Life, Love and Laughter: In Search of the Ottomans' Lost Poetic Language

Analecta Isisiana CXXXVII
A Collective Volume in Memory of Ane A. Ambros

528 pp, pb, articles in English.

Part I: Ways and means of searching 

• Na'¬re, the will-o’ -the-wisp of Ottoman D¬v®n Poetry.
• Ottoman modulations: Gazel-i musammaş, murabba‘, şarqı. 
• Osmanlı Gazelinin Uzunluğunda Görülen Gelişmeler: 16. Yüzyılda Durum.
• A Call for More Quantification: The Utility of a Simple Statistical Test.
• With participants of a seminar of the author: Viyana'dan Muhibbî Divanına Ufak bir Ek ile İmalı Övgü Sanatına İlginç Bir Örnek.
• Apollinaire’e "öncülük" eden 16. yy. şairi Meâlî: Ağaç şeklinde bir Osmanlı figür-şiiri veya teşcîri.
• Vulgärer Wortschatz und syntaktische Ambiguität in den satirischen Gedichten des osmanischen Dichters Keğf¬ (m. 945/1538-9). 

Part II: Life 

• Beans for a cough, lion’s gall for a laugh: The poet and physician AΩmed¬’s materia medica as a mirror of the state of the art around 1400 in Anatolia.
• With participants of a seminar of the author : Ignorante Ärzte und die Bändigung der Gelüste: Veranschaulichende Gleichnisse in einem türkeitürkischen medizinischen Ms. aus dem Jahre 1460. 
• A Mosaic of Medical Information on the Child in Fifteenth Century Anatolia. 
• Variatio Delectat: An Ottoman Collection of Medicinal and Dyeing Recipes.
• One does not speak ill of the dead - or does one? Ottoman chronograms on death. 
• Of Cranes and Ducks: Kağızmanlı Hıfzı in the Wake of Karacaoğlan.
• "O Mohammed, sie sagen wir sind mangelhaft!" — Osmanische Dichterinnen nicht auf den Mund gefallen?
• With co-author Jan Schmidt: A Cossack Adopted by the Forty Saints: An Original Ottoman Story in the Leiden University Library. 
• With co-author Jan Schmidt: A Rhymed Petition of 1587 by a Deli: A Unique Document Kept in the Groningen University Library (Hs. 486). 

Part III: Love, be it religious or worldly 

• With the collaboration of Stefan Lombard: Die religiöse Dichtung des osmanischen Gouverneurs Ferhad Paşa (m. 1798). 
• Candid Penstrokes: The lyrics of Me’®l¬, an Ottoman poet of the 16th century. 
• Turkish Delights. 
• The "Language of Flowers" and Ottoman Don Juans (zenp®res). 

Part IV: Laughter 

• The Leş®‘if of Faq¬r¬, Ottoman poet of the 16th century.
• An Ottoman Laş¬fe of the 16th Century.
• Six lampoons out of Faq¬r¬’s Risale-i ta‘r¬f®t. 
• The Image in the 16th Century of Representatives of Science and Technology: Cameos by the Ottoman Poet Fa?¬r¬. 
• With participants of a seminar of the author: Von Dichtern, Elefanten und Oliven. 
• "O Asinine, Vile Cur of a Fool Called „®t¬!": An Attempt to Show that Unabashed Language is Part and Parcel of an Otto-man "Idiom of Satire". 
• On a Conventional Dimension of 16th Century Scurrilous Ottoman Satire: Keğf¬’s (d. 945/1538-9) hicviyy®t.