KELİLE VE DİMNE TERCÜMELERİ VE KİTLELERİN EĞİTİMİNDEKİ ROLÜ

Abstract

The issue of educating the age groups which are out of formal school education system is crucially important for the society. From the past many sort of methods have been practiced in order to solve this issue. An example for recent methods can be given as the use of mass media in both visionary and auditory via papers magazines TV and radios. In the beginning of the Islamic societies, narrators educated people with oral stories. Sophisticated stories had been told in order to present exemplary lessons to the people in public places such as coffee houses, village meeting rooms or in the houses of noble people. The epics Ali (fourth Caliph of Islam) , stories of Hamza (Hamzaname) and Battalname are some samples of those oral stories. In takkes and dergahs, however, texts hard-to-understand such as Mantıku’t-tayr of Fariddüdin Attar and the magnifigent Mesnevi of Mevlana had been recited and annotated. In addition to these works, Baydaba’s masterpiece Kalila and Dimna was an important narrative used for education of masses. We chose this Indian-origin work as a subject matter in our study, because it was a common work used in the education of the masses in both Iranian and Turkish literatures. We aim to introduce the translations of Kalila and Dimna which are present in various libraries of Turkey, and also to focus on the contribution of this work to the education of masses.