| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | <p>The practice of literary historiography in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey is considered to be a relatively recent phenomenon, the emergence of which is thought to take place in the early twentieth century. Mehmed Fuad Köprülü (1890-1966) is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of the discipline. Neither the period preceding Köprülü’s input, nor the aftermath of his impact have yet come under the spotlight of rigorous scholarly research. There have been no comprehensive analytical surveys of the corpus, with a comparative perspective that evaluates the works in and of themselves as well as their similarities and differences, which could reveal the evolution of the theoretical and practical aspects of the making of Ottoman/Turkish literary history. </p>
<p>The purpose of this study is to tell the untold story of the intellectual journey taken by the literary historians of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey employing a novel, analytical and systematic approach to the original texts. In this project, the focus is on the historiography of literary production in Turkish, both in Perso-Arabic script and Latin, and of the Ottoman Empire and of the Turkish Republic, although there might be historiographical practices carried out in other languages, by other peoples of the Empire. The study features an extensive analysis of the corpus, commencing with early forms of literary historiography seen in the second half of the nineteenth century and encompassing the forty-five works written in the following period until the present day. It continues with an argument that challenges the prevalent viewpoint posited by contemporary criticism, featuring the idea of an epistemological rupture attributed to the transformations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and particularly to the formation of the Republic. Here is demonstrated that the idea of continuity dominates the course of historiographical practice, both in the theoretical and practical sense.</p>
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