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Evliya Celebi in Bitlis: The Relevant Section of the Seyahatname (Evliya Celebis Book of Travels : Land and People of the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century, Vol 2)
Evliya Celebi in Bitlis The Relevant Section of the Seyahatname - Evliya Celebis Book of Travels : Land and People of the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century, Vol 2 Author:Robert Dankoff, Evliya Celebi In 1655 and 1656 Evliya Celebi found himself three different times in the eastern Anatolian town of Bitlis, the center of a quasi-independent Kurdish khanate having a long and tumultuous relationship with the Ottoman state. The account of Evliya's adventures in Bitlis, including a major expedition against the khan mounted by Evliya... more »'s patron Melek Ahmed Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Van, forms a coherent narrative which deserves to be studied on its own. The centerpiece of the book is a critical edition of three long extracts, amounting to forty-three folios of the autograph ms., form volumes IV and V of the Seyahat- name, along with an annotated English translation on facing pages. The introduction discusses the narratological, historical, and linguistic aspects of the text, and there is a complete index of proper names.« less