Yunus Emre

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Yunus Emre was a 13th–14th century Turkish Sufi poet whose simple, heartfelt verses profoundly shaped Anatolian Turkish literature and spiritual thought.

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Yunus Emre canonical 6
Turkish poet Yunus Emre 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Ottoman-era poet
Sufi
Turkish poet
mystic
person
poet
centuryOfActivity 13th century
14th century
commemoratedBy Yunus Emre Institute
Yunus Emre Year 1991
commemoratedIn Turkey
countryOfActivity Seljuk Sultanate of Rum
culturalSignificance iconic figure in Turkish culture
symbol of Anatolian humanism
ethnicity Turks
surface form: Turk
familyName Emre
gender male
givenName Yunus
hasLegacy foundation of Turkish mystical poetry canon
influenced Bektashi order
surface form: Alevi-Bektashi poetry

Anatolian Turkish literature
Turkish Sufi thought
Turkish folk poetry
language Old Anatolian Turkish
literaryTradition Sufi poetry
Turkish folk literature
movement Sufism
surface form: Islamic mysticism

Sufism
nationality Seljuk Empire
surface form: Seljuk Turk
notableWork Divan of Yunus Emre
Risaletü’n-Nushiyye
occupation dervish
poet
regionOfActivity Anatolia
religion Islam
religiousBranch Sufism
religiousOrder Bektashi order
Mevleviyya
surface form: Mevlevi order
style didactic poetry
lyrical poetry
simple language
theme brotherhood of humans
divine love
humanism
love of God
tolerance
unity of being
wroteIn Anatolian Turkish dialect
vernacular Turkish

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Turkish literature notableAuthor Yunus Emre
Karaman hasCulturalFigureTomb Yunus Emre
Emre hasNotableBearer Yunus Emre
Divan of Yunus Emre author Yunus Emre
Risaletü’n-Nushiyye author Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre Institute namedAfter Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre Institute namedAfter Yunus Emre
this entity surface form: Turkish poet Yunus Emre