Habibulla Kerem’s &lt;i&gt;Destan&lt;/i&gt; on the Bakhchysarai Bathhouse and the Zincirli Madrasa (Based on the &lt;i&gt;Guncha-i Efkar&lt;/i&gt; manuscript IOM RAS D 316)
Journal: Письменные памятники Востока
Year: 2025

The article publishes the Crimean Tatar text and a Russian translation of the poem by the Bakhchysarai poet Habibulla Kerem (c. 1848–1913) based on an autograph kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS (shelf-mark D 316). The poem is dedicated to the widely discussed issue of income for the maintenance of the Zincirli (Zinjirli) madrasa (founded in 1500 by Mengli Giray Khan in the suburbs of Bakhchysarai) at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries.