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The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature
Philological Encounters

The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature, the new special issue of the journal Philological Encounters, edited by Ghayde Ghraowi and Hacı Osman Gündüz (Ozzy), consists of the following articles:
The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature, by Ghayde Ghraowi and Hacı Osman Gündüz (Ozzy)
Paths Crossing in Damascus: Familiarity with Persian among Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Arabic Literati, by Theodore S. Beers
Losing the Plot in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Satire and Sociability in the Maqāma Rūmiyya, by Ghayde Ghraowi
Between Lamenting Vicissitudes of Life and Celebrating Ottoman Authority in the Sixteenth Century: Māmayya al-Rūmī’s (d. 985–7/1577–9) Times and Poetry, by Hacı Osman Gündüz (Ozzy)
Poetry as History: An Examination of the Role of Poetry in al-Murādī’s Biographical Dictionary of the Twelfth/Eighteenth Century, by Basil Salem
Still on the Way Up: The Ascendant Field of Ottoman Arabic Literature, by Hilary Kilpatrick