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Poetry as a Religiously Based Political Propaganda Tool: The Divans of the Ottoman Sultans

Religions
Poetry, the bearer of collective memory in the Turkish state tradition, has been used as an art and administrative tool for generations in the Ottoman dynasty. The fact that 27 of the 36 Ottoman sultans wrote poetry and 10 sultans owned a “divan” (poetry
Aysun Çelik
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The Theme of “Hopelessness” Among the Diwan School Poets: The Example of Abbas al-Akkad

Şarkiyat Mecmuası, 2022
The formation of a new literary movement—as a result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the nationalist movement that dominated the world—gave rise to many new tendencies and schools of thought. Poetry, the most important tool influencing the Arab
Rümeysa Zeynep Uylaş
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The Ajam Poets and Ottoman Literary Society’s Approach Toward Them (15th-16th Centuries)

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2023
Ajam has borders that are not completely identified, Ajam is a geographical term used by the Ottomans to describe the land and communities ruled by the Persian Dynasty that had settled East of the Ottoman Empire.
Ece Ceylan
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Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans

Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi
In Occasions for Poetry, Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano examines fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Ottoman poetry as a socially and politically engaged practice, rather than as simply an ornament.
Nilab Saeedi
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Change the Regime – Change the Money: Bulgarian Banknotes, 1885-2001 [PDF]

, 2002
The money we use has symbols and images on it that communicate information. One part of this are pictorial and symbolic elements that draw attention to aspects of the country that issuer is proud of and that convey the message that it wishes to convey.
Tschoegl, Adrian E.
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Ken‘ān Rifā‘ī and the Dynamics of Late Ottoman Sufi Poetry: Continuity, Innovation, and Intellectual Engagement

Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi
This article examines the poetry of Ken‘ān Rifā‘ī (1867-1950), a late Ottoman sufi bureaucrat, poet, and musician. It explores Rifā‘ī’s contributions to Turkish Sufi poetry, focusing on his role as a bridge between the Ottoman Sufi tradition and the ...
Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya
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Re-membering Armenian Literature in the Soviet Borderlands [PDF]

, 2020
This article focuses on Armenian literature during the Soviet period and engages with the varied responses of Armenian writers to the Soviet imperialism from its periphery, with a particular eye to poets like Hovhannes Shiraz and Eghishé Charents, who ...
Movsesian, Arpi
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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa, edited by Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon [PDF]

, 2018
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Ngom, Fallou
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Genesis and evolution of the sonnet (chahar-pare) composing in Iran [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2015
Persian "Sonnets" (chahar-pare) or "continuous quatrains" are already mentioned briefly here and there but the emergence, evolution and the influence of the modern ottoman poetry on the inclination of Persian poets to this new poetic form have not been ...
Bbagher Sadrinia
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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