Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul

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.

שנה

2017

שפה

English

סדרה

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies

הוצאה

Routledge

מהדורות

1

עמודים

148

ISBN

9781315578071

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