The Value of Knowledge and Virtue of the 14th Century in Masnavis Cover Image

14. Yüzyıl Mesnevisinde İlim ve Ahlaka Verilen Önem
The Value of Knowledge and Virtue of the 14th Century in Masnavis

Author(s): Ahmet Özhan Sucu
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Turkish Literature, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Masnavi; Value; Aesthetics; Literature; Knowledge; Virtue;

Summary/Abstract: Masnavis in Turkish literature has an important role in enabling independent rhyme and long narrating articles. Masnavis writers have not only written concerns of aesthetics but also on behalf of the community development process some messages are also in the works. Given the conditions of in the 14th century period it can be seen in many of the masnavis contain “scientific” and “moral” values. Masnavi, is the verse form in the literature of each couplet rhyming each other and it ranges two couplets to thousands of couplets. Being the rhyming couplets of Masnavi are independent it is suitable for writing a verse form long stories.

  • Issue Year: 7/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 513-523
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish