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By Robert Dankoff

ISBN-10: 9004137157

ISBN-13: 9789004137158

In his large commute account, Evliya Celebi offers fabrics for purchasing at Ottoman perceptions of the realm, not just in parts like geography, topography, management, city associations, and social and fiscal platforms, but in addition in such domain names as faith, folklore, sexual kinfolk, dream interpretation, and conceptions of the self. In six chapters the writer examines: Evliya's therapy of Istanbul and Cairo because the capital towns of the Ottoman international; his geographical horizons and notions of tolerance; his attitudes towards govt, justice and particular Ottoman associations; his social prestige as gentleman, personality sort as dervish, place of work as caller-to-prayer and avocation as tourist; his use of varied narrative types; and his relation together with his viewers within the registers of persuasion and leisure. An Afterword situates Evliya when it comes to different highbrow tendencies within the Ottoman international of the 17th century.

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The chief pickler, Ahmed Agha, was appointed as my tutor; the jug-bearer, Mehmed Efendi, as my calligraphy master; my spiritual father, the royal companion Dervish 'Ömer Gül{eni, as my music master;55 Dersi'am Kiçi Mehmed Efendi as my grammar instructor in the book Kafiye; and my old teacher Evliya Efendi in Koran recital—he congratulated me most heartily! My fellow pupil in Koran memorizing was Horos Imam, and my fellow prayer-callers were Taye-zade Handan, Farruh-o

That is the approach I wish to take here. This is no easy task. For one thing, the text is enormous. For another, much of the text has not been edited, or not edited properly, and the extant manuscripts present many large philological problems. A third obstacle is the apparent shapelessness of the text, merely following a series of journeys over a forty-year period as narrated in Evliya’s rambling and digressive style. In fact, Evliya did attempt to give some shape to his account; and any analysis of the work’s structure has to begin with his more or less explicit efforts to do so.

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