Essays on Turkish Literature and History.

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

The Poem in the Chronicle: The Use of Poetry in Early Ottoman Historiography -- Chapter 26 -- ʿĀşıḳpaşazāde's View of Women -- Chapter 27 -- Female Participation in Earlier Islamic Mysticism (9th to 16th Century) -- Chapter 28 -- Goethe and Diez in the year 1790 -- Chapter 29 -- On the Çırçıp: Yesterday and Today -- Publications -- Index.

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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