Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient – A Critical Discourse (1872–1932)

Zeynep Çelik is distinguished professor emerita at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the author of many books, most recently About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire. Gregory Key is a lecturer in modern and Ottoman Turkish at SUNY Binghamton in New York. Aron Aji is director of the University of Iowa’s MFA in Literary Translation program. His most recent translation, of Bilge Karasu’s Long Day’s Evening, received an NEA Translation Fellowship and was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize.

"Compelling in its scope and content. . . . The insightfully selected and efficiently translated texts in this volume bear witness to the emergence and entrenchment of European Orientalism from the perspective of its subjects. . . . Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient is an invitation to finally begin investigating Orientalism from the other side, from the perspective of the 'Orientals,' with all the attendant complexities and contradictions."

• · Acknowledgements· Introduction by Zeynep Çelik : Europe Knows Nothing About The Orient: A Critical Discourse From The East (1872-1932)SELECTED WRITINGS1. Grand Battleso Europe Knows Nothing About the Orient, Namik Kemalo Europe Knows Nothing About the Orient, Ebuzziya Mehmet Tevfiko Foreigners And Our Turkish, Tevfik Fikreto Aziyade, Tevfik Fikreto A Refutation of Ernest Renan, Namik Kemalo A Conversation with a Foreigner about Istanbul, Ahmed Hasimo The Library, Ahmed Hasimo Could Our Movie Theaters Be French Imperialism’s Tools?o Turkey Faces West, Halide Edibo Overthrowing Europacentrisme, Sevket Süreyya2. Art as Measure of Civilizationo Ottoman Arts I, Celal Esado Arabic Arts, Celal Esado The Arabic Decorative Arts, Celal Esado Ottoman Architecture, Celal Esado Architectural Terminology, Celal Esado Introduction to the Research of Turkish Arts, Ismail Hakki3. “Oriental” Women and Life at Homeo Women of Islam, Fatma Aliye Hanimo Avrupa’da Bir Cevelan, Ahmet Mithado Ask-i Memnu, Halid Ziyao Nesl-i Ahir, Halid Ziyao Turkish Women in the Foreign Presso Oriental Beauties4. The Unique Case of Pierre Lotio Aziyade, Tevfik Fikreto Les Désenchantées, Ömer Lütfio Loti Sends His Regrets, Izzed Meliho Reply to Loti, Izzed Meliho Pierre Loti, Nazim Hikmet5. Sarcasm as Vengeanceo Touristso Secret Sanctuary, Ömer Seyfeddino Around the World with Meshedi, Ercüment Ekrem Taluo The Hospital of the Storks, Ahmet Hasim6. Biographies7. Index