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Local Intermediaries And Insular Space In Late- 18th Century Ottoman Cyprus
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)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 ... -
Resurrecting Homo Ottomanicus: The Constants And Variables Of Ottoman Identity
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)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 ... -
The Self-Fashioning Of An Ottoman Urban Notable: Ahmad Efendi Tahazade (d. 1773)
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)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 ... -
In Other Worlds? Mapping Out The Spatial Imaginaries Of 18th-Century Chroniclers From The Ottoman Levant (Bilad al-Sham)
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)Still, geography mattered. Even in the absence of spatial visualization techniques to orient the imagination, and a modern state apparatus to condition the citizens into a collective identity that is territorially bound, ... -
The Confessions Of An Ottoman ‘Irregular’: Self-Representation And Ottoman Interpretive Communities In The Nineteenth Century
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)This paper will therefore examine how the author inscribes his place in Ottoman society as he describes his long journey and adventures from the eastern Anatolian frontier west to the Rumeli frontier as an itinerant Ottoman ... -
Was There Room In Rum For Corsairs?: Who Was An Ottoman In The Naval Forces Of The Ottoman Empire In The 15th And 16th Centuries?
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)The Portuguese conquered Ceuta in 1415 and retained control of the city until 1580 when Philip II of Spain claimed all Portuguese lands. When Piri Reis presented his Kitab-ı Bahriye to Süleyman in 1526 he used the term ... -
You Say ‘Classical,’ I Say ‘Imperial,’ Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Empire, Individual, And Encounter In Travel Narratives Of The Ottoman Empire
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)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 ... -
Portrait And Self-Portrait: Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Mind Games
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)The current paper will deal with an intellectual who became famous in Ottoman cultural history as the founder of the first Ottoman-Turkish printing house (1726). He was a Hungarian-born Protestant (allegedly Unitarian), ... -
The Universal And The Particular: A View From Ottoman Homs ca.1700
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)Homs is a venerable town located near the Orontes River. In Ottoman times as well as today, Homs has been at the crossroads of major trade and communication routes that link Syria’s interior to the Mediterranean coast, and ... -
How To Be(come) An Ottoman At The End Of the Eighteenth Century
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)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 ... -
The Türk In Aşıkpaşazâde: A Private Individual’s Ottoman History
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)The relationship between the Ottoman state and the fifteenth century Ottoman historians require more attention than it has received to date. The evidence suggests that where the interests of the state and political individuals ... -
Hattat İsmail Zihni Pasha: Life And Death Of An Ottoman Statesman And An Inventor
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)İsmail was born in 1739 to a middle-class family in Istanbul; his father was an artisan. Reaching puberty, he was accepted to the Galata Palace School. He evidently underwent a vigorous education embodying martial arts, ... -
The Rebellious Kapudan of Bosnia: Huseyin Kapudan (1802-1834)
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)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 ... -
“After Being So long Prisoners, They Will Not Return To Slavery In Russia”: An Aegean Network Of Violence Between Empires And Identities
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)A fortuitous congruence in Ottoman, Russian, and British archival sources has preserved all three imperial views of this incident, and in each case, the views of the captives themselves sometimes filter through in the ... -
A Reformist Philosophy Of History: The Case Of Ahmed Vâsıf Efendi
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)Before examining Ahmed Vâsıf ’s philosophy of history, it will be useful to say a word about his life and work.4 Born in Baghdad in the 1730s, Vâsıf entered state service around the year 1768 and began a career of no small ... -
‘Levantine’ Dragomans In Nineteenth Century Istanbul: The Pisanis, The British, And Issues Of Subjecthood
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)What is interesting for our purposes is the information that Count Pisani provided about the dragomans employed by the British. He stated that in 1837 there were five active dragomans in the embassy, including his brother ... -
Venetian Vagabonds And Furious Frenchmen: Nationalist And Cosmopolitan Impulses Among Europeans In Galata
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)In the eighteenth century the embassies and trading houses of France, England, Venice, and other European powers shared space on the steep hills of Galata and Pera, separated only by the waters of the Golden Horn from ... -
The First "Little Mehmeds": Conscripts For The Ottoman Army, 1826-53
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)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. ... -
Sultan Abdulmecid's 1846 Tour Of Rumelia And The Trope Of Love
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi & İSAM, 2014)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 ...
