Niyazioğlu, Asli

Dreams and lives in Ottoman Istanbul: a seventeenth-century biographer's perspective

by Niyazioğlu, Asli

fromBirmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

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Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration and Manuscripts -- Introduction -- 1 The biographer between this world and the hereafter -- Patrons and adversaries -- Sufi sheikhs and the very special dead -- Fa…

Kınalızade Ali (Qınālızāde ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī) Efendi (916–79/1510–72), an Ottoman scholar and judge, was the author of Ahlak-ı Alai ( Akhlāq-i ʿAlā ʾ ī , “ʿAlāʾī Ethics”), a popular treatise on Ottoman political and social morality. Born to a high-ranking judge in Isparta, in ce…

Figani (Fighānī, d. 938/1532) was the pen name of Ramazan (Ramaḍān) of Trabzon, an Ottoman poet who was executed for composing a couplet that accused the grand vizier İbrahim (İbrāhīm) Paşa (d. 942/1536) of idolatry for erecting three statues in front of his palace. When the cou…