5th Colloquium on Ottoman Literature

26.05.2026

Thursday, June 18, 2026, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Campus of the University of Vienna, Court 4.1

Department of Near Eastern Studies, Seminar Room Turcica

 

15:00-16:30

Marijana Mišević (Central Europaean University, Vienna): "Revisiting Sheikh Hasan Kaimi (d.1691) as a Bosnian ‘Aljamiado’ Poet"

Kristof D’hulster (Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, University of Münster): "Mamluks Reading Turkish Classics: The Circulation of Anatolian Turkish Literary Works within the Mamluk Realm"

Aslıhan Aksoy Sheridan (TED University, Ankara): "Mecmuas as Sites of Proliferation of Texts and Genres in the Long 17th Century"

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00

Nilab Saeedi (IHB, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna): “A Thousand Years of Rhyme: Ferdowsi, Sultan Süleyman, and the Şehnameci”

Ercan Akyol (Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna): "Crafting Ottoman Flowery Letters: Practices, Drafts, and Fair Copies"

Organizers: Gisela Procházka-Eisl and Ercan Akyol