MENÂKIBNÂMELERDE YASAK MOTİFİ ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME
A REVIEW ON THE TABOO MOTIF IN MENAQIBNAMES

Summary/Abstract: Folk narratives establish a cultural relationship between texts thanks to the motifs they contain. Motifs are also present in different periods and different narratives as cultural carriers. Thus, the similarities and differences of folk narratives within the cultural geography can be determined. Based on these findings, academic studies are carried out. Menaqibnames are among the important works of storytelling, mostly as prose narratives in Sufi Folk Literature. Menaqibnames are not written only to describe the lives of the great religious leaders. At the same time, they have the aim of both spreading the cultures of the religious groups to larger areas and transferring them to the next generations. Thus, the awareness and permanence of these religious groups is ensured. In the study, the motif of taboo, which is one of the motifs seen in the menâkibnames, is emphasized and this motif, which is in the motif index of Stith Thompson, has been examined. Hacı Bektas-ı Veli, Kaygusuz Abdâl, Seyyid Ali Sultân and Abdâl Mûsâ menaqibnames were examined in the study. Based on this examination, it has been tried to determine how the functions of the menaqıbnames are established through motifs and how they are conveyed to the listeners or followers in this way.

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