Spies, scandals, and sultans : Istanbul in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire : the first English translation of Egyptian Ibrahim al-Muwaylihi's Ma hanalik / Ibrahim al-Muwaylihi ; translated and introduced by Roger Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muwayliḥī, Ibrāhīm, -1906.

Contributor:

Allen, Roger, 1942-

Standardized Title:

Mā hunālika. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Istanbul (Turkey)--Description and travel.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Turkey--History--1878-1909.

Turkey.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 185 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Spies, scandals, & sultans

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

Over Yonder is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid. This is the first time that the text, written by an Egyptian journalist and politician, has been available since 1896. The text of the Arabic original is prefaced with an extensive introduction in which the author's life is discussed and the highly controversial contents of the book are contextualized and evaluated for their accuracy against other contemporary accounts of life in the Ottoman capital.

Contents:

A note on transliteration

The later Ottoman sultans

Introduction

Concerning the circumstances of the Ottoman Sultanate

Almabayn

The chief secretary's department in Almabayn

The Almabaynjiyya department in Almabayn

The department of the chief eunuch in Almabayn

The department of the Yavaran in Almabayn

Spies

Anniversary of the Sultan's accession

Spies (II)

Splendor of the caliphate and magnificence of the sultanate

Appointment to Ottoman offices

Court proceedings in Istanbul

Shaykhs

Writing ma hunalik

The sultan

Deposition of sultans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780742562165

0742562166

9780742562172

0742562174

OCLC:

147988326