Document Type : Research

Author

• Nasrollah Salehi

Researcher and Lecturer in Shahid Mofatteh Teacher Training Center

Abstract

After Arabic and Persian, Turkish is considered as the third language of Islam world. Therefore, Ottoman scientists and scholars in addition to writing books in their own language have translated different kinds of texts from Arabic and especially Persian into Ottoman Turkish. Since tenth century, more than hundreds of books have been translated from Persian into Ottoman Turkish. This tendency still continues in modern Turkey. Contrary to this trend, very few numbers of texts have been translated from Ottoman Turkish into Persian and in fact they can be counted by one’s fingers. It was just during Naseri period and after construction of Homayouni Dar al Tarjoma (Translation House) that some of the texts and sources of Ottoman were translated by the Turkish translators into Persian. The strange thing is that after Naseri period this trend of translating Turkish texts into Persian almost stopped completely. Iranians huge and serious neglect of translating Turkish texts and sources into Persian, more than anything, resulted in weakening the cross border Iran history books and sources while significant parts of the Ottoman sources include precious information about Iran history from Safavids to Qajars.
Therefore, getting familiar with the Ottoman texts and sources, and translating them into Persian requires serious effort. While European orientalists have been translating Ottoman sources into their own languages for more than two decades, in Iran there is no even relative knowledge about these works. In this article, at first the importance and necessity of translating Ottoman texts are explained. Then, in a case study the importance of Osman Pasha History and its translation into Persian is discussed.

Keywords

• Keywords: translation Persian Ottoman turkish
• Ottoman history texts
• Ottoman History
• Osman Pasha History

Main Subjects

• History