Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā

In "Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā," Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from history and literary studies, Şen focuses on the purpose and function of the chronicle—not just what the text says but why Naʿīmā wrote it and how he shaped the narrated reality on the textual level.

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