Essays on Turkish literature and history / / by Barbara Flemming.

• VerfasserIn: Flemming, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 502 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

In Essays on Turkish Literature and History Barbara Flemming makes available essays partly previously published in German. They offer insights gained through decades of scholarship. Although the Ottoman period is central, a wide range is covered, including an early Turkish principality, Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt, and contemporary southeastern Turkey. The essays look into historical and political factors involved in the preoccupation with the world’s ending, into Muslim-Christian dialogue, the sultan’s prayer before battle, and the bilingualism of poets. Of particular interest are the sections on female participation in mysticism, on an anti-Sufi movement in Cairo, on the Ottoman capital’s appeal to collectors and emigrants (Diez, Süssheim, Böhlau), and on the far-reaching effects of alphabet change.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Faḫrī’s Ḫusrev u Şīrīn from the year 1367: A Turkish mesnevī from the Emirate period -- 2 Turkish Manuscripts in the Staatsbibliothek -- 3 Şerīf, Sultan Ġavrī and the “Persians” -- 4 Some Remarks on Turkish Prose before the Tanẓīmāt Period -- 5 A Ġazel by Ḥasan oġlï (Unknown Poems in the Dīvān of Sultan Ġavrī) -- 6 The Pre-Wahhābī Fitna in Ottoman Cairo: 1711 -- 7 From the Evening Talks of Sultan Ġavrī -- 8 Ḥālet Efendi’s Second Audience with Napoleon -- 9 Literary Activities in Mamluk Halls and Barracks -- 10 Languages of Turkish Poets -- 11 Karl Süssheim 1877-1947: On his Hundredth Birthday, June 21st 1878/1978 -- 12 Three Turkish Chroniclers in Ottoman Cairo -- 13 Literature in the Days of the Alphabet Change -- 14 The Cāmiʿ ül-meknūnāt: A Source of ʿĀlī from the Time of Sultan Süleymān -- 15 Two Turkish Bible Manuscripts in Leiden as Middle-Ottoman Linguistic Monuments -- 16 Romantic Emigrants in the Empire of Abdülhamid -- 17 Ṣāḥib-qırān and Mahdī: Turkish Expectations of the End of Time in the First Decade of the Rule of Süleymān -- 18 Political Genealogies in the Sixteenth Century -- 19 A Sixteenth-Century Turkish Apology for Islam: The Gurbetname-i Sultan Cem -- 20 Glimpses of Turkish Saints: Another Look at Lamiʿi and Ottoman Biogra­phers -- 21 Public Opinion under Sultan Süleymân -- 22 Notes on ʿAruż in Turkish collections -- 23 The Sultan’s Prayer before Battle -- 24 Re-reading the Story of the Religious “Fitna” of 1711 -- 25 The Poem in the Chronicle: The Use of Poetry in Early Ottoman Historiography -- 26 ʿĀşıḳpaşazāde’s View of Women -- 27 Female Participation in Earlier Islamic Mysticism (9th to 16th Century) -- 28 Goethe and Diez in the year 1790 -- 29 On the Çırçıp: Yesterday and Today -- Publications -- Index.