The Joys of Philology: Studies in Ottoman Literature, History and Orientalism (1500-1923) : : Poetry, Histogriography, Biography and Autobiography / / Jan Schmidt.

This is the first volume of Jan Schmidt’s collection of essays on Ottoman history, literature and historiography.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Poetry
  • 1. Poets and Poetry In mid 17th-century Istanbul: Additions to the Dīvān of Fā'izī by the Copyist Yaḥyā and Others in John Rylands Library MS Turkish 81
  • 2. Fāżil Beg Enderūnī, Social Historian or Poet?
  • 3. Sünbülzāde Vehbī's Şevḳ-eīngz; An Ottoman Pornographic Poem
  • 4. The Poet Meḥmed Eșref Between Sultan and Shah
  • Part Two. Historiography
  • 1. The Egri Campaign of 1596; Military History and the Problem of Sources
  • 2. Mustafā 'Ālī of Gallipoli, A Moralistic Littérateur on History and the Contemporary Ottoman World
  • Part Three. Biography and Autobiography
  • 1. The Historian as Biographer: Mustafā 'Ālī of Gallipoli's Biographies
  • 2. Ottoman Autobiographical Texts in the Leiden University Library
  • 3. The Adventures of an Ottoman Horseman: the Autobiography of Kabudli Vasfī Efendi, 1800-1825