ABSTRACT: This article studies the Mir’atü’l-Memalik , the travelogue of the Ottoman captain Seydi Ali Reis (d. 1562). While this text has been read as a source for the history of Ottoman-Portuguese rivalry in the Indian Ocean, it has not been sufficiently investigated as a work of literature. Not only did Seydi Ali interweave his text with locally significant specimens of poetry wherever he went, he also consciously modeled his book on older adventure stories that are best known today from the Thousand and One Nights collections.
Ali Anooshahr (2025) studied this question.