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I. In Default of Letters: Oral Archives
‘Every place in this island is fertile and fruitful,
to the extent that it is impossible to describe it with a pen.’
1Welcome to a world of archives: the Ottoman administration in the mid-19th century1. Or, rather, what remains of it. An ever-mutating profusion of letters sedimented on paper. Pacing its files and folders requires determination and patience. Plunging into the task of reading supposes that we endorse a twofold, almost unconscious assumption: these writings were intended to be read; and they indeed could be.
2Such a hypothesis yet implies that we rule out the possibility of illiteracy (not to mention sheer analphabetism2), while much evidence points to the contrary. An Ottoman official sent to the province of Cyprus by the Istanbul government in the early 1850s, ‘Alī Sırrı Efendi, thus points out that ‘in some villages nobody can read or write’3. And a memorandum drafted at the Sublime Porte in 1847 clearly states that among the very members of the Empire’s provincial officialdom, certain subaltern agents might be unable to sign their own name4.
3These preliminary remarks point to the array of issues one has to confront when entering the Ottoman world of paper. To what extent did the ‘users’ of such documents, be
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Turkish literature
Not to be confused with Turkic literature.
Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı, Türk yazını) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Turkish language. The Ottoman form of Turkish, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, was highly influenced by Persian and Arabic literature,[1] and used the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.
The history of the broader Turkic literature spans a period of nearly 1,300 years.[2] The oldest extant records of written Turkic are the Orhon inscriptions, found in the Orhon River valley in central Mongolia and dating to the 7th century. Subsequent to this period, between the 9th and 11th centuries, there arose among the nomadicTurkic peoples of Central Asia a tradition of oralepics, such as the Book of Dede Korkut of the Oghuz Turks— ancestors of the modern Turkish people—and the Epic of Manas of the Kyrgyz people.
Beginning with the victory of the Seljuks at the Battle of Manzikert in the late 11th century, the Oghuz Turks began to settle in Anatolia, and in addition to the earlier oral traditions there arose a written literary tradition issuing largely—in terms of themes, genres, and styles—from Arabic and Persian literature. For the next 900 years, until shortly before t