THE FIRST THREE TURKISH SUFI MASTER POETS Ahmed Yesevi, Yunus Emre, Nesimi SELECTED POEMS: Translation & Introduction Paul Smith

THE FIRST THREE TURKISH SUFI MASTER POETS Ahmed Yesevi, Yunus Emre SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Ahmed Yesevi, (1093 – 1166) was a Turkish poet and Sufi Master who exerted a powerful influence on the development of mystical orders throughout the Turkish-speaking world. Yesevi is the earliest known Turkish poet who composed poetry in an early Turkish. His poems influenced many Sufi poets including ‘Attar, Rumi, Hafiz (who both knew Turkish) and Yunus Emre. His Divan-e Hikmet (Book of Wisdom), consists mainly of gazels and murabbas (foursomes), Kosmos (robi’as srung together) and munajat (prayers). Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is considered one of the most important Turkish poets having a great influence on Turkish literature from his own time until today. His poems concern divine love as well as human love of the Divine as God and the Perfect Master, Beloved, Friend and human destiny and weakness. Nesimi (1369-1417) is one of the greatest mystical poets and one of the most prominent early masters in Turkish literary history. For Nesimi at the centre of Creation there was God, who bestowed His Light on man. Through sacrifice and self-perfection, man can become one with Him. As a direct result of his beliefs he was skinned alive. Included in the Introduction: Life and Times and Poetry of each Poet, On the poetic forms they used, On Sufism in Poetry, God-Realization & God-Intoxication. Selected Bibliographies of each poet. This is the largest selection of all their poems translated into English. Correct rhyme-structure has been kept and meaning of these powerful, spiritual, immortal poems. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages… including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children’s books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa Read more