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Parution : Ceyhun Arslan, The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures, Edinburgh Universit Press, 2025

 

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

Ceyhun Arslan

 

 

 

 

 

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions

  • Studies Arabic and Turkish modernities in conjunction with each other within their shared Ottoman context
  • Undermines the prevalent view that Arabic and Turkish literatures merely modernised or Westernised in the nineteenth century
  • Moves beyond the tendency in Middle Eastern studies to situate Arabic, Turkish and Persian works in a linear, chronological order
  • Challenges ‘the influence paradigm’, which proposes that Ottoman literature emerged under the influence of Arabic and Persian literatures before it modernised under the influence of French literature
  • Studies how pre-Ottoman poets such as al-Mutanabbī or Saʿdī became ‘Ottomanised’ in the works of the Ottoman literati
  • Examines how the Ottoman canon perpetuated exclusions in terms of gender, language and religion

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures fleshes out the Ottoman canon’s multilingual character to call for a literary history that can reassess and even move beyond categories that many critics take for granted, such as ‘classical Arabic literature’ and ‘Ottoman literature’. It gives a historically contextualised close reading of works from authors who have been studied as pioneers of Arabic and Turkish literatures, such as Ziya Pasha, Jurjī Zaydān, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.
The book analyses how these authors prepared the arguments and concepts that shape how we study Arabic and Turkish literatures today as they reassessed the relationship among the Ottoman canon’s linguistic traditions. Furthermore, it examines the Ottoman reception of pre-Ottoman poets, such as Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr, hence opening up new research avenues for Arabic literature, Ottoman studies and comparative literature.

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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (20 avril 2026). Parution : Ceyhun Arslan, The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures, Edinburgh Universit Press, 2025. IISMM. Consulté le 18 mai 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/163ej


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