1) HİKAYELERİM
Work : 1 / Short Stories / 288 p.
Contains all of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek’s short stories published in various newspapers and magazines starting from 1925, one part of which were published in book form in 1933 in “Bir Kaç Hikaye Bir Kac Tahlil”, and another part in 1965 in “Ruh Burkuntularından Hikayeler”…
Compiled in 1983 in its entirety by “b.d. publications” and given its final form.
2) CINNET MUSTATİLİ (Yilanlı Kuyudan)
Work : 2 / Memoir – Prison Notes / 304 p.
According to one encyclopedia, Necip Fazıl “whose prison time exceeds his university years”, first went to prison in 1943, then again in 1947-1950-1951-1952-1957-1959 and 1960. His final sentence could not be carried out due to his death.
Published in 1955 under the title “Yılanlı Kuyudan”, this is a diary of suffering and tears reflecting the terrible effect of prison days on the deep and sensitive inner life of the great artist.
3) BIR ADAM YARATMAK
. Work: 3/Play/160 p.
(3 Acts)
The stage epic of the spiritual ordeal he lived…
This work has continued to draw great attention since it was first staged by Muhsin Ertuğrul for the 1937-1938 season of the İstanbul City Theatre and in 1977 it was adapted to the screen.
(Date of completion of the work : 8 July, 1937, Thursday, midnight…)
4) CILE
Work:4/Poems/512p.
Masterpiece…
Stating that his poetry books “Orümcek Ağı” (published 1925), “Kaldırımlar” (published 1928), “Ben ve Ötesi” (published 1932), “Sonsuzluk Kervanı” (published 1953) and “Şiirlerim” (published 1969) failed in many ways at adequate self expression, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek filtered, selected, edited and compiled all his poems starting with his first-published poem in Yeni Mecmua in 1923.
And his Poetika…
On the one hand, poetry arising from a certain artistic understanding, and on the other, this understanding giving rise to the ideals of poetry…
5) KAFA KAĞIDI
Work : 5 / Autobiography / 208 p.
Stating that he had already written his life story in some of his work, and that he actually wants to depict his inner life, to give an identity card to his soul, with this work Necip Fazıl Kısakürek once again slightly pulls aside the curtains on the past, especially his childhood.
Kafa Kağıdı is an autobiography aimed at identifying the spiritual genesis of the external manifestations of events.
This work, which acquires a distinct intimacy by being unfinished, was published in installments in the Milliyet newspaper in January 1984 and later as a book.
6) O VE BEN
Work : 6 /Autobiography / 272 p.
Necip Fazıl divided his life into two parts: “Before Meeting” and “After Meeting” his Venerable Master Abdulhakim Arvasî, and introduced this autobiographic work of 1975 in which he interprets the events that drew him to his spiritual teacher, with these words:
“This work is the story of my life since birth until now with the most intimate colours, shapes and voices and of the burning expression of my raison-d’etre, which I began to understand especially after meeting him. In this respect, relative to the one-and-a half works I had published until meeting him and of the more than 60 volumes of today, all of which I owe to that light, I present the present work as one that should hold the place of honour and as a revelation of my most intimate internal and external landscapes.”
The book was published as “Büyük Kapı” in 1965.
7) YUNUS EMRE
Work : 7 / Play / 96 p.
(3 Acts, 9 Scenes)
The story of Dervish Yunus who sets out to find a village that does not have a cemetery, and his first insight is that the path to immortality goes through one’s own inner self…
(Date of completion: 25-26 July, 1969, Friday night.)
AT’A SENFONI
Work:8/Study/216p.
Describing his love of the Horse in these words: “I first rode a horse when 1 was nine years old, and it would be only a slight exaggeration to say I never got off, Necip Fazıl in this perhaps unique work in its field portrays the history, philosophy and aesthetics of the Horse.
In his view the Horse is the symbol of heroism deemed most fitting by God in aesthetic expression of mankind’s striving for material and moral victory.
This book is the story of this symbol, the Horse, which we considered initially as a servant on the basis of simple usefulness, shouldering all sorts of burdens and how through selection it has become either only a saddle beast or a Thoroughbred good only for racing.
The work was penned in 1958 and first published by the Jockey Club of Turkey.
9) PARA
Work: 9/Play/136 p.
(5 Acts)
The lead character is a “man of the petty schemes and wretched calculations that rule life,” a Bank Boss. For the sake of making money, he deems everything legitimate; however, he is never hypocritical by trying to cover up his immorality in order to look upright. In brief, he is sincere in his dishonesty. In addition he is aware that, starting with his family members, on through his employees and the people he has contact with in various spheres of society who are considered to be honest and upright, most are not sincere.
As the play develops, money lies at the centre and is the yardstick that fully exposes the real side of people…
This work was first staged in the winter of 1941-1942 at the İstanbul City Theatre.
(Date of completion: 15 December, 1941)
10) SAHTE KAHRAMANLAR
Work : 10-11 / Lecture Notes / 152 p.
• Sahte Kahramanlar
• İslam ve Öbürleri
Two separate public lectures by Necip Fazıl Kısakürek…
Both lectures, held at different times and in different cities many times, addressed thousands of listeners and created tremendous interest. For Necip Fazıl who rocked Anatolia from end to end since the founding of the Büyük Doğu Association in 1949, whatever the topic, every lecture he gave was connected to “rescuing and evaluating universally the roots of our soul which have been rotted by false reforms since the Tanzimat, and to the ideal of establishing the spiritual and material world of the Turks according to an ideological plan which the West too would admire and find therein solace to all suffering.”
11) HAZRET-İ ALI
Work : 12 / Religion and Sufism / 344 p.
The life story of the Blessed Ali, “The gateway to the Domain of Knowledge”…The analysis of events, since the “Kirtas” affair, that arose after the death of the Prophet Muhammad and gradually deepened leading to separation first politically and then in doctrine based on creed, told through the life story of this holy person…
12) TANRI KULUNDAN DİNLEDİKLERİM
Work : 13 / Moral Philosophy / 272 p.
