From Tigris to Jerusalem: East Syriac Poetic Notes from the Ottoman Time

From Tigris to Jerusalem: East Syriac Poetic Notes from the Ottoman TimeHugoye: Journal of Syriac StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9U73QYXG/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AntonPritulaFrom Tigris to Jerusalem: East Syriac Poetic Notes from the Ottoman Timehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9U73QYXGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/9U73QYXGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/9U73QYXGHugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies22:12019193-234The poems published and studied here – most of them for the first time – represent literary tastes of East Syriac educated circles of the Ottoman period. These text collections appeared as later additions in the manuscripts written by ʿAbdīšōʿ of Gāzartā, the Uniate East Syriac Church poet and the second patriarch (1555-1570). These small texts, usually having very little or even nothing to do with the main manuscript text, represent a kind of verse notes made by different pilgrims, and reflect popular poetic tastes of the period. Short poems, especially quatrains, are an ideal form for such poetic activities. Judging from their great number, the spread of short poems was constantly increasing since the time the Syriac Renaissance, when they were first borrowed from Arabic and Persian poetry. Apparently, the multi-lingual poems of the Mongol period (second half of the 13th-early 14th century) – the heyday of the Syriac tradition in the Islamic period – were treated as appropriate models to portray contemporary cultural life of the multi-lingual Christian communities in the Ottoman Empire. Pritula, Anton. “From Tigris to Jerusalem: East Syriac Poetic Notes from the Ottoman Time.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 22:1 (2019): 193–234. Anton Pritula, From Tigris to Jerusalem: East Syriac Poetic Notes from the Ottoman Time, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 22:1 (2019): 193–234.Abdisho of GazartaChaldeansVII-XVIII CEXVI CEXVII CEpilgrimagepoetryprimary sources [Syriac] + English translation