Idealized Woman In Hoca Mesud's Süheyl ü Nevbahar Masnavi: Nevbahar

Abstract

In Turkish literature, in masnavis, the idealized woman is seen as a beauty that one falls in love with by looking at her picture. Especially in Anatolia in the 14th century, Hoca Mesud's mesnevi named Süheyl ü Nevbahar and Şeyhoğlu Mustafa's works named Hurşid ü Ferahşad (Hurşidname) can be cited as examples of this. This work of Hoca Mesud is important in terms of showing the dominant mentality and idealized woman type. The subject of the work is based on human love. Süheyl ü Nevbahar offers its readers a rich content about the mesnevi tradition, especially in terms of the originality of the plot and the wide range of characters. In addition, this work is valuable in that it sheds light on the perspective of a poet who gained value as a teacher in his circle. The purpose of this study, in particular, is to reveal the idealized female type of Nevbahar in the work Süheyl ü Nevbahar, and in general, to examine the ideas of Turkish literature poets about the phenomenon of "woman". In the study, the subject profiling and classification method was used, and the couplets about Nevbahar were interpreted under the subheadings of "woman in love", "woman a fighter and a hunter", "woman a poet", "a smart and cunning woman". As a result, Nevbahar is described in the work with a solid fiction as an idealized woman who leads the society with her strong personality.