The writings that constitute this work were written in the Buyuk Doğu magazine under the title “Tanrı Kulundan Dinlediklerim”in 1943 and 1945.
As the reference in the title indicates, Necip Fazıl in this work crystallises the measures of evaluation attached to “That gate” which with the blessing of enlightenment received from his spiritual Teacher he applies, in short, to every subject that he takes up: history, thought, art, poetry, novels, stories, theatre.
13) İHTİLAL
Work : 14 / Moral Philosophy / 400 p.
The work starts with Cain and Abel and in the first part tells of the fundamental revolutions of the Prophets Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus as well as of the Prophet Muhammad, all of them absolute revolutionaries.
The rest consists of novel-like stories of rebellion of humankind on the path to God, from which lessons should be drawn in terms of the spiritual realm, knowledge and methods.
The second part covers the revolutions from ancient Greece to the American War of Independence; the third part covers the Great French Revolution; the fourth, Napoleon Bonaparte and the revolutions after that.
The last part is the Synthesis where “those dedicated to justice and truth are infused with the culture of most beneficial work and action.”
14) MOSKOF
Work : 15 / Moral Philosophy / 352 p.
In terms of societies and peoples as diametrically opposed as icebergs and volcanoes, Necip Fazıl says that Muskovites <Russians> and Turks can be seen as the clearest example, and analyses the Turkish-Russian relationship from a historical perspective. This analysis includes the meaning expressed by the term “Moskof’ as well as, beginning with the Golden Horde, identifying and interpreting the critical periods of Turkish history up to the Republic.
The book is composed of three parts and the main thesis attempted to be proven throughout is that two Moslem chieftains of Turkish origin, Tamerlane in the late 14th C. and Baltaci Mehmed Pasha in the early 18th C. are responsible for Russia entering the world stage and following the 1917 revolution, becoming a threat to the whole world.
15) TOHUM
Work: 16/Play/112p.
(3 Acts)
Necip Fazıl sees the theatre as “a mystical mirror that captures not the worthless and transitory facet of life like ‘quantity’, but ‘quality* which is the deep and infinite character of life and which picks out the dross, purifies it and reflects the very image, but in a different way.” And when at a dinner Muhsin Ertugrul asks him “Why don’t you write a play?” it touches a long buried yearning in him. At that moment there are only 20 days left to submit a play to the City theatre. He decides immediately and finishes “Tohum” in 7 days.
In the play “Tohum” which was staged by Muhsin Ertuğrul in 1935, the scene is Maraş, a corner of Anatolia under foreign occupation.
The motherland is not just a piece of earth. Thus, defending the motherland must manifest an action which manifests an idea, which in turn manifests one’s private self.
“Tohum” depicts the Turkish National Struggle for Independence as the bursting forth of the spirit present in the genuine character of the Anatolian people.
(Date written: 1935)
16) AYNADAKI YALAN
Work: 17 / Novel / 224 p.
The only work by Necip Fazıl Kısakürek penned in the novel form…
The novel develops around the life of Naci, an assistant in philosophy at the university…
While this story is not the life of Necip Fazıl, it does include many autobiographical elements. As Naci forms into a developed character – as revealed through his comportment towards his surroundings, through his views on women, society and art, and his thoughts on life and death -in our imagination a portrait of Necip Fazıl seems to appear.
17) REIS BEY
Work : 18/Play/ 152 p.
(3 Acts)
Necip Fazıl did not write a play from 1948 to 1960, and when he entered prison following the 1960 revolution he wrote three plays: Ahşap Konak, Kumandan and Reis Bey.
The main character of the play, Reis Bey, is the chief judge in criminal court. He has spent his life in hotel rooms, is a solitary and strange man. A stone-hearted enforcer of the law… For him, mercy is a crime punishable by execution and “to protect one individual in society, one should not avoid sending a thousand people to the gallows.”
One day, he sentences to death a young man brought before him accused of killing his mother. Henceforth, events will take a very different turn and the ice-cold inner world of Reis Bey will be utterly destroyed with a terrible jolt.
(Written in 1960)
18) BATI TEFEKKURU VE İSLAM TASAVVUFU
Work : 19 / Moral Philosophy / 216 p.
This work was given as a lecture series during Ramadan month in 1962 on three nights between Teravih <prayers> and <the pre-dawn meal of> Sahur and about 20 years later was put into book form by Necip Fazıl himself who designated it as one of the productions that in conjunction with the ‘İdeolocya Örgüsü’ should be moved to the top.
The book consists of two parts. Under the title “Bati Tefekkürü”, Western thought is addressed and evaluated in short, broad strokes beginning from Antiquity and continuing through our day. In the second part Sufism is portrayed in intimate detail.
“Bati Tefekkürü ve İslam Tasavvufu” won the Philosophy award of the Turkish Writers’ Association when it was published in 1982.
19) BABIALI
Work : 20 / Autobiography / 344 p.
In this autobiographical work Necip Fazıl appraises and sums up from a central vantage point the Turkish intellectual milieu of Babiali through a series of accounts of individuals and subjects himself to a merciless self-critique.
This work has special importance for being key, along with “O ve Ben”, to the subject of Necip Fazıl and here “Babiali is the eddy in Turkish society which, in the post-Tanzimat period, is gripped every instant in the pangs of a crisis of coming into existence or, despite all efforts, failing to do so; and under the same stamp, individuals are little waves passing through and flowing on…”
“O ve Ben” and “Babiali” present two separate and non-overlapping facets of Necip Fazıl’s complete life story.
20) SOSYALİZM, KOMUNİZM VE İNSANLIK
Work : 21 / Moral Philosophy / 112 p.
