Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Dragoman Renaissance will make an important contribution to ongoing debates about early modern Orientalism as a complex, contradictory, dialectical process of both cross-fertilization and the ossification of cultural difference. Whereas most studies of Orientalism lean toward investigating Europeans' views of "the Orient," The Dragoman Renaissance demonstrates that cultural brokerage and diplomacy in Ottoman lands operated as a discursive landscape to produce knowledge regarding Ottoman and Muslim culture and history.
* Renaissance and Reformation *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Localizing Foreignness: Forging Istanbul's Dragomanate
2. Kinshipping: Casting Nets and Spawning Dynasties
3. Inscribing the Self: Dragomans' Relazioni
4. Visualizing a Space of Encounter
5. Disciplining Language: Dragomans and Oriental Philology
6. Translating the Ottomans
7. Circulating "Turkish Literature"
Epilogue: Dragomans and the Routes of Orientalism
