Contents

pp v-vi

Note on Translation, Transliteration and Form

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-ix

Notes on Contributors

pp x-xiv

Introduction – Ottoman Central: Circulating Translations from the Indian Ocean to the Eastern Mediterranean and on to the Far West of Europe

pp 1-26

Part I - Proliferating Classics

pp 27-28

1 - A Pilgrim Progressively Translated: John Bunyan in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and Bengali

pp 29-68

2 - ‘Pour Our Treasures into Foreign Laps’: The Translation of Othello into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish

pp 69-98

3 - Shared Secrets: (Re)writing Urban Mysteries in Nineteenth-century Istanbul

pp 99-118

Part II - Mediterranean Multiples

pp 119-120

4 - Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi’s Muqaddima to Aqwam al-masalik fi ma‘rifat ahwal al-mamalik (The Surest Path to Knowing the Condition of Kingdoms), in Arabic, French and Ottoman

pp 121-189

5 - Finding the Lost Andalusia: Reading Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan’s Tarık or the Conquest of al-Andalus in its Multiple Renderings

pp 190-224

Part III - Women In Translation

pp 225-226

6 - Translating Qasim Amin’s Arabic Tahrir al-marʼa (1899) into Ottoman Turkish

pp 227-285

7 - Muslim Woman: The Translation of a Patriarchal Order in Flux

pp 286-326

8 - Fatma Aliye’s Nisvan-ı İslam: Istanbul, Beirut, Cairo, Paris, 1891–6

pp 327-388

Index

pp 389-402

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 403-403