The single specimen I propose to dissect was a man whose lifetime spanned the second half of the eighteenth century, and the first quarter of the nineteenth. He was born in Aleppo in 1172 of the hijri calendar (i.e. 1758 ...

Travelers classified people by gender, ethnolinguistic identity, occupation, commune, locality, age, status, and association with the “state” or the narrator’s own network of associates (or both). That is, an individual ...

18th century Ottoman history witnessed the alteration of administrative elite, manifest in the substitution of men of sword (ehl-i seyf) with men of pen (ehl-i kalem). This transformation is an outcome of the changing ...

Ele alınan konu, temelde ikisi de hatalı istihbarattan kaynaklanan yanlış anlamalar üzerine inşa edilmiş olsa da, iki örnek, halk nezdinde yarattığı tepki ve enformasyonun dezenformasyon suretinde bilinçli bir şekilde ...

This essay will focus on the Ottoman conscripts, who together with their families formed a distinct and sizable social group within the larger Ottoman society in the decades following the elimination of the Janissary Corps. ...