Turkish Language, Literature, and History: Travelers' Tales, Sultans, and Scholars Since the Eighth Century

ISBN-13: 9780815358039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 366 str.

Opis

The chapters move between ancient and contemporary literature, exploring Sultan Selim’s interest in dream interpretation, translating newly uncovered poetry and exploring the works of Orhan Pamuk. This is a festschrift volume published for the leading scholar Bob Dankoff.

Spis treści

An Interview with Robert Dankoff Barbara Blackwell Gülen Publications of Robert Dankoff Chapter 1. Poet, Panegyric, and Patron: A Bahariye Kaside by Tacizade Caʿfer Çelebi for Sultan Bayezit II Walter G. Andrews and Mehmet Kalpaklı Chapter 2. The Charms and Dangers of the Meadow of Kağıthane. An Example of a Fragmented Report in Evliyâ Çelebî’s Narrative of His Travels Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont Chapter 3. Superstitious Tough Guy? Yavuz Sultan Selīm and Dream Interpretation Eleazar Birnbaum Chapter 4. How Stable are CV-stems in the Turkic Languages? Hendrik Boeschoten Chapter 5. Orhan Pamuk and the Material World – The Author’s Use of Objects in his Novels Bernt Brendemoen Chapter 6. Justice and Power in the Ottoman Empire: Translations of Two Imperial Adaletnameler (Justice Decrees) Linda Darling Chapter 7. Chaghatay Literature in the Early Sixteenth Century: Notes on Turkic Translations from the Uzbek Courts of Mawarannahr Devin DeWeese Chapter 8. Some Notes on Evliya Çelebi’s Report about the Kelāfīş Tribe in Lower Nubia Şaban Doğan and Semih Tezcan Chapter 9. Explaining the olga-bolga dili Marcel Erdal Chapter 10. Boz Oq and Üč Oq Peter B. Golden Chapter 11. The Cherries of Ohrid Gottfried Hagen Chapter 12. "The Counsels": A Previously Unrecognized Poem on al-Hallaj by Eşrefoğlu Rumi Bill Hickman Chapter 13. The Ottoman Official Gazette Taqvim-i Veqayi, 1831. An Ottoman Annal in its Own Right Hakan T. Karateke Chapter 14. Ozan Mehmed Fuad Köprülü (d. 1966). Translated by Gary Leiser Chapter 15. A Divan for the Sultan: Between the Production of an Oriental Text and the German Art of Printing Klaus Kreiser Chapter 16. Negotiating with Nomads in the 1290s Rudi Paul Lindner Chapter 17. Bogdan Filov’s Photographs from 1912-1913 as a Source for the History of Hâcı-Gâzi Evrenos and his Descendants in Northern Greece Heath W. Lowry Chapter 18. Spoken Greek in Seyahatname VIII Pierre A. MacKay Chapter 19. Advice for the Sultans of Rum: The "Mirrors for Princes" of Early Thirteenth-Century Anatolia A.C.S. Peacock Chapter 20. Süleyman in Alepppo Leslie Peirce Chapter 21. Evliya Çelebi’s "White Man’s" View of the People in Africa in the Seventeenth Century Nuran Tezcan Chapter 22. Issues of Genre and Form in Turkic Heroic Works Judith M. Wilks

O autorze

Bill Hickman is former Associate Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at the University of California (Berkeley), now retired. He is the author of an ongoing series of articles on 15th century Anatolian poet-sheikhs, published in journals in Turkey and Europe, and his most recent publication is The Story of Joseph. A Fourteenth Century Turkish Morality Play by Sheyyad Hamza.

Gary Leiser is an independent scholar. He completed graduate work in Middle Eastern history at the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. He has published widely on the social history of the Eastern Mediterranean world in the twelfth-thirteen centuries. His most recent work is Prostitution in the 　Eastern Mediterranean World: The Economics of Sex in the Late and Antique Medieval Middle East (forthcoming).