In this work, first socialism is examined as a partial and incomplete system and later, as the form where it reached its peak of development, communism. Following the “Introduction” where the relationship between Nature, man and society, as well as, labour and value equivalence are furnished with fundamental standards on a metaphysical plane, in keeping with the main goal of the work the doctrines of socialism and communism that disavow man and universe are intellectually analysed and critiqued.
21) HITABELER
Work : 22 / Speeches / 296 p.
Short lectures and speeches, each one expressing an intense and sharp spirit of thought and action, given by Necip Fazıl Kisakurek at various places beginning with his speech “Beklenen Sanatkar” in 1934 at the D Group Art exhibit up to the lines he dictated to send to the Award Ceremony celebrating those who served in the Press for 50 years, on Saturday 21 May, 1983 (three days prior to his death…)
22) PEYGAMBER HALKASI
Work : 23 / Religion and Sufism / 264 p.
Necip Fazıl describes the Sahabî (companions of the Prophet) as “the foundation of the Ummah (community of the faithful); for him, each one exemplifies a great human who in the first place connects his heart, feelings and thoughts with Him and then lets his wisdom run free on the circle of truth around this connection and thus frees himself from further intellectual distress.” In this work he has “aimed to transmit a gleam of the Sahabi quality” and has given examples of some of these eternal heroes endowed with the Sahabi light.
23) İBRAHIM ETHEM
Work : 24 / Play / 80 p.
(5 Acts)
Scenes from the life of the Venerable Ibrahim Ethem, one of the glorious leaders of the saints, who was the sultan of Balkh when he renounced his crown and throne to become a dervish…
(Date written : 1978)
24) HESAPLAŞMA
Work : 25 – 27 / Lecture / 144 p.
• HesaplaŞma (Reckoning)
• Tarihte Yobaz ve Yobazlık (Bigots and Bigotry in History)
• Türkiye ve Komünizm (Turkey and Communism)
Necip Fazıl analyses in front of multitudes the balance sheet of the history of his fight with the “Hesaplaşma” lecture and in his “Tarihte Yobaz ve Yobazlık” lecture he paints the psychological portrait of the Bigot who imprisons, freezes the most exalted truths in his own simple comprehension and goes between “foolish belief and stupid rejection” and expounding on the Bigot’s characteristics, gives historic examples.
In “Türkiye ve Komünizm”, in addition to the intellectual analysis of Marxism which he sees as an antithesis, he also draws attention to the adventures of communism in Turkey.
25) ESSELAM
Work: 28/Poetry/152 p.
“Is this work a mawlid?… No! It is but the epic of ecstasy about my burning love and undiminishing devotion for Him.” N.F.K.
Written in verse, this work tells of the holy life of the Prophet Muhammed in 63 sections and is “Dedicated to the Turkish youth devoted to the sacred who will come from now until the Last Judgment Day”; the part “Vasiyet” is appended; it was begun during a prison term in 1960-1961 and acquired its final form during the month of Ramadan, 1972.
First published in 1973 as the first book of b.d. publications which was established that year.
26) DÜNYA BİR İNKILAP BEKLİYOR
Work : 29-32 / Lectures / 136 p.
• Dünya Bir Inkilap Bekliyor (The World Awaits a Revolution)
• Yolumuz Halimiz Çaremiz (Our Path, Our Circumstances, Our Remedy)
• Ruh Muvazenesi (Spiritual Equilibrium)
• Her Cephesiyle Komünizm (Communism in All Its Aspects)
“Yes, Islam has weakened as to the vanguard towards the end of the 16th C. However, it has not spoken yet. The last words have not yet been uttered at the cadre level and as regards new considerations. We are trying to shape the new generation that will make this utterance…” N.F.K.
Each lecture is a step in the effort to create a social consciousness about the subjects indicated in the titles.
27) HAC
Work: 33 /Travel/ 192 p.
The travel impressions woven of the shapes, colours and sounds of that blessed region where Necip Fazıl went in 1973 to the Moslem Holy Land to pay his humble respects and carry out his obligation of Pilgrimage…
In addition, there are stories in the book’s “Veliler Diyarı” section about his travels to visit the Venerable Seyyid Fehim who is buried in Arvas village of Van; and in the “Vatanımı Buldum” section, visiting the Venerable Seyyid Taha whose tomb is in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari.
28) TARIH BOYUNCA BUYUK MAZLUMLAR
Work : 34 / Moral Philosophy / 632 p.
“The oppressed can be found in every religion, in every belief system. Even a man who believes in nothing, indeed, even an animal… The oppressed are those who are defined in relation to the oppressor, not according to their own condition.” N.F.K.
“Tarih Boyunca Büyük Mazlumlar” is a work not really matched by other examples in the history of world literature, where all kinds of the oppressed from all nations that fit this criteria are gathered together…
Beginning with the great Greek philosopher Socrates, then the oppressed of the Christian religion, continuing with the first victims in Islam, the Prophet’s two martyred grandsons the Blessed Hasan and Hüseyin, the cruelties of Haccac <governor of Iraq>, imam-i Azam <Abu Hanifa> and the imams of other sects, <Hallac-i> Mansur, Jean d’Arc, Cem Sultan, the victims of Saint Bartholomew, Genç Osman, Jean Calas, the victims of the Great French Revolution, Dreyfus and the murders of Ittihat Terakki…
While underlining with great sensitivity that the oppressed believers in God are in an exalted station both for their own essence and also as Martyrs, in the introduction Necip Fazıl says “All the value judgments of the book, I release to the winds in the fire-razed spiritual place where all values take wing and fly away without sentries or protectors” and continues these melancholy lines thus :
“This work, which you can consider as an essential foreword to the historical subject matter of oppression and the oppressed, should have had an afterword just as great. Perhaps one day that too shall be. However, at certain times and places there have been such streets where even if you enter, just as you are at the door where you are about to go in, you are forced to go back. And whether the oppressed are those you spoke about or you yourself, you cannot tell.”
29) TÜRKİYENİN MANZARASI
Work : 35 / Moral Philosophy / 160 p.
