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Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the implicit messages conveyed by the texts and illustrations of key manuscripts. It answers such questions as how the Ottomans understood themselves within their court and in relation to non-Ottoman others; how they visualized the ideal ruler; how they defined their culture and place in the world; and what the significance of Islam was in their self-definition.

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<p>Brings together in a single volume a treatment of the diversity present in Ottoman historiography with coverage of prose, verse, panegyric, and court chronicles, as well as cartography and book illustration. --Rhodes Murphey, University of Birmingham

Brings together in a single volume a treatment of the diversity present in Ottoman historiography with coverage of prose, verse, panegyric, and court chronicles, as well as cartography and book illustration. Rhodes Murphey, University of Birmingham

Brings together in a single volume a treatment of the diversity present in Ottoman historiography with coverage of prose, verse, panegyric, and court chronicles, as well as cartography and book illustration. --Rhodes Murphey, University of Birmingham

Brings together in a single volume a treatment of the diversity present in Ottoman historiography with coverage of prose, verse, panegyric, and court chronicles, as well as cartography and book illustration. -Rhodes Murphey, University of Birmingham [T]his volume's great strength is its many original contributions to the study of the long sixteenth century. Those looking for the freshest new work on the classical age, along with a wonderful essay on nineteenth-century Ottoman historiography, will find this book a rich read. -Journal of Arabic Literature [T]he rich and nuanced exposition of the wide range of texts and images explored... that constitutes [the] valuable contributions to scholarship. -Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Each article has the potential to spark lively academic discussion and offer alternative vistas in Ottoman historiography... Such ground-breaking edited volumes will set the intellectual agenda for future studies as long as they adopt a rigorous methodological approach, as this volume clearly does. -Journal of Ottoman Studies [These essays] make a significant contribution to a relatively new strand of Ottoman research that takes as its subject Ottoman reading communities, literacy practices, and the roles that particular texts played in Ottoman society. -SHARPNews [T]his edited book is highly recommended to scholars who are interested in early modern and modern Ottoman history writing. -The Muslim World The cliche 'a gem of a book' holds true for this volume, as it is the crystallized form of seven Ottoman specialists' groundbreaking, extensive research... Ottoman specialists already familiar with the doctoral theses and publications of the contributors will still find fascinating new material in it. Students of Ottoman history must be encouraged to use this volume as a starting point for thinking about their sources. Non-specialists wondering where to start for contextual insight into Ottoman historiography need not look any further. -Questia

<p> Brings together in a single volume a treatment of the diversity present in Ottoman historiography with coverage of prose, verse, panegyric, and court chronicles, as well as cartography and book illustration. --Rhodes Murphey, University of Birmingham--Rhodes Murphey, University of Birmingham

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H. Erdem Çipa is Assistant Professor of Ottoman History in the Departments of History and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Emine Fetvacı is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art at Boston University and author of Picturing History at the Ottoman Court (IUP, 2012).

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