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Challenging Conventions
Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry
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Edited by:
Christiane Czygan
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Open Access
As the core theme of Early Modern Ottoman poetry, love inspired a plethora of Turkish research, the most enlightening of which explored questions of terminology, semantics, and mystic dimensions. Internationally, however, there have been few publications on this subject.
This book closes this gap by investigating ʿışḳ in different genres and contexts. Whereas the terms ḥubb and maḥabbet point to comfort and care, the term ʿışḳ denotes passionate love; often laced with mystical connotations. Through this lens we show that Ottoman lyrical realities transgressed the rules, burgeoning beyond conventional settings and giving voice to vivid creativity. Large parts of urban society indulged in poetry and thereby challenged certain norms.
Author / Editor information
Christiane Czygan, University of Bonn, Germany and Hatice Aynur, Istanbul Şehir University, Turkey.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Guideline for the transcription of the Ottoman script
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Abbreviations and Illustrations
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Introduction
1 - Social Configurations
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Love, Gender, and Self-Presentation in the World of Early Modern Ottoman Court Poetry
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The Dual Impact of Madness in Sultan Süleymān’s Third Dīvān (1554)
25 - Ontological Configurations
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The Separation of Goodness and Beauty: Plato, Galip, Lacan
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Narratives of Devotion and Transformation: Procedural Dynamics of Love, Truth, and Subjectivity in Nergisī’s Meşāḳḳ ul-ʿUşşāḳ and Nihālistān
59 - Spiritual Configurations
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On the Tidal State of Love: The Representation of Telvīn in Turkish Sufi Poetry
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Displaying Competence through Love: A Typology of Lovers in Ḳaṣīdes with the Redīf ʿIşḳ
103 - Beyond Lyrical Conventions
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Power is Speaking: What Does The Beloved Tell about Love?
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Love Poetry with or without Love? Classical Ottoman Amorous Ġazels in the Early 16th Century
137 - New Sources
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In the Quest for a Lyrical Persona: Love in Ṭaṭavlalı Maḥremī’s Ġazels
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Ottoman Catechism (ʿİlm-i Ḥāl) Goes Popular: Love, the Girl, and the Jew
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Authors
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Index
203
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 24, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111341729
Hardcover published on:
July 31, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111341545
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
14
Main content:
205
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Turkic Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Literature, Religious Studies
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
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