Main group 1

• Halman, Talât Sait, Contemporary Turkish literature: fiction and poetry, London, Associated University Press, cop. 1982Compulsory*
• Evin, Ahmet, Origins and development of the Turkish novel, Minneapolis, Bibliotheca Islamica, 1983
• Bombaci, Alessio, 'The Turkic Literatures: Introductory notes on the history and style', in Louis Bazin et al. (eds) Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta, ii, pp. xi-lxxi. Wiesbaden: Aquis Mattiacis apud F. Steiner, -, 1964
• Reichel, Karl, 'Turkic oral epic poetry from Central Asia', in Ergun Çağatay and Doğan Kuban (eds) The Turkic speaking peoples: 2000 years of art and culture from inner Asia to the Balkans, pp. 55-67. Munich and New York: Prestel., -, 2006
• Weil, Gotthold; Meredith-Owens, G.M., ʿarūḍ, in H. A. R. Gibb et al. (eds) The Encyclopaedia of Islam, i, pp. 667-677. Leiden: Brill., -, 1986

* Compulsory