Yunus Emre'nin Şiirlerine Kur'an'daki Peygamber Kıssalarının Etkisi

This article consists of two parrts: “The Period Yunus Emre Lived in” and “The Ishari (symbolic) meanings that Yunus Emre Inferred from the Prophetic Stories of Quran”. Yunus Emre’s life is summarezed in the first part while the prophets who Yunus commemorated in his poems are generally investigated in the second part. The article also investigates the effects of prophetic stories of Quran on Yunus Emre’s Poems. It is frequently emphasized that Yunus Emre has sufistic approaches about the topics in his poems and supports these approaches by Quran. Especially the importance which Yunus Emre gave knowledge and love of God is come forward. The poems that Yunus produced inspired from Quran, are examples of ishari (symbolic) interpretation of Quran. Although Yunus Emre does not claim that his work is an interpretation of Quran, an attentive reader can see the ishari (symbolic) interpretation of Quran in his poems. For this reason, those who interprets Quran based poems should base their comments on Quran. In this article we argue that the evaluation of the poems of Yunus Emre based on Quran will open up different horizon for understanding these poems. In his poems Yunus Emre had inspired from the Koranic verses related to prophet Adam, Noah, Yusuf, Davut, Solomon, Eyub, Yunus, Abraham, İsmail, Shuayb, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammed (s.a.s). There are references to these prophets in his poems. It is mentioned that Yunus Emre investigates the prophets’ stories by empathy. A lot of topics which Yunus put forward, related to the stories in Quran, such as genesis, knowledge of God, love, afterlife are mentioned in this artecle. It is pointed out that Yunus Emre constructs the stories in Quran, in the parts that he needs to check.