Booth Marilyn (ed.). Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean

Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 368 p.Explores translation in the context of the late Ottoman Mediterranean world. Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, excoriated French novels circulating through the Ottoman Empire in Greek, Arabic and Turkish – literary translation at the eastern end of the Mediterranean offered worldly vistas and new, hybrid genres to emerging literate audiences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.