Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367881450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 148 str.

Asli Niyazioglu

Opis

Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective 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 enterpr

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Manuscripts

 

Introduction

Chapter One: The Biographer Between This World and the Hereafter

Patrons and Adversaries

Sufi Sheikhs and the Very Special Dead

Father and Son

　

Chapter Two: Collection of Lives as a Well-Ordered Garden

Ottoman Biographers and Sufi Lives: An Overview

A Well-Ordered Garden: Empire, Decorum and Exclusivity

Gardener at Work: ‘Aṭā’ī and His Sources

　

Chapter Three: From This World to the Realm of Dreams

Dreams, Careers and Biographers

Nightmares on the Sufi Path

Hereafter in the Mirror of Dreams

　

Chapter Four: The Dead and Visits from the Hereafter

The Living and the Dead in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul

Apparitions and Embraces

Dreams and Tokens of Remembrance

　

Epilogue

 

Appendix: Sample Biographical Notice

 

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Aslı Niyazioğlu is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University, Istanbul. After receiving her PhD from Harvard University in 2003, she taught at the University of Oxford and was a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Study at Berlin. She works on early modern Ottoman history with a special interest in the lives of poets, scholars, and Sufis of Istanbul.