1. Poets and Poetry In mid 17th-century Istanbul: Additions to the Dīvān of Fā'izī by the Copyist Yaḥyā and Others in John Rylands Library MS Turkish 81

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS 1
3. Introduction 7
4. Part One. Poetry
5. 1. Poets and Poetry In mid 17th-century Istanbul: Additions to the Dīvān of Fā'izī by the Copyist Yaḥyā and Others in John Rylands Library MS Turkish 81 15
6. 2. Fāżil Beg Enderūnī, Social Historian or Poet? 35
7. 3. Sünbülzāde Vehbī's Şevḳ-eīngz; An Ottoman Pornographic Poem 47
8. 4. The Poet Meḥmed Eșref Between Sultan and Shah 73
9. Part Two. Historiography
10. 1. The Egri Campaign of 1596; Military History and the Problem of Sources 107
11. 2. Mustafā 'Ālī of Gallipoli, A Moralistic Littérateur on History and the Contemporary Ottoman World 123
12. Part Three. Biography and Autobiography
13. 1. The Historian as Biographer: Mustafā 'Ālī of Gallipoli's Biographies 147
14. 2. Ottoman Autobiographical Texts in the Leiden University Library 155
15. 3. The Adventures of an Ottoman Horseman: the Autobiography of Kabudli Vasfī Efendi, 1800-1825 165