A significant eighteenth-century writer of Ottoman literature, Seyh Galip wrote in the Turkish tradition and was the head of a Mevlevi order in Istanbul. Victoria Rowe Holbrook is a scholar of Ottoman and Turkish literary studies. She is the author of The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance and the translator of Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle.
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"Holbrook's...introduction [to Galip's Ottoman romance] is the finest brief treatment of Islamic mysticism in existence. Her profound knowledge of Sufism clarifies the philosophical vocabulary of the tale, and her modernized spelling of the text breaks with transliteration tradition to make the work accessible to all readers of Turkish." Orhan Pamuk