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An Ottoman mentality : the world of Evliya Çelebi / by Robert Dankoff ; with an afterword for Gottfried Hagen.

Van Pelt Library DR486.E95 D36 2004
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English
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Physical Description:
xxi, 279 pages ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Summary:
This monograph examines Evliya Gelebi's travel account to get at Ottoman perceptions of the world, relating to geography, administration, .religion, narative styles, sexual relations, dream interpretation, and conceptions of the self.
Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Man of Istanbul 9
  • Chapter 2 Man of the World 48
  • Chapter 3 Servitor of the Sultan 83
  • Chapter 4 Gentleman and Dervish 115
  • Chapter 5 Raconteur 153
  • Chapter 6 Reporter and Entertainer 185
  • Afterword: Ottoman Understandings of the World in the Seventeenth Century / Gottfried Hagen 215.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-265) and index.
ISBN:
9004137157
OCLC:
54081842

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