Classical Ottoman Divan Literature and the Dialectical Tradition

What is it about?

This article analyzes traditional archetypes of Ottoman Islamic divan literature, namely aşık (lover), maşuk (beloved) and rakîb (opponent) to demonstrate the dialectical discourse in Ottoman-Turkish love poems written between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Divan poems in both style and content display a comprehensive understanding of the post-classical Islamic conception of dialectic, known as adab al-bahth.

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