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Evliya Çelebi in the Borderlands: New Insights and Novel Approaches to the Seyahatname (Western Balkans and Iran Sections)

The focus of the present volume is on the next-to- autograph edition of the Seyahatname, “The Book of Travels” of the seventeenth-century “world traveller and boon companion to mankind, ” Evliya Çelebi. Important, sometimes huge differences are noticed as a result of comparative analysis of the parts referring to Western Balkans and Iran and Azerbaijan with previously available versions of the Seyahatname. Thus, one of the main goals of this joint effort was to further elucidate this kind of discrepancies, focused either on these particular areas of the Ottoman Empire, or on more general features of Evliya’s narrative. The book is closely focused on two borderlands of the Ottoman Empire, the Western Balkans, i.e. Bosnia and Croatia (with Serbia), bordering the territories of the Republic of Venice and the Habsburg Monarchy, in the west, and Safavid ruled Iran and Azerbaijan, in the east. Such conception provides an opportunity for a comparison between the eastern and the western borderlands of the Ottoman Empire, concerning topics related to economic and social history, urbanization, ethnic and confessional relations, and others.

Evliya Çelebi, travelogue, Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Iran, historiography

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