Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Charts and Maps vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. The Contributors ix
6. Note on Translation and Transliteration xii
7. Introduction: Translation as Lateral Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Universe 1
8. PART I. TRANSLATION, TERRITORY, COMMUNITY
9. 1. What was (Really) Translated in the Ottoman Empire? Sleuthing Nineteenth-century Ottoman Translated Literature 55
10. 2. Translation and the Globalisation of the Novel: Relevance and Limits of a Diffusionist Model 95
11. 3. On Eastern Cultures: Transregionalism and Multilingualism in Iraq, 1910–38 122
12. PART II. TRANSLATION AND/AS FICTION
13. 4. Gender and Diaspora in Late Ottoman Egypt: The Case of Greek Women Translators 149
14. 5. Haunting Ottoman Middle-class Sensibility: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Gothic 193
15. PART III. ‘CLASSICAL’ INTERVENTIONS, ‘EUROPEAN’ INFLECTIONS: TRANSLATION AS/AND ADAPTA
16. 6. Lords or Idols? Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-century Egypt 211
17. 7. Translating World Literature into Arabic and Arabic into World Literature: Sulayman al-Bustani’s al-Ilyadha and Ruhi al-Khalidi’s Arabic Rendition of Victor Hugo 236
18. 8. Girlhood Translated? Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687) as a Text of Egyptian Modernity (1901, 1909) 266
19. 9. Gulistan: Sublimity and the Colonial Credo of Translatability 300
20. Bibliography 318
21. Index 344