Nur Baba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nur Baba write by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu. This book was released on 2023-06-23. Nur Baba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba – a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu – offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul. Inspired by Karaosmanoğlu’s personal experiences with Islamic mystical orders, it is a story of illicit romance and spiritual inquiry, depicting a colourful lodge of Sufi dervishes led by a charismatic, yet morally suspect, spiritual master named Nur Baba. The plot follows his attempts to seduce an attractive married woman from an elite family and recounts her dramatic experiences in the life of a Sufi community. The setting shuttles between the grand mansions of Istanbul’s elite families and a Sufi lodge where rich and poor intermingle. Exploring questions of gender, morality, and religious bias throughout, it captures the zeitgeist of early twentieth-century modernist thinkers who criticised Sufism for impeding social progress and debated the public roles of women in a rapidly modernising society. Alongside the editor’s meticulous translation, the volume includes a scholarly introduction, maps, and images, as well as explanatory footnotes that will aid both students and scholars alike. The novel will be of particular interest to those studying world literature, Sufi studies, and Ottoman-Turkish history.
The Role of the Bektāshīs in Turkey's National Struggle
The Role of the Bektāshīs in Turkey's National Struggle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Role of the Bektāshīs in Turkey's National Struggle write by Hülya Küçük. This book was released on 2021-12-28. The Role of the Bektāshīs in Turkey's National Struggle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dealing with the roles of the Bektāshīs in Turkey's recent history, especially in its National Struggle (1918-1923) as well as their situation in late 19th and early 20th centuries Ottoman Empire, this volume is packed with well documented historical information on individuals who belonged or claimed to belong to the Bektāshī milieu, and contains many documents and several pictures hitherto unknown. It also treats the roles of the other Sufi orders in the National Struggle to emphasize its thesis that the Bektāshīs acted not differently during the National Struggle. It sheds lights on many unknown aspects of Turkey's National Struggle and brings new commentaries on Turkey's official policies regarding the Bektāshīs and Alevis.
Istanbul Love Bus & the A-Bomb Surprise
Istanbul Love Bus & the A-Bomb Surprise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Istanbul Love Bus & the A-Bomb Surprise write by Tom Brosnahan. This book was released on 2018-01-24. Istanbul Love Bus & the A-Bomb Surprise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Summer of Love in Hippy Istanbul 1968: hippies, beads, beards, sex & drugs, Soviet & American spies, terrorists, and a plot to obliterate of one of the world’s greatest architectural monuments.
The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb
The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb write by Frances Trix. This book was released on 2011-09-05. The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baba Rexheb, a Muslim mystic from the Balkans, founded the first Bektashi community in America. This is his life story and the story of his communities: the traditional Bektashi tekke in Albania where he first served, the displaced persons camps to which he escaped after the war, the centuries-old tekke in Cairo where he waited, and the Bektashi community that he founded in Michigan in 1954 and led until his passing in 1995. Baba Rexheb lived through the twentieth century, its wars, disruptions, and dislocations, but still at a profound level was never displaced. Through Bektashi stories, oral histories, and ethnographic experience, Frances Trix recounts the life and times of this modern Sufi leader. She studied with Baba Rexheb in his community for more than twenty years. As a linguistic anthropologist, she taped twelve years of their weekly meetings in Turkish, Albanian, and Arabic. She draws extensively on Baba's own words, as well as interactions at the Michigan Bektashi center, for a remarkable perspective on our times. You come to know Baba Rexheb and his gentle way of teaching through example and parable, poetry and humor. The book also documents the history of the 700-year-old Bektashi order in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Balkans and Egypt and its transposition to America. It attests to the role of Sufi centers in Islamic community life and their interaction with people of other faiths.
Mystical Dimensions of Islam
Mystical Dimensions of Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mystical Dimensions of Islam write by Annemarie Schimmel. This book was released on 2011-08-08. Mystical Dimensions of Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thirty-five years after its original publication, Mystical Dimensions of Islam still stands as the most valuable introduction to Sufism, the main form of Islamic mysticism. This edition brings to a new generation of readers Annemarie Schimmel's historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism, from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Schimmel's sensitivity and deep understanding of Sufism--its origins, development, and historical context--as well as her erudite examination of Sufism as reflected in Islamic poetry, draw readers into the mood, the vision, and the way of the Sufi. In the foreword, distinguished Islam scholar Carl W. Ernst comments on the continuing vitality of Schimmel's book and the advances in the study of Sufism that have occurred since the work first appeared.
