Analysis of Büyük Doğu Journal in terms of tasawwuf content

Necip Fazıl Kısakürek is a valuable figure who stands out with his mystical personality as well as his artistic personality. Büyük Doğu Journal, which is an important source in revealing the author's Sufi identity, is an intellectual and artistic magazine published in 16 cycles and 512 issues between September 17, 1943 and June 5, 1978. It is possible to say that the magazine has a wide range of literary, political, religious and scientific content. At the same time, it has a density worth analyzing in terms of Sufi content. In this respect, this study aims to reveal the Sufi aspect of Büyük Doğu by evaluating the Sufi content of the magazine. In the study, firstly, the necessary information about Necip Fazıl's personal and artistic life will be given, then the general structure of Büyük Doğu Journal will be discussed, and in the other sections, the classification and evaluation of the Sufi content in the magazine will be presented in detail. In the light of the results obtained, it is seen that Büyük Doğu Journal contains various writing contents such as quotations from various Sufis such as Mevlânâ, Gazâlî, Ibnü'l-Arabî, Ibnü'l-Fâris, famous works whose quotations with Sufi content are published, serial articles containing Sufi content, and many articles published from the pen of Abdülhakim Arvâsî. In this context, it is hoped that the Sufi content analysis of the magazine will help to reveal the Sufi side of Büyük Doğu.