Spiritual Discourse : Learning with an Islamic Master Book

	Acknowledgments
	Note on Vagaries of Spelling
	Prologue in which the frustration of a student after many years of study discreetly erupts	1
I	Introduction
	Master-Student Relations	6
	The Lesson	12
	Language Attunement	18
	Maps of the Study	25
II	The Interactive Structure of Episodes in a Lesson
	Where the Lesson Breathes	31
	The Withholding of Affirmation	39
	Openings and Closings of Early Episodes	57
	Pattern and Pivot of Later Episodes	73
III	Keying Interaction with Baba
	Preliminary to Keying: "Knowing of His Not Knowing"	85
	The Keying: "This Is Not a Joust"	89
IV	Texture of Interaction with Baba
	Drawing on Each Other's Language	108
	The Resonance of Retelling	119
	The Learning of "Sophistry" and the Pleasure in "Misfortune"	124
V	Bektashi Frame of Learning
	In Search of a Frame for the Lesson	132
	In Search of Muhabbet	133
VI	Learning as Attunement
	Forms of Figures of Attunement	146
	The Walls of the Lesson	156
	Epilogue in which a student follows the master through the streets and achieves attunement in a most precarious fashion	158
	Notes	159
	Appendix A. Conventions of Transcription	167
	Appendix B. Turkish Texts of Nefes	169
	Appendix C. Features of West Rumelian Turkish, Baba's Dialect	173
	Bibliography	177
	Index	187