Abstract
A NEW QISSA-I YUSUF MASNAVI
This study introduces a manuscript titled Qissa-i Yusuf ‘Alayhi’s-salam, found between folios 1b and 152b of a handwritten work covering various religious subjects in the private library of Prof. Dr. Şaban Doğan. The text was composed by Hafiz Muhammad b. Muhammad Perçinci in the year 1243 AH / 1827 AD. When compared with other Yusuf and Zulaikha masnavis in Turkish literature, this particular work reveals similarities with Erzurumlu Mustafa Dârîr’s Qissa-i Yusuf and the masnavi entitled The Story of Yusuf and Zulaikha as Narrated by Ibn ‘Abbas, prepared by Ali Cin. Following a discussion of these parallels, the couplets identified as common to these works are presented and analyzed under three subheadings in the form of comparative tables.
Keywords
Masnavi, Qissa-i Yusuf, Old Anatolian Turkish, manuscript comparison, textual analysis