The Idea of State in Pre-Islamic Turkish Thought

115 s, İngilizce.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION; 

CHAPTER I: THE PROBLEMS OF TURKISH THOUGHT 

• Method;


• Fundamentals of the State Idea;


• Existence;


• Order;


• The Ruler; 


• War; 


• Wisdom;

CHAPTER II: THE CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE 

• God;


• The Heavens and the Earth; 


• Human Being; 


• The Soul; 


• The State;


• The Structure of Religion; 

CHAPTER III: THE MODEL OF A WORLD STATE: The Myth of Oğuz Khan 

CHAPTER IV: THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE STATE: The Orhon Inscriptions

• Order; 


• Address to the People;

CHAPTER V: THE WISE RULER: Kutadgu Bilig

• Wisdom;


• The State and the Ruler; 


• Order;


• The State;


• The Ruler;


• Critiques of Zahit; 


• The Commander; 


• The People

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX