ABSTRACT
The origins of the Ottoman myth can be traced back to a nostalgia that emerged first among members of the old Ottoman elite who refused to support the Republican government. Many of them came from the Balkan provinces lost in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's, or at least had family connections to this area. This chapter explains that people like Ismail Fenni Erturul, a former civil servant from Tarnovo, or Mustafa Dzgnman, a calligrapher from the conservative Asian-side borough of skdar, kept alive literary and artistic traditions frowned upon by the new elite but did not challenge political system. It also discusses that in 1943 Necip Fazl Ksakrek, a poet and journalist from a Naqshbandi background, was allowed to publish the magazine Byk Dou. The chapter focuses on Nurcu Movement which is one of the most influential Islamic schools of thought in Turkey.
