Yunus Emre composes hymns and verses about mystical love, humanitarian and ecumenical values, the brotherhood of nations, and the ethics and ecstasies of Islamic mysticism.
After his death around 1321, Emre is revered as a saint; his best-known poems begin to be sung or recited, using indigenous Turkish prosody and stanzaic forms, throughout Anatolia.
He exercises immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present.
Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia.
