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Yunus Emre

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Also known as Derviş Yûnus

Turkish folk poet and Sufi mystic

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Yunus Emre was a Turkish folk poet and Sufi mystic whose spiritual writings became deeply influential in Turkish and Islamic culture. His work matters because it helped shape Turkish literary tradition and expressed important themes of mysticism and devotion that resonated across generations and communities.

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Person · Open Library

Died
1320?
Works
65

Top works

  • Yunusʼdan günümüze ölmez mısralar
  • Le divan
  • Dertli dolap
  • Venok
  • Risaletu'n-nushiyye ve divan

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Türkiye
Active from
1986

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,766
Total plays
13,360

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Yunus Emre (1240?–1321?) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Veled, one of the first known Turkish poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/

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Encyclopedic overview

Yunus Emre ( Turkish pronunciation: [juːˈnus emˈɾe]), also known as Derviş Yûnus (Yûnus the Dervish; 1238–1320; Old Anatolian Turkish: يونس امره), was a Turkish folk poet and Sufi who greatly influenced Turkish culture. The UNESCO General Conference unanimously passed a resolution declaring 1991, the 750th anniversary of the poet's birth, International Yunus Emre Year.

Biography

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