8vo. 269 pp, [1], French Text, later half-calf with marbled boards, original wrappers preserved, pencil annotations on fly leaf and half-title page, light damp stain on lower margins, otherwise copy in very good condition, translated by Azra Erhat, published by Comission Nationale Turque pour l’Unesco, Ankara, 1974.

Synopsis

Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Poems of Sultan Yunus Emre — despite being fairly simple on the surface — evidence his skill in describing quite abstruse mystical concepts in a clear way. He remains a popular figure in a number of countries, stretching from Azerbaijan to the Balkans, with seven different and widely dispersed localities disputing the privilege of having his tomb within their boundaries. His poems, written in the tradition of Anatolian folk poetry, mainly concern divine love as well as human destiny.