Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth-Century Biographer’s Perspective (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies)

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Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It specializes in the prominent biographer ‘Aṭā’ī (d. 1637) and together with his lend a hand shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position within 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 additionally with a medium to discuss the right kind 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. Up to date studies have shown the shared rhythms between these contemporaneous dynasties and the Ottomans, and there may be 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 seemed in broad daylight, and biographers invited their readers to the gardens of remembrance.


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