Tezkire (Arabic: تذکرة), from Arabictadhkirah meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum",[1] is a form of bibliographical dictionary or bibliographical compendium which flourished in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire.[2] The most widely known are the tezkires of poets, but the books also focused on the works of government officials and artists in general.[3] First seen in early Arab literature before the 10th century,[4] they then made their way into Persian literature and later Ottoman literature.[3]
^Kiliç, Filiz. (2007). “The Tezkires of Poets: Indispendable [sic Sources in Our Literature History”], translated from Turkish to English by the website of publication. Türkiye Arastirmalari Literatür Dergisi (TALID) 5(10): 564 (abstract; entire essay is 543-564), talid.org. Accessed May 5, 2023.
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^Niki Gamm (1979), "Riyāżī's Teẕkire as a Source of Information on Ottoman Poets", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 99 (4), American Oriental Society: 643–652, doi:10.2307/601449, JSTOR601449