Fictional(ised) beginnings of the Ottoman Dynasty: Notes on the Hikâyet-ı Zuhûr-ı Âl-i ‘Osmân

A Millet Library copy of an Ottoman Turkish text entitled Hikâyet-ı Zuhûr-ı Âl-i ‘Osmân; Der Beyân-ı Tevârîh-i ‘Osmân (The Story the Emergence House Osman; The Account Histories Osman) bears a catalogue note, most probably written by Ali Emîrî: ‘This is quasi-history spanning period up until ascension Sultan Selim First; yet from beginning to end and top bottom it consists series spurious fabricated lies.’ This ‘quasi-historical’ narrative’s extant eleven known, mostly undated, copies with varied titles held in collections, however, attest its repeated reproduction. article focuses on this set underappreciated narratives about dynastic beginnings explore not only narrative convergences they exhibit earliest chronicles, but also their fictionality as related functionality contexts production.