Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul : a seventeenth-century biographer's perspective / Asli Niyazio...
Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul : a seventeenth-century biographer's perspective / Asli Niyazio...
Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul : a seventeenth-century biographer's perspective / Asli Niyazioğlu.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business, 2017.
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G 2017/5
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English
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Physical content
xii, 147 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- The biographer between this world and the hereafter -- Patrons and adversaries -- Sufi sheikhs and the very special dead -- Father and son -- Collection of lives as a well-ordered garden -- Ottoman biographers and Sufi lives : an overview -- A well-ordered garden : empire, decorum an...
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Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business, 2017.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2017.
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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 o...
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Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul : a seventeenth-century biographer's perspective / Asli Niyazioğlu.
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Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; volume 19
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/5
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74VKVvQOeORZ
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ISBN
9781472472298 hardcover alkaline paper
1472472292 hardcover alkaline paper
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920.00949618
MMS ID
991024039013302626
