hanife, the daughter of the guesthouse owner. Hanife watches and listens to Hüsameddin's conversation with the guests in the guesthouse through a hole she made in the wood in the small room next door. He likes Hüsameddin's answer to the question about taking many women. Hüsameddin leaves a letter for Hanife under a stone in the garden. The two young people begin to correspond. Ali Cavatov, brother of Bikbulat Molla's wife, is a rich merchant in N. village and intends to marry his son Sıbgatullah. When Bikbulat tells Molla that they are looking for a girl for Sıbgatullah, Bikbulat says that it would be appropriate for his nephew to get a girl from the city, not from the village, and adds that they praised Abbas Efendi's daughter. Bikbulat Molla and his wife, who went to ask for Hanife for his nephew Sıbgatullah at the beginning of the summer, were welcomed with great joy by Hanife's mother Şemsikamer. Even though Hanife says that she does not agree, her family does not listen to her. Hanife reports the situation to Hüsameddin. In the city, Hüsameddin asks Aynicemal Hanım to ask for Hanife. Hanife's family rejects Ms. Aynicemal and says that they will give Hanife to Sıbgatullah. Hüsameddin, who wants to marry Hanife, is also trying to obtain textbooks printed in Crimea for the children in the villages to read. Hüsameddin Molla leaves his village to distribute the textbooks he and Ebuzer Devletgildiyev brought from Crimea with the help they collected from wealthy people in the city to the children in the villages. Meanwhile, preparations for Hanife's wedding begin. Hüsameddin Molla is unaware of these developments because he has been away from his village for a long time. A horseman coming from the city tells the wedding procession that set out from N. village to go back and that Hanife is missing. In the novel, it goes back to the night before with the flashback technique and it is told that Hanife made a sudden decision to leave the house at night and took shelter in Aynicemal Hanım's house. Ms. Aynicemal does not approve of Hanife running away from home, but when she says that she will kill herself if she does not hide her, she agrees to host her at her home for three days. When Hüsameddin returns to his village, he hears that Hanife is missing. His only consolation is that there is no wedding. He goes to the city to Aynicemal Hanım's house. Ms. Aynicemal does not say anything to him. Hüsameddin leaves without learning anything. Hanife leaves the house after Hüsameddin. Hüsameddin is very surprised when he sees that it is Hanife who is following him. They return to N. village together. Their wedding takes place a week later and Hanife's parents forgive them. After living in N. village for two years, Hüsameddin sold his house here and moved to Tbilisi with his family. Orphan Mukhtar became an influential merchant who owned property in Tbilisi. The begging Mukhtar is now known as Mukhtar Efendi Hemitov. He is the one who calls Hüsameddin Molla to Tbilisi. Although the love story between two young people is at the center of the novel, in connection with this story, the conflicts between the old-school, conservative clergy and the people who support innovation on the issues of education, marrying more than one wife, and women's right to have a say in marriage are discussed. Another subject covered in the novel Hüsameddin Molla is the care and protection of orphan children. In the novel, the orphan Mukhtar is a lonely young man who survives by begging. Hüsameddin Molla and Ebuzer Devletgildiyev report him to the police and have him imprisoned. Their intention is to dissuade the Mukhtar from begging. Bikbulat Molla gets angry with them for hindering Mukhtar's sustenance. Mukhtar decides to work after talking with Hüsameddin and Ebuzer. At the end of the novel, Mukhtar is a rich merchant in Tbilisi and he also opened a madrasah here and supports the students financially. Tatar rich people who are in favor of innovation have a large share in the innovation movement of the Tatars. Wealthy Tatars established madrasahs in Volga-Ural and supported these madrasahs financially. In Muhtar's story, there is a reference to Tatar rich people who are pro-innovation and believe that education is important. In addition, Mufti Selimgiray represents the forward-thinking clergy who defend innovation movements in the novel. It is a remarkable scene when Mufti Selimgiray, who stopped in Kazan on his way back from St. Petersburg to Ufa, understands from Ebuzer Devletgildiyev's clothes that he is a student at the Gymnasium and congratulates him for learning knowledge. In traditional realistic stories and novels, the feature of the narrator making his presence known and addressing the listeners and readers is present in this novel. The motifs of falling in love and disguise, which are used in folk tales and fairy tales, are used in this novel. Hüsameddin falls in love with Hanife at first sight, and in order to talk to Hanife, Hüsameddin disguises himself as a salesman. The novel Hüsameddin Molla is an important work that deals with the ancient-ceded conflict, the importance of education in the new style, women having a say in the marriage decision, the care of orphans and their reintegration into society, and contributes to the innovation movement of the Tatars through literature. For the author's biography, see. “Musa Akyiğit”.Turkish Literature Names Dictionary.
ISBN	978-9944-237-87-1
Madde Yazarı	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Ayşen Uslu
Alfabesi	Arap
Yapısı	Mensur
Niteliği	Telif
Kaynakça	Akyiğit, Musa (1886).Hüsameddin Molla. Kazan: Üniversite Matbaası. Gaynullin, M. H. (1979).Tatar Megrifetçélék Edebiyatı.Kazan: Tatarstan Kitap Neşriyatı. 45-87. Kerimullin, Ebrar (1964).Tatar Matur Edebiyatı Bibliyografiyasé (1917-1960).Kazan: Üniversite Matbaası. Musin, F. (1985). “Musa Akyégét”. Tatar Edebiyatı Tarihı.C 2. Kazan: Tatarstan Kitap Neşriyatı. 291-302. Remi, İsmail (1992). “Akyégét”.Tatarstan,Sayı:3-4. Kazan. 152-153.
Atıf Bilgileri	Uslu, Ayşen. "HÜSAMEDDİN MOLLA (MUSA AKYİĞİTZÂDE)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/husameddin-molla-musa-akyigitzade-tees-1947. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].

