Yunus Emre - Divan

Yunus Emre - Divan Book Description Your love took me from me, I need you, I need you / I burn day and night, I need you, I neither rejoice in existence nor regret in non-existence / I console myself with your love, I need you, YUNUS EMRE (1240-1320) The greatest man who grew up in Anatolia Turkish poet and mystic. Although there is no exact information about his life, it is estimated that he was born in the village of Sarıköy in Sivrihisar and his grave is located close to there. His real name is Yunus Emre and his pseudonyms are Aşık Yunus, Derviş Yunus. There are many different opinions about the derivation of the word Emre. The interesting thing among these is the way this word derives from the verb "amramak" (to love). It means "lover, loving, desired, envied" as well as "brother, brother". From the information in his poems, it is understood that he is married and has a child, and that he has a son named Ismail. Although it is said that he was illiterate, it is highly likely that he received a good madrasa education before entering the path of Sufism. The place where he received education may have been Konya, which was considered one of the information centers of that period. It can also be said that he knows Persian and Arabic fluently. In the light of some of his couplets, it is understood that he traveled around Maraş, Kayseri, Tabriz, Nakhchivan, Upper Azerbaijan, Baghdad and Damascus in the south. Yunus Emre's mentor is Tapduk Emre. Tapduk Emre, who is known to have trained and sent dervishes to Anatolia and Rumelia, trained Yunus Emre in his lodge in Nallıhan. Yunus Emre is a poet who grew up in a period when the language of official correspondence and literature was Persian and scientific works were written in Arabic, and experienced the transition period to Turkish. That's why one comes across the use of a word in Turkish, Persian and Arabic in his works. Despite this, Yunus Emre is the greatest representative of Oghuz Turkish in Anatolia in the 13th century. He is the person who made a primary contribution to the transformation of the Turkish of this period, which we call Old Anatolian Turkish, into a literary language. Poets who grew up in that period, such as Ahmed Fakih, Şeyyad Hamza, Hoca Dehhanî, also contributed to the development of the language. Although he generally wrote his poems in syllabic meter, he also wrote poems in aruz meters that fit the syllabic meter. Since the aruz meter is not compatible with Turkish, which is a monosyllabic language, aruz errors inevitably occurred. Yunus Emre, who managed to express some difficult concepts easily by using Turkish words, became the pioneer of the poets who would come after him due to this feature. Yunus Emre has a Sufi masnavi and a Divan called Risâletü'Nushiyye. The treatise was written in 1307-8 and consists of 600 couplets. These manuscripts, which are recorded in the Suleymaniye Library Fatih Collection, number 3889, on which we base our study, begin. For detailed information and bibliography about Yunus Emre, the following sources should be consulted: Mustafa Tatcı, Yunus Emre, DİA, 43/600-606; same author, Yunus Emre, Dîvân-ı İlâhiyat, H Publications, 3rd edition, Istanbul 2014, p.9-238; Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, Yunus Emre's Life and All His Poems, Hasan Âlî Yücel Classics Series, Türkiye İş Bankası Cultural Publications, 7th edition, Istanbul, January 2016, p. IX-XLV. (From the Promotional Bulletin)