Naš Yunus/Junus: Junus Emre, Ašik Yunus i bosanski derviši na tragu Yunusa

OUR YUNUS/JUNUS: YUNUS EMRE, AŞIK YUNUS AND THE BOSNIAN DERVISHES ON THE PATH OF YUNUS Starting from the narrative on the popularity of both the person and the poetry of Yunus Emre (13th century) among Bosnian dervishes, in order to determine whether and to what extent Yunus Emre was indeed popular in our region, we first examined the different variants of manuscript copies of the nasheeds with the mahlas (pen name) Yunus Emre recited in the tekkes of Sarajevo until the 21stcentury, and then we examined manuscript catalogues as well as majmū‘a and jung copies preserved in manuscript collections. We thus found a negligible number of Emre’s poems and an incomplete copy of Misri’s commentary of Yunu’s shathiye poem “Çıkdum erik dalına”, and that these manuscripts mainly included variants of poems by Yunus Emre’s followers, poets who had used the mahlas Yunus, primarily Aşık Yunus of Bursa. However, it was particularly interesting to note the similarity of ideas and messages present in poems by Yunus Emre and those authored by Bosnian tekke poets such as Hasan Kaimija and Abdulvehab Ilhamija, which led us to consider the “indirect presence” of Emre in the style and verse of local dervish-poets. Keywords: Yunus Emre, Aşık Yunus, Hasan Kaimija, Abdulvehab Ilhamija, nasheed, jung, majmū‘a