This book which was first published in 1973 for the 50th Anniversary of the Republic retains a timeliness as if written for today with its width of perspective and depth of vision.
A bird’s-eye-view and mordant analysis of the attacks aimed at separating the Turks from their spiritual roots and efforts to Westernise them, starting with the Tanzimat movement <the constitutional political reforms of Sultan Abdulmecit> in 1839 and their impact on the country in economic, social, political, scientific, moral and religious aspects…
30) KANLI SARIK
Work : 36 / Play / 112 p.
(3 Acts, 12 Scenes)
This play is a composite glimpse of “Turkish History” from a corner in the east of the country, beginning with the opening of the gates of Anatolia to the Moslem Turks with the Victory of Manzikert in 1071. In the play which was written in 1967, the city of Kars which has been honoured with the tomb of Ebu’l Hasan Harkaani, the seventh in the Golden Link, is like a tableau of history in which time comes alive.
(Date written: 1967)
31) NUR HARMANI
Work : 37 / Religion and Sufism / 200 p.
A florilegium from among the thousands of Hadith, the blessed words of the Holy Prophet Muhammad illuminating all things and events…
254 Hadith are compiled under each of the main headings of “Hakikat” and “Ahlak” and the last part of the book is *’Manzum 101 Hadis.”
32) İMAN VE İSLÂM ATLASI
Work : 38 / Religion and Sufism / 720 p.
Written with a very different understanding and expression from the usual religious books of late, this great work claims to unite the most trustworthy catechism with the most enlightened contemplation towards the goal of both form and spirit, deed and wisdom, mutually absorbing one another.
This intensely personal statement which he started writing during his 1960-1961 incarceration and carried inside him “like a protoplasm for 20 years without finding its form” he took up again in 1981. Here he tells about what he set out to accomplish with the work :
“The ‘İman ve İslam Atlasi’ where I unified all my experiences of art, philosophical reflection, ecstasy, sensitivity and faith and which I burned with the desire to put forth as a completely new phenomenon… Although at the time I had gathered a lot of material, these I had not been able to put into a cohesive picture, nor given them an order or expression that my devotion required. Because, in the blink of an eye, my prison time was up and the door to the outside world from which I had been getting news by way of stray dogs, was open for me. Welcome to the dog’s world that I had missed so much!…
I withdrew to my home for many seasons, not venturing out to the city which had become as alien to me as the streets of Marseille; I could not even go out into my garden, and squeezing ten days of work into one I was able to give form to ‘İman ve İslam Atlasi.’ My umpteenth imprisonment this time at my home…
Instead of books that fill the cup from many different sources, ‘İman ve İslam Atlasi’ is a vision of kneeling at the source and directly cupping my hands while using as few intermediaries as possible; I don’t know what God will vouchsafe me after this, but this work is qualified to complement all my works.
Instead of writing ‘Descriptions’, absorbing the goal in its essence into the soul; instead of a prescription, giving on a spiritual plane the remedy itself… That’s what I strove for. And also, to rescue this dear, sacred cause from parroting mouths… As there can be no body without a skeleton, there is also, as a human being, the aspect of succeeding to put flesh and blood on a skeleton… After having drawn the beehive correctly, being able to fill it with the purest honey… The degree of my success in this struggle which I don’t believe has been undertaken properly for centuries, will be determined by the new generation of faith and Islam which for 45 years I have tried to knead in the vessel of Büyük Doğu.
May God’s benedictions be on Him, Holy Prophet without whose existence, there would be no existence!..
From the first year of the 15th C. of Islam onward, May God grant the people of his Beloved a new understanding, perception, visionary thought and existence…”
33) MUDAFAALARIM
Work : 39 / Defence / 384 p.
Except for the legal defence files of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek that had disintegrated and were lost in court archives, the surviving legal cases pertaining to his defences that are covered in this book throw light on the history of his struggles and give examples of his style in difficult times, his lofty logic and dialectics, beginning with the 1946 Sümerbank case and especially the famous “Malatya assassination plot case.” Included are the cases:
Insulting Turkishness (1947); Disparaging the Regime (1947); the Hat Case (1950); Insulting the Moral Personality of the Government (3965); The “b.d. Philosophical Circle” (1967): Opposing Law No.5816 (1968); Violating Article No.163 governing the crime of intent to exchange the fundamental structure of State with religious criteria (1969); Ideological System Case (1970)…
The book includes the brochure “Maskenizi Yırtıyorum” published immediately after the Malatya Incident as well as information and documents relating to the Vahidüddin Case which resulted in a year and half prison sentence that could not be carried out due to his death, and newpaper clippings reflecting how various cases were covered by the press.
34) VELİLER ORDUSUNDAN 333 (Halkadan Pırıltılar)
Work : 40 / Religion and Sufism / 528 p.
Legends of the saints…
Beginning with Ebu Haşim Sofi, in broad outlines the stories of 333 of the hundreds of thousands of unnamed and underrated saints, without concern for interconnectedness or chronological order, coming from all branches, randomly; the stories of “those who come together in council in the realm beyond the boundary where intellect explodes and calculations turn to ashes…7′
In the last part of the book some of the “Kadın Erenler”, Women Visionaries, are depicted under this rubric: “When woman takes on the mantle of saintliness, she surpasses man in virtue.”
The work which was serialised in the Büyük Doğu magazine in 1945 and was published numerous times under the title “Glimmers From the Link” without being properly integrated into a cohesive whole, was at last given its definitive form by Necip Fazıl Kisakurek himself in 1976.
35) BENIM GOZUMDE MENDERES
Work : 41 / Political Memoir / 496 p.
