Ottoman translations : circulating texts from Bombay to Paris / edited by Marilyn Booth and Claire Savina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Booth, Marilyn, editor.

Savina, Claire, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies on the Ottoman Empire.

Edinburgh studies on the Ottoman Empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Turkey--History--19th century.

Translating and interpreting.

Turkey.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

A vigorous translation scene across the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire - government and private, official and amateur, acknowledged and anonymous - saw many texts from European languages rewritten into the multiple tongues that Ottoman subjects spoke, read and wrote. Just as lively, however, was translation amongst Ottoman languages, and between those and the languages of their neighbours to the east. This proliferation and circulation of texts in translation and adaptation, through a range of strategies, leads us to ask: What is an 'Ottoman language'?<br><br>This volume challenges earlier scholarship that has highlighted translation and adaptation from European languages to the neglect of alternative translations, re-centring translation as an Ottoman 'hub'. Collaborative work has allowed us to peer over the shoulders of working translators to ask how they creatively transported texts between as well as beyond Ottoman languages, with a range of studies stretching linguistically and geographically from Bengal to London, Istanbul to Paris, Andalusia to Bosnia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Translation, Transliteration and Form

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Ottoman Central: Circulating Translations from the Indian Ocean to the Eastern Mediterranean and on to the Far West of Europe

PART I PROLIFERATING CLASSICS

Chapter 1 A Pilgrim Progressively Translated: John Bunyan in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and Bengali

Chapter 2 ‘Pour Our Treasures into Foreign Laps’: The Translation of Othello into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish

Chapter 3 Shared Secrets: (Re)writing Urban Mysteries in Nineteenth-century Istanbul

PART II MEDITERRANEAN MULTIPLES

Chapter 4 Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi’s Muqaddima to Aqwam al-masalik fi ma‘rifat ahwal al-mamalik (The Surest Path to Knowing the Condition of Kingdoms), in Arabic, French and Ottoman Turkish

Chapter 5 Finding the Lost Andalusia: Reading Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan’s Tarık or the Conquest of al-Andalus in its Multiple Renderings

PART III WOMEN IN TRANSLATION

Chapter 6 Translating Qasim Amin’s Arabic Tahrir al-marʼa (1899) into Ottoman Turkish

Chapter 7 Muslim Woman: The Translation of a Patriarchal Order in Flux

Chapter 8 Fatma Aliye’s Nisvan-ı İslam: Istanbul, Beirut, Cairo, Paris, 1891–6

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Oct 2023).

ISBN:

9781399502603

1399502603

9781399502597

139950259X

OCLC:

1371573821