"Two Persons talk, saying "Would that I see Yunus One [of them] says, "I saw, he is [only] an eminent lover."
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Divan Yunus, p. 330, also quoted in The Concept of Love In Yunus Emre's Thought, p. 75
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Yunus Emre
1238 – 1328
Yunus Emre (1238–1328) was a Turkish folk poet and Islamic Sufi mystic who greatly influenced Turkish culture. His name, Yunus, is the Muslim equivalent to the English name Jonah. He wrote in Old Anatolian Turkish, an early stage of Turkish.
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