Man is surrounded/ besieged, broadly speaking, by moral values of the society
he lives in but in the strict sense by his close circle and his family values.
However, he gains an identity through his own efforts of quest. These efforts
of search for an identity, usually overlap with the values of his social circle but
they sometimes do not and turn to a completely opposite direction. One of the
phenomena that people who are in need of the search for identity encounter is
Sufism.
Sufism, is one of the subjects that has always keeps its position in the history
of Islamic philosophy. It promises a mental tranquillity towards the individual
during the pursuit of self. Besides, Sufism aims to turn its followers’ lives into
a focus of some set of values by surrounding them with life styles which have
their own forms. In addition, Islamic mysticism and ‘dergah’ life, possessing
a thousand-year-old tradition in Islamic societies with different names and
perceptions also become a subject of literature.
Şanzelize Düğün Salonu (2015) is a novel about people who belong to a
dervish convent in Istanbul. It narrates the story of a character receiving the
values of mysticism from his ‘sheikh’ father and his fallacies meeting the outer
space. The hero of the novel, who is endowed with traditional dervish culture,
begins to question both his tradition and his past owing to modern life in the
outer world.
In this study, the elements and the stages of identity construction of the
character, who has initially been destroyed but then cured psychologically by
love, in Şanzelize Düğün Salonu will be analysed with an analytical approach.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | ARTICLES |
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Publication Date | June 27, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 28 Issue: 1 |