The Balance of Truth : : Essays in Honour of Professor Geoffrey Lewis / / ed. by Colin Imber, Çigdem Balim-Harding.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Roger,; Balim-Harding, Çigclem,; Bayraktaroglu, Arm,; Clarke, Graham,; Dedes, George,; Derek Latham, J.,; Fleet, Kate,; Gürsoy-Naskali, Emine,; Heywood, Colin,; Hillenbrand, Carole,; Imber, Colin,; Jones, Alan,; Kaser, Michael,; Kerslake, Celia,; Kornfilt, Jaklin,; Kushner, David,; M. Landau, Jacob,; Mango, Andrew,; Richards, D.S.,; Rogers, J.M.,; Rona, Bengisu,; Röhrborn, Klaus,; S.Szyliowicz, Joseph,; Schmidt, Jan,; Stanley, Tim,; Woodhead, Christine,; Wright, O.,; Yasamee, F.A.K.,
• HerausgeberIn: Balim-Harding, Çigdem,; Imber, Colin,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 p.)

A collection of essays written to honour the famous scholar of Turkish language, Geoffrey Lewis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PROFESSOR GEOFFREY LEWIS: CURRICULUM VITAE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF PROFESSOR GEOFFREY LEWIS -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOFFREY LEWIS ÀBÌ -- ‚THE BEST OF STORIES‘: THREE VERSIONS OF THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE -- CONTEMPORARY TURKISH COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE -- TOPIC AND SEQUENCE IN A TURKISH NATURAL CONVERSATION -- BIBLE TRANSLATION IN TURKIC LANGUAGES -- WAS THERE A GREEK ALJAMIADO LITERATURE? -- TURKS, ITALIANS AND INTELLIGENCE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES -- SOVIET TURKIC LITERATURE -- A BUYURULDU OF A.H. 1100 / A.D. 1689 FOR THE DRAGOMANS OF THE ENGLISH EMBASSY AT ISTANBUL -- SELJUQ WOMEN -- WHAT DOES GH AZI ACTUALLY MEAN? -- THE PARADOX OF QURANIC ASSONANCE -- OUT OF THE CUL-DE-SAC: THE ECONOMIES OF TURKIC CENTRAL ASIA TODAY -- ‚ONLY‘ A MATTER OF FOCUS? -- POSTPOSITIONS AND ADVERBS: A CASE STUDY IN SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES -- VIEWS AND USES OF THE PAST: THE TURKS AND OTTOMAN HISTORY -- ABDÜLHAMID II IN 1912: THE RETURN FROM SALONICA -- ARABIC INTO MEDIEVAL LATIN (4): LETTERS I-L, M.L.D. -- MORE ON THE DEATH OF THE AYYUBID SULTAN AL-SÄLIH NAJM AL-DlN AYYÜB -- ARCHAEOLOGY VS. ARCHIVES: SOME RECENT APPROACHES TO THE OTTOMAN POTTERY OF iZNIK -- LANGUAGE AND MESSAGE IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC WRITING IN TURKISH LITERATURE -- NEOLOGISTISCHE ARCHAISMEN IM TÜRKEITÜRKISCHEN -- THE TRAVEL NOTES OF A DUTCH PASTOR IN ANATOLIA 1717-1727 -- MEN-AT-ARMS, HAUBERKS AND BARDS: MILITARY OBLIGATIONS IN THE BOOK OF THE OTTOMAN CUSTOM -- RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY: THE TURKISH CASE -- PUFF AND PATRONAGE: OTTOMAN TAKRlZ-WRITING AND LITERARY RECOMMENDATION IN THE 17TH CENTURY -- UNDER THE INFLUENCE? PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS ON ARAB MUSIC DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD -- SOME NOTES ON BRITISH ESPIONAGE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1878-1908