Ottoman Translation
Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris
Published on 15. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-3995-0258-0 (ISBN)
Description
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'?
This volume challenges earlier scholarship that has highlighted translation and adaptation from European languages to the neglect of alternative translations, re-centring translation as an Ottoman 'hub'. Collaborative work has allowed us to peer over the shoulders of working translators to ask how they creatively transported texts between as well as beyond Ottoman languages, with a range of studies stretching linguistically and geographically from Bengal to London, Istanbul to Paris, Andalusia to Bosnia.
This volume challenges earlier scholarship that has highlighted translation and adaptation from European languages to the neglect of alternative translations, re-centring translation as an Ottoman 'hub'. Collaborative work has allowed us to peer over the shoulders of working translators to ask how they creatively transported texts between as well as beyond Ottoman languages, with a range of studies stretching linguistically and geographically from Bengal to London, Istanbul to Paris, Andalusia to Bosnia.
Reviews / Votes
Ottoman Translation is a unique collection of essays that engages a wide range of languages, texts, contexts, and literary worlds in the Ottoman Empire. This volume consciously refocuses the discussion of translation from Eurocentred approaches typically favoured in translation studies. It presents important new ways of understanding translational dynamics by offering fresh language pairings and materials to advance our thinking about translation. -- Michelle Hartman, McGill UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-0258-0 (9781399502580)
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Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. Her most recent monograph, The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siecle Egypt (2021), is amongst numerous publications on early feminism, translation, and Arabophone women's writing in Egypt and Ottoman Syria. Initiator of the Ottoman Translation Studies Group, she edited Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Translator of eighteen published works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic, she was co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Jokha Alharthi's Celestial Bodies. Claire Savina is a translator and independent researcher. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and Arabic Studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 2018. She is co-editor (with Frederic Lagrange) of the bilingual Les Mots du Desir la langue de l'erotisme arabe et ses traductions / Words of Desire: the language of Arabic Erotica and its translations (Diacritiques Editions, 2020).
Content
Note on Translation, Transliteration and FormAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Ottoman Central: Circulating Translations from the Indian Ocean to the Eastern Mediterranean and on to the Far West of EuropeMarilyn Booth
PART I PROLIFERATING CLASSICS
1. A Pilgrim Progressively Translated: John Bunyan in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, and BengaliRichard David Williams and Jack Clift
2. 'Pour Our Treasures into Foreign Laps': The Translation of Othello into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Hannah Scott Deuchar and Bridget Gill
3. Shared Secrets: (Re)writing Urban Mysteries in Nineteenth-century Istanbul Etienne Charriere and Sehnaz Sismanoglu Simsek
PART II MEDITERRANEAN MULTIPLES
4. Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi's Muqaddima to Aqwam al-masaik fi ma'rifat a?wal al-mamalik (The Surest Path to Knowing the Condition of Kingdoms), in Arabic, French and Ottoman Turkish
Part I: Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi's Aqwam al-masalik/Reformes necessaires: A Dual Intervention in Arabic and French Political DiscoursesPeter Hill
Part II: The Muqaddima of Khayr al-Din Pasha?s Aqwam al-masalik fi ma'rifat a?wal al-mamalik and its Ottoman Turkish translationJohann Strauss
5. Finding the Lost Andalusia: Reading Abduelhak Hamid Tarhan's Tarik or the Conquest of al-Andalus in its Multiple Renderings Usman Ahmedani and Dzenita Karic
PART III WOMEN IN TRANSLATION
6. Translating Qasim Amin's Arabic Tahrir al-mar?a (1899) into Ottoman TurkishIlham Khuri-Makdisi and Yorgos Dedes
7. Muslim Woman: The Translation of a Patriarchal Order in Flux Maha AbdelMegeed and A. Ebru Akcasu
8. Fatma Aliye's Nisvan-i Islam: Istanbul, Beirut, Cairo, Paris, 1891-6 Marilyn Booth and A. Holly Shissler
Index
Introduction: Ottoman Central: Circulating Translations from the Indian Ocean to the Eastern Mediterranean and on to the Far West of EuropeMarilyn Booth
PART I PROLIFERATING CLASSICS
1. A Pilgrim Progressively Translated: John Bunyan in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, and BengaliRichard David Williams and Jack Clift
2. 'Pour Our Treasures into Foreign Laps': The Translation of Othello into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Hannah Scott Deuchar and Bridget Gill
3. Shared Secrets: (Re)writing Urban Mysteries in Nineteenth-century Istanbul Etienne Charriere and Sehnaz Sismanoglu Simsek
PART II MEDITERRANEAN MULTIPLES
4. Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi's Muqaddima to Aqwam al-masaik fi ma'rifat a?wal al-mamalik (The Surest Path to Knowing the Condition of Kingdoms), in Arabic, French and Ottoman Turkish
Part I: Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi's Aqwam al-masalik/Reformes necessaires: A Dual Intervention in Arabic and French Political DiscoursesPeter Hill
Part II: The Muqaddima of Khayr al-Din Pasha?s Aqwam al-masalik fi ma'rifat a?wal al-mamalik and its Ottoman Turkish translationJohann Strauss
5. Finding the Lost Andalusia: Reading Abduelhak Hamid Tarhan's Tarik or the Conquest of al-Andalus in its Multiple Renderings Usman Ahmedani and Dzenita Karic
PART III WOMEN IN TRANSLATION
6. Translating Qasim Amin's Arabic Tahrir al-mar?a (1899) into Ottoman TurkishIlham Khuri-Makdisi and Yorgos Dedes
7. Muslim Woman: The Translation of a Patriarchal Order in Flux Maha AbdelMegeed and A. Ebru Akcasu
8. Fatma Aliye's Nisvan-i Islam: Istanbul, Beirut, Cairo, Paris, 1891-6 Marilyn Booth and A. Holly Shissler
Index