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Description of  Ottoman Translation: Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris (Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire)

A vigorous translation scene across the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empiregovernment and private, official and amateur, acknowledged and anonymoussaw many texts from European languages rewritten into the multiple tongues that Ottoman subjects spoke, read and wrote. Just as lively, however, was translation amongst Ottoman languages, and between those and the languages of their neighbours to the east. This proliferation and circulation of texts in translation and adaptation, through a range of strategies, leads us to ask: What Read more