AN ASSESSMENT ON THE USE OF ORGAN NAMES İN DİVAN-I HİKMET

Abstract

People have always preferred to be understandable and remain so by using terms that are also the common denominator of their interlocutors in order to express the acceptances or rejections they have formed in their minds. Thus, they have managed to express themselves as purely as they have established sympathy. This achievement has lasted longer than a human lifetime, and the teachings created in this way have been inherited by societies. It is an inevitable fact that people upload and name examples with reflections from their bodies, which are their most important tools when sharing their thoughts. It can be said that human beings first started to establish a social life by making sense of their body and naming it. Because the first gift offered to man in the adventure of existence was his body. Due to the fact that it is a part and shaper of everyday life, the names of organs are of undeniable importance at the stage of shaping the body element in the minds. In the 12th century, Ahmed Yesevi's Divan-ı Hikmet, which deciphered the principles of Islam and Sufism in a simple language, creating a significant impact among the Turks in the geography of Turkestan, has a very important material in terms of language and vocabulary as well as in terms of content. In our study, the names of the organs in the wisdom contained in the “Divan-ı Hikmet” were determined and it was tried to make inferences on the tradition of meaning and naming life.