By Halide Edib Adivar
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The religious chants took on a simple grandeur of their own, and the dance music acquired a spontaneous gaiety which neither the Arab nor the Byzantine school possessed. If the Ottomans missed something ultimately Greek good by not going directly to the Byzantine scholars in the domain of thought and philosophy, of charthey also lost some of their valuable assets acter The direct influence of Byzantine society. alteration through the influence of the greatest by the * However, in the classic periods when Persian and Arabic choked out Turkish, in form and in spirit, there appeared lonely individuals among the Ottomans themselves, who thought and wrote in simple Turkish.
In the domain of culture, especially in regard to the Turkish language and literature, the Ottomans became still more artificial. The written Turkish took the name language of the Ottomans, which Ottoman also, was a conscious, synthetic arrange- Turkey Faces West 32 merit, instead of an unconscious growth. It was not of Persian, Arabic, and Turkish merely composed words, the two former dominating; it also adopted two alien lanof those and the grammar syntax There Turkish. of the that guages, side by side with were three names for every object, three adjectives to define them, and three verbs for every action.
There is no note of bitterness or comhe is simply tellplaint; it is a way with the Turk humor ing his mind frankly to his Creator. Surely Allah, "the best Knower," is one above all with whom is possible to be frankest. The most precious no one inheritance from our Turkish ancestors it knows how many other ancestors ability to joke with "the best we have Knower," in is this moments of great distress. After all, now that the materialism which has dominated science until the beginning of gone, because of the new theories developed from 1905 on, the most modern attitude of mind would be to take even the scheme the twentieth century is of the universe as a Divine puzzle with a Divine joke behind it.
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