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"This collection offers free verse translations of 75 lyric poems from the mid- fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries, along with the Ottoman Turkish texts and new to this expanded edition, photographs of many of the original manuscripts. Biographies of the poets and background information on Ottoman history and literature round out the volume." -- P. [4] of cover.
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"Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. For the first time in English, poems from four leading literary traditions of the Middle East representing a wide sweep of medieval history appear in a single volume compiled by a single translator. Bernard Lewis, one of the world's greatest authorities on the region's culture and history, offers a work of startling beauty that leaves no doubt as to why such poets were courted by kings in their...
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Spans a century of poems, short stories, novels, memoirs, and essays by Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Azra Abbas, Ghulam Abbas, Abu Salma, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id Asbar), Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Pegah Ahmadi, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Nazik al-Malāʼikah, Mozaffar al-Nawwab, Melih Cevdet Anday, ʻArrār (Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal), Manouchehr Atashi, Reza Baraheni, Faraj Bayraqdar, Simin Behbahani, Alireza Behnam, Sadeq Chubak, Ismat Chughtai, Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, Simin Daneshvar,...
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This book examines the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Drawing on archival evidence and oral interviews, the author asks how the reforms were mediated and how citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. It traces the experiences of the subaltern, the elites and the mediators-highlighting the relevance...
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