Halil Oğlu Ali’nin Yusuf ile Züleyha Hikâyesi

Overview & Synopsis

The story of Joseph, based on revelation, has attracted the attention of writers in almost every era. It has been repeatedly written in the form of new texts, either in verse or prose. The text we have is a long epic written in quatrains. Although comparative academic studies have been conducted on copies of such texts, most of them have not been published as books and remain as unpublished theses, thus failing to reach readers. We thought it would be useful to compile this copy, which was previously published in the Turkish Studies journal after being transcribed into Latin letters, into a book, together with the original copy in the old script and with some necessary information added. If the same line was written twice in a quatrain, if the quatrain was incomplete, or if there was a discrepancy in rhyme, meter, or meaning, a partial text restoration was attempted using the text from Râsim Deniz’s doctoral thesis, and these parts were written in italics. In the original text, some words written with gayn and kef, such as “öğüt, bagışla-, baf, degin,” were transcribed with a soft g (ğ). Words whose spelling in the -i form was “ye üzeri hemze” were written as -yı, -yi (kıssa’i=kıssayı, Zelhâ’i=Zelhayı). In the transcribed text, no apostrophe (‘) was used to separate suffixes after proper nouns. Folio numbers are shown at the end of the page in the Latin alphabet text. The “Introduction ,“ a ”transliterated text“ (not a transcription) for comparison purposes, a ”text in old letters” (which may also be useful for linguistic studies), a bibliography, an index, and a glossary.