Yunus Emre
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Yunus Emre (1238?–1320?) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised an immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present.
Following the Mongol invasion of Anatolia facilitated by the Seljuk Turkish defeat at the 1243 Battle of Köse Dağ, Islamic mystic literature thrived in Anatolia, and Yunus Emre became one of its most distinguished poets. He is one of the first poets known by name to have composed extensively in the Turkish language, and his poems—despite being fairly simple on the surface—evidence his skill in describing quite abstruse mystical concepts in a clear way. He remains a popular figure in a number of countries, stretching from Azerbaijan to the Balkans, with seven different and widely dispersed localities disputing the privilege of having his tomb within their boundaries.
His poems, written in the tradition of Anatolian folk poetry, mainly concern divine love and human destiny:
- Yunus'dürür benim adım
- Gün geçtikçe artar odum
- İki cihanda maksûdum
- Bana seni gerek seni[1]
- "Yūnus Emre is my name; my fire increases day by day. In the two worlds, my goal is this: it is You I need, You."[2]
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- Kudret, Cevdet. Yunus Emre. Ankara: İnkılâp Kitabevi, 2003. ISBN 975-10-2006-9.
- Smith, Grace Martin. The Poetry of Yūnus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0-520-09781-5.
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