2 books
Turkish writer, scholar, literary historian, and translator Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı (1900–1982) became an important modern interpreter of Mevlevi culture, Rumi, Yunus Emre, and the history of Sufi traditions. Mevlevi Adab and Customs presents the vocabulary, ceremonies, social practices, and institutional memory of the Mevlevi path as parts of a lived tradition rather than isolated curiosities. Its attention to etiquette shows how spiritual teaching is embodied in music, service, dress, communal roles, and disciplined conduct. Gölpınarlı’s broader scholarship joined textual research to knowledge of Turkish religious and literary culture, helping readers see connections between poetry, institutions, and everyday language. Mevlevi Adab and Customs is the clear English entry because it brings those strands together in a focused sourcebook; it rewards readers who want historical detail as well as a map of the tradition’s internal concepts.
