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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Giacomo Leopardi in the Turkish Cultural and Literary System: His Poems Titled All'Italia and A Se Stesso in Ottoman Turkish

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
This study examines the translation of selected passages from two poems by Giacomo Leopardi, one of the prominent figures in Italian literary history, into Ottoman Turkish.
Deniz Dilşad Karail Nazlıcan, Eshabil Bozkurt   +1 more
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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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Reflections of The Ottoman Empire Extortion Tax on Classical Turkish Poetry

Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2021
Sosyal hayatın Klasik Türk edebiyatına yansımasını konu edinen çalışmalara mütevazı bir katkı sunmak hedefi ile ortaya koyduğumuz bu çalışmada Klasik Türk şiirinin teşekkül ettiği hemen bütün yüzyıllardan şairlerin divanları taranarak Osmanlı vergi ...
Armağan Zöhre
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-373, September 2026.
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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Czygan, Christiane – Aynur, Hatice (ed.). Challenging Conventions. Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. 205 Pages

Kadim
This review examines Challenging Conventions: Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry, a volume that explores ʿışk as a key concept in early modern Ottoman literary culture. It discusses how the collection approaches love through social,
Ömer Rafi Çiçek
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 580-595, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

The Rosary and the Rose: Clergymen as Creators of Secular Poetry and Music in Early-modern Balkans

Muzikološki Zbornik, 2015
This paper deals with the involvement of Greek clergy in secular poetry and music in early-modern Balkans. This trend began in late-16th century, and involved the production of large anthologies and treatises on Ottoman music.
John Plemmenos
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A reflection of the Ottoman Empire in the poetry of Ahmad Shawki

Journal of Oriental Studies, 2023
Egypt is the most important region of the east-west route, the Mediterranean basin, which opens to the west. Because of its location as a gate, it has drawn the interest of major states in every century and has been the center of attention. Because of Egypt’s strategic importance in the 19th century, France and England pursued colonial interests in the
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