Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. Transliteration, Names, and Diacritics ix
5. Introduction. Poetry in the Lands of Rūm 1
6. Chapter 1. Another Age of Splendor, 1451–1512 22
7. Chapter 2. Toward an Ottoman Poetics: History, Language, and Politics 40
8. Chapter 3. All the Shaykh’s Poets: Poetry and the Making of Charisma 56
9. Chapter 4. Inhabiting Constantinople After the Ottoman Conquest 81
10. Chapter 5. Loss and Separation: Poetry in Exile, Failure, and Death 111
11. Chapter 6. Imperial Diction: Communication, Language, and Choice in Ottoman Political Imagination 130
12. Epilogue 159
13. Notes 163
14. Selected Bibliography 203
15. Index 219
16. Acknowledgments 225