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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De Gruyter
2015
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Der Islam
Year: 2015, Volume: 92, Issue: 2, Pages: 442-467 |
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