Today’s Lecture

Today’s Lecture

• Today’s Lecture

• Poets, Sufis. and Urban Life

• Sufism and Life at the Lodge

• Poets and their Life Stories

• Example: Figani

• QUIZZ THIS WEDNESDAY

• ON CEMAL KAFADAR`S ARTICLE `SELF AND OTHERS` (this week’s reading)

• CLASS TRIP TO SULEYMANIYE

• SATURDAY DECEMBER 17TH

• Suleymaniye Mosque@12.30

First Person Narratives in Ottoman Turkish

• First Person Narratives in Ottoman Turkish

• Travel writing and Evliya Çelebi

• Sufi diaries

• Ulema diaries

• Dream diaries

• Captivity Narratives

• Book of Adventures (sergüzeştname)

• Introductory sections and epilogues

• Marginalia in official Documents

• Miscelenia (mecmua)

Sufi Sheikhs

• Sufi Sheikhs

• guide the spiritual development of Sufi adepts

• lead mystical ceremonies, offer advice, in charge of economic and political life of their communities.

• spiritual powers revealed through miracles (keramet)

• life stories written down by their followers (menakıbname)

• Close followers (mürid), sympathizers (muhib), visitors

• From the album of Taeschner , Mevlevis 17. cent

Dervishes and Kalenderis as a part of the procession of a ceremony

• Dervishes and Kalenderis as a part of the procession of a ceremony

Dervishes from Menakıb-ı Sevakıb, (p.15)

• Dervishes from Menakıb-ı Sevakıb, (p.15)