Evliya Celebi was the 17th century's most diligent, adventurous, and honest recorder, whose puckish wit and humor are laced throughout his ten-volume masterpiece. This brand new translation brings Evliya sparklingly back to life. ""This superb selection from the 'Seyahatname' introduces Evliya Celebi, who witnessed history, recorded ethnological facts scrupulously, and allowed his mind to range freely into the realsm of the fabulous providing us with an insider's depcition of the O-Henry Glassie, Professor Emeritus of Turkish Studies at Indiana University

An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi

Travel

Dankoff, Robert

Asia

Eland Pub Ltd

Evliya Celebi was the 17th century's most diligent, adventurous, and honest recorder, whose puckish wit and humor are laced throughout his ten-volume masterpiece. This brand new translation brings Evliya sparklingly back to life. "Well worth a read."-Irish Echo 7/2011

Eland Publishing

Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 475 rubrics, and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at about the same time—c. 1685—and both by the same man. Evliya Çelebi’s account of his Nile journeys, in the tenth volume of his Book of Travels (Seyahatname), has been known to the scholarly world since 1938, when that volume was first published. The map, held in the Vatican Library, has been studied since at least 1949. Numerous new critical editions of both the map and the text have been published over the years, each expounding upon the last in an attempt to reach a definitive version. The Ottoman Explorations of the Nile provides a more accurate translation of the original travel account. Furthermore, the maps themselves are reproduced in greater detail and vivid color, and there are more cross-references to the text than in any previous edition. This volume gives equal weight and attention to the two parts that make up this extraordinary historical document, allowing readers to study the map or the text independently, while also using each to elucidate and accentuate the details of the other.

Ottoman Explorations of the Nile: Evliya Çelebi’s Map of the Nile and The Nile Journeys in the Book of Travels (Seyahatname)

History

Tezcan, Nuran

Sheridan, Michael D.

Middle East

Gingko

Turkish writer Evliya (1611-82), born on the Golden Horn and raised in the sultan's palace, spent some 40 years traveling throughout the extensive territory of the Ottoman empire and into the surrounding regions, and left an huge account of his travels, the Seyahatname divided into ten books. A Latin translation is in process, now on the eighth book; no plans are afoot for a complete English edition. Dankoff combines his writings with other contemporary sources to profile Evliya as a man of Istanbul, a man of the world, servitor of the sultan, gentleman and dervish, raconteur, and reporter and entertainer. He includes a glossary with brief hints on pronunciation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Celebi (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage, V. 31)

Brill Academic Pub

In his huge travel account, Evliya Çelebi provides materials for getting at Ottoman perceptions of the world, not only in areas like geography, topography, administration, urban institutions, and social and economic systems, but also in such domains as religion, folklore, sexual relations, dream interpretation, and conceptions of the self. In six chapters the author examines: Evliya’s treatment of Istanbul and Cairo as the two capital cities of the Ottoman world; his geographical horizons and notions of tolerance; his attitudes toward government, justice and specific Ottoman institutions; his social status as gentleman, character type as dervish, office as caller-to-prayer and avocation as traveller; his use of various narrative styles; and his relation with his audience in the two registers of persuasion and amusement. An Afterword situates Evliya in relation to other intellectual trends in the Ottoman world of the seventeenth century.  This is a revised reprint of the 2004 edition.

An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Celebi (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage)

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An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi

An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi

Ottoman Explorations of the Nile: Evliya Çelebi’s Map of the Nile and The Nile Journeys in the Book of Travels (Seyahatname)

An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Celebi (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage, V. 31)

An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Celebi (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage)