Whirling dervishes
The great Turkish poet and mystic Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi was born in September 1207 r. in the city of Balkh (in northern Afghanistan). The nickname "Mevlana” his disciples gave him, and it means more or less “our great one …
Month: June 2019
The real story of St.. Nicholas
The real story of St.. Nicholas
Santa Claus was born in Patara (40 km west of Kas) ok. 280 r. We know little about his youth, except that, that during the persecution of Christianity under the Emperor Diocletian (284 – 305) he was imprisoned several times. …
Ionian philosophers
Ionian philosophers
As a result of the rapid development of Greek society and changes in economic and political life in the so-called. the period of archaic Greece (lata 800 – 500 p.n.e.) there has also been progress in the field of spiritual culture. Interested, as a result of colonization outside the city-state, …
The Five Pillars of Islam
The Five Pillars of Islam
The Muslim ritual has five responsibilities, called pillars of religion, which are recognized by all believers, regardless of affiliation to sects and fractions.
1. Confession of faith, or shahadah (arab. certificate), it is a confirmation of strict monotheism and prophetic mission …
Music in Turkey
Music
Turkey has a long musical tradition, and therefore many kinds of it – starting with military music, and ending with pop. Today, you can listen to a Janissary band at the Military Museum in Istanbul, whose music, won on timpani, she shut up …
Nasreddin Hocy's fairy tales
Nasreddin Hocy's fairy tales
Nasreddin Hoca is that for Turks, who is Julian Tuwim for us, that's just that, that he lived a long time ago, in the thirteenth century. He was a comprehensively educated dervish. He is considered a folk philosopher in Turkey, and his humorous anecdotes …
Turkish literature
Literature
Turkish literature was influenced by Iranian influence, but its origins go back to time, before the Seljuks took Anatolia, that is, the period, when they were in Central Asia. Iranian influences meant the use of Persian and Arabic. Court literature of the Seljuk era had its center …
Islam and art
Islam and art
Turkish culture and art are closely related to Islam, adopted by the Turkmen tribes from the beginning of the 10th century. It was then that they gradually began to arrive in Anatolia, trying to reach its western borders. Muslim doctrine pervaded all areas …
Icon
Icon
Word icon comes from Greek eikon – "Image”, "image”. Originally in Byzantium, this term was used to describe religious images, both in blackboard painting, and wall. Contemporaries, talking about the icon, they mean first of all the first meaning. Icons have always depicted …
Byzantium
Byzantium
Byzantine art was formed from the Greco-Roman tradition and its combination with oriental elements. It is considered the culmination point of the development of early Christian art, a was born after Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium in 330 r. The greatest artistic activity …