Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul : a seventeenth century biographer's perspective / Asli Niyazioglu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niyazioğlu, Aslı, author.

Series:

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ʻAṭāʼī, ʻAṭā Allāh ibn Yaḥyā, 1583 or 1584-1634 or 1635.

ʻAṭāʼī, ʻAṭā Allāh ibn Yaḥyā.

ʻAṭā'ī, ʻAṭā Allāh ibn Yaḥyā, 1583 or 1584-1634 or 1635.

Biographers.

History.

Istanbul (Turkey)--Biography--History and criticism.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Biographers--Turkey--Istanbul--History--17th century.

Biography as a literary form.

Dreams in literature.

Biography.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 147 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The biographer between this world and the hereafter

Collection of lives as a well-ordered garden

From this world to the realm of dreams

The dead and visits from the hereafter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-144) and index.

ISBN:

9781472472298

1472472292

OCLC:

950519424