Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Gulru Necipoglu ,  Cemal Kafadar ,  Cornell H. Fleischer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   14
ISBN:  

9789004402485

ISBN 10:   9004402489
Pages:   1514
Publication Date:   17 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available  
This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release.

Table of Contents

Contents VOLUME I: ESSAYS PREFACE BY THE EDITORS Overview and Significance of the Palace Library Inventory 1. Gulru Necipoglu, The Organization of Knowledge in the Ottoman Palace Library: An Encyclopedic Collection and Its Inventory at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century 2. Cemal Kafadar, Between Amasya and Istanbul: Bayezid II, His Librarian, and the Textual Turn of the Late Fifteenth Century 3. Cornell H. Fleischer, Learning and Sovereignty in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries The Palace Library as a Collection and the Book Arts 4. Zeynep Atbas, Artistic Aspects of Sultan Bayezid II's Book Treasury Collection: Extant Volumes Preserved at the Topkapi Palace Museum Library 5. Zeren Tanindi, Arts of the Book: The Illustrated and Illuminated Manuscripts Listed in 'Atufi's Inventory 6. Judith Pfeiffer, Prizing the Divan: The Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Literary Canon as Mirrored in the Inventories of Mueyyedzade's and Bayezid II's Library Collections Book Titles and Their Disciplines in the Palace Library Inventory 7. Mohsen Goudarzi, Books on Exegesis (tafsir) and Qur'anic Readings (qira'at): Inspiration, Intellect, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Post-Classical Islam 8. Recep Gurkan Goektas, On the Hadith Collection of Bayezid II's Palace Library 9. Guy Burak, The Section on Prayers, Invocations, Unique Qualities of the Qur'an, and Magic Squares in the Palace Library Inventory 10. Abdurrahman Atcil, The kalam (Rational Theology) Section in the Palace Library Inventory 11. Himmet Taskoemur, Books on Islamic Jurisprudence, Schools of Law, and Biographies of Imams of the Hanafi School 12. Murteza Bedir, Books on Islamic Legal Theory (usul al-fiqh) 13. Cemal Kafadar and Ahmet Karamustafa, Books on the Lives of Saints, Sufism, and Sermons 14. Huseyin Yilmaz, Books on Ethics and Politics: The Art of Governing the Self and Others at the Ottoman Court 15. Nukhet Varlik, Books on Medicine: Medical Knowledge at Work 16. Aleksandar Shopov, Books on Agriculture (al-filaha) Pertaining to Medical Science and Ottoman Agricultural Science and Practice around 1500 17. Cornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Sahin, On the Works of a Historical Nature in the Bayezid II Library Inventory 18. Pinar Emiralioglu, Books on the Wonders of Creation and Geography in 'Atufi's Inventory 19. Tahera Qutbuddin, Books on Arabic Philology and Literature: A Teaching Collection Focused on Religious Learning and the State Chancery 20. Sooyong Kim, An Ottoman Order of Persian Verse 21. Christopher Markiewicz, Books on the Secretarial Arts and Literary Prose 22. Ferenc Csirkes, Turkish/Turkic Books of Poetry, Turkish and Persian Lexicography: The Politics of Language under Bayezid II 23. Noah Gardiner, Books on Occult Sciences 24. A. Tunc Sen and Cornell H. Fleischer, Books on Astrology, Practical Astronomy, and Celestial Magic 25. Jamil Ragep and The McGill Astral Science Team, Astronomical and Other Mathematical Sciences in 'Atufi's Inventory of Bayezid II's Library 26. Elaheh Kheirandish, Books on Mathematical and Mixed-Mathematical Sciences: Arithmetic, Geometry, Optics, and Mechanics 27. Khaled El-Rouayheb, Books on Logic (mantiq) and Dialectics (jadal) 28. Dimitri Gutas, Philosophical Manuscripts: Two Alternative Philosophies APPENDICES Appendix I-III: Some Identified Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II's Seal APPENDIX I: Zeynep Atbas, Preliminary List of Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II's Seal in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library APPENDIX II: Zeren Tanindi, Preliminary List of Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II's Seal and Transferred from the Topkapi Palace Inner Treasury to Other Library Collections APPENDIX III WITH PLATES FROM MANUSCRIPTS AT THE TOPKAPI PALACE MUSEUM LIBRARY: Gulru Necipoglu, Some Books Bearing the Seal of Bayezid II and/or Dedications to Him: A Comparison of Titles Inscribed by His Librarian and Corresponding Entries in the Library Inventory Appendix IV-V: English Translations of the Librarian 'Atufi's Ottoman Turkish and Arabic Prefaces to the Palace Library Inventory APPENDIX IV: Gulru Necipoglu, Translation of 'Atufi's Ottoman Turkish Preface to the Palace Library Inventory APPENDIX V: Mohsen Goudarzi, Translation of 'Atufi's Arabic Preface to the Palace Library Inventory VOLUME II: TRANSLITERATION AND FACSIMILE, REGISTER OF BOOKS (KITAB AL-KUTUB) MS Toeroek F. 59, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Koenyvtara Keleti Gyujtemeny (Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Principles Observed in Transliterating MS Toeroek F. 59 Transliterated Text of MS Toeroek F. 59, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Koenyvtara Keleti Gyujtemeny, prepared by Himmet Taskoemur and Hesna Ergun Taskoemur Facsimile of MS Toeroek F. 59

Reviews

Author Information

Gulru Necipoglu (PhD, Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. Her books include Architecture, Ceremonial and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1991), The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995), and The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (2005). She recently edited The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures (2017) and A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History series (co-editor F. Barry Flood, 2017). Cemal Kafadar (PhD, McGill University, 1987) is Professor of History and the Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies in the History Department at Harvard University. Among his publications are Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995); a volume of essays on four ordinary lives and on autobiographical writing (in Turkish, 2011); and A Rome of One's Own: Reflections on Cultural Geography and Identity in the Lands of Rum, Muqarnas 24 (2007) (expanded version published as a book in Turkish, 2018). He has also edited (with Halil Inalcik) Suleyman the Second and His Time (1995). His 2014 article on the history of coffee and the nighttime is the subject of a current book project. Cornell H. Fleischer (PhD, Princeton University, 1982) is the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies in the departments of History and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. A 1988-93 MacArthur Fellow, he is the author, among other publications, of Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali(1986); The Lawgiver as Messiah, in Soliman le magnifique et son temps (1992); Ancient Wisdom and New Sciences, in Falnama: The Book of Omens (2009); and A Mediterranean Apocalypse: Prophecies of Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, JESHO 61 (2018). He also supervised post-Dayton Accord elections in the former Yugoslavia, 1996-98.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions