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The balance of truth : essays in honour of Professor Geoffrey Lewis / edited by Çiğdem Balım-Harding, Colin Imber ; [introd. by Andrew Mango].

Contributor(s): Balım-Harding, Çiğdem | Imber, Colin | Mango, Andrew | Lewis, Geoffrey, 1920-2008Material type: TextTextLanguage: engger Publication details: İstanbul : Isis, 2000. Description: 442 p. : port. ; 24 cmISBN: 9754281629Other title: Essays in honour of Professor Geoffrey LewisSubject(s): Lewis, Geoffrey L | 1900-1999 | Turkic peoples | Turkey -- Civilization | Turkey -- HistoryGenre/Form: HistoryLOC classification: DR432 | .B25 2000
Contents:
Geoffrey Lewis Âbi / Andrew Mango -- 'The best of stories' : three versions of the Joseph narrative / Roger Allen -- Contemporary Turkish communities in Europe / Çiğdem Balım-Harding -- Topic and sequence in a Turkish natural conversation / Arın Bayraktaroğlu -- Bible translation in Turkic languages / Graham Clarke -- Was there a Greek aljamiado literature? / George Dedes -- Turks, Italians and intelligence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Kate Fleet -- Soviet Turkic literature / Emine Gürsoy-Naskalı -- A buyuruldu of A.H. 1100/A.D. 1689 for the dragomans of the English embassy at İstanbul / Colin Heywood --
Seljuq women / Carole Hillenbrand -- What does ghazi actually mean? / Colin Imber -- The paradox of Quranic assonance / Alan Jones -- Out of the cul-de-sac : the economies of Turkic Central Asia today / Michael Kaser -- 'Only' a matter of focus? / Celia Kerslake -- Postpositions and adverbs : a case study in syntactic categories / Jaklin Kornfilt -- Views and uses of the past : the Turks and Ottoman history / David Kushner -- Abdülhamid in 1912 : the return from Salonika / Jacob M. Landau -- Arabic into medieval Latin (4) : letters I-L, M.L.D. / J. Derek Latham -- More on the death of the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Ḍīn Ayyūb / D.S. Richards --
J.M. Rogers -- Language and message in contemporary Islamic writing in Turkish literature / Bengisu Rona -- Neologistische Archaismen im Türkeitürkischen / Klaus Röhrborn -- The travel notes of a Dutch pastor in Anatolia 1717-1727 / Jan Schmidt -- Men-at-arms, hauberks and bards : military obligations in the Book of the Ottoman Custom / Tim Stanley -- Religion and democracy : the Turkish case / Joseph S. Szyliowicz -- Puff and patronage : Ottoman Taḳrīż-writing and literary recommendation in the 17th century / Christine Woodhead -- Under the influence? Preliminary reflections on Arab music during the Ottoman period / O. Wright -- Some notes on British espionage in the Ottoman Empire, 1878-1908 / F.A.K. Yasamee.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Geoffrey Lewis Âbi / Andrew Mango -- 'The best of stories' : three versions of the Joseph narrative / Roger Allen -- Contemporary Turkish communities in Europe / Çiğdem Balım-Harding -- Topic and sequence in a Turkish natural conversation / Arın Bayraktaroğlu -- Bible translation in Turkic languages / Graham Clarke -- Was there a Greek aljamiado literature? / George Dedes -- Turks, Italians and intelligence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Kate Fleet -- Soviet Turkic literature / Emine Gürsoy-Naskalı -- A buyuruldu of A.H. 1100/A.D. 1689 for the dragomans of the English embassy at İstanbul / Colin Heywood --

Seljuq women / Carole Hillenbrand -- What does ghazi actually mean? / Colin Imber -- The paradox of Quranic assonance / Alan Jones -- Out of the cul-de-sac : the economies of Turkic Central Asia today / Michael Kaser -- 'Only' a matter of focus? / Celia Kerslake -- Postpositions and adverbs : a case study in syntactic categories / Jaklin Kornfilt -- Views and uses of the past : the Turks and Ottoman history / David Kushner -- Abdülhamid in 1912 : the return from Salonika / Jacob M. Landau -- Arabic into medieval Latin (4) : letters I-L, M.L.D. / J. Derek Latham -- More on the death of the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Ḍīn Ayyūb / D.S. Richards --

Archaeology vs. archives : some recent approaches to the Ottoman pottery of İznik / J.M. Rogers -- Language and message in contemporary Islamic writing in Turkish literature / Bengisu Rona -- Neologistische Archaismen im Türkeitürkischen / Klaus Röhrborn -- The travel notes of a Dutch pastor in Anatolia 1717-1727 / Jan Schmidt -- Men-at-arms, hauberks and bards : military obligations in the Book of the Ottoman Custom / Tim Stanley -- Religion and democracy : the Turkish case / Joseph S. Szyliowicz -- Puff and patronage : Ottoman Taḳrīż-writing and literary recommendation in the 17th century / Christine Woodhead -- Under the influence? Preliminary reflections on Arab music during the Ottoman period / O. Wright -- Some notes on British espionage in the Ottoman Empire, 1878-1908 / F.A.K. Yasamee.

In English; one article in German.