CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Mišević, Marijana |
|---|---|
| Title | The Social, Political and Linguistic Context of the Emergence of Aljamiado Literature in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bosnia: the Case of a Lexicographer and Poet, Mehmed Hevai Uskufi |
| Summary | At the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century in the social and political context of Ottoman-ruled Bosnia, a body of texts appeared that have been designated as aljamiado literature. The reasons behind this type of literature, written in Arabic script but in a local Slavic dialect, have not been explored to date. This thesis raises questions about the broader meaning of this type of writing in the Ottoman context through an exploration of the case of the literary output of one of the earliest authors known by name, Mehmed Hevai Uskufi (d. after 1651). Mehmed Hevai Uskufi composed a bilingual dictionary titled Makbul-i Arif and several aljamiado poems. The historically-minded analysis of the linguistic complexity of Uskufi’s work demonstrated that aljamiado literature had to do with changes in many facets of society that were happening at that time and provided insights into the issues of patronage, literary trends, literacy, language ideology and its role in regional identification practices in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. |
| Supervisor | Krstić, Tijana |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/misevic_marijana.pdf |
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