A female lion in a male arena -- Mihrî Hatun: the making of a woman poet -- A lucky star is born -- Meclis as a space of artistic production -- City and patron as beloveds: Amasya and Bayezid II -- Poetics of a battlefield -- Troubling love: performativity in Ottoman poetry -- P…
"International politics often requires two or more languages, and the resulting interlingual relations mean translation, either by interpreters who are quite literally in the middle of conversations, or by bilingual statesmen who negotiate internationally in one language and the…
"International politics often requires two or more languages, and the resulting interlingual relations mean translation, either by interpreters who are quite literally in the middle of conversations, or by bilingual statesmen who negotiate internationally in one language and the…
"International politics often requires two or more languages, and the resulting interlingual relations mean translation, either by interpreters who are quite literally in the middle of conversations, or by bilingual statesmen who negotiate internationally in one language and the…
"This collection offers free verse translations of 75 lyric poems from the mid- fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries, along with the Ottoman Turkish texts and new to this expanded edition, photographs of many of the original manuscripts. Biographies of the poets and backg…
Birnbaum Collection: turkish manuscripts -- University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library -- Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada -- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa ʿÂli's (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictiona…
In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of "the beloved" has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book considers the beloved in its classical, modern and postmodern manifestations, taking into account the different sexual orie…
