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Subject(s)

• Naima, Mustafa 1655-1716—Tarih-i Naima [Browse]
• Narration (Rhetoric) [Browse]
• Turkey—History—1288-1453—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkey—History—1453-1683—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkey—Historiography [Browse]

Series

The Ottoman Empire and its heritage: Politics, society and economy, 1380-6076 ; volume 74

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-372) and index.

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 the 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.

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ISBN

• 9789004510401 ((hardback))
• 9004510400

LCCN

2022018181

OCLC

1319010846

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