Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

Shahnamah
(Firdawsi), 56
shamanism, 1, 5, 57
short stories, 58, 74, 120–21, 122, 134
Sılay, Celâl, 114
Silâhtar Mehmed (18 c.), 32
“Silent Ship” (Beyatlı), 86
Simple Turkish (
türki-i basit
) movement, 
39
Sinan Pasha (15 c.), 32
Sinekli Bakkal
(
Th
e Clown and His 
Daughter
) (Edib), 118
Snow
(
Kar
) (Pamuk), 125
socialist literary criticism, 128
social realism, 92, 121
“Soft ” (Dağlarca), 112
Soysal, Sevgi, 122
“Sparkle” (Dağlarca), 110–11
Stevens, Wallace, 100, 101
storytelling, Ottoman, 57–61
stream-of-consciousness fi ction, 123, 135
Sufi sm: in Ottoman Empire, 25; Selçuk, 
11–23; 
vahdet-i vücut
doctrine, 19–20
sultans: cruel love of, 43; focal signifi cance 
of the monarchy, 43; as loved one in 
Ottoman poetry, 41; in Ottoman tales, 
57, 60; as poets, 25, 31, 41–43; Şinasi 
challenges absolutism of, 65
Sultan Veled, 26
surrealism, 33, 84, 92, 95, 96, 99, 100
Sutüven, Mustafa Seyit, 118
Süleyman Çelebi (15 c.), 26

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Index
165
Süleyman the Magnifi cent, Sultan, 31, 
42–43, 57
Süreya, Cemal, 107
symbolism, 79, 84, 100, 113
Şafak, Elif, 123–24
Şair Evlenmesi
(
Th
e Wedding of the Poet
) 
(Şinasi), 76–77
şarkı
(
murabba
), 35
Şems of Tabriz, 12–13
Şemseddin Sami (19 c.), 74, 77
Şener, Sevda, 127
Şenlikname
(Berk), 101–2
Şevkengiz
(Vehbi), 57
Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı
(
Th
e Epic of 
Sheikh Bedreddin
) (Hikmet), 87–90
Şeyh Galib (18 c.), 40, 50–53, 56–57
Şeyhî (15 c.), 36–37
Şeyhülislâm Yahya (16–17 c.), 38, 47
Şeyyad Hamza (13 c.), 26
Şinasi, İbrahim, 59, 64, 65, 67, 76–77
Şirin, Mustafa Ruhi, 122
Tahir, Kemal, 121
tales: essential features of Turkish folk-
tales, 55; Ottoman, 57–61
Tamer, Ülkü, 116
Taner, Haldun, 123, 126
Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi, 90–91, 128
Tanzimat (Reform) Period, 63, 65–66, 71
Tarancı, Cahit Sıtkı, 93
Tarhan, Abdülhak Hâmit, 64, 67–68, 78, 
83–84
Tecer, Ahmet Kutsi, 90, 118
tekerleme
, 55, 59
Tekin, Latife, 122
Tekke
literature, 25–26
“Terziler Geldiler” (Uyar), 104
Tevfik Fikret, 68–70, 72, 74
tezkire’tüş-şuara,
33
theater: in early twenty-fi rst century, 134; 
Karagöz
(shadow play), 25, 31, 58, 126; 
Ottoman, 25; in Turkish Republic, 
125–28. 
See also
dramatic literature
Th
ousand and One Nights, Th
 e,
56
“Tiny Spring, A” (Külebi), 93–94
Toprak Ana
(Dağlarca), 111, 118–19
Toptaş, Hasan Ali, 122
Topuz, Hıfzı, 121
“To the Fatherland” (Namık Kemal), 66
tragedy, 31, 78, 126
translations, 64
“Troya Önünde Atlar” (Anday), 99
Tulip Age, 50
Turan, Güven, 118
Turkish language: 
aruz
as ill-suited to, 
34–35; characteristics of, 3; conti-
nuity of, 2; Kanık employs natural 
sounds of colloquial, 96; Language 
Revolution, 81; pure Turkish move-
ment, 81; re-Turkifi cation of, 39; 
Simple Turkish (
türki-i basit
) move-
ment, 39; Uyghur, vii, 1, 4, 6; vast 
transformation of, 134
Turkish literature: Asian origins of, 1–10; 
cultural and literary orientations in, 
vii; Europeanization of, viii; future 
of, 133–35; geographic span of, vii; 
gulf between elite and popular, 7–8; 
impediments to development of, 134; 
oldest known written, 6; periodiza-
tion of, 1–2; as premier genre of Turk-
ish culture, vii, 124; Selçuk, 11–23; 
temporal span of, 1; themes of mod-
ern, 83; in Turkish Republic, 81–131.