The Idea of State in Pre-Islamic Turkish Thought

Genel Açıklama

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