Abstract:

Throughout the history of mankind, humans have always desired to share their experience and knowledge with the current and later generations, and also to guide them to goodness. Advices emerged from this desire, sometimes presented in a direct verbal form, and sometimes it took a literary form by being written in an artistic way. These works turned into one of the most common literary genres in Turkish literature, and were created in poetic, prosaic and poetic-prosaic forms. As the poem makes it easier to learn and memorize, the poetic form was used commonly. These works named as poetic nasihat-name aimed to educate the society in moral, religious and social matters. Authors benefited from the educational aspect of legends and stories in their works, and decorated them with the verses of Koran, the sayings of Prophet Mohammed, the apothegms, the proverbs, and the idioms. The poetic nasihat-names had significant educational value, containing advices on many subjects on pedagogy, character and religious education. Nasihat-names have been the common interests of literature and education disciplines.

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