Studies translation into and amongst the Ottoman Empire's many languages Offers eight collaboratively written, in-depth case studies of translation between Ottoman and associated languages, from scholars with diverse linguistic expertise Focuses on texts translated or adapted from Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, English, French, and Greek into Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Karamanlidika, Persian, Bosnian and French Displaces the epicentre of Translation Studies and Comparative Literature eastward, challenging views of translation and text dissemination that centre 'the West' Includes case studies of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Shakespeare's Othello, Eug ne Sue's Myst res de Paris, Khayr al-Din Pasha's Muqaddima, Abdulhak Hamit's Tarik, Qasim Amin's Tahrir al-Mar'a, Muhammad Farid Wajdi's The Muslim Woman and Fatima Aliye's Nisvan-? ?slam 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.

About the Author
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-si cle 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 Fr d ric Lagrange) of the bilingual Les Mots du D sir la langue de l' rotisme arabe et ses traductions / Words of Desire: the language of Arabic Erotica and its translations (Diacritiques Editions, 2020).

Reviews
"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 University



Book Information
ISBN 9781399502573
Author Marilyn Booth
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press