For Necip Fazıl the Democratic Party, since the moment it was founded, has signified nothing but a sham party. On the other hand, Adnan Menderes has always remained a subject of hope but never been able to take the stance of “all or nothing” and the “fearlessness” expected of him. In this work Necip Fazıl, in a way, has written his own political biography through that of Adnan Menderes. He has described Adnan Menderes and the Democratic Party as they took shape in the mirror of his own soul. Regarding this work in which he has used a subjective method completely in keeping with the truth, this warning is important: “Those who will be interested in my work will here first find me, my struggle and then Adnan Bey, his party and entourage and will observe the inner truth of all these in their forms manifested in me.”
36) IDEOLOCYA ORGUSU
Work : 42 / Moral Philosophy / 576 p.
“This work is my whole existence, raison-d’etre, my everything… as the bee is charged with the task of building his hive in a geometrical form, I was created to systematise this work. My poems, plays, stories and writings on knowledge and reflections are nothing but ‘annexes’ around the edifice constructed in this work…”
37) MÜMIN KAFİR
Work : 43 – 45 / Religion and Sufism / 192 p.
•Mümin-Kafir •Vecdimin Penceresinden •Bir Pırıltı Binbir Işık
MUMIN – KAFIR : This work is in the form of a dialogue between two fictional characters named Mümin and Kafir, representing the poles of faith and unbelief, arguing various topics and each trying to establish intellectual superiority over the other.
By the vehicle of Kafir who is there only to question, protest and deny, Mümin in fact is an example of the ideal type who represents and reveals pure faith and intellectual dialectics that every believer should possess.
Man, Proof, Reason, the Prophets, Philosophy, the Sacred Books, Prayer, Fasting, Pilgrimage, Alms, Compassion, Adultery, Theft, Punishment, Laicism, Love-Hate are the topics of dialogue in the book.
VECDIMIN PENCERESINDEN : Looking at the universe of modalities not through the questioning, judging and doubting mind, but under the light of ecstasy that enables direct comprehension, revelation by way of the heart…
BİR PIRILTI BİNBİR IŞIK : Many images drawing lessons mostly from the life of Blessed Omer… A bouquet of exemplary sayings, legends and maxims.
First published in November 1986.
38) SENARYO ROMANLARIM
. Work : 46 – 54 / Scenarios / 528 p.
Contains all the dramatic scenarios and filmscripts of Necip Fazıl that were adapted to the screen and shown at the movies :
Sen Bana Ölümü Yendirdin, Deprem (Çile), Katibim, Villa Semer, Vatan Şairi Namık Kemal, Canım İstanbul, Ufuk Çizgisi, Son Tövbe, En Kötü Patron…
39) COLE INEN NUR
Work : 55 / Religion and Sufism / 608 p.
Necip Fazıl Kisakurek dedicates this work to the Venerable Esseyyid Abdulhakim Arvasi, his spiritual teacher, who showed him the true path and grounded his life after the age of thirty-
The holy life of the Prophet of God…
The writing of the work is an adventure in itself. Written first in 1950, a small part was serialised under the title “Allahın Sevgilisi” in the Büyük Doğu magazine in 1952. Publication resumed in 1956 under the title “O” but was not completed and following several attempts that fell short, it took until 1969 to find its final form and name.
40) SON DEVRİN DİN MAZLUMLARI
Work : 56 / History / 336 p.
“This work frames a matter that needs to be appended to Tarih Boyunca Büyük Mazlumlar’. It deals at close range with general oppression in the name of faith and ideals taken from our own lives, from the recent past and shown in detail… This recent history portrays the foundation of hatred for Islam that started with ‘İttihad ve Terakki’ and was established with the Republic and tells the story of the oppressed who have fallen to the sharp swords of oppression.”/ N.F.K.
41) OFKE VE HİCİV
Work : 57 / Poetry / 272 p.
Collection ‘of Necip Fazıl Kisakurek’s satiric daily jokes and witty remarks, published under the pen name “Ozan” or “Ozanbaşı’ in various newpapers and magazines starting in 1947, punctuating his spontaneous observations and barbed wit, in verse form.
First published: July 1988
42) SABIR TAŞI
Work : 58 / Play / 96 p.
The play takes its title from an old Turkish folktale and events occurring in “the past without beginning and in an eternal future.”
The work which was written in 1940 won a C.H.P. Republican Peoples’ Party> art award in 1947. However, the Party leaders annulled the first prize awarded by the Jury and disqualified the play, a comedic misadventure that was picked up by the newspapers of the day.
43) ULU HAKAN II. ABDULHAMİD
Work : 59 / Moral Philosophy / 688 p.
Necip Fazıl, in terms of the social struggle he espouses, wearing the biographer’s hat, considers Sultan Abdulhamid Han as the “key figure” in the puzzle of Turkish history and false reforms; here, the sultan’s life is revealed clearly and forms a framework for that struggle.
The underlying historical discovery, originally and absolutely Necip Fazıl’s, at one point even led him to prison.
Necip Fazıl says “The point is not to make Abdulhamid speak by putting concocted words in his mouth but being able to talk about him and draw a synthesis.”
“Enough of fabricated history about perhaps that greatest Turkish ruler among the 36 who has tremendous historical merit—a false history manufactured by Jews, conversos, masons, cosmopolitans and agents of imperialism hand-in-hand with the brigands of ‘ittihat ve Terakki’ (Committee of Union and Progress, political party in power after revolution of 1908) and the continuation of which false history we have witnessed all through the Republic regime!.. The world has seen falsehood in many things but such undending mendacity about knowledge and history has never been encountered!”
44) BAŞBUĞ VELİLERDEN 33 (Altun Silsile)
Work : 60 / Religion and Sufism / 368 p.
Starting with the Prophet of God as number “One”, 33 great saints who took the sacred gift bestowed on Him and brought it to our day were intentionally not included in his book “Veliler Ordusu” where he told the lives of 333 Saints.
Here, as best can be put into words, from the pen of Necip Fazıl are the holy lives of 33 heroes of the spiritual realm not included there, a particular branch of which forms “Silsile-i Zeheb-Altun Halka.”
45) MUKADDES EMANET
Work: 61/Play/96 p.
