Aslı Niyazioğlu is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University, Istanbul. After receiving her PhD from Harvard University in 2003, she taught at the University of Oxford and was a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Study at Berlin. She works on early modern Ottoman history with a special interest in the lives of poets, scholars, and Sufis of Istanbul.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and ManuscriptsIntroductionChapter One: The Biographer Between This World and the HereafterPatrons and AdversariesSufi Sheikhs and the Very Special DeadFather and SonChapter Two: Collection of Lives as a Well-Ordered GardenOttoman Biographers and Sufi Lives: An Overview A Well-Ordered Garden: Empire, Decorum and Exclusivity Gardener at Work: ‘Aṭā’ī and His SourcesChapter Three: From This World to the Realm of DreamsDreams, Careers and BiographersNightmares on the Sufi PathHereafter in the Mirror of DreamsChapter Four: The Dead and Visits from the HereafterThe Living and the Dead in Seventeenth-Century IstanbulApparitions and EmbracesDreams and Tokens of RemembranceEpilogueAppendix: Sample Biographical NoticeBibliographyIndex

Aslı Niyazioğlu is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University, Istanbul. After receiving her PhD from Harvard University in 2003, she taught at the University of Oxford and was a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Study at Berlin. She works on early modern Ottoman history with a special interest in the lives of poets, scholars, and Sufis of Istanbul.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and ManuscriptsIntroductionChapter One: The Biographer Between This World and the HereafterPatrons and AdversariesSufi Sheikhs and the Very Special DeadFather and SonChapter Two: Collection of Lives as a Well-Ordered GardenOttoman Biographers and Sufi Lives: An Overview A Well-Ordered Garden: Empire, Decorum and Exclusivity Gardener at Work: ‘Aṭā’ī and His SourcesChapter Three: From This World to the Realm of DreamsDreams, Careers and BiographersNightmares on the Sufi PathHereafter in the Mirror of DreamsChapter Four: The Dead and Visits from the HereafterThe Living and the Dead in Seventeenth-Century IstanbulApparitions and EmbracesDreams and Tokens of RemembranceEpilogueAppendix: Sample Biographical NoticeBibliographyIndex

Aslı Niyazioğlu is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University, Istanbul. After receiving her PhD from Harvard University in 2003, she taught at the University of Oxford and was a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Study at Berlin. She works on early modern Ottoman history with a special interest in the lives of poets, scholars, and Sufis of Istanbul.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and ManuscriptsIntroductionChapter One: The Biographer Between This World and the HereafterPatrons and AdversariesSufi Sheikhs and the Very Special DeadFather and SonChapter Two: Collection of Lives as a Well-Ordered GardenOttoman Biographers and Sufi Lives: An Overview A Well-Ordered Garden: Empire, Decorum and Exclusivity Gardener at Work: ‘Aṭā’ī and His SourcesChapter Three: From This World to the Realm of DreamsDreams, Careers and BiographersNightmares on the Sufi PathHereafter in the Mirror of DreamsChapter Four: The Dead and Visits from the HereafterThe Living and the Dead in Seventeenth-Century IstanbulApparitions and EmbracesDreams and Tokens of RemembranceEpilogueAppendix: Sample Biographical NoticeBibliographyIndex