Making Sense of History : : Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā.

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage
• Author: Şen, Gül.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages)

"In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na'ima, Gül Sen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from history and literary studies, Sen focuses on the purpose and function of the chronicle-not just what the text says but why Na'ima wrote it and how he shaped the narrated reality on the textual level. As a case study on the literalization of historical material, Making Sense of History provides insights into the historiographical and literary conventions underpinning Na'ima's chronicle and contributes to our understanding of elite mentalities in the early modern Ottoman world by highlighting the author's use of key concepts such as history and time"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The life and career fo Naʻīmā Muṣṭafā Efendi in historical context -- Court chronicles as a genre in the context of Ottoman historiography -- General literary features -- Interpolations -- Analysis of surface structure -- Analysis of the narrative structure -- Creating continuity : the concept of history -- The concept(s) of Time -- Strategies to cope with experiences of contingency.