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Author:   Asli Niyazioglu
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   19
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781472472298

ISBN 10:   1472472292
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   11 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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