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5.0 out of 5 stars A Turkish Epic!, March 22, 2006
This review is from: The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic (Paperback)
The Turkish equivalent of "The Song of Roland"! The narrator throughout the book is Dede Orkut, a Turkmen bard, chronicling the struggles and tribulations of the Oghuz Turks against other Central Asian tribes: the Pechenegs and the Kypchaks, particularly.

Of special interest to me is that it contains many reference to the pre-Islamic aspect of the Turkmens, although it was written after their conversion to Islam. A sort of Islamic Gnostic aspect, to simplify in my terms.
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The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic
The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic by Faruk Sumer (Paperback - July 1, 1991)
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