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

Niyazioğlu, Aslı.
Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315578071 (e-book : PDF)
9781317148104 (e-book: Mobi)
9781472472298 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0053
Yayın Bilgisi
©2017
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource
Dizi
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies
İçindekiler Notu
1. The biographer between this world and the hereafter -- 2. Collection of lives as a well-ordered garden -- 3. From this world to the realm of dreams -- 4. The dead and visits from the hereafter.
Özet, vb.
Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer 'Ata'i (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.
Konu
'Ata'i, 'Ata Allah ibn Yahya, __ active 17th century.
Biographers __ Turkey __ Istanbul __ History __ 17th century.
Biography as a literary form.
Dreams in literature.
Istanbul (Turkey) __ Biography __ History and criticism.