TY  - JOUR
TT  - YUSOF IN MAWLANA RUMI’S POETRY
AU  - Sschımmel, Annemarie
AU  - Yüksel, Ahmet Turan
PY  - 2007
DA  - December
JF  - İSTEM
PB  - Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1304-0618
SP  - 255
EP  - 269
IS  - 10
KW  - Mevlana
KW  - Mesnevi
KW  - Divan
KW  - Yusuf
KW  - Züleyha
N2  - One of the Urdu translations of Mawlana’s Mathnawi is called Pireahan-i Yusufi, ‘Yusuf’s shirt’, alluding to the name of the translator, Muhammad Yusuf Ali Shah, as well as to the tradition that the fragrance of Yusuf’s shirt restored his blind father’s eyesight. Thus, the translator assumes that this attempt to convey something of Mawlana’s spiritual fragrance may open his reader’s eyes. At the same time, this title sumps up many allusions and references to Yusuf, the pragon of beauty, in Mawlana’s work. At the very beginning of the Mathnawi, Mawlana conjures up the memory of Shams-i Tabrizi. According to Mawlana, to remember the beloved is like inhaling a fragrance, a fragrance that reminds the lover of happy days and quickens the heart. Scent also brings refreshment to those who are deprived of the actual view, like Jacob, and Mawlana’s words heal the spiritually impaired. The story of Yusuf, called in the Qur’an itself “the most beautiful story”, was dear to poets from early days onward. Stories connected with Yusuf appear also in the Mathnawi where allusions to his role as interpreter of dreams are more common than in the Diwan although the other aspects of his career are also mentioned. Most prominent is the story of the mirror which was presented to him and the description of Zulaykha’s love. In the Diwan, the beloved is alluded to hundreds of times as Yusuf. Often, the descriptions and epithes are stereotyped. In different poems he is addressed with almost the same words. On the other hand, almost all the ingredients of the Qur’anic story and its elaboration in the Qisas al-Anbiya appear in Mawlana’s work
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/istem/issue//279385
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/260740
ER  -