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Şeyh Gâlib’s Beauty and Love (Hüsn ü Aşk) represents a startling explosion of brilliant creative energy coming at the end (1783) of a centuries-old tradition of mystical narrative romances in rhymed couplets (mesnevi) in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish. This striking Ottoman poem hangs tantalizingly suspended between allegory and myth read more




