Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Scribe and his Sons -- Chapter 2 The Textual Genealogies of Ottoman Popular Islam -- Chapter 3 Religion on the Frontier -- Chapter 4 The Yazıcıoğlus within Islam -- Chapter 5 Wonder and Cosmos at the Edge of the World -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This study follows the lives and ideas of the Yazıcıoğlu brothers Mehmed Yazıcıoğlu and Ahmed Bican, Sufis of the frontier city of Gelibolu and authors of the most popular religious writings in Ottoman Turkish.