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In Essays on Turkish Literature and History Barbara Flemming offers findings gained through lifelong scholarship. Besides Ottoman matters, a wide range is covered, including Mamluks and contemporary southeastern Turkey. Of particular interest are saintly Muslim women, eschatology, Muslim-Christian dialogue, and effects of the alphabet change.

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Author:   Barbara Flemming
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.946kg
ISBN:  

9789004293106

ISBN 10:   9004293108
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   02 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Original Publications 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 30 Publications Index

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Barbara Flemming, PhD (UCLA), is Professor Emerita of Turkish Studies at Leiden University. Her published work, partly gathered in her volume of Essays, includes monographs based on research beginning with early Turkish Anatolia. Recent work includes studies on Turkey’s southeast.

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