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Saʿdeddīn Efendi was a renowned Ottoman chief jurisconsult, influential statesman, eminent scholar, and prolific translator of Arabic and Persian works into Turkish. Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts comprises a critical edition, English translation, and a facsimile of his hagiographic work on controversial Ottoman sultan Selim I (“the Grim”). Saʿdeddīn’s Selimname consists of a preface and twelve anecdotes in which Selim I is portrayed as a divinely ordained sultan who delves into the realm of meditation, communicates with otherworldly saints and the “rightly guided” caliphs, and foretells the future.

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Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction Symbols, Spelling, and Vocalization Selīmnāme in Transcription Selīmnāme in Translation Selīmnāme in Facsimile (MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A, Oct. 79) Works Cited Index

Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts: A Critical Edition of Saʿdeddīn Efendi’s (d. 1599) Selimname

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 14/10/2021
      ISBN13: 9789004467934, 978-9004467934
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      Saʿdeddīn Efendi was a renowned Ottoman chief jurisconsult, influential statesman, eminent scholar, and prolific translator of Arabic and Persian works into Turkish. Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts comprises a critical edition, English translation, and a facsimile of his hagiographic work on controversial Ottoman sultan Selim I (“the Grim”). Saʿdeddīn’s Selimname consists of a preface and twelve anecdotes in which Selim I is portrayed as a divinely ordained sultan who delves into the realm of meditation, communicates with otherworldly saints and the “rightly guided” caliphs, and foretells the future.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction Symbols, Spelling, and Vocalization Selīmnāme in Transcription Selīmnāme in Translation Selīmnāme in Facsimile (MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A, Oct. 79) Works Cited Index

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