From Mahmud Kaşgari to Evliya Çelebi : : Studies in Middle Turkic and Ottoman Literatures / / Robert Dankoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dankoff, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (508 p.)

This volume of collected essays focuses on Middle Turkic and Ottoman literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Middle Turkic -- 1. Qarakhanid Literature and the Beginnings of Turco-Islamic Culture -- 2. On Nature in Karakhanid Literature -- 3. Three Turkic Verse Cycles Relating to Inner Asian Warfare -- 4. Inner Asian Wisdom Traditions in the Pre-Mongol Period -- 5. Kāšhġarī on the Tribal and Kinship Organization of the Turks -- 6. Kāšhġarī on the Beliefs and Superstitions of the Turks -- 7. The Alexander Romance in the Dīwān Lughāt at-Turk -- 8. Baraq and Burāq -- 9. Middle Turkic Vulgarisms -- 10. Yūsuf Khāṣṣ Ḥajib Wisdom Of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig) A Turko-Islamic Mirror For Princes -- 11. Textual Problems in Kutadgu Bilig -- 12. Animal Traits in the Army Commander -- 13. Some Notes on the Middle Turkic Glosses -- Part 2: Ottoman -- 14. The Lyric in the Romance: The Use of Ghazals in Persian and Turkish Mas̱navīs -- 15. The Romance of Iskender and Gülshāh -- 16. Inner and Outer Oğuz in Dede Korkut -- 17. The Seyahatname of Evliya Çelebi as a Literary Monument -- 18. Turkic Languages and Turkish Dialects according to Evliya Çelebi -- 19. The Languages of the World according to Evliya Çelebi -- 20. Evliya Çelebi on the Armenian Language of Sivas in 1650 -- 21. "Miġdisi": An Armenian Source for the Seyahatname -- 22. Marrying a Sultana: The Case of Melek Ahmed Pasha -- 23. An Unpublished Account of mum söndürmek in the Seyāḥatnāme of Evliya Chelebi -- 24. Establishing the Text of Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname: A Critique of Recent Scholarship and Suggestions for the Future -- 25. "Shall We Tear Down That Observatory?" Evliya Çelebi and Philology -- 26. Some Reflections on the Editing of Book 9 of the Seyahatname -- 27. Some Reflections on the Editing of Book 10 of the Seyahatname -- 28. Two Armeno-Turkish Texts: Lament for a Dead Daughter and Game of Chance -- 29. "The Story of Faris and Vena": Eremya (xl obi's Turkish Version of an Old French Romance