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HÜSAMEDDIN MOLLA (MUSA AKYİĞİTZÂDE)

Author Musa Akyiğitzâde (b. 1865 - d. 6 September 1923)

Publication Date 25/04/2022

Subject Turkish Literature in the Renovation Period - novel

Type Book

Language Undetermined

Digital No

Manuscript No

Library Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works

Record ID husameddin-molla-musa-akyigitzade-tees-1947

Date 1886

Notes Musa Akyiğitzade's novel called Hüsameddin Molla. The work is considered the first example of the modern Tatar novel. The novel Hüsameddin Molla was published in Kazan in 1886 as a Tatar text with Arabic letters. The work consists of 13 chapters. The main character of the novel, Hüsameddin, is a Tatar young man who returned to his village after receiving education in Istanbul. Hüsameddin educates children in the new way in a room of his house in his village, designated N., not far from the İdil River, whose name is not clearly given in the novel. The imam of the village, Bikbulat Molla, is an old-school person who criticizes Hüsameddin's education for children. Just as he opposes Hüsameddin's education of children in the new way, he speaks against Hüsameddin at every opportunity. When Hüsameddin Molla went to the city and stayed in the guesthouse of merchant Abbas Efendi Biktimiroğlu, he fell in love with the young girl he saw in the garden. The young girl is Hanife, the daughter of the guesthouse owner. Hanife watches and listens to Hüsameddin's conversation with the guests in the guesthouse through a hole she made in the wood in the small room next door. He likes Hüsameddin's answer to the question about taking many women. Hüsameddin leaves a letter for Hanife under a stone in the garden. The two young people begin to correspond. Ali Cavatov, brother of Bikbulat Molla's wife, is a rich merchant in N. village and intends to marry his son Sıbgatullah. When Bikbulat tells Molla that they are looking for a girl for Sıbgatullah, Bikbulat says that it would be appropriate for his nephew to get a girl from the city, not from the village, and adds that they praised Abbas Efendi's daughter. Bikbulat Molla and his wife, who went to ask for Hanife for his nephew Sıbgatullah at the beginning of the summer, were welcomed with great joy by Hanife's mother Şemsikamer. Even though Hanife says that she does not agree, her family does not listen to her. Hanife reports the situation to Hüsameddin. In the city, Hüsameddin asks Aynicemal Hanım to ask for Hanife. Hanife's family rejects Ms. Aynicemal and says that they will give Hanife to Sıbgatullah. Hüsameddin, who wants to marry Hanife, is also trying to obtain textbooks printed in Crimea for the children in the villages to read. Hüsameddin Molla leaves his village to distribute the textbooks he and Ebuzer Devletgildiyev brought from Crimea with the help they collected from wealthy people in the city to the children in the villages. Meanwhile, preparations for Hanife's wedding begin. Hüsameddin Molla is unaware of these developments because he has been away from his village for a long time. A horseman coming from the city tells the wedding procession that set out from N. village to go back and that Hanife is missing. In the novel, it goes back to the night before with the flashback technique and it is told that Hanife made a sudden decision to leave the house at night and took shelter in Aynicemal Hanım's house. Ms. Aynicemal does not approve of Hanife running away from home, but when she says that she will kill herself if she does not hide her, she agrees to host her at her home for three days. When Hüsameddin returns to his village, he hears that Hanife is missing. His only consolation is that there is no wedding. He goes to the city to Aynicemal Hanım's house. Ms. Aynicemal does not say anything