poetry of the Ottoman Empire, or Ottoman Divan poetry, is little known outside modern Turkey, which forms the heartland of what was once the Ottoman Empire...

of Hebrew poetry and to poetry of al-Andalus. Ottoman Divan poetry was a highly ritualized and symbolic art form. From the Persian poetry that largely...

primary streams of Ottoman written literature are poetry and prose. Poetry was by far the dominant stream. The earliest work of Ottoman historiography for...

Apart from Ottoman poetry, which was heavily influenced by Persian traditions and created a unique Ottoman style, traditional Turkish poetry features a...

calligraphic art to encompass the sülüs script as well as the Nesih script. Ottoman poetry included epic-length verse but is better known for shorter forms such...

Arabic, and Persian culture. As with many Ottoman Turkish art forms, the poetry produced for the Ottoman court circle had a strong influence from classical...

Emre. The golden age of Ottoman literature lasted from the 15th century until the 18th century and included mostly divan poetry but also some prose works...

Ottoman music (Turkish: Osmanlı müziği) or Turkish classical music (Turkish: Klasik Türk musıkîsi, or more recently Türk sanat müziği, 'Turkish art music')...

least) three variants of Ottoman Turkish: Fasih Türkçe (Eloquent Turkish): the language of poetry and administration, Ottoman Turkish in its strict sense;...

caught alive, and the person killing a Huma will die in forty days. In Ottoman poetry, the creature is often referred to as a 'bird of paradise'; early European...