The Traveler Kitabının Özeti

**Prof. Dr. Sinsi** · 11-03-2012

The Traveler

Sadık Yalsızuçanların beğeni ile okunan romanı GEZGİN artık İngilizce…

The Traveler
“A pearl from the East, a narrative that demands tranquility”

The Traveler represents the door of contemporary Turkish literature opening to the West

One of the first mystical novels to be translated into a Western language, The Traveler has been published in Germany by Literaturca Verlag as Der Wanderer

The English translation of the book is in progress

The Traveler tells the story of a universal saint, which is also the story of the spiritual life of Ibn Arabi, a well-known Muslim scholar who had lived in the Middle Ages

The spiritual journey of this saint is also the story of a universal human being

Critics describe this work, by Sadık Yalsızuçanlar, one of the most distinguished writers of contemporary Turkish literature, as an “innovative text

” As a narrative which is very different from both classic and modern novels, The Traveler can also be called “a modern epic

”

In the novel, the author tells us about the several phases of Ibn Arabis spiritual life, such as the encounter between Ibn Rusd and Ibn Arabi: they stay together for a few hours, yet they speak only two words: Yes and No

The saints teenage years and his initial visions

the days that Ibn Arabi spent with el-Müsenna, the most well-known female saint in Andalusia… their meeting with the Ethiopian, Abdullah

Later, Ibnül Arabis travels begin

We follow him on his trip to Mecca, see his acquisition of authority through hadith, and witness his vision during his circumambulation of the Kaaba…

Yazar:Sadık Yalsızuçanlar

Yayınevi:Timaş Yayınları

Sayfa Sayısı:272

Etiket Fiyatı:15,00 YTL

Basım Tarihi:Eylül 2008

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Prof. Dr. Sinsi	The Traveler Kitabının Özeti The Traveler Sadık Yalsızuçanların beğeni ile okunan romanı GEZGİN artık İngilizce… The Traveler “A pearl from the East, a narrative that demands tranquility” The Traveler represents the door of contemporary Turkish literature opening to the West One of the first mystical novels to be translated into a Western language, The Traveler has been published in Germany by Literaturca Verlag as Der Wanderer The English translation of the book is in progress The Traveler tells the story of a universal saint, which is also the story of the spiritual life of Ibn Arabi, a well-known Muslim scholar who had lived in the Middle Ages The spiritual journey of this saint is also the story of a universal human being Critics describe this work, by Sadık Yalsızuçanlar, one of the most distinguished writers of contemporary Turkish literature, as an “innovative text” As a narrative which is very different from both classic and modern novels, The Traveler can also be called “a modern epic” In the novel, the author tells us about the several phases of Ibn Arabis spiritual life, such as the encounter between Ibn Rusd and Ibn Arabi: they stay together for a few hours, yet they speak only two words: Yes and No The saints teenage years and his initial visions the days that Ibn Arabi spent with el-Müsenna, the most well-known female saint in Andalusia… their meeting with the Ethiopian, Abdullah Later, Ibnül Arabis travels begin We follow him on his trip to Mecca, see his acquisition of authority through hadith, and witness his vision during his circumambulation of the Kaaba… Yazar:Sadık Yalsızuçanlar Yayınevi:Timaş Yayınları Sayfa Sayısı:272 Etiket Fiyatı:15,00 YTL Basım Tarihi:Eylül 2008