Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları

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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.