In couplet form and a highly accessible Turkish, the poetry conveys Sufi, or Islamic mystical, ideas.Įvents in History at the Time of the PoemsĪlthough the poetry of Yunus Emre (c. A collection of 415 poems set in northwestern Anatolia sometime between the late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth centuries composed in Turkish (as Divan-i Yunus Emre) in the fourteenth century published in part in English in 1972.
