When the Traveler entered the room, the Philosopher rose and gave him a hearty welcome. Eager to show his friendship and affection, he hugged the Traveler, a young man of nineteen. Renowned throughout Andalusia, the Philosopher was an eminent scholar and a close friend of the Traveler's father.  The upper floor of his two-story, stone house in the western quarter of the city was packed with books. He and the Traveler now stood in the middle of a room on the second floor, crowded with countless works in Greek and others translated from Greek to Arabic.

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One day, the Traveler went to the banks of the Guadalquivir. He had been feeling somewhat strange in the last few days. All through his life, he had always regarded the people he saw, met, listened and talked to as superior to himself. Since the first days of his journey, he had been in trouble with the cravings of the flesh. But then, adopting the words of God's prophet who had a beautiful face which was food for spirits and pleasure and comfort to souls, who said "I shall not exonerate the nafs* for the nafs leads one to evil", he had slowly begun to unfasten the bonds of his body one by one.

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The Traveler...

The novel is about the spiritual life of the great philosopher, poet, sage Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi, one of the world's great spiritual teachers, who was born into the Moorish culture of Andalusian Spain.  The story begins with the encounter of Ibn' Rusd, later known as Averroes, and Ibn' Arabi. During this interesting encounter, the two great philosophers spend an hour together, yet they exchange two words only: 'yes' and 'no'. The novel, written by an initiatic approach to story-telling and fiction, does not contain any dramatic, tragic, or absurd elements. The life of the great Sage, especially the stages of his spiritual/inner life and his visions are told in the book.

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Biography...

Sadik Yalsizucanlar was born in 1962 in Malatya. After completing his elementary and secondary education in the same city, he finished Dörtyol Deneme High School. He studied at the Faculty of Social and Administrative Sciences Department of Turcology at Hacettepe University and received his degree in 1983.

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"The Door", "Snake", "The Parrot that hurts the Truth", struck me. I felt that I met a Turkish Kafka.

İlhan Berk

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