Posted by
Robert P. Finn on May 11, 2009 in
Foreign Look,
Issue No: 4 |
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From the article…
The rapid rise of Western cultural influence in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Crimean War transformed literary life as well. From the time of Ziya Pasha’s famous plaint, ‘I wandered through the infidel lands, and saw palaces and fairy castles/I traveled through the lands of...