Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Note on Translation and Transliteration x
5. Introduction: Beyond the Influence Paradigm 1
6. 1 A Multilingual Ottoman Ocean: Taverns, Exclusions and Ziya Pasha’s Harabat 29
7. 2 Jurjī Zaydān, Literary Comparisons and the Formation of Arabic and Turkish Literatures 56
8. 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 83
9. 4 Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Translation and the Turkish Language in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Works 118
10. 5 From ‘Ottoman Literature is Arabic Literature’ to ‘Arabs Possess a Literature’: Hacı İbrahim, Ahmet Rasim and the Fetters of Influence 145
11. 6 Family Matters: Oedipus, Tawf īq al-Ḥakīm and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 170
12. Conclusion: Modernity, Ottoman Saʿdī and Ottoman al-Mutanabbī 196
13. References 205
14. Index 224