A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective
by
Asli Niyazioglu
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
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...