^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Dervish Bektashi Gems - Poems -

Thus, instead of the master-subject relationship between God and Man, Bektashi anecdotes wish to introduce a relationship between two friendly beings who converse comfortably and who tolerate each other. In the Bektashi anecdotes, the roots of the jokes framed within daily incidents extend to a distant past and these metaphysical ideas. The genial personality of the Bektashi of our recent times can, in a sense, be considered to descend from the lineage of eloquent men such as Celaleddin of Konya, Yunus of Sakarya and Bedreddin of Simavna, who since 13th century did not hold back from expressing free ideas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Aysıt Tansel
INTRODUCTION by Pertev Naili Boratav
DERVISH BEKTASHI GEMS
Five Cents
Bullying
Marriage
Embarrassment
Solution
Interim Marriage
Traveler
Spit Out The Horse Bean
Certainly
Think About It Later
Bewilderment
Excuse
Proof
Evasive
Dead Broke
We Don't Interfere
The Pledge
Brazen
Bridge
Awkward
Exchange
Kevser Wine
Short Cut
Old Tree
Directions
Smart
Donkey
Celebration
In Herds
Tricked
Honey And Cream
Rattle
Maybe
Beating
A Peck Of Trouble
Migration
Just Before Leaving
Appropriate
The Other Way Around
Soul
Turban
Free Loader
Freestyle
Rainmaker
Prayers
Muffed His Lines
Practical Joke
Praise Curses
Intelligent
All Tied Up
Contrary
Holiday Clothes
Clean Defense
Besmele
Supplication
Sweet World
Exaggeration
Miracle
Tenderizing
Bug
Mediator
Reduced To One
Mirror
Fool
Imprecation
Consolation
No Joke
Nagging
Realist
Ramadan Injustice
Unbecoming
Complaining
Votive Offering
Clear As Daylight
God's Guest
Bath
Trade
Needless Worry
Debt
Tactlessness
Turban
The Mold
Judgement
Fire
Nothing
Postponement
Houri
Benevolence
Missed It
Someone Shameless
Green Melon
Easily
Creation
Sharing
Cool It!
Contrary
Family
Partnership
What For?
Servants
Guilt
Brainless
Bonito
Provisions
Mahya
Oppressors
Pig

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