Zukunftsphilologie
2012/ 2013
Murat Umut Inan
Editing, Glossing and Translating Hafez of Shiraz in the Ottoman Empire: Issues of Textual Criticism and Interpretation in the 16th Century Ottoman Commentaries on Hafez's Divan
Murat Umut Inan holds a BA in Turkish Language and Literature, an MA in Ottoman Language and Literature, both from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), and a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Washington. His dissertation focuses on a late sixteenth-century Ottoman commentary written on the Divan of Hafiz of Shiraz by Ahmed Sudi and discusses the ways Sudi’s philological commentary departs from the preceding mystical commentaries in terms of textual analysis and interpretation. Inan’s research interests focus on Ottoman and Persian literatures and cultures and on intertextual and intercultural relations in the early modern literary world. The critical issues that inform his current work are literary reception and appropriation, intertextuality, and the politics of textual interpretation.
Editing, Glossing and Translating Hafez of Shiraz in the Ottoman Empire: Issues of Textual Criticism and Interpretation in the 16th Century Ottoman Commentaries on Hafez's Divan
In Berlin, Inan will undertake a postdoctoral research project that elaborates on his dissertation work. The project involves the study and interpretation of Hafez’s Divan in the Ottoman Empire. It explores, on the one hand, the ways Hafez’s Persian text was edited, glossed, and translated by Ottoman scholars coming from different backgrounds and, on the other, the contexts in which the text was read and interpreted by Ottoman readers across the Empire.
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