Ajāʾib ve gharāʾib: Ottoman collections of mirabilia and perceptions of the supernatural

There is no word for the ‘supernatural’ in classical Ottoman, and one could argue that even the very notion is absent, as the notion of ‘nature’ is very near to that of ‘God’, and (as the latter is omnipotent) there is no extraordinary event that cannot be potentially true. The Ottomans would rather...

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Main Author: Sarēgiannēs, Marinos 1973- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2015
In: Der Islam
Year: 2015, Volume: 92, Issue: 2, Pages: 442-467
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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