Naima`s (1655-1716) court chronicle: A narratological analysis of the significative function of Ottoman historiography

该提案的主题是对奥斯曼宫廷编年史Tarih-i Naima的历史批判和叙事学分析，该编年史涵盖了从1591年到1659年的时期，由官方宫廷编年史家Mustafa Naima撰写，特别关注叙事策略作为意义过程的组成部分。如果不首先确立其体裁特定的界限，以及在这个关键文本中使用的叙事策略，以理解17和18世纪奥斯曼帝国的社会和政治，就很难以历史批判的方式进行分析。因此，除了挖掘文本的日期和事实之外，这个宫廷编年史将作为文学来分析。以一种新颖的方式，这部宫廷编年史将首先作为文学文本（而不是作为历史事实的来源）进行研究。因此，重点将放在从故事到叙事的转变过程上，这是一种意义的史学创造。为此目的，将应用文学研究领域的最新方法论方法。虽然以文化研究为导向的文学研究与历史批判方法论相结合可以帮助我们将文本置于其社会背景中，但本文的叙事结构将通过叙事学问题和方法的应用来确定。所审查的工作的特点是这种分析的材料数量丰富。对这部编年史进行叙事学分析，将有助于识别这部编年史更大的意图（关键词：意义的创造）。这将通过三步分析来实现：首先，将审查文本中固有的历史概念，其次是应对偶然性经验的策略，最后是现有权力的合法化或非合法化。因此，该作品将(a)根据体裁理论在其历史背景下进行分类，(b)在叙事学方面进行分析，(c)将仔细审查其意义功能。作为可以追溯到奥斯曼宫廷史学流派发展初期的关键文本，Tarih-i Naima本身就适合进行这样的系统分析，因为直到现在，这部作品既没有被视为文本，也没有被分析过它在创造意义方面的功能。为了确定文本在其社会政治背景中的位置，基于可靠的文本分析，其叙事学和根据体裁理论进行的分类，以及随后对其重要功能的讨论，一方面，将以重要的方式对奥斯曼精神历史的研究做出贡献，另一方面，以示范的方式加强前现代史学研究之间的联系，特别是关于法庭纪事和跨学科的问题和方法。

Subject of the proposal is the historical-critical and narratological analysis of the Ottoman court chronicle Tarih-i Naima, which covers the period from 1591 till 1659 and written by the official court chronicler Mustafa Naima, with a particular focus on the narrative strategies as an integral part of the signification process. Without first establishing both its genre-specific boundaries as well as the narrative strategies employed in this key text for understanding societal and evenemential of the Ottoman Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries can hardly be analyzed in a historical-critical mode. Thus over and above mining this text for dates and facts this court chronicle will be analyzed as literature. In a new and innovative way, this court chronicle will first and foremost be examined as a literary text (rather than a source to be fleeced for historical fact). Therefore, the focus will be on the transformation process from a story into a narrative, which functions as a historiographical creation of signification. To this end, recent methodological approaches from the field of literary studies will be applied. While literary studies, oriented towards cultural studies, in combination with a historical-critical methodology can help us situate the text in its social context, the narrative structures of this text will be identified by the application of narratological questions and methods. The work under examination is distinguished by the rich amount of material for such an analysis. A narratological analysis of the chronicle will help identify the larger intentions (key word: creation of signification) of this chronicle. This will be achieved in a three-step analysis: First, the concept of history inherent in the text will be examined, second the strategies to cope with experiences of contingency, and finally the legitimization viz. de-legitimization of the powers that be. Thus, the work will be (a) classified within its historical context, in accordance to the theories of genre, (b) analyzed under narratological aspects and (c) its significative function will be scrutinized. As a key text dating from the initial phase of development of the genre of Ottoman court historiography the Tarih-i Naima suggests itself for such a systematic analysis because until now this work has neither been regarded as a text, nor its function for the creation of signification has been analyzed. To determine the place of the text within its socio-political context based on sound textual analysis, its narratology and a classification accordance to the theories of genre, as well as the subsequent discussion of its significative function will, on the one hand, contribute in a significant way to research on the Ottoman mental history, and, on the other hand, reinforce in an exemplary way links between research in pre-modern historiography, in particular with respect to court chronicles and inter-disciplinary questions and approaches.