At the heart of this volume is the translation of a fourteenth-century Turkish version of the Joseph story, better known to Western readers from the version in Genesis, first book of the Hebrew Bible. Hickman provides us with a new lens: we see the drama of the Old Testament prophet Joseph, son of Jacob, through Muslim eyes. The poem s author, Sheyyad Hamza, lived in Anatolia during the early days of the Ottoman Empire. Hamza s composition is rooted in the recondite and little-studied tradition of oral performance a unique corner of Turkish verbal arts,...
At the heart of this volume is the translation of a fourteenth-century Turkish version of the Joseph story, better known to Western readers fro...