Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk's novels,
including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with" insulting …

This article probes the transformation of Kemalism to a xenophobic nation-statism with a
strong anti-western animus diluting its self-styled westernism and elitism in response to the …

This article examines modernist-nationalist thought on Sufi lodges during the late Ottoman
Empire and early Turkish Republic via the controversial novel Nur Baba (1922) by Yakup …

The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality is the first book to contextualize the Turkish
novel with regard to the intellectual developments motivating the Turkish modernization …

The tired old civilisational categories of 'East'and 'West', loosely identified with 'Islam'and
'modernity', are alive and well, nowhere more so than in contemporary Turkey. The Justice …

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 …

For authors of the early twentieth century Millî Edebiyat [National Literature] movement like
Ömer Seyfettin (1884-1920) and Halide Edip Adıvar (1884-1964), the notion of a pernicious …

This essay examines a handwritten refugee ballad in a handmade codex, using both to
illuminate some of the lingering blind spots in national philology and world literature. The …

A wide variety of fundamental reforms in different spheres of Turkey's institutions were swiftly
implemented in a top-down manner in the early years of the Turkish Republic. This paper …

Edebiyat, özeldeyse romanlar, yazıldıkları dönemin ve kültürün zihinsel yapılarını kavramayı
mümkün kılan estetik, hatta antropolojik nesneler olarak anlaşılabilir. Bu çerçeveden …