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1591年至1659年期间，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化过程的组成部分。如果不首先确定其体裁的具体界限，以及在这一关键文本中所采用的叙事策略，以了解奥斯曼帝国在17和18世纪的社会和事件，很难在历史批判模式下进行分析。因此，除了挖掘这篇文章的日期和事实之外，这部宫廷编年史将作为文献进行分析。以一种新的和创新的方式，这本宫廷编年史将首先作为一个文学文本（而不是一个可以用来获取历史事实的来源）进行审查。因此，重点将放在从故事到叙事的转变过程，这是一种意义的史学创造。为此，将应用文学研究领域最近的方法论方法。以文化研究为取向的文学研究结合历史批判的方法论可以帮助我们在社会语境中理解文本，而文本的叙事结构将通过叙事学问题和方法的应用来确定。正在审查的工作是由这样一个分析材料的丰富量的特点。对这部编年史的叙事学分析将有助于确定这部编年史的更大意图（关键词：意义的创造）。这将通过一个三步分析来实现：首先，将审查文本中固有的历史概念，其次是科普偶然性经验的策略，最后是合法化，即权力的非合法化。因此，我们将（a）根据体裁理论，在其历史语境中对作品进行分类，（B）从叙事学的角度进行分析，（c）对其意义功能进行审视。作为一个关键的文本，可以追溯到奥斯曼宫廷史学流派发展的初始阶段，《塔利赫-伊奈玛》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。通过文本分析、叙事学和体裁分类来确定文本在社会政治语境中的地位，并探讨文本的意义功能，一方面有助于奥斯曼思想史的研究，另一方面，以示范方式加强前现代史学研究之间的联系，特别是在宫廷编年史和跨学科问题和方法方面。

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.