İbrahim Hakkı Konyalı'nın "Abideleri ve Kitabeleri ile Niğde Aksaray Tarihi" İsimli Eserine Eleştirel Bir Bakış

Abstract

İbrahim Hakkı K“nyalı’s m“st detailed v“lume in M“numents and Inscri”ti“ns series is with“ut d“ubt Aksaray (Niğde) hist“ry. The de”th “f this v“lume is due t“ the fact that its “ne “f the auth“r’s latest “euvres. The auth“r c“llected the inf“rmati“n he n eeded until 1974, which in turn he availed himself to write the Aksaray History. In his ”eri“d, Aksaray was a t“wn in Niğde ”r“vince, and he visited all the villages in Aksaray and Ortaköy, and wr“te ab“ut hist“rical s”“ts, ruins and fam“us neighb“rh““ds he heard in his works, some interesting ones he even visited himself. In studies on Aksaray until t“day, n“ sch“lar cited any “f his w“rks ab“ut the city. The b““k dem“nstrates K“nyalı as a historian, a folklore scholar, sociologist, art historian and an archivist. In such an extensive and profound volume, it is conceivable that there could be some mistakes. Those mistakes are either auth“r’s “wn, “r results “f the editing ”r“cess by the ”ublisher. In this study err“rs by the author are compared with other resources and demonstrated with examples.