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Islamic literature and intellectual life in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Anatolia / edited by A.C.S. Peacock, Sara Nur Yildiz.

Contributor(s): Peacock, A. C. S. (Andrew C. S.) [editor.] | Yildiz, Sara Nur [editor.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Arabic Series: Istanbuler Texte und Studien ; Bd. 34.Publisher: Würzburg : Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 419 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783956501579; 3956501578Subject(s): Islamic literature, Turkish -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Intellectual life | Islamic literature, Turkish | Islamic literature, Turkish -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Turkey -- Intellectual life -- Congresses | Turkey | Turkey -- Intellectual life -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings. | Criticism, interpretation, etc.DDC classification: 894.351
Contents:
Sufis, texts and religious landscapes of Anatolia. The Fusṭāṭ al-ʻAdāla : a unique manuscript on the religious landscape of medieval Anatolia -- Did the Urufis mint coins? Articulation of sacral kingship in an Aqquyunlu coin hoard from Erzincan -- Literature and court culture. Portrait of a shaykh as author in fourteenth-century Anatolia : Gulşehri and his Falaknāma -- Aydınid court literature in the formation of an Islamic identity in fourteenth-century western Anatolia -- The Alexander romance and the rise of the Ottoman empire -- The Ottoman historical section of Ahmedi's İskendernāme : an alternative reading in the light of the author's personal circumstances -- Mobility, networks and patrons. Mobility of scholars and formation of a self-sustaining scholarly system in the lands of Rūm during the fifteenth century -- Was Ede Bali a Wafā'i shaykh? Sufis, sayyids and genealogical creativity in the early Ottoman world -- Optics and geography in the astronomical commentaries of Fatḥallāh al-Shirwāni -- Literary culture in fifteenth-century Kütahya : a preliminary assessment.
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"The papers in this volume derive from a workshop held at the Orient-Institute, Istanbul, on 12-13 September 2014" --page 13.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sufis, texts and religious landscapes of Anatolia. The Fusṭāṭ al-ʻAdāla : a unique manuscript on the religious landscape of medieval Anatolia -- Did the Urufis mint coins? Articulation of sacral kingship in an Aqquyunlu coin hoard from Erzincan -- Literature and court culture. Portrait of a shaykh as author in fourteenth-century Anatolia : Gulşehri and his Falaknāma -- Aydınid court literature in the formation of an Islamic identity in fourteenth-century western Anatolia -- The Alexander romance and the rise of the Ottoman empire -- The Ottoman historical section of Ahmedi's İskendernāme : an alternative reading in the light of the author's personal circumstances -- Mobility, networks and patrons. Mobility of scholars and formation of a self-sustaining scholarly system in the lands of Rūm during the fifteenth century -- Was Ede Bali a Wafā'i shaykh? Sufis, sayyids and genealogical creativity in the early Ottoman world -- Optics and geography in the astronomical commentaries of Fatḥallāh al-Shirwāni -- Literary culture in fifteenth-century Kütahya : a preliminary assessment.

In English, with some text in Arabic.