This seminar explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic life of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. Set against the backdrop of the era’s political and social transformations, it examines developments in major fields such as madrasa scholarship and learned culture, literature and historiography, Sufism and religious movements, architecture and the fine arts, as well as everyday life and material culture. The intellectual landscape of the period will be analyzed through the works of leading figures including Nâbî (d. 1712), Naîmâ (d. 1716), Kâtip Çelebi (d. 1657), and Evliya Çelebi (d. 1682), with particular attention to the Ottoman Empire’s interactions with both the wider Islamic world and Europe