@article{2017,title={GÜLŞEN-İ ZÜREFÂ: A PROSE STORIES BOOK},abstractNode={Story whose start is as old as human history, though it is initiated in Turkish culture by Tanzimat period in modern terms, it had showed itself traditionally in different ways until pre-islamic term. Tradition of story continued its existence in Turkish culture by evolving in terms of structure, subject and source following the formation of post-islamic classical literature. One of the stories written within this tradition is Gülşen-i Zürefa which we will introduce in this study. There are stories inspired from classical eastern stories such as Arabian Nights, El-Ferec Ba'de'ş-Şidde in terms of content, mitologia and technical aspects inside this work. Also, some part of the stories are original work of the writer or adapted stories by the writer. There are total of 22 stories in this work. The events experienced in various geographic regions, from Egypt to England from Izmir to Edirne, are sometimes decorated with the elements of tales and sometimes gains a view which includes local and realist elements. While local stories reflect the social and political view and tradition of their time, they become fantastic and fascinating with tale features and supernatural elements in the stories written with the effects of classical Eastern stories. Hence, Gülşen-i Zürefâ, as a story collection written in post-classical term, is a part of our prose story tradition. It has an important place in terms of reflecting the evolvement of tradition throughout time in our classical literature.},author={Halime ÇAVUŞOĞLU},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}