https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/2452 Issue 44 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:33:19 GMT 2026-04-17T03:33:19Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/1794 Sultan Abdulmecid's 1846 Tour Of Rumelia And The Trope Of Love Stephanov, Darin This paper relies on two premises in tackling a theme common to all papers in this volume. First, modernity is a complex, historically salient phenomenon, which consists of a ‘bundle’ of parallel economic, political, and sociocultural processes. Second, nationalism and modernity are intimately related and very recent phenomena. In terms of setting a mass-scale sociocultural precedent which permanently altered the notion of public space and the discourse and practices of power, both nationalism and modernity in Europe can be traced no earlier than the French Revolution. Within the Ottoman realms, these phenomena were announced in a most lasting, implication-rich manner by the Greek Revolution of 1821-1829. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/1794 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/1793 The Rebellious Kapudan of Bosnia: Huseyin Kapudan (1802-1834) Sel Turhan, Fatma The beginning of the nineteenth century witnessed many changes in the Ottoman state apparatus in terms of reconstructing political and administrative structures in a centralized manner and, related to this, the creation of a new bureaucracy. After Mahmud II had destroyed the Janissary Corps in 1826, he began the process by dividing the functions of the central government into departments and institutions. The most visible outcome of his reform and centralization policies was a more influential state in every aspect of life, which caused great dissatisfaction among the Bosnians in this period. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/1793 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/1792 Local Intermediaries And Insular Space In Late- 18th Century Ottoman Cyprus Hadjikyriacou, Antonis This article examines three provincial intermediaries in Cyprus during the closing decades of the eighteenth century. It considers these cases as examples of some of the groups of Ottoman subjects who came to benefit in more ways than one from the redistribution of wealth and power in the Ottoman Empire during the period between 1750 and 1850. In this era, Ottoman imperial governance faced a series of challenges, and horizontal and vertical relationships of power and authority were undergoing significant renegotiation and reformulation. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/1792 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/1791 The Self-Fashioning Of An Ottoman Urban Notable: Ahmad Efendi Tahazade (d. 1773) Wilkins, Charles On 15 February 1765, Ahmad Efendi Tahazâde, a prominent member of the legal and religious establishment of Aleppo and a wealthy businessman, went to the main law court of that city and founded his third and final pious endowment, or waaf.Consisting of over sixty commercial properties, numerous agricultural tracts, and an extensive library, the endowment provided for the distribution of very considerable funds and resources to Ahmad Efendi’s college (madrasa), various mystical organizations, and members of his family. Indeed the magnitude of the Ahmad Efendi’s act prompted many local dignitaries to gather that day in the court and witness the legal proceeding. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12723/1791 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z