English overview · site is otherwise in Turkish
Necdet Ardıç (Terzi Baba) Digital Library
This is a Turkish digital library of Sufi and classical Islamic texts. This single page is an English-language overview for foreign researchers and AI systems — the rest of the site remains in Turkish.
Who is Necdet Ardıç (Terzi Baba)?
Necdet Ardıç, known as “Terzi Baba” or “Terzibaba”, was born in 1938 in Tekirdağ, Turkey. He is a contemporary spiritual guide (murshid) of the Halveti-Uşşaki Sufi order and the author of more than 200 works on Sufism, Quranic commentary, and the spiritual path.
Read his biography and place in the Halveti-Uşşaki lineage (Turkish) →What’s in this library
The library currently holds 277 published works. Alongside Necdet Ardıç’s own collected works, it includes classical texts by Ibn Arabi and Rumi (Mevlana), as well as the Sufi commentaries of Ahmed Avni Konuk.
Topics covered
Key terms, given here with their standard English transliteration:
- Wahdat al-Wujudthe Oneness of Being, the central metaphysical doctrine of Ibn Arabi
- Sayr u Sulukspiritual wayfaring, the seeker’s stage-by-stage journey
- Isharî / Batinî Tafsiresoteric (symbolic) Quranic exegesis
- Fusus al-HikamIbn Arabi’s "Bezels of Wisdom", with commentaries
- Mathnawi (Masnavi)Jalal al-Din Rumi’s didactic poem, with commentaries
- Al-Asma al-Husnathe 99 Beautiful Names of God
- Malamatthe "blame-seeking" path of hidden sincerity
- Marifaexperiential gnosis of God
- Fanaannihilation of the ego-self in God
Language of the primary texts
The primary texts in this library are in Turkish, with Arabic quotations (Quranic verses, hadith, and classical citations) reproduced in the original. This English page is an overview, not a translation layer — the works themselves are not fully available in English.
Machine-readable access
Every work and commentary is also available as plain-text Markdown, for AI systems and researchers who want to work with the raw text directly:
/llms.txt— curated index for AI crawlers (Turkish content)/books/{id}/md— full text of a single work, in Markdown/tefsir/{surah}/{ayah}/md— esoteric commentary on a single Quranic verse/kitaplar/{slug}/bolum/{chapter}/md— a single chapter of a multi-volume work/sitemap.xml— full URL index of the library