فتوتنامۀ شيخ عطار - Futuwwatnāma of ʿAṭṭār Attâr Fütüvvetnâmesi

Futuwwatnāmes can be said to be the historical lawbooks of futuwwa teaching, which was written in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish prose and poetry. The character portrait of fatā (member of futuwwa) is drawn reasonably with these rules of ādāb. Futuwwatnāmes arrange the daily behaviours of a model person that they draw. They tell rules of etiquette from sitting and standing to table manners, from walking around the shopping district to grave visits elaborately. Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, who lived between the XII-XIII centuries, is one of the artists accepted by all Ṣūfīst schools and cults and succeeded in protecting his fame and influence along centuries with so many works he left behind. While the discussions on which works attributed to his name belong to him goes on, the worldview he put into words in his works, the age he lived in, and his view on Sufism strengthen the idea of ʿAṭṭār’s probability of writing a futuwwa. This study contains the last 100 couplets and their Turkish translation from the manuscript registered under the number F. 1288 in the Persian Manuscripts section of Istanbul University Library. In our opinion, there is a high likelihood that a portion of these couplets belongs to ʿAṭṭār.