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by Yunus Emre (Author), Kabir Helminski (Translator), R. Algan (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 93 pages
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc (1 May 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 093966030X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0939660308
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"The songs that sing to us from these pages are fresh and simpleand as deep as the Sea itself. What better to say of a book than it came when it was needed." --Impressions


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Yunus Emre (1240-1321) was an illiterate shepherd whose mystical songs are still popular today. The songs/poems collected here convey the spirit and philosophy of Islamic mysticism in simple, earthy language.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sufi poetry for "common folk" - a must read, 6 Mar 1998
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Generally when we think of Sufi and Hindu devotional poetry a small set of names come to mind - Attar, Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai ...; Yunus Emre is certainly not among those names although he deserves to be. He composed in a Turkic language, a language family noted for its love of language, its wordplay and doubling. This is poetry of the highest quality with a down to earth touch resonating with divine love imagery. A must read for anyone interested in religious poetry, bhakti poetry or Sufism.
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3.0 out of 5 stars An introduction to further reading, 14 Jul 2008
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Yunus Emre is perhaps the most well known Sufi poet in Turkey second only to Rumi. That is he little known outside of Turkey has no small part to do with that Rumi wrote in the Persian language, the primary language of the time and thus, guaranteed himself popularity in not just Turkey but Persia, Afghanistan and other Persian-Turkic speaking areas of the Muslim world. Yunus Emre wrote in Turkish and not the height Turkish of the royal courts of the time but rather the Turkish spoken by the ordinary Turkoman tribes of Anatolia.

In this respect he is similar to Pir Sultan Abdal, the Alevi-Shia Sufi poet whose poems are still sang and recited today by everyone from Alevis during their ceremonies to Sunni Sufi mystics to popular modern musicians (Such as Erdal Erzincan, Ozlem Ozdil and Gulay)

This book is but a short introduction to a Sufi who while well known in Turkey little is really known about. The book provides the reader with a short introduction to Yunus Emre with a brief (about 1 and a half page) biography of the man to a brief introduction to the teachings of Yunus Emre (a controversial issue in itself as many modern Turkish scholars have pointed out that 1. Many poems that have been attributed to Yunus Emre are in fact fake and 2. Over the centuries there have been several "Yunus Emre's" so there is no little confusion as to who is the 'authentic' Yunus Emre.

The translation is based upon the work of the late Turkish scholar Abdulbaki Golpinarli. It should be pointed out however that while he is recognised as one of the most respected scholars of Turkish and Persian Sufism of the last century his own personal Shia beliefs have often clouded some of his writings (His books on Rumi for example have been criticised)

The poems are well translated and easy to read, similar in many respects to the popular so called 'translations' of the Mathnawi of Rumi. I recommend this book as a worthwhile introduction to Yunus Emre. There is almost nothing available in the English language on Yunus Emre or the Bektashi order (To which he probably belonged) So this hopefully will be the start of more to come.
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