Stamboul Sketches

Yazar : John Freely
Yayın Tarihi : 1974
Dil : İngilizce
Sayfa Sayısı : 216
Ölçü : 14 x 20 cm
Yayınevi : Redhouse Yayınevi

"Though so many countries and cities have been minutely described by geographers and historians yet this my residence of Constantinople remains undescribed." So said Sultan Murad IV to an assembly of scholars in the year 1638, as quoted by the contemporary Turkish traveler Evliya Efendi. This imperial complaint eventually led Evliya to write his own account of life in Istanbul during Murat's reign and those of his immediate successors. Evliya's description of the city is contained in two volumes of his Seyahatname, or Narrative of Travels, which he completed in about 1680. Many books have been written about Istanbul since then, but nothing which is comparable to Evliya's narrative, which recreates the colorful spectacle of life in the capital of the Ottoman Empire in the closing years of its golden age. For Evliya was superbly equipped and situated to be the chronicler of that most fascinating period in the city's history. He was in his time a soldier, sailor, diplomat, historian, müezzin, goldsmith, writer, poet, singer, musician, and, above all, a traveler; equally at home in throne-room or taverna; an intimate of sultans and mighty pashas; a friend of poets, divines and sainted idiots; a comrade of command soldiers and humble workmen; familiar with all the exotic avenues and arcane byways of Istanbul life; his keen eye always looking for the curious sight, the odd character, the pleasurable walk or the panoramic view; his musician's ear listening for the sound of a street-hawker's cry, the melodies of a dervish song, the ditty of a drunken sailor; his grommet's taste seeking out the most delicious food in town, and, although he claimed to be abstemious, the finest wines; his sharp nose sniffing out the earthy odors of Istanbul trade and commerce. Thereby he became a peripatetic encyclopedia of the street-lore and folk history of his beloved city. Much has happened here in the past three centuries, but when we compare contemporary Istanbul with Evliya's town we see that its basic character has not really changed. Although the eunuchs and the Janissaries have gone, the sights and sounds and smells in the streets of Istanbul are much the same as those which Evliya records in the Seyahatname.
******John Freely
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