CELAL NURİ (İLERİ)’DEN BÜYÜKLERE “MASAL”LAR
TALES FOR ADULTS FROM CELAL NURİ (İLERİ)

Summary/Abstract: Celal Nuri (İleri), who wrote many articles, stories and books in the 2nd constitutional and republican years, took Westernization as a basis in almost all his texts. The author, who is included in the Partial Westerners group, believes that among our traditional values, the positive ones should be selected and they should be taken advantage of. Celal Nuri, who gives especially great importance to family and women issues, tries to evaluate the woman as a human in his texts he wrote under the name of tale, which constitutes a base for this study as well. In the four handled tales, the subjects he seriously emphasizes are the arranged marriage, the painful consequences of this, the grooms living together with family of wife and the divorce styles. According to the author, who stated that the period of autocracy is no longer in the Ottoman society, the ignorance will end and the woman who constitutes half of the Muslim world will find its true value and place in society. For this to happen, the most important thing will be the return to the true Islam and the orders of Islam. The reason for this is that Islam is the ultimate and perfect religion that gives women the value it deserves. The author, who describes the negative effects of the aspects which are not compliant with Islam on our youth, especially our young daughters, embodies the people whom he described in various books and articles in general. With this study, the universality of the ideas written at the beginning of the 20th century and their validity will be emphasized.

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