Éva Á. Csató, Gunilla Gren-Eklund, Lars Johanson, Birsel Karakoç (eds): Turcologica Upsaliensia: An Illustrated Collection of Essays. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2020. 267 pages, illustrated, with a fold-out map. Hardback €119.00. ISBN 978-90-04-43570-4.
Abstract:The 'special relationship' between Sweden and the Turkic world is often noted for its political entanglements with the Russian-Ottoman rivalry in the early modern period, but it is no less manifest in centuries of Nordic scholarship on Central Asia and the Middle East. The current volume brings together seventeen different perspectives on the study of 'Oriental languages' at Uppsala university from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.The 'Orient' was always an elastic term. European geographers and trave… Show more
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