Semiha Cemal: A Portrait of a Turkish Sufi Philosopher - Couverture souple

Yalcinkaya, Arzu Eylul

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ISBN 13 : 9798993081519

Editeur : Kenan Center Press, 2026

Synopsis

Semiha Cem¿l: A Portrait of a Turkish Sufi Philosopher restores to memory a pioneering figure whose voice was nearly lost to history. A philosopher, educator, and mystic, Semiha Cem¿l lived at the threshold of empire and republic, bringing together Sufi metaphysics and classical philosophy in a way that quietly challenged the binaries of her time. This book presents both a critical portrait of her life and the inaugural English edition of her 1927 novel A¿k Peygamberi (The Prophet of Love). Written in Ottoman Turkish during the early Republican reforms, the novel stands as a bold work of metaphysical fiction. It stages love as a force of ethical transformation, blending Platonic allegory with Sufi cosmology to explore the soul's journey toward truth. Through biography, interpretation, and translation, the volume situates Semiha Cem¿l within a broader genealogy of Turkish thought, one that highlights the contributions of women, mystics, and overlooked intellectuals. At once scholarly and accessible, it invites readers to rediscover a voice that speaks with clarity, courage, and contemplative depth across a century of silence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya is a theologian and historian whose work traverses the intersections of Sufi thought, Ottoman intellectual history, and the ethical architecture of modernity. Trained in Islamic sciences and the history of Sufism, she brings a philological eye and a metaphysical sensitivity to the study of late Ottoman and early Republican texts, with particular attention to figures who straddled spiritual and bureaucratic domains. She is a faculty member at Üsküdar University's Institute for Sufi Studies and the founding director of The Kenan Center for Turkish Cultural Studies in Boston. Alongside her academic appointment in Istanbul, she served as a visiting researcher at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), where she conducted post-doctoral research on late Ottoman Sufi intellectuals and the bridging roles of Sufi bureaucrats. Yalçınkaya works across disciplines to examine how metaphysical inquiry, aesthetic form, and moral imagination were reconfigured in response to modern secular reforms. A published writer in her fields of expertise, she also contributes to peer-reviewed journals, critical translations, and public lectures, and performs Turkish classical and Sufi devotional music as part of her broader inquiry into embodied knowledge. Her current work explores alternative genealogies of Turkish philosophy through women mystics and thinkers such as Semiha Cemāl, whose writings she positions within a global history of metaphysical literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kenan Center Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798993081519
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 318
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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