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Ottoman Translation: Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris

Ottoman Translation: Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris

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Series: Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire

Literary CriticismTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN10: 1399502581
ISBN13: 9781399502580
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Aug 15 2024
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A vigorous translation scene across the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire--government and private, official and amateur, acknowledged and anonymous--saw many texts from European languages rewritten into the multiple tongues that Ottoman subjects spoke, read and wrote. Just as lively, however, was translation amongst Ottoman languages, and between those and the languages of their neighbours to the east. This proliferation and circulation of texts in translation and adaptation, through a range of strategies, leads us to ask: What is an 'Ottoman language'?

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