1st Edition
Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Manuscripts
Introduction
Chapter One: The Biographer Between This World and the Hereafter
Patrons and Adversaries
Sufi Sheikhs and the Very Special Dead
Father and Son
Chapter Two: Collection of Lives as a Well-Ordered Garden
Ottoman Biographers and Sufi Lives: An Overview
A Well-Ordered Garden: Empire, Decorum and Exclusivity
Gardener at Work: ‘Aṭā’ī and His Sources
Chapter Three: From This World to the Realm of Dreams
Dreams, Careers and Biographers
Nightmares on the Sufi Path
Hereafter in the Mirror of Dreams
Chapter Four: The Dead and Visits from the Hereafter
The Living and the Dead in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Apparitions and Embraces
Dreams and Tokens of Remembrance
Epilogue
Appendix: Sample Biographical Notice
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Aslı Niyazioğlu is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University, Istanbul. After receiving her PhD from Harvard University in 2003, she taught at the University of Oxford and was a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Study at Berlin. She works on early modern Ottoman history with a special interest in the lives of poets, scholars, and Sufis of Istanbul.
