04511nam 2200493Ia 450 991085777890332120240510073825.0978139952584810.1515/9781399525848(CKB)30499859300041(DE-B1597)672204(DE-B1597)9781399525848(MiAaPQ)EBC31174737(Au-PeEL)EBL31174737(EXLCZ)993049985930004120240328h20242024 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures /C. Ceyhun Arslan1st ed.Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024]©20241 online resource (248 p.)Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire : ESOE9781399525824 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction: Beyond the Influence Paradigm -- 1 A Multilingual Ottoman Ocean: Taverns, Exclusions and Ziya Pasha’s Harabat -- 2 Jurjī Zaydān, Literary Comparisons and the Formation of Arabic and Turkish Literatures -- 3 The Ottoman Tarboosh: Disguise and the Novel Genre in Ahmet Midhat’s Hasan Mellah and Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī’s What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us -- 4 Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Translation and the Turkish Language in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Works -- 5 From ‘Ottoman Literature is Arabic Literature’ to ‘Arabs Possess a Literature’: Hacı İbrahim, Ahmet Rasim and the Fetters of Influence -- 6 Family Matters: Oedipus, Tawf īq al-Ḥakīm and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar -- Conclusion: Modernity, Ottoman Saʿdī and Ottoman al-Mutanabbī -- References -- IndexStudies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditionsStudies Arabic and Turkish modernities in conjunction with each other within their shared Ottoman contextUndermines the prevalent view that Arabic and Turkish literatures merely modernised or Westernised in the nineteenth centuryMoves beyond the tendency in Middle Eastern studies to situate Arabic, Turkish and Persian works in a linear, chronological orderChallenges 'the influence paradigm', which proposes that Ottoman literature emerged under the influence of Arabic and Persian literatures before it modernised under the influence of French literatureStudies how pre-Ottoman poets such as al-Mutanabbī or Saʿdī became 'Ottomanised' in the works of the Ottoman literatiExamines how the Ottoman canon perpetuated exclusions in terms of gender, language and religionThe Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures fleshes out the Ottoman canon’s multilingual character to call for a literary history that can reassess and even move beyond categories that many critics take for granted, such as ‘classical Arabic literature’ and ‘Ottoman literature’. It gives a historically contextualised close reading of works from authors who have been studied as pioneers of Arabic and Turkish literatures, such as Ziya Pasha, Jurjī Zaydān, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.The Ottoman Canon analyses how these authors prepared the arguments and concepts that shape how we study Arabic and Turkish literatures today as they reassessed the relationship among the Ottoman canon’s linguistic traditions. Furthermore, The Ottoman Canon examines the Ottoman reception of pre-Ottoman poets, such as Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr, hence opening up new research avenues for Arabic literature, Ottoman studies and comparative literature.Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire SeriesArabic literatureHistory and criticismTurkish literatureHistory and criticismHISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman EmpirebisacshArabic literatureHistory and criticism.Turkish literatureHistory and criticism.HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire.892.7/09Arslan C. Ceyhun, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1739145DE-B1597DE-B15979910857778903321The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures4163089UNINA