Abstract
Yusuf in Alî Şîr Nevâî
It is likely that the poet ?Alî Şîr Nevâî was unaware of
the mesnevis that recount the story of Yûsuf –poems that
were written in Turkic dialects before his time. He wrote
no mesnevi about Yûsuf, yet he knew Yûsuf’s story very
well; he wrote about him in his book Târîh-i Enbiyâ va
Hukemâ, and mentions Yûsuf frequently in his gazels. In
the focus of this article is the way in which ?Alî Şîr Nevâî
portrayed Yûsuf in his gazels, and in demonstrating
Nevâî’s portrayal I give examples of his poems and
comment on Nevâî's perspective on Yûsuf's story.
Keywords
?Alî Şîr Nevâî, Yûsuf's story, mesnevî on Yûsuf u Züleyhâ story.