Building upon the earlier efforts of Veysî and Nâbî, the Ottoman Turkish scholar Nazmî-zâde Murtazâ (fl. ca. late-17th, early-18th century AD) wrote his Zeyl-i Siyer, which is an account of the early Islamic community led by the prophet Muhammad. The mid-late Ottoman empire was the leading Muslim power of its time, and Nazmî-zâde’s work lends a window into Ottoman understanding of early Islamic history. The work is written in a high-register Ottoman Turkish prose, and contains verses in Arabic and Persian. The present book is Volume I (Cilt I), in which Dr. Mehmet Büküm provides a meticulous critical edition of the Zeyl-i Siyer (in Latin transcription), together with a host of pertinent scholarly information.
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Facsimile of a manuscript of the Zeyl-i Siyer-i Veysî ve Nâbî, by the Ottoman Turkish scholar Nazmî-zâde Murtazâ. This manuscript is held by Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı, which catalogs it under “Nuruosmaniye Koleksiyonu 03351/3.” The manuscript, which Dr. Mehmet Büküm names “N manuscript” (“N Nüshası”), is one of the three manuscripts that he uses to make his critical edition (tenkitli metin) in Volume I (Cilt I).
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Option 2:
Break down the original text into sentences and/or short passages, with transliteration-transcription below, and/or translation further below. E.g.,
:خواجه ابو المکارم نینک توسطی بیله بو سوزنی اراغه سالدیم کیم
Khwāja Abū’l-Makārimnıñ tawassuṭı bilä bu sözni aragha saldım kim:
With the intercession of Khwāja Abū’l-Makārim, I (i.e., Bābur) put out these words [to be relayed to Shāh Begim and Sulṭān-Maḥmūd Khan]:
“…شیباق خان دیک غنیم پیدا بولوبتور. مونینک ضرری ترککا و مغولغه مساوی دور”
“Shibaq Khan dek ghanīm paydā boluptur. Munıñ żararı Türkkä wa Moghulgha musāwī dur…”
“An enemy like Shibaq Khan (i.e., Muḥammad Shibanī Khan of the Uzbeks) has appeared (has become manifest). The harm of this to Türk and to Moghul is equal…”
—Bābur-nāma, fol. 101b
Note: “(i.e., Bābur)” and “(i.e., Muḥammad Shibanī Khan of the Uzbeks)” are written because the above Bābur-nāma passage was extracted without context. They are not intended to show that every pronoun or name has to be clarified. Rather, such clarification should be given when context is missing or unclear.
Annotated Amplified Translation
Perfectionists-idealists, please follow the following guidelines for producing maximally accurate translations.
“Accurate” means being in accordance with the intent of the original text’s author as can be known through empirical evidence and/or logic. While a text may be open to interpretation due to our insufficient knowledge, only interpretations in accordance with the authorial intent are correct. A translator should note any part of a text that he or she does not (fully) understand and explain why; this would give readers helpful reference(s) for thinking.
Literal translation faithfully conveys original wording, but may not accurately convey meaning. Idiomatic translation accurately conveys meaning, but risks losing original wording as well as adding the translator’s own words that carry meaning(s) unintended by the author. Striking the balance between literal and idiomatic translation has been an age-old challenge. An annotated amplified translation can help towards finding this balance.
It is recommended that words in translation that correspond to words in the original text be put in bold, so that a reader would know that the words not in bold constitute idiomatic translation. See earlier example from Bābur-nāma, fol. 101b.
Do not skip over any word in the original text because it seems to be of minor consequence. Only words that cannot be feasibly translated into correct English would be skipped, and if such words are of consequence to the meaning of the text, explain in annotation.
When a certain English word or passage does not fully capture the meaning of what it attempts to translate, or is ambiguous due to the nature of English, immediately follow the translation with further words or phrases, in parentheses, to maximally capture the meaning.
Put words that are not justified by either literal or idiomatic translation but would help clarify the meaning in brackets ([]).
The Amplified Bible may serve as an effective model for folks unfamiliar with amplified translation:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=AMP
Use annotations to further explain what may keep an English reader from fully understanding the meaning of the original text. Also use annotations to explain possible alternative interpretations of words and passages about which the translator is not absolutely certain.
Basic Translation
We understand that annotated amplified translation is a time-consuming endeavor, and we propose it as an ideal, in the pursuit of maximal accuracy. To be pragmatic, basic translations, i.e., smooth-flowing, reader-friendly translations intended to inform readers of the general contents, are also welcome. In fact, to serve the widest readership, the most ideal work would feature the annotated amplified translation in one part, followed by the basic translation (simply having removed the amplifications and relatively technical annotations) in the next part, thereby satisfying the needs of both the exegetist and the skimmer; printing lengthier books as a result would be no big problem for us, and considered very much worthwhile.
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