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The wiles of women in Ottoman and Azeri texts

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The wiles of women in Ottoman and Azeri texts

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David Selim Sayers

Hanioglu, Sukru

Princeton University

2014

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Committee members: Cook, Michael A.; Finn, Robert P.; Marmon, Shaun; Peirce, Leslie P.

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-02236-0

Ph.D.

Near Eastern Studies

Princeton University

2014

The wiles of women are a literary theme that has been treated from ancient Egyptian narratives to twenty-first-century TV series. The theme reached its greatest flowering in literatures of the Islamicate world, beginning with Surat Yusuf of the Qur'an and inspiring entire literary traditions in Arabic (Kayd al-Nisa'), Persian (Makr-e Zan[an]), and Turkish (Mekr-i Zenan). While some scholarly work exists on the Arabic and Persian traditions, the Turkish tradition has not received significant scholarly attention to date. The present study aims to fill this gap. In so doing, the study presents, transliterates, and translates into English seventeen hitherto-unexamined prose stories on the wiles of women in Ottoman and Azeri Turkish. The first part of the study establishes a morphology for the stories and proposes a definition of the literary genre they represent. Both the morphology and the genre definition are designed to accommodate future additions to the corpus. The second part of the study engages in an in-depth analysis of the genre's treatment of the wiles-of-women theme, extrapolating a broader worldview from this treatment.

Middle Eastern literature; Womens studies; Islamic Studies; Theme; Turkish language; English; Persian language; Ancient Egyptian; Arabic language; Corpus analysis; Literary genres; Humor; Religious literature; Morphology; Men; Television; Learning; Prose; Women

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Islam;Literature;Ottoman;Turkish;Wiles;Women

Sayers, David Selim

Hanioglu, Sukru

Near Eastern Studies

Princeton University

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