Ayverdi, Samiha
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2016Author
Sagaster, BorteSource
Encyclopaedia of Islam OnlineGoogle Scholar check
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Samiha (Sāmiḥa) Ayverdi was a Turkish novelist, essayist, autobiographical writer, and literary scholar. In contrast to the laicist and populist outlook of the early Republican period, her works demonstrate a religious (Islamic mysticist) and conservative-elitist attitude towards Turkey and its history. Born in 1905 into a family that was part of the Ottoman state’s elite, Samiha Ayverdi grew up in a konak (traditional Ottoman wooden mansion) in the Istanbul quarter of Şehzadebaşı, where, during...