(4 Acts, 8 Scenes)
In the play, the suffering of Anatolia which has not been brought to light for centuries is laid out in the panorama of time from the declaration of the First Constitution to our day and the people of Anatolia, who from time to time have been shortchanged, are invited to take ownership of their own troubles.
(Date written: 1971)
46) İMAN VE AKSIYON
Work : 62-63 / Lectures / 144 p.
•İman ve Aksiyon •Özlediğimiz Nesil
Both lectures, held at different times and in different cities many times, addressed thousands of listeners and created tremendous interest. For Necip Fazıl who rocked Anatolia from end to end since the founding of the Büyük Doğu Association in 1949, whatever the topic, every lecture he gave was connected to “rescuing and evaluating universally the roots of our soul which have been rotted by false reforms since the Tanzimat, and to the ideal of establishing the spiritual and material world of the Turks according to an ideological plan which the West too would admire and find therein solace to all suffering.”
47) RABITA-I ŞERİFE
Work : 64 / Religion and Sufism / 208 p.
“In these wretched times when just anybody writes religious works and cheapens Holy matters, by conforming to stringent religious standards that are observed by almost no one, I have attempted to protect the verses and Hadith and holy words contained herein by not giving them in their originals, thus preventing them from being commercialised and put into incompatible frameworks; this work is a drop of the elixir of life emanating from our source of ecstasy and is the crown of the Büyük Doğu ideal.” / N.F.K.
Written by Abdulhakim Arvasi, Rabita-i Şerife, on which Necip Fazıl “dwelt on every word with respect, anxiety and scrupulous care that bled his brain and burned his pen” puts in a framework the very special topic of how the Rabita <Bond> is established and its proper procedures and observances.
The second part of the book contains lessons, lectures and letters on various topics by the Venerable Master, a detailed study of monotheism and the “Risale-i Ruh.”
48) DOĞRU YOLUN SAPIK KOLLARI
Work : 65 / Moral Philosophy / 176 p.
The Prophet of God had announced that after his death his nation would be split into 73 tendencies and that only one of these would be on the path of spiritual radiance. The first signs of perverted heterodoxy started to be seen in the days of the Blessed Osman and despite the conflicting aspects exhibited by different branches, they unite in the same diseased root: Arid intelligence and devilish imagination… In the book, as the false and perverted branches outside of the orthodox Moslem community are revealed in chronological order starting with the first examples and on through to our day, the goal is expressed thus: the Struggle is to find Islam as it really is, reveal the sacred and unadulterated truth of religion, not to invent or sacrifice it to one’s own deluded apprehension of truth.
49) KÜNYE
Work : 66 / Play / 144 p.
(3 Acts, 12 Scenes)
The tragic story of Gazanfer Bey, the son of a Plevne martyr, who had fought on many fronts in the First World War, taught at the Military academy, joined the Balkan war, and was court-marshalled; he believed success to be a product of spirit, discipline and knowledge, had no private life and looked at everything from a societal perspective and considered it mankind’s duty to surpass his Destiny.
50) TASAVVUF BAHCELERİ
Work : 67 / Religion and Sufism / 160 p.
“As I simplify with the most scrupulous fidelity, most profound attention and utmost awe the greatest work of religion of this century belonging to my Guide on the path, my Saviour and Master, the Venerable Abdulhakim Arvasi, the only measure I would add is to take reguge in his cherished saintliness and beg his forgiveness.” N.F.K.
The aim, subject matter and terminology of Sufism; the Particulars of the Nakşi Way as well as the terms Sufi, Mutasavvif, Melami and Fakir are explained in the book.
51) PARMAKSIZ SALIH
Work: 68 /Play/ 104 p.
(4 Acts)
Necip Fazıl, who says that in the play he “wants to show the disease of gambling which has no doctor nor remedy, with its most soul-rending causes and results”, answers a question about Parmaksız Salih this way:
“The only matter I wanted to express in the play, was of a soul that has not found its true expression amid a thousand contradictions and a thousand conflicting currents of fate and even has gone numb from the pressures of wickedness, and how once it finds its inspiration, it plunges into sublime action which it unknowingly yearned for during 55 years.”
The work was staged in the winter of 1948-1949 at the Istanbul City Theatre.
(Date written : 1948)
52) NAMIK KEMAL
Work : 69 / Biography / 352 p.
In 1939 the Ministry of Education commissioned Necip Fazıl with a work for the 100th anniversary of the declaration of Tanzimat <First Constitution> and the birth of Namik Kemal and this is his first biography as well as an early draft of the thesis later expounded in his work “Ulu Hakan Abdülhamid.”
In this work Namik Kemal’s person, works and influence are addressed and the conclusion arrived at is that, in the branches of art he tried to embrace, he did not profess a personal taste or conciousness but simply stated the views of society.
53) HUCUM VE POLEMIK
Work : 70 / Moral Philosophy / 272 p.
If Necip Fazıl were to be likened to a multi-pointed star for the branches of thought and art he inhabited, the most poignant and eye-catching point of this star would be, without a doubt, his polemicist character. He is a great polemicist and, in fact, those who best understand this greatness are his intellectual foes.
Necip Fazıl sees intellectual wrath as the driving force and source of volition for value judgments and “Hücum ve Pole-mik” is compiled in book form as the document of his fight where he never took a step back nor stumbled during his 50 years on Babiali.
54) ABDULHAMID HAN
Work: 71/Play/96 p.
• Abdulhamid Han
• Sir (incomplete)
(5 Acts)
The play is a partial stage production of the work “Ulu Hakan” where the historic truths that had been distorted about the Great Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid Han were rectified, revealed unmistakeably, stone by stone.
(Date completed : Wednesday, 5 June, 1968)
55) SIYAH PELERINLI ADAM
Work : 72 / Play / 96 p.
• Siyah Pelerinli Adam
• Kumandan (incomplete)
Necip Fazıl introduces this work which he composed to be read rather than acted as “a one act story.” It was first serialised in the Büyük Doğu magazine in 1943.
