Theme Of Death In The Matnawis Of Murad-namah And Muhammadiyah


Death, the inevitable fact of life, has ever made one of those unchanging themes of our classical literature as has been in the literatures of the whole world. Although the notion of death in our classical literature first reminds one marsiyyas (elegies), one could witness that death is elaborated on chiefly in literary works like nasihat-namahs, which mostly deal with religious-mystical issues, including the majority of mathnawis. In almost all of these works death is interpreted within the frame of the


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Theme of death, death in our classical literature, death in mathnawis, the mortal.

Author : Bayram Ali KAYA
Number of pages: 326-352
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.910
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Journal of Turkish Studies
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