Epics and folklore

Zohre and Tahir

Mollanepes on the 500-manat note — Central Bank of Turkmenistan / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Author: Mollanepes

The 19th-century Turkmen version, by Mollanepes, of an old Turkic tale of two lovers who cannot be united. Alternating verse and prose, it is one of the best-loved works of Turkmen literature; in Azerbaijan it is known as "Tahir and Zohre".

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