Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul

Description:

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.

subjects: Biography,  History and criticism,  Biographers,  History,  Biography as a literary form,  Dreams in literature,  Biographies as Topic,  Biographes,  Histoire,  Biographie (Genre littéraire),  Rêves dans la littérature,  Biographies (literary works)

People: ʻAṭā'ī, ʻAṭā Allāh ibn Yaḥyā (active 17th century)

Places: Istanbul (Turkey),  Turkey,  Istanbul,  Turquie,  İstanbul

Times: 17th century,  17e siècle