Nevâî ile Fuzûlî’nin Leylâ ve Mecnûn Mesnevilerinin Yapı ve Konu Bakımından Karşılaştırılması

Abstract

The science of literature has been interacting with many disciplines due to its structure and function. The comparative literature, which is a sub-unit of literature, seeks and reveals the aspects of intercultural interaction reflected in literary works. Comparative Literature examines literary works in terms of content, thought and form and puts forward similar and different aspects. The story of Layla and Majnun, which is among the Masnavi subjects of Classical Turkish Literature, was firstly arose with Kays b. Mawlawah al-Amiri in Arabic literature, later handled in Persian, Turkish and Urdu literatures and keeps being handled. The first independent Layla and Majnun story was written by Sahidi of Edirne in Turkish language in 1479 . In this research, the Masnavi of Layla and Majnun written in 1484 by Ali Shir Navai, who lived in the 15 th century and was accepted as the greatest poet of Chagatai Turkish and the Masnavi of Layla and Majnun completed in 1537 by Fuzuli, one of the greatest poets of the 16 th century, were examined in two aspects. The summaries of the masnavis were provided firstly, then they were compared in terms of form (structure, meter, rhyme and repeated words) and content (case differences, and the cases in one but not the other). The obtained results were evaluated in the conclusion part.