A Cure for the Plague, and Other Prescriptions

Eleazar Birnbaum

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Pages:: 170–172

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004413146_011

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The term Ottoman Turkish literature is not limited to compositions containing a wealth of Arabic and Persian loanwords, written by and for the empire’s elite. For the non-elite public there was a parallel literature, with vocabulary and syntax much closer to the spoken Turkish of the general Turkish-speaking population. Inserted in a copy of a mid-19thcentury printed medrese textbook in my collection, I found a scrap of a manuscript in Turkish, containing popular pseudo-medical and magical prescriptions, probably copied in the late 18th or early 19th century, and now in my collection of Islamic manuscripts. I present two short passages: (1) How to achieve immunity from the plague; and (2) a recipe for a love potion.

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Ottoman War and Peace

Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan

Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 68

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004413146

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 26 Oct 2019

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  - Modern History
  - History of Warfare
- Middle East and Islamic Studies
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