Lıfe, Love And Laughter: In Search Of The Ottomans' Lost Poetıc Language A Collective Volume Memory Of Arne A. Ambros

Part I: Ways and means of searching

1. Na˙¬re, the will-o’ -the-wisp of Ottoman D¬v®n Poetry.
2. Ottoman modulations: ∫azel-i musammaş, murabba‘, şarqı.
3. Osmanlı Gazelinin Uzunluğunda Görülen Gelişmeler: 16. Yüzyılda Durum.
4. A Call for More Quantification: The Utility of a Simple Statistical Test.
5. With participants of a seminar of the author: Viyana'dan Muhibbî Divanına Ufak bir Ek ile İmalı Övgü Sanatına İlginç Bir Örnek.
6. Apollinaire’e "öncülük" eden 16. yy. şairi Meâlî: Ağaç şeklinde bir Osmanlı figür-şiiri veya teşcîri.
7. Vulgärer Wortschatz und syntaktische Ambiguität in den satirischen Gedichten des osmanischen Dichters Keğf¬ (m. 945/1538-9).

Part II: Life

8. Beans for a cough, lion’s gall for a laugh: The poet and physician AΩmed¬’s materia medica as a mirror of the state of the art around 1400 in Anatolia.
9. With participants of a seminar of the author: Ignorante Ärzte und die Bändigung der Gelüste: Veranschaulichende Gleichnisse in einem türkeitürkischen medizinischen Ms. aus dem Jahre 1460.
10. A Mosaic of Medical Information on the Child in Fifteenth Century Anatolia.
11. Variatio Delectat: An Ottoman Collection of Medicinal and Dyeing Recipes.
12. One does not speak ill of the dead - or does one? Ottoman chronograms on death.
13. Of Cranes and Ducks: Kağızmanlı Hıfzı in the Wake of Karacaoğlan.
14. "O Mohammed, sie sagen wir sind mangelhaft!" — Osmanische Dichterinnen nicht auf den Mund gefallen?
15. With co-author Jan Schmidt: A Cossack Adopted by the Forty Saints: An Original Ottoman Story in the Leiden University Library.
16. With co-author Jan Schmidt: A Rhymed Petition of 1587 by a Deli: A Unique Document Kept in the Groningen University Library (Hs. 486).

Part III: Love, be it religious or worldly

17. With the collaboration of Stefan Lombard: Die religiöse Dichtung des osmanischen Gouverneurs Ferh®d Pa·a (m. 1798).
18. Candid Penstrokes: The lyrics of Me’®l¬, an Ottoman poet of the 16th century.
19. Turkish Delights.
20. The "Language of Flowers" and Ottoman Don Juans (zenp®res).

Part IV: Laughter

21. The Leş®‘if of Faq¬r¬, Ottoman poet of the 16th century.
22. An Ottoman Laş¬fe of the 16th Century.
23. Six lampoons out of Faq¬r¬’s Ris®le-i ta‘r¬f®t.
24. The Image in the 16^th Century of Representatives of Science and Technology: Cameos by the Ottoman Poet Fa∆¬r¬.
25. With participants of a seminar of the author: Von Dichtern, Elefanten und Oliven.
26. "O Asinine, Vile Cur of a Fool Called „®t¬!": An Attempt to Show that Unabashed Language is Part and Parcel of an Ottoman "Idiom of Satire".
27. On a Conventional Dimension of 16th Century Scurrilous Ottoman Satire: Keğf¬’s (d. 945/1538-9) hicviyy®t.