Aşıq Ümer (1621–1707) was a Crimean Tatar medieval poet of ashik and is one of the most famous representatives of the Turkic-speaking ashik poetry in general. Ashik poetry (; ) is a special kind of literary oeuvre, the representatives of which – folk poets-singers – accompany their performances with playing the string-plucked musical instrument bağlama. Hence another name for this poetry – "bağlama poetry".
He wrote mainly lyric poems (on mystical content and related to a soldier's theme) in the forms of Turkic folk poetry. Aşıq Ümer is also an author of poems that are traditional for classical oriental poetry – ghazals, rubaʿi etcetera. He greatly influenced the later poets-improvisers (ashiks).Ашик Омер. Краткая литературная энциклопедия. Т. 1. — 1962 (in Russian)Mustafa Altuğ Yayla Yüzyıl osmanlı imparatorluğunda aşık ömer ve popüler kültür — Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü // Ankara, 2013 (English: YAYLA, Mustafa Altuğ. Aşık Ömer and Popular Culture in 17th Century Ottoman Empire, Master Thesis, Ankara, 2013)
References
Sources Ergun, Sadettin Nüzhet, Aşık Ömer. Hayatı ve şiirleri, Istanbul, 1936; Banarlı, Nihat Sami, Resimli Türk edebiyatı tarihi, Istanbul, 1949. Ашик Омер. Краткая литературная энциклопедия. Т. 1. — 1962 Ашик Умер – самый известный в мире крымский певец любви — Крым.Реалии // RFEL Mustafa Altuğ Yayla Yüzyıl osmanlı imparatorluğunda aşık ömer ve popüler kültür — Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü // Ankara, 2013