Thirteenth-to-fourteenth-century Sufi poet regarded as the founder of Anatolian Turkish mystical poetry. A document places his birth in 638 AH (1240-41) and his death in 720 AH (1320) at eighty-two. He served for years at the lodge of his master Tapduk Emre. His burial place is disputed; alongside Sarıköy in Eskişehir, the tomb adjoining the Yunus Emre Mosque in Karaman is one of the two most widely accepted sites.