The Idea of State in Pre Islamic Turkish Thought Analecta Isisiana Ottoman and Turkish Studies 1st Edition by Ayhan Bicak 1617191310 9781617191312

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ISBN 10: 1617191310 

ISBN 13: 9781617191312

Author: Ayhan Bicak

Historians have long characterised Ottoman political thoughts as being a synthesis of Islamic, Byzantine and Turkic statecraft traditions. In this book, Ayhan Biçak tries to understand the pre-Islamic notion of the state amongst the Turkic peoples using a philosophical approach. Studying three pre-Islamic Turkic texts – the Myth of Oguz Han, the Orhon Inscriptions and Kutadgu Bilig – Biçak draws conclusions about the structure of statecraft within the framework of the Turkic conception of the universe. Biçak places culture, that is the union of institutions, traditions and values, at the centre of determining how a state will be formed. Thus, he examines the pre-Islamic Turkic cultures and their thought as expressed in the texts, and how these influenced the types of Turkic states which emerged in Central Asia.

Table of contents:

CHAPTER I: THE PROBLEMS OF TURKISH THOUGHT
CHAPTER II: THE CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE
CHAPTER III: THE MODEL OF A WORLD STATE: The Myth of Oguz Khan
CHAPTER IV: THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE STATE: The Orhon Inscriptions
CHAPTER V: THE WISE RULER: Kutadgu Bilig

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