"Evliya Celebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world. This brand new translation by the foremost scholar of his age, brings Evliya sparkling back to life, so that we can relish his charm and intelligence once more, whether he is describing high …
"Evliya Celebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world. This brand new translation by the foremost scholar of his age, brings Evliya sparkling back to life, so that we can relish his charm and intelligence once more, whether he is describing high …
Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and synt…
"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…
