Ottoman Translation

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-siècle 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 Frédéric Lagrange) of the bilingual Les Mots du Désir la langue de l'érotisme arabe et ses traductions / Words of Desire: the language of Arabic Erotica and its translations (Diacritiques Editions, 2020).

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.

• Note on Translation, Transliteration and FormAcknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Ottoman Central: Circulating Translations from the Indian Ocean to the Eastern Mediterranean and on to the Far West of EuropeMarilyn BoothPART I PROLIFERATING CLASSICS1. A Pilgrim Progressively Translated: John Bunyan in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, and BengaliRichard David Williams and Jack Clift2. ‘Pour Our Treasures into Foreign Laps’: The Translation of Othello into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Hannah Scott Deuchar and Bridget Gill3. Shared Secrets: (Re)writing Urban Mysteries in Nineteenth-century Istanbul Etienne Charrière and Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu Şimşek PART II MEDITERRANEAN MULTIPLES4. Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi’s Muqaddima to Aqwam al-masāik fi ma‘rifat aḥwāl al-mamālik (The Surest Path to Knowing the Condition of Kingdoms), in Arabic, French and Ottoman TurkishPart I: Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi’s Aqwam al-masalik/Réformes nécessaires: A Dual Intervention in Arabic and French Political DiscoursesPeter HillPart II: The Muqaddima of Khayr al-Dīn Pasha´s Aqwam al-masālik fī ma‘rifat aḥwāl al-mamālik and its Ottoman Turkish translationJohann Strauss5. Finding the Lost Andalusia: Reading Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan’s Tarık or the Conquest of al-Andalus in its Multiple Renderings Usman Ahmedani and Dženita KarićPART III WOMEN IN TRANSLATION6. Translating Qasim Amin’s Arabic Tahrir al-marʼa (1899) into Ottoman TurkishIlham Khuri-Makdisi and Yorgos Dedes7. Muslim Woman: The Translation of a Patriarchal Order in Flux Maha AbdelMegeed and A. Ebru Akcasu 8. Fatma Aliye’s Nisvan-ı İslam: Istanbul, Beirut, Cairo, Paris, 1891–6 Marilyn Booth and A. Holly ShisslerIndex