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The Power of Patronage: Translation and Multilingualism in the Ottoman Empire/"Adaptation and Reorientation of the Historical Texts and its Actors in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East", the 2nd meeting AY2025

Date
2026/03/23(Mon) 13:00-17:45
Venue
Online/303 : Large Conference Room, ILCAA
On-site/Online
Hybrid
Language
English

Registration

  • Pre-registration is required by 10:00 PM (JST) on Friday, 20 March 2026.
    To register, please see here.
    The Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants.

Programs

2026/03/23
 13:00 - 13:05Introduction
 13:05 - 13:40Ottoman Translation of Timurid Tazkiras: Reception of Persian and Chaghatay Literature in the EmpireNobuaki Kondo(ILCAA, TUFS)
 13:40 - 14:15Persian in the Lands of Rum: Qāżīzāda-yi Ardabīlī’s Translation of Ibn Khallikān’s Wafayāt al-aʿyān in Early Sixteenth-Century IstanbulPhilip Bockholt(University of Münster)
 14:15 - 14:30Coffee Break
 14:30 - 15:05The Ottoman Translation of the Tārīkh-i Guzīda: The Transmission and Reception of the Most Popular Ilkhanid Persian Universal History in Later Muslim DynastiesOsamu Otsuka(The University of Tokyo)
 15:05 - 15:40Abdāl Khān’s Translation Programme in Seventeenth-Century Bidlīs A Contribution to the Cultural History of Early Modern KurdistanSacha Alsancakli(ILCAA, TUFS)
 15:40 - 15:55Coffee Break
 15:55 - 16:30Turkish Translation of ʿIqd al-Jumān: The Section on Astronomy and GeographyNobutaka Nakamachi(Konan University)
 16:30 - 17:05Reading Ottoman Multilingualism through Claudius James Rich’s LibraryYui Kanda(ILCAA, TUFS)
 17:05 - 17:35Discussion
 17:35 - 17:45Concluding Remark

Contact

  • kanda[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp