Caught Between Aspiration and Anxiety, Praise and Exhortation: An Arabic Literary Offering to the Ottoman Sultan Selīm I.
This article deals with a literary offering presented by Ibn Sultān (d. 1544)--a Mamluk Damascene ālim who eventually became the Ottoman mufti of Damascus--to Sultan Selïm I that dates back to shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Syria. Entitled al-Jawâhir al-mudiyyah ft ayyām dawlat al-Turkiyyah,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 181 - 240 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2013
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