“JOSEPH'S THREE SHIRTS” IN THE CONTEXT OF THE USE OF MOTIFS IN THE QURAN PARABLES IN ARABIC POETRY / KUR’AN KISSALARINDAKİ MOTİFLERİN ARAP ŞİİRİNDE KULLANIMI BAĞLAMINDA “YUSUF’UN (A.S.) ÜÇ GÖMLEĞİ”

It is understood that the Arab poets have benefited much from the parables in the Qur'an and the striking motifs in these parables in the transmission of emotion and thought. These parables are the indispensable sources of Arabic poetry with their exemplary messages, interesting characters and events. The poets who open a passage to the Qur'an through various motifs in the parables have conveyed their feelings, thoughts and designs in a short and concise way and also have enabled the association of profound meanings in the listener who is already acquainted with parable. Having a privileged position in the world literature, the Joseph parable has also attracted interest in Arab literature. A tradition of poetic and prose narration based on the principle of reproducing the story by adhering to the main frame as in Iranian and Turkish literatures has not arisen in Arab literature. Parable was especially used in poetry in the form of use of elements and motifs that the poet believes to correspond to individual feelings, thoughts and experiences through various intertextual relations with literary arts. In this frame, the motifs like the dream, the well, the wolf, the shirt, the beauty of Joseph, the years of famine and abundance, the smell of Joseph, the children of Jacob, the sorrow of Jacob, the cry of Jacob and more motifs that are in the parable have been an inspiration source for the Arab poet and have also served as auxiliary elements for the transfer of emotion. Among these motifs, it can be said that “shirt” and “dream” motifs are the most frequently used ones. This study is centred on the shirt motif in the Joseph parable and literary richness around the three separate shirt motifs (the blooded shirt, the torn shirt from the back and the shirt sent to Jacob) that are mentioned in the parable has been examined with examples from Arabic poetry. A significant number of examples of the use of the shirt motif in Arabic poetry have been identified in this work which was conducted in order to determine how much the shirt motif in Joseph parable is used in the Arabic poetry and thus understand the message the Arab poet wants to give better. It is understood that the relationship of Arabic poetry specifically considering the motif “Joseph's shirt” with the text of the Qur'an is almost entirely in the form of “allusion”. The art of “simile” is noteworthy as the most important auxiliary literary art in this connection established with the Quran.