Inspirations
The film focuses on the enlightened wisdom of the Ottoman Sufi Sheikh Bedreddin (1359-1416). He was born into the pluralistic environment of the Balkans. A prominent jurist of his time Bedreddin of Simavna defended multicultural co-existence in equality and justice. He was also a dissident daring to...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English Greek Bulgarian Turkish |
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Turkey
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:b5eac2d2-4bf0-4a93-8e77-d566a00998de |
| Summary: | The film focuses on the enlightened wisdom of the Ottoman Sufi Sheikh Bedreddin (1359-1416). He was born into the pluralistic environment of the Balkans. A prominent jurist of his time Bedreddin of Simavna defended multicultural co-existence in equality and justice. He was also a dissident daring to criticise the orthodoxies, challenging the existing hierarchies and depicting a spectacular case of dissent in the rich multicultural texture of Blakans and Anatolia. |
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| Published: | 2006 |