← Ahmet Hamdi TanpinarFive Citiesby Ahmet Hamdi TanpinarEssay collection exploring five Ottoman-era cities and Turkish cultural memoryFind on Amazon↗About the authorAhmet Hamdi TanpinarTurkish novelist and poet whose The Time Regulation Institute is a satirical masterpiece about the conflict between tradition and modernity in Turkey. His novel A Mind at Peace is a lyrical meditation on Istanbul and cultural memory.More by Ahmet Hamdi TanpinarThe Time Regulation InstituteSatirical novel about a bureaucratic institute regulating time and the absurdity of control→A Mind at PeacePhilosophical novel about a man's inner spiritual peace amid Istanbul's transformation→The Tanpinar Anthology→Huzur→