Even if the morphology of life exists in its simplest and most primitive form, there has always been a cultural sphere that man has formed around his own axis. Even if we accept, in accordance with Ibn Khaldun’s famous observation, that geography and climate constitute the rough boundaries of his worldly existential destiny, nevertheless, due to the expansion and disclosure of man’s own existential energy and existential potential in an unlimited spectrum (l’élan vitale), this human motivation for existence, the truth and essence of mental, intellectual will has always pushed these physical and natural boundaries and determined its own path and the direction of its flow in a unique and subjective way. Just like water, at any cost, opens a way, a route for itself. The expression ‘Şerefü’l-mekân bi’l-mekîn: The honor and value of a place/town is realized thanks to those who dwell there’, which is mentioned from time to time, has also settled in place, in other words, ‘the paradigm of existence of the place with its lifestyle; it has pointed to humans as the main factor and founder in creating its cultural compartments that also talk about its relationships with objects, living things, people, societies, even the whole nature and the universe in a spectrum from center to periphery; thus, although it puts humans at the center, it has also harbored many unpredictable founders and constructors, even possibilities and meeting routes of invention/creativity and marvelousness for individuals and societies in spaces and geographies; it has also harbored a passion for revealing its existence and carrying it to distant points. Or on the contrary, it has always harbored within itself many new syntheses, new perspectives and means of rise, with cries and transitions from far away to there. In other words, space and geography, by integrating with different lives, thoughts, lifestyles, aesthetic and artistic understandings, food and consumption habits etc. that come to it, clarify and disclose its existence in new dimensions and forms of expression with the power of completely different achievements; Like the capillary roots of a tree, it builds bridges to new dialogues and integrations, and with movements that extend from the depths, it accumulates numerous developments and opportunities for multiplication in existence across the earth's geography. This book, titled "Humanity in the Spiral of Space, History, and Culture," aims to offer a projection onto the mystery of "Humanity," which we strive to understand better every day in the context of its relationships with various things, from an existential state of dough to a determined and stable being, through the axis of unique experiences centered on history, humanity, space, and culture.
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