56) AHŞAP KONAK
Work: 73 /Play/ 128 p.
(3 Acts)
Ahşap Konak is the second play Necip Fazıl wrote in prison after the coup in 1960; it exposes from the core a society gradually degenerating and distancing itself from its moral values. Ahşap Konak symbolises this through the spatial image of a mansion where three generations live together but separately, with huge chasms in understanding and lifestyles between them and at the chronological level, it symbolises the heart-rending conflicts of post-1950s Turkish society.
(Date completed : September 1960, Balmumcu Garrison)
57) PUF NOKTASI
Work : 74 / Play / 84 p.
(4 Acts)
The only comedy Necip Fazıl wrote.
58) YENİCERİ
Work : 75 / Moral Philosophy / 320 p.
According to Necip Fazıl the Janissary is the first organised and professional army in the world and for two centuries after its establishment it served as the ideal protector attached to the goals and mores of the state. However, in the following three centuries leading up to the Tanzimat, it in fact turned into a renegade, an assassin of the state.
The decline of the Janissary is connected to a spiritual and social decay, namely the disappearance of faith, ecstasy and love from the hearts of the people, and the Janissary is only a vehicle in demonstrating this terrible and sad destiny.
As the author himself has said, this work was not written as a story of infamies and tragedies but rather to frame the beginning and endpoints of the Janissary in its spiritual and social context.
59) REŞAHAT
Work : 76 / Religion and Sufism / 448 p.
“Reşahat” by the Venerable Mevlana Safiyuddin is one of the prominent works on Sufi wisdom and legends of the saints and this is a “Necip Fazıl style” unornamented, purified version…
In addition to the legends of the saints of Silsile-i Zeheb, the book tells of “Yolun Temel Olculeri” systematised by Abdulhalik Gucdevani and the life of Hoca Ubeydullah Ahrar.
60) BAŞMAKALELERİM 1
Work : 77 / Moral Philosophy / 304 p.
Articles penned about the day’s or week’s topics and events that constitute the agenda particularly in the Büyük Doğu magazine and newspapers starting from early 1950…
In the first book of this series are found the leading editorials he wrote between 1952-54.
61) BAŞMAKALELERIM 2
Work : 78 / Moral Philosophy / 304 p.
The second book of the series of main editorials brings together all articles published in Büyük Doğu magazine daily in 1956 and weekly in 1959.
The articles gain an added importance when viewed in terms of the historic period they were written in and especially the relationship of Necip Fazıl – Menderes.
The article “1960 Son Vade” (1960 Due Date), written in the closing months of 1959 which was read as an admonition and saved by many readers, was better understood when the Coup took place soon after, serving the Due Date on the Menderes government.
62) BAŞMAKALELERİM 3
Work : 79 / Moral Philosophy / 312 sh.
Entering prison during the 1960 coup at 74 kilos and leaving at 57 kilos, Necip Fazıl was at the fork in the road between fully withdrawing into his solitariness, or completely opening to society; notwithstanding all the external negative conditions, as soon as he found himself back on his feet he started his articles in the Yeni İstiklal newspaper and then started Büyük Doğu again.
This third book of the main editorials series contains the articles he wrote after 1960.
63) MEKTUBAT
Work : 80 / Religion and Sufism / 256 p.
Necip Fazıl introduces the Mektubat of the Venerable Imam-i Rabbani as “the greatest work in religion after the books of Allah and his Prophet” and here offers a selection of parts of these letters which he has simplified…
Letters 1 through 24 that were once published in Büyük Doğu magazines have all been simplified and later ones were selected according to topics.
64) GONUL NİMETLERİ
Work : 81 / Religion and Sufism / 528 p.
Necip Fazıl transformed into his own style and contemporary language §air Baki’s translation of İmam Kastalanî’s, “Allah El-Mevahibu’l Lediiniyye” on the life of Prophet Muhammad. In the introduction he wrote for the book, he draws attention to the following :
“We hope that the readers of this work about the Holy Prophet acknowledge it among its peers as the most reliable and we declare too that in front of this holy subject there is no advice except to sit in quiet awe and try to enjoy the work…”
65) EDEBİYAT MAHKEMELERİ
Work : 82-84 / Moral Philosophy / 256 p.
The book is composed of three works :
1- EDEBIYAT MAHKEMELERI <Literature Courts>: Under this title, we find the writings published in Büyük Doğu magazine in 1945 where some famous names of Turkish literary world, Tevfik Fikret, Yahya Kemal, Mehmet Akif and Nurullah Ataç, are critiqued in a humorous style in a judicial setting. In addition, “Tevfik Fikret” and separately “poetry” are examined in literary salons presided over by Necip Fazıl at different times and places.
2 – Doğu EDEBİYATI <Eastern Literatures After a brief and general introduction to Eastern literature, in the Arab literature section “Muallakat-i Seb’a” poets and in the Persian literature section starting with Baba Tahir, the lives, literary evaluations and translations are given of the first court poets and Firdausi; in the Egyptian literature section, the translation of the oldest story written by Annana the seer priest on papyrus are to be found. In the last section of the book under the section The Great of the East, Nizami, El-Maarri, Omer Hayyam, Ibn-i Fariz and Sadi are taken up and voluminous translations of their work are presented.
3 – DIL RAPORLARI <Language Reports>: Under the main titles “Zavallı Türkçe” and “Dil Laboratuarından” standards of language are considered and on the other hand, in addition to the “diagnosis”, some possible remedies for the delivery of the Turkish language from its present chaos are offered.
66) HADİSELERİN MUHASEBESİ 1
Work : 85 / Moral Philosophy/ 296 p.
Necip Fazıl says “Writing clever repartees on daily politics does not befit the lofty work of an artist, nor is it my job!” This work is his first volume with the title “Hadiselerin Muhasebesi” and signed Be-De where his task is to write his perceptions and views on social and political events.
