Ottoman Explorations of the Nile: Evliya Çelebi's 'Matchless Pearl These Reports of the Nile' Map and His Accounts of the Nile and the Horn of Africa in the Book of Travels - Couverture rigide

Dankoff, Robert; Tezcan, Nuran; Sheridan, Michael D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1909942162 ISBN 13 : 9781909942165

Editeur : Gingko Library, 2018

Synopsis

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 This volume gives equal weight and attention to the two parts that make up this extraordinary historical document, allowing readers to study the map or the text independently, while also using each to elucidate and accentuate the details of the other. 
 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Dankoff has taught at Brandeis University, the University of Arizona, and since 1979 at the University of Chicago, where he is Professor Emeritus of Turkish and Islamic Studies. Nuran Tezcan was assistant professor at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus from 200 to 2003, and from 2003 to 2016 she was associate professor at the Department of Turkish Literature of Bilkent University in Ankara. Michael D. Sheridan recently completed his Ph.D. at Bilkent University, Ankara, with a dissertation using the corpus of Ottoman invective verse of the early 17th century to investigate emerging sociocultural tensions within the elite classes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gingko Library
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909942162
• ISBN 13: 9781909942165
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 442
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