Early Mystics in Turkish LiteraturePsychology Press, 2006 - 435 pàgines This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, one of Turkey’s leading, and most prolific, intellectuals and scholars. Using a wide variety of Arabic, and especially Turkish and Persian sources, this book sheds light on the early development of Turkish literature and attempts to show the continuity in this development between the Turks and that of Anatolia. Early Mystics in Turkish Literatureaddresses this topic within the context of other subjects, including Sufism, Islam and the genesis of Turkish culture in the Muslim world. |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | vii |
FORWORD | viii |
TRANSLATORS INTRODUCTION | xxviii |
ABBREVIATIONS | xxxvii |
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION | xxxviii |
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION | xlii |
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION | lii |
Part I AHMAD YASAWĪ AND HIS INFLUENCE ON TURKISH LITERATURE | 1 |