Divan-i Hikmet

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Divan-i Hikmet is a collection of mystical Sufi poems in Old Turkic attributed to the 12th-century poet and spiritual leader Ahmet Yesevi.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Old Turkic literary work
Sufi literature
mystical poetry
poetry collection
associatedPerson Ahmad Yasawi
surface form: Ahmet Yesevi
associatedRegion Central Asia
Turkic world
associatedWithOrder Yesevi Sufi order
attributedTo Ahmad Yasawi
surface form: Ahmet Yesevi
audience Sufi disciples
Turkic-speaking Muslims
author Ahmad Yasawi
surface form: Ahmet Yesevi
centuryOfOrigin 12th century
compositionPlace Turkestan
contains hikmets
culturalRole early monument of Turkic Islamic literature
foundation text of Yesevi tradition
form didactic verse
hymns
poetry
genre Sufi poetry
influenceOn Anatolian Sufi tradition
Kazakh religious poetry
Turkic Sufi literature
language Old Turkic language
surface form: Old Turkic
mainTheme Sufi ethics
asceticism
mystical love of God
remembrance of God
spiritual purification
meter syllabic verse
relatedWork Ahmad Yasawi's Diwan-i Hikmet
surface form: Hikmetler of Ahmet Yesevi
religiousFunction devotional reading
didactic teaching tool
religiousTradition Islam
Sufism
script Arabic script
style oral-preaching tone
simple language
subjectMatter Sufi doctrine
moral instruction
path of the dervish
veneration of saints
termMeaning Divan-i Hikmet self-linksurface differs
surface form: Divan-i Hikmet means "Collection of Wisdoms"
transmission manuscript tradition
oral tradition

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Ahmet Yesevi notableWork Divan-i Hikmet
Divan-i Hikmet termMeaning Divan-i Hikmet self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Divan-i Hikmet means "Collection of Wisdoms"
Ahmad Yasawi majorWork Divan-i Hikmet