Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri’s controversial late Ottoman novel ‘Nur Baba’

William Armstrong; M. Brett Wilson

Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri’s controversial late Ottoman novel ‘Nur Baba’

William Armstrong (Host)
, M. Brett Wilson (Guest)

Research output: Non-textual form types › Digital or Visual Products

Abstract (may include machine translation)

Brett Wilson, associate professor of history and public policy at Central European University, on his translation of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu‘s 1922 novel “Nur Baba” (Routledge).

The book’s account of a debauched Bektashi Sufi lodge caused a sensation at the time, raising eyebrows with its scandalous depiction of an immoral, even degenerate religious community in turn-of-the-century Istanbul.

Original language	English
Publisher	Turkey Book Talk
Media of output	Online
State	Published - 4 Feb 2025

Access to Document

https://turkeybooktalk.com/2025/02/04/brett-wilson-on-yakup-kadris-controversial-late-ottoman-novel-nur-baba/

1 Book

Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul
Karaosmanoğlu, Y. K. & Wilson, M. B. (Editor), 2023, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 122 p. (Routledge Sufi Series)
Research output: Book/Report types › Book › peer-review

Cite this

@misc{d135f93e79a14305b8016fcf39beb5e2,

title = "Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri{\textquoteright}s controversial late Ottoman novel {\textquoteleft}Nur Baba{\textquoteright}",

abstract = "Brett Wilson, associate professor of history and public policy at Central European University, on his translation of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu{\textquoteleft}s 1922 novel {\textquotedblleft}Nur Baba{\textquotedblright} (Routledge). The book{\textquoteright}s account of a debauched Bektashi Sufi lodge caused a sensation at the time, raising eyebrows with its scandalous depiction of an immoral, even degenerate religious community in turn-of-the-century Istanbul.",

author = "William Armstrong and Wilson, \{M. Brett\}",

year = "2025",

month = feb,

day = "4",

language = "English",

publisher = "Turkey Book Talk",

}

TY - ADVS

T1 - Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri’s controversial late Ottoman novel ‘Nur Baba’

A2 - Armstrong, William

A2 - Wilson, M. Brett

PY - 2025/2/4

Y1 - 2025/2/4

N2 - Brett Wilson, associate professor of history and public policy at Central European University, on his translation of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu‘s 1922 novel “Nur Baba” (Routledge). The book’s account of a debauched Bektashi Sufi lodge caused a sensation at the time, raising eyebrows with its scandalous depiction of an immoral, even degenerate religious community in turn-of-the-century Istanbul.

AB - Brett Wilson, associate professor of history and public policy at Central European University, on his translation of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu‘s 1922 novel “Nur Baba” (Routledge). The book’s account of a debauched Bektashi Sufi lodge caused a sensation at the time, raising eyebrows with its scandalous depiction of an immoral, even degenerate religious community in turn-of-the-century Istanbul.

M3 - Digital or Visual Products

PB - Turkey Book Talk

ER -

Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri’s controversial late Ottoman novel ‘Nur Baba’

Abstract (may include machine translation)

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Research output

Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul

Cite this