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" Anthologies, Ottoman - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Schmidt, Jan
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AL
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English
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1060626
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ALei1023
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Schmidt, Jan
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Anthologies, Ottoman - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Schmidt, Jan
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,040 words)
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Anthologies were a wide-spread phenomenon in the Ottoman Empire. They are best known under the term mecmua ( mecmūʿa , lit. “manuscript of mixed content”; in modern Turkish the word is mostly used in the meaning of “periodical” or “magazine”). Other terms used in this respect are divan ( dīvān , exclusively for poetry), cönk (likewise, for poetry), sefine ( sefīne , lit. “boat”), müntehabat ( müntekhabāt , “selections”), and in modern times, when such works also began to be printed, antoloji and seçki . The term külliyat (küllīyāt) is also encountered in this context, which refers to
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Islam.
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ALei1023.pdf
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