The Estates of Sa'dullah Enveri and Khalil Nuri, The Predecessor and Successor Chroniclers A Comparative Study


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BELLETEN, cilt.86, sa.305, ss.177-217, 2022 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 86 Sayı: 305
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.37879/belleten.2022.177
  • Dergi Adı: BELLETEN
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique, American History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.177-217
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Chronicler (Waq'anuvis), Sa'dullah Enveri, Khalil Nuri, The Estate Registers, The Ottoman Piastre (Kurus), The Ottoman Traditional Silver Currency (Akche)
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The Estate registers (Tereke) are one of the important sources concerning Ottoman socio-cultural and economic history. These records shed light on social stratum, family structures, amount of personal income, types and values of commodities in the relevant period. This study aims to analyze the property of the chroniclers and statesmen Sa'dullah Enveri and Khalil Nuri, who were successively appointed to the chronicler-post in the later XVIIIth century, through the estate registers. I firstly mention both authors' biography and examine the character of the estate records concerning the authors. Then, from many aspects, I evaluate their family members, attorneys, trustees and properties. In the final chapter, I focus on the distribution of the estates and periodically economic analyses of the writers' affluence. What is more to all the items elaborated above, I deepen the subject with extras such as motives for record-keeping, supervising clerks, writing methodology and spelling mistakes of scribes, official positions of attorneys and trustees, comprehensive statistics related to the estates and properties, worth of the assets in their lifetimes including specific comparisons with modern-day conditions.