{"id":1656,"date":"2020-08-16T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2022-02-15T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:28:07","slug":"murat-umut-inan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Murat Umut INAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Murat Umut Inan is a sessional lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on multilingual literary, cultural and intellectual production in the Ottoman world, with an emphasis on the flow and interaction of people, texts and ideas in a region extending from the Balkans through Anatolia into Iran and the Arab lands. He is completing a book on the reception of the Persian language and classics in the making of an imperial language, culture and scholarship in late medieval and early modern Ottoman lands, 1400\u20131600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Murat Umut Inan works on Ottoman Turkish commentaries produced for the elucidation, translation and interpretation of Arabic and Persian philological, literary and religio-cultural texts that circulated across the empire. His work explores forms and contexts of textual production, circulation and consumption in the Ottoman commentarial tradition, 1400\u20131800. He is particularly interested in questions of authorship, textuality and readership as well as in forms of reading, glossing and interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publications related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOttomans Reading Persian Classics: Readers and Reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500\u20131700.\u201d In The Edinburgh History of Reading: Early Readers<\/em>, edited by Mary Hammond, 160\u2013181. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCrossing Interpretive Boundaries in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: Ahmed Sudi on the Divan<\/em> of Hafiz of Shiraz.\u201d Philological Encounters<\/em> vol. 3, no. 3 (2018): 275\u2013309.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReintroducing Hafez to Readers in Rum: Sudi\u2019s Introduction to His Commentary on Hafez\u2019s Poetry Collection.\u201d Journal of Turkish Studies<\/em> vol. 35, no. 1 (2011): 11\u201334.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cImperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World.\u201d In The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca<\/em>, edited by Nile Green, 75\u201392. University of California Press: Oakland, 2019.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImperial Patronage of Literature in the Ottoman World, 1400\u20131600.\u201d In The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities<\/em>, edited by Hani Khafipour, 493\u2013504. Columbia University Press: New York, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRethinking the Ottoman Imitation of Persian Poetry.\u201d Iranian Studies<\/em> vol. 50, no. 5 (2017): 671\u2013689.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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