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A history of Ottoman poetry. Volume II, 1450-1520 / by E. J. W. Gibb ; edited by Edward G. Browne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson, 1857-1901, author.
- Series:
- Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turkish poetry--History and criticism.
- Turkish poetry.
- Religious poetry, Turkish--History and criticism.
- Religious poetry, Turkish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (553 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 1965.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb's devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb's friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The History was designed to provide the first extended account in English of Ottoman literature. The first four volumes cover four developmental phases, largely under the influence of Persian literature, from
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- EDITOR'S PREFACE.
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO VOLUME II.
- CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
- BOOK III: THE SECOND PERIOD
- Introduction
- CHAPTER I. THE CHARACTER OF THE POETRY OF THE SECOND PERIOD
- CHAPTER II. THE CONQUEROR AND HIS COURT
- CHAPTER III. AHMED PASHA AND THE INAUGURATION OF THE SECOND PERIOD
- CHAPTER IV. PRINCE JEM
- CHAPTER V. NEJATI
- CHAPTER VI. THE POETESSES MIHRl AND ZEYNEB
- CHAPTER VII. HAMDI
- CHAPTER VIII. MESIHI.
- CHAPTER IX. SULTAN SELIM 'THE GRIM
- CHAPTER X. JA'FER CHELEBI
- CHAPTER XI. AHI
- CHAPTER XII. REWANI
- CHAPTER XIII. KEMAL PASHA-ZADE
- CHAPTER XIV. MINOR POETS, LYRIC AND MYSTIC
- CHAPTER XV. MINOR POETS: MESNEVI WRITERS
- APPENDIX A. THE HIERARCHY OF THE 'ULEMA.
- APPENDIX B. First lines of the Turkish Text of the Poems translated in Volume II.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2014).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (Ebook Central, viewed March 12, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781909724112
- 1909724114
- 9781909724136
- 1909724130
- OCLC:
- 1481796630
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