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Beauty and Love: An MLA Translation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780873529341)
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xThe girl Beauty and the boy Love are betrothed to each other as children. But Beauty violates the custom of the tribe by falling in love with him, and Love must undergo the trials of a journey to the Land of the Heart to prove himself worthy--a journey to realization of both his and Beauty's true nature.
The Turkish verse romance Beauty and Love, written in 1783 by ?eyh Galip, head of an Istanbul center of Rumi's order of the Whirling Dervishes, is an innovative interpretation of the Islamic love tale as a story of the action of God's qualities in the world. With its stunning imagery, fast-moving plot, and nonchalant, erudite humor, it is widely known as the greatest work of Ottoman literature.
In her introduction Victoria Rowe Holbrook discusses the heritage of Ibn Arabi and Rumi in Ottoman thought, the traditions of verse romance and allegory, Indian style imagery, and Galip's political loyalties.
Author: Şeyh Galip
ISBN-10: 0873529340
ISBN-13: 9780873529341
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 245
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.64w x 0.59d
By Şeyh Galip
xA significant eighteenth-century writer of Ottoman literature, Şeyh Galip wrote in the Turkish tradition and was the head of a Mevlevi order in Istanbul. Victoria Rowe Holbrook is a scholar of Ottoman and Turkish literary studies. She is author of The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance and translator of Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle.
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