Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul
Subtitle: a seventeenth-century biographer's perspective
By: Asli Niyazioglu
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies; Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781315578071
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Biography; History and criticism; Biographers; History; Biography as a literary form; Dreams in literature; Biographies as Topic; Biographes; Histoire; Biographie (Genre littéraire); Rêves dans la littérature; Biographies (literary works)
Description: Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer 'Aṭā'ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book demonstrates that dreams provided biographers not only with a means to form learned communities in a politically fragile landscape but also with a medium to debate the correct career paths and social networks in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Istanbul.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The biographer between this world and the hereafter; title: 2. Collection of lives as a well-ordered garden; title: 3. From this world to the realm of dreams; title: 4. The dead and visits from the hereafter.