Power is Speaking: What Does The Beloved Tell about Love?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Guideline for the transcription of the Ottoman script XI
5. Abbreviations and Illustrations XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. Social Configurations
8. Love, Gender, and Self-Presentation in the World of Early Modern Ottoman Court Poetry 11
9. The Dual Impact of Madness in Sultan Süleymān’s Third Dīvān (1554) 25
10. Ontological Configurations
11. The Separation of Goodness and Beauty: Plato, Galip, Lacan 43
12. Narratives of Devotion and Transformation: Procedural Dynamics of Love, Truth, and Subjectivity in Nergisī’s Meşāḳḳ ul-ʿUşşāḳ and Nihālistān 59
13. Spiritual Configurations
14. On the Tidal State of Love: The Representation of Telvīn in Turkish Sufi Poetry 79
15. Displaying Competence through Love: A Typology of Lovers in Ḳaṣīdes with the Redīf ʿIşḳ 103
16. Beyond Lyrical Conventions
17. Power is Speaking: What Does The Beloved Tell about Love? 123
18. Love Poetry with or without Love? Classical Ottoman Amorous Ġazels in the Early 16th Century 137
19. New Sources
20. In the Quest for a Lyrical Persona: Love in Ṭaṭavlalı Maḥremī’s Ġazels 157
21. Ottoman Catechism (ʿİlm-i Ḥāl) Goes Popular: Love, the Girl, and the Jew 175
22. Authors 199
23. Index 203