Dreams And Lives In Ottoman Istanbul

Author : Asli Niyazioglu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317148118
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul written by Asli Niyazioglu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. By adopting a comparative approach, this book engages with current scholarly dialogues about life-writing, dreams, and practices of remembrance in Habsburg Spain, Safavid Iran, Mughal India and Ming China. Recent studies have shown the shared rhythms between these contemporaneous dynasties and the Ottomans, and there is now a strong interest in comparative approaches to examining cultural life. This first English-language monograph on Ottoman dreamscapes addresses this interest and introduces a world where dreams changed lives, the dead appeared in broad daylight, and biographers invited their readers to the gardens of remembrance.

Author : Asli Niyazioglu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317148126
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul written by Asli Niyazioglu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. By adopting a comparative approach, this book engages with current scholarly dialogues about life-writing, dreams, and practices of remembrance in Habsburg Spain, Safavid Iran, Mughal India and Ming China. Recent studies have shown the shared rhythms between these contemporaneous dynasties and the Ottomans, and there is now a strong interest in comparative approaches to examining cultural life. This first English-language monograph on Ottoman dreamscapes addresses this interest and introduces a world where dreams changed lives, the dead appeared in broad daylight, and biographers invited their readers to the gardens of remembrance.

Author : Caroline Finkel
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 046500850X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Osman's Dream written by Caroline Finkel and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work-the first definitive account written for the general reader-renowned scholar and journalist Caroline Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction in the twentieth.

Author : Didem Havlioğlu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000842339
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature written by Didem Havlioğlu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish literature within both a local and global context. Across eight thematic sections a collection of subject experts use close readings of literature materials to provide a critical survey of the main issues and topics within the literature. The chapters provide analysis on a wide range of genres and text types, including novels, poetry, religious texts, and drama, with works studied ranging from the fourteenth century right up to the present day. Using such a historic scope allows the volume to be read across cultures and time, while simultaneously contextualizing and investigating how modern Turkish literature interacts with world literature, and finds its place within it. Collectively, the authors challenge the national literary historiography by replacing the Ottoman Turkish literature in the Anatolian civilizations with its plurality of cultures. They also seek to overcome the institutional and theoretical shortcomings within current study of such works, suggesting new approaches and methods for the study of Turkish literature. The Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature marks a new departure in the reading and studying of Turkish literature. It will be a vital resource for those studying literature, Middle East studies, Turkish and Ottoman history, social sciences, and political science.

Author : Robert Ford Campany
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176425
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE - 800 CE written by Robert Ford Campany and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape—an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke—that underlies texts of diverse persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. In these many sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when we dream? Do dreams foretell future events? If so, how might their imagistic code be unlocked to yield predictions? Could dreams enable direct communication between the living and the dead, or between humans and nonhuman animals? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE – 800 CE sheds light on how people in a distant age negotiated these mysteries and brings Chinese notions of dreaming into conversation with studies of dreams in other cultures, ancient and contemporary. Taking stock of how Chinese people wrestled with—and celebrated—the strangeness of dreams, Campany asks us to reflect on how we might reconsider our own notions of dreaming.

Author : Gül Şen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004510419
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of History written by Gül Şen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle

Author : Behzad Zerehdaran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040004431
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Poetica of Rights in Modern Iran written by Behzad Zerehdaran and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era. The crux of its research lies in the emergence and evolution of the concept of subjective rights as opposed to the notion of objective rights. During this pivotal period, this transition marked a paradigm shift from “right as to be right” to “right as to have a right.” A central pillar of this book is the creation of a meta-theory, one that sheds light on the semantical evolution of the concept of rights. Within these pages, readers will find a concise history, tracing the conceptual path that led from the objective to the subjective realm of rights. In addition to these historical explorations, it delves into the intricate field of rights theory, investigating the foundations and justifications of rights. Employing the Hohfeldian framework, it analyses various conceptions of rights as they manifest within travel literature, enlightenment literature, and dream literature of the Qajar era. This book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Iranian studies, Iranian history, Persian literature and human rights.

Author : Avner Wishnitzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832148
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Night Falls written by Avner Wishnitzer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and vivid picture of the perils and promises of nocturnal life in cities in the early modern Middle East.

Author : R. Barış Kıbrıs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789759123543
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book İstanbul-- the City of Dreams written by R. Barış Kıbrıs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ibrāhīm Muwayliḥī
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742562172
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spies, Scandals, and Sultans written by Ibrāhīm Muwayliḥī and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of a critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid.