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Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul : a seventeenth-century biographer's perspective
Author
Title
Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul : a seventeenth-century biographer's perspective / Asli Niyazioglu.
ISBN
1315578077
9781315578071
Publication
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource : text file, PDF
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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.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Biographies as Topic.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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