to him. Hüsameddin leaves without learning anything. Hanife leaves the house after Hüsameddin. Hüsameddin is very surprised when he sees that it is Hanife who is following him. They return to N. village together. Their wedding takes place a week later and Hanife's parents forgive them. After living in N. village for two years, Hüsameddin sold his house here and moved to Tbilisi with his family. Orphan Mukhtar became an influential merchant who owned property in Tbilisi. The begging Mukhtar is now known as Mukhtar Efendi Hemitov. He is the one who calls Hüsameddin Molla to Tbilisi. Although the love story between two young people is at the center of the novel, in connection with this story, the conflicts between the old-school, conservative clergy and the people who support innovation on the issues of education, marrying more than one wife, and women's right to have a say in marriage are discussed. Another subject covered in the novel Hüsameddin Molla is the care and protection of orphan children. In the novel, the orphan Mukhtar is a lonely young man who survives by begging. Hüsameddin Molla and Ebuzer Devletgildiyev report him to the police and have him imprisoned. Their intention is to dissuade the Mukhtar from begging. Bikbulat Molla gets angry with them for hindering Mukhtar's sustenance. Mukhtar decides to work after talking with Hüsameddin and Ebuzer. At the end of the novel, Mukhtar is a rich merchant in Tbilisi and he also opened a madrasah here and supports the students financially. Tatar rich people who are in favor of innovation have a large share in the innovation movement of the Tatars. Wealthy Tatars established madrasahs in Volga-Ural and supported these madrasahs financially. In Muhtar's story, there is a reference to Tatar rich people who are pro-innovation and believe that education is important. In addition, Mufti Selimgiray represents the forward-thinking clergy who defend innovation movements in the novel. It is a remarkable scene when Mufti Selimgiray, who stopped in Kazan on his way back from St. Petersburg to Ufa, understands from Ebuzer Devletgildiyev's clothes that he is a student at the Gymnasium and congratulates him for learning knowledge. In traditional realistic stories and novels, the feature of the narrator making his presence known and addressing the listeners and readers is present in this novel. The motifs of falling in love and disguise, which are used in folk tales and fairy tales, are used in this novel. Hüsameddin falls in love with Hanife at first sight, and in order to talk to Hanife, Hüsameddin disguises himself as a salesman. The novel Hüsameddin Molla is an important work that deals with the ancient-ceded conflict, the importance of education in the new style, women having a say in the marriage decision, the care of orphans and their reintegration into society, and contributes to the innovation movement of the Tatars through literature. For the author's biography, see. “Musa Akyiğit”.Turkish Literature Names Dictionary.

ISBN 978-9944-237-87-1

Madde Yazarı Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Ayşen Uslu

Alfabesi Arap

Yapısı Mensur

Niteliği Telif

Kaynakça Akyiğit, Musa (1886).Hüsameddin Molla. Kazan: Üniversite Matbaası. Gaynullin, M. H. (1979).Tatar Megrifetçélék Edebiyatı.Kazan: Tatarstan Kitap Neşriyatı. 45-87. Kerimullin, Ebrar (1964).Tatar Matur Edebiyatı Bibliyografiyasé (1917-1960).Kazan: Üniversite Matbaası. Musin, F. (1985). “Musa Akyégét”. Tatar Edebiyatı Tarihı.C 2. Kazan: Tatarstan Kitap Neşriyatı. 291-302. Remi, İsmail (1992). “Akyégét”.Tatarstan,Sayı:3-4. Kazan. 152-153.

Atıf Bilgileri Uslu, Ayşen. "HÜSAMEDDİN MOLLA (MUSA AKYİĞİTZÂDE)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/husameddin-molla-musa-akyigitzade-tees-1947. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].