In the first book of this series, the events of 1943-1949 are scrutinized as a cautionary tale.
67) HADİSELERİN MUHASEBESİ 2
Work : 86 / Moral Philosophy/ 312 p.
Necip Fazıl says “Writing clever repartees on daily politics does not befit the lofty work of an artist, nor is it my job!” This work is his second volume with the title “Hadiselerin Muhasebesi” and signed Be-De where his task is to write his perceptions and views on social and political events.
In the second book of this series, the events of 1950-1959 are scrutinized as a cautionary tale.
68) HADİSELERİN MUHASEBESİ 3
Work : 87 / Moral Philosophy /240 p.
Necip Fazıl says “Writing clever repartees on daily politics does not befit the lofty work of an artist, nor is it my job!” This work is his third volume with the title “Hadiselerin Muhasebesi” and signed Be-De where his task is to write his perceptions and views on social and political events.
In the third book of this series, the events of 1964-1978 are scrutinized as a cautionary tale.
69) RAPOR 1-2
Work : 88 – 89 / Moral Philosophy / 152 p.
In 1971 with the declaration of martial law Büyük Doğu magazine ended its fifteenth period of operation. Four to five years later Necip Fazıl decided to resume publication, but when even in the preparation stage he encountered a general atmosphere of failure, powerlesness, duplicity and decay, he came to the conclusion “Büyük Doğu cannot be published! Only a new style, such as (Report 1-2-3…) can be considered!”
These reports, 13 issues in all, were published as monthly installments from 1976 to 1980.
In the first book of the series, the first two Reports; in the second book the 3rd and 4th Reports; in the third book the 5th and 6th Reports; in the fourth book the 7th and 8th Reports; in the fifth book the 9th and 10th Reports and in the sixth book the 11th, 12th and 13th Reports were published.
70) RAPOR 3-4
Work : 90 – 91 / Moral Philosophy / 176 p.
71) RAPOR 5-6
Work : 92 – 93 / Moral Philosophy / 200 p.
72) RAPOR 7-8
Work : 94 – 95 / Moral Philosophy /184 p.
73) RAPOR 9-10
Work : 96 – 97 / Moral Philosophy / 136 p.
74) RAPOR 11-13
Work : 98 – 100 / Moral Philosophy / 200 p.
75) SAVAŞ YAZILARI -1
Work : 101 / Daily Columns / 200 p.
The Cerceve articles from 1939 to 1943 by Necip Fazıl are mostly on World War II. In these writings, despite the news coming from Europe to the contrary, starting in March 1939 Necip Fazıl was alone in claiming that a here-to-fore unmatched world catastrophe was approaching. While all the Editorials of Bâbıali pointed to the Russian-German pact of late August 1939 as a sanction of peace, he wrote that war was “a matter of days away” and 3 days later the Second World War started.
During the course of the war his prescient diagnoses and claims which “if they are not proven correct, I shall break my pencil and slit my wrists” one by one came true, and astonished all. Regarding his articles that were seen as “astounding political diagnoses bordering on divination”, the only thing to be said was:
-Whatever this man says, it comes true!
The Cerceve writings of 1939 – 1943 were compiled chronologically under the title “Savaş Yazıları” and reveal the philosophical and political aspects of the course of WW2 through Necip Fazıl’s solid culture, understanding and discernment.
The first volume of the work covers the writings of 1939 -1940.
76) SAVAŞ YAZILARI – 2
Work : 102 / Daily Columns / 200 p.
The second volume of Savaş Yazıları covers the writings of 1940-1943.
77) ÇERÇEVE 1
Work : 103 / Daily Columns / 320 p.
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek started writing columns at “Haber” newspaper in 1939 and continued at “Son Telgraf” newspaper and then at various newspapers until 1982.
The first book in a series complied from the columns titled “Çerçeeve”…
78) ÇERÇEVE 2
Work : 104 / Daily Columns / 304 p.
The second book in a series complied from the columns titled “Çerçeve”…
79) ÇERÇEVE 3
Work : 105 / Daily Columns / 240 p.
The third book in a series complied from the columns titled “Çerceve”…
80) ÇERÇEVE 4
Work : 106 / Daily Columns / 296 p.
The fourth book in a series complied from the columns titled “Çerceve”…
81) ÇERÇEVE 5
Work : 107 / Daily Columns / 336 p.
The fifth book in a series complied from the columns titled “Çerçeve”…
82) ÇERÇEVE 6
Work : 107 / Daily Columns / 304 p.
The sixth book in a series complied from the columns titled “Çerçeve”…
N.B.: The “ÇERÇEVE” series continues.
BUYUK Doğu YAYINLARI
COMPILATION SERIES
• İSTANBULA HASRET Necip Fazıl Kısakürek / 160 p. Anthologist: Mehmed KISAKUREK
This book is as much a look at Istanbul from historic, intellectual, architectural, ethical and aesthetic perspectives as it is the about the love for Istanbul of an individual, that is Necip Fazıl, from a noble family belonging to the Istanbul aristocracy that formed around the palace…
• YAHUDILIK – MASONLUK – DONMELIK
Necip Fazıl Kisakürek / 200 p. Anthologist : Suat AK
The compilation of Necip Fazıl’s writings “of great value and importance in terms of recognising the hidden forces that silently like a moth gnaw at the accord and integrity of a people and a country; whether naming them or not naming them, but absolutely recognising their leadership and administration secrets and being aware of their regions of influence and of permeation of our souls” in the Büyük Doğu magazines, collected under the title “Yahudilik – Masonluk – Dönmelik.”
• LEARN YOUR RELIGION -for young readers-Necip Fazıl Kısakürek / 256 p. Anthologist: Suat AK
Necip Fazıl’s writings on Religion and Sufism and the works of the Great Names in Islam that he made accessible “for young readers”; these appeared in B.D. magazines and the Ramadan pages of various newspapers.
(Büyük Doğu Publications)