An Ottoman mentality : : the world of Evliya Celebi / / by Robert Dankoff ; with an afterword by Gottfried Hagen.

• Superior document: Ottoman Empire and its heritage, v. 31
• Author: Dankoff, Robert.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: Rev. 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In his huge travel account, Evliya Çelebi provides materials for getting at Ottoman perceptions of the world, not only in areas like geography, topography, administration, urban institutions, and social and economic systems, but also in such domains as religion, folklore, sexual relations, dream interpretation, and conceptions of the self. In six chapters the author examines: Evliya's treatment of Istanbul and Cairo as the two capital cities of the Ottoman world; his geographical horizons and notions of tolerance; his attitudes toward government, justice and specific Ottoman institutions; his social status as gentleman, character type as dervish, office as caller-to-prayer and avocation as traveller; his use of various narrative styles; and his relation with his audience in the two registers of persuasion and amusement. An Afterword situates Evliya in relation to other intellectual trends in the Ottoman world of the seventeenth century.

Table of Contents

""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER ONE MAN OF ISTANBUL""; ""CHAPTER TWO MAN OF THE WORLD""; ""CHAPTER THREE SERVITOR OF THE SULTAN""; ""CHAPTER FOUR GENTLEMAN AND DERVISH""; ""CHAPTER FIVE RACONTEUR""; ""CHAPTER SIX REPORTER AND ENTERTAINER""; ""AFTERWORD OTTOMAN UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE WORLD IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY --- Gottfried Hagen""; ""GLOSSARY""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""ADDENDA""; ""INDEX""