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Writing history at the Ottoman court

Writing history at the Ottoman court editing the past, fashioning the future / [electronic resource] : edited by H. Erdem Çıpa and Emine Fetvacı. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xv, 181 pages :) illustrations ;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-169) and index.

Preface -- Note on transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The historical epic Aḥval-i Sulṭan Meḥemmed (the tales of Sultan Mehmed) in the context of early Ottoman historiography / Dimitris Kastritsis -- 2. The Memory of the Mongols in Early Ottoman Historiography / Baki Tezcan -- 3. Imperialism, Bureaucratic Consciousness, and the Historian's Craft: A Reading of Celalzade Muṣṭafa's Ṭabaḳatü'l-Memalik ve Derecatü'l-Mesalik / Kaya Sahin -- 4. Conversion and Converts to Islam in Ottoman Historiography of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Tijana Krstic -- 5. Seeing the Past: Maps and Ottoman Historical Consciousness / Giancarlo Casale -- 6. From Adam to Süleyman: Visual Representations of Authority in ʻArif's Shahnama-yi Al-i ʻOs̲man / Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz -- 7. The Challenge of Periodization: New Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Historiography / Hakan T. Karateke -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

9780253008749


Turkey--Historiography.


Electronic books.

DR438.8 / .W75 2013

956/.015072