Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective - Paperback

by Asli Niyazioglu (Author)

Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective 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 enterpr

Author 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.