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                                                                                    <journal-title>Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2757-9999</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2822-468X</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Association for Thought and Literary Studies</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.64957/nesir.1935139</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>World Languages, Literature and Culture (Other)</subject>
                                                            <subject>Literary Theory</subject>
                                                            <subject>Comparative and Transnational Literature</subject>
                                                            <subject>Literary Studies (Other)</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer)</subject>
                                                            <subject>Edebi Teori</subject>
                                                            <subject>Karşılaştırmalı ve Ulusötesi Edebiyat</subject>
                                                            <subject>Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Turkish and Arabic Literatures: Ceyhun Arslan, Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 248 pp.: ISBN 9781399525831</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Turkish and Arabic Literatures: Ceyhun Arslan, Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 248 pp.: ISBN 9781399525831</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2976-9317</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Taşdelen</surname>
                                    <given-names>Esra</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>The University of Chicago Graham School</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260422">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>22</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
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                                                    <issue>10</issue>
                                        <fpage>319</fpage>
                                        <lpage>323</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20260311">
                        <day>03</day>
                        <month>11</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260328">
                        <day>03</day>
                        <month>28</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2021, Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>Ceyhun Arslan’s monograph, “The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Turkish and Arabic Literatures” (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is a comparative overview of how Ottoman Turkish and Arabic texts contribute to the body of work that can be described as the “Ottoman canon” or the “Ottoman literary reservoir.” The book utilizes the practice of close textual reading of Ottoman Turkish and Arabic primary sources within the Tanzimat in the Ottoman context, and the nahda in the Arab context. Arslan analyzes these texts through their common themes and “afterlives,” independent from geographical location, literary movements, or historical time period, and in conversation with each other. In showing how the Turkish and Arabic texts engaged with each other, and with the larger Ottoman canon, Arslan exposes the literary and cultural domains that do not necessarily align with political power hierarchies. He then calls for rewriting literary history by moving beyond nationalist and disciplinary divisions (such as classical vs. modern or Arabic vs. Turkish) and by recognizing the multilingual, imperial, and translational character of the Ottoman canon.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Ceyhun Arslan’in monografı, “The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Turkish and Arabic Literatures” (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), Osmanlı ve Türk Edebiyatına ait metinlerin “Osmanlı eserler bütünü” ya da “Osmanlı edebi rezervi” olarak adlandırılabilecek çalışmalar bütününün oluşmasına nasıl katkıda bulunduğunun karşılaştırmalı bir değerlendirmesidir. Kitap ayrıntılı yakın okuma yöntemini kullanarak Osmanlı edebiyatı bağlamında Tanzimat, Arap edebiyatı bağlamında ise nahda döneminde Osmanlı Türkçesi ve Arapça olarak yazılmış birincil kaynakları inceliyor. Arslan bu metinleri, coğrafi bölge, edebi akım, ya da tarihi dönemden bağımsız olarak, birbirleri ile diyalog içinde, ortak temaları ve “yaşamdan sonraki hayatları” üzerinden inceliyor. Arapça ve Türkçe metinlerin birbiriyle ve geniş Osmanlı eserler bütünü ile nasıl etkileşimde olduğunu gösterirken,siyasi güç hiyerarşileri ile kesişmeyen edebi ve kültürel alanları açığa çıkarıyor. Bundan yola çıkarak, klasik milliyetçi ya da disipliner ayrımların (klasik-modern ya da Arapça-Türkçe gibi) ötesine geçerek ve Osmanlı eserler bütününün çok dilli, emperyal ve çevirisel karakterini anlayarak bizi edebi tarihi tekrar yazmaya çağırıyor.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Ottoman canon</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  nahda</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Tanzimat</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  translational</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  close textual reading</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ottoman literary reservoir</kwd>
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