Translating Islamic Piety with Greek Aljamiado: The case of Şânî’s Compendium

This talk will engage an early codex of Greek Aljamiado—i.e., Greek in the Arabic script: the Compendium of Şânî in the Greek Tongue, written in the mid-seventeenth century. Translating and adapting several Arabic and Turkish sources into rhymed Greek couplets, Şânî wrote this work for his fellow Greek-speaking Muslims, who were otherwise excluded from the Arabic- and Turkish-language scholarly apparatus of Ottoman Islam.

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