Sufi themes in the stories of Mustafa Kutlu

Sufism among Islamıc Sciences is an important discipline which affects both life philosophies and lifestyles of Muslims. Sufism, with a distinct philosophy, is a thought system which dominates art, music and architecture. Its most influenced art is literature. Not only it influenced literary texts, but it also used all disciplines of literature to interpret its issues. Beyond any doubt the area it uses most is the story. Sufism was understood, endorsed and spread through stories. The story theory has been the carrier of Sufi and moral issues with masnavis and menkibis to this day, due to its ease in explaining Sufism, which is a state knowledge. Anatolia has interiorised Islam with Sufi stories. But with modernization and westernization, Anatolia is beginning to abandon the centuries-old tradition of lore and evolving towards a lifestyle stripped of spirituality and surrounded by matter. Mustafa Kutlu, who knows the Modern world very well and brings a new sense of storytelling with his unique method and style to Modern Turkish literature has adopted the Sufi approach of Islam and is a writer who is familiar with the history of Sufism and its knowledge. Considering Sufi concepts and terms in his stories, Kutlu points to the understanding of Sufism as a remedy for the problems and crises of modern man. Mustafa Kutlu retells the idea of Sufism in modern times with modern stories. Lore values, Sufi concepts, and moral dimensions are often clearly, sometimes rendered between the lines of his stories.