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...
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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. "Sa'deddīn 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: Hoca Sa'deddīn Efendi's (d. 1599) "Selimname" comprises a critical edition, English translation, and a facsimile of his hagiographic work on controversial Ottoman sultan Selim I ("the Grim"). Sa'deddīn'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 of the other world and the "rightly guided" caliphs, and foretells the future"--