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Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (he/him/his)
Poetry and Politics in the Early Modern Ottoman World: The Court of Bayezid II (r.1481-1512)
Poetry and Politics investigates the creation of new forms of political communication by Ottoman scholars during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It argues that Ottoman scholars produced a new literary language in order to express political thought by transforming traditional forms of poetry and prose. My research focuses on the composition, editing, and circulation of Turkish and Persian poetry, as well as diplomatic correspondence compiled in book format during the reign of Bayezid II (1481-1512).