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Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity
In Memory of Metin Kunt
Series: - The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 73
Eighteen expert researchers have come together to provide original articles and new perspectives on transformation throughout Ottoman history, in order to honor the lifeâs work of Metin Kunt.
Kuntâs work revolutionized our understanding of change in Ottoman political, social and cultural history in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This new collection focuses on the contributions of key players in these fields and includes chapters on Ottoman artisans in a changing political context, Ottoman chief scribes and the rhetorics of political survival in the 17th century, and empiricism in the Ottoman Empire.
Contributors are Antonis Anastasopoulos, Iris Agmon, Tülay Artan, Karl K. Barbir, Fatih Bayram, Suraiya Faroqhi, Cornell H. Fleischer, Pál Fodor, Mehmet Kalpaklı, Cemil Koçak, B. Harun Küçük, Aslı NiyazioÄlu, Mehmet Ãz, Kaya Åahin, Derin TerzioÄlu, Ekin TuÅalp-Atiyas, Christine Woodhead, N. Zeynep Yelçe, Elizabeth A. Zachariadou.
Kuntâs work revolutionized our understanding of change in Ottoman political, social and cultural history in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This new collection focuses on the contributions of key players in these fields and includes chapters on Ottoman artisans in a changing political context, Ottoman chief scribes and the rhetorics of political survival in the 17th century, and empiricism in the Ottoman Empire.
Contributors are Antonis Anastasopoulos, Iris Agmon, Tülay Artan, Karl K. Barbir, Fatih Bayram, Suraiya Faroqhi, Cornell H. Fleischer, Pál Fodor, Mehmet Kalpaklı, Cemil Koçak, B. Harun Küçük, Aslı NiyazioÄlu, Mehmet Ãz, Kaya Åahin, Derin TerzioÄlu, Ekin TuÅalp-Atiyas, Christine Woodhead, N. Zeynep Yelçe, Elizabeth A. Zachariadou.
Seyfi Kenan, Ph.D. (2003), Columbia University, is Professor of Educational Philosophy and History at Marmara University. He has published books and articles on intellectual history and educational modernization including Selim III and His Era from Ancien Régime to New Order (İSAM, 2010).
Selçuk AkÅin Somel, Ph.D. (1993), Bamberg University, teaches the History Programme at Sabancı University. His research interests include Ottoman education, women and gender, and peripheral populations. He is the author of The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1908). Islamization, Autocracy and Discipline (Brill, 2001).
Selçuk AkÅin Somel, Ph.D. (1993), Bamberg University, teaches the History Programme at Sabancı University. His research interests include Ottoman education, women and gender, and peripheral populations. He is the author of The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1908). Islamization, Autocracy and Discipline (Brill, 2001).
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Metin Kunt: Life and Work
âSelçuk AkÅin Somel and Seyfi Kenan
A Representative List of Metin Kuntâs Publications
Introduction: The Issue of Transformation within the Ottoman Empire
âSelçuk AkÅin Somel and Seyfi Kenan
1 A Firman Issued by Mustafa the Son of Bayezid I Surnamed Düzme (1422)
âElizabeth A. Zachariadou
2 Imaginary Voyages, Imagined Ottomans: A Gentleman Impostor, the Köprülüs, and Seventeenth-Century French Oriental Romances
âTülay Artan
3 Practices of Remembrance and Sites of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Beheading of Åeyh Ä°smâil MaâʾÅûkî (d.1539)
âAslı NiyazioÄlu
4 Ottoman Artisans in a Changing Political Context: Debates in Historiography
âSuraiya Faroqhi
5 Türbedar of the Ottoman Sultans: Åevkî Ãelebiâs Nostalgia for the Bursa of Bayezid Han and Emîr Sultan
âFatih Bayram
6 The Personal Anthology of an Ottoman Litterateur: Celâlzâde Sâlih (d.1565) and His Mecmua
âCornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Åahin
7 Transforming the Abode of War into the Abode of Islam: A Local Grandee in Ottoman Hungary, Osman AÄa, Ãelebi and Bey
âPál Fodor
8 Making Recommendations: Azmîzâde and the Mahzar for Vücûdî Efendi, 1608
âChristine Woodhead
9 A Poetâs Warning: Veysîâs Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth Century
âMehmet Kalpaklı
10 From the âScribe of Satanâ to the âMaster of Belâgâtâ: Ottoman Chief Scribes and the Rhetorics of Political Survival in the Seventeenth Century
âEkin TuÅalp-Atiyas
11 The Compass and the Astrolabe: Empiricism in the Ottoman Empire
âB. Harun Küçük
12 In Search of the Ancient Law or KÄnûn-i Kadîm: Some Notes on Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Political Thought
âMehmet Ãz
13 Between a âBrilliant Retreatâ and a âTragic Defeatâ: Ottoman Narratives of the 1529 and 1683 Sieges of Vienna
âN. Zeynep Yelçe
14 Bidʾat, Custom and the Mutability of Legal Judgments: The Debate on the Congregational Performance of Supererogatory Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
âDerin TerzioÄlu
15 The Sicils of Karaferye (Veria) in the Eighteenth Century: A Case of Transformation?
âAntonis Anastasopoulos
16 Ottoman Legal Change and the Åeriat Courts in the Long Nineteenth Century
âIris Agmon
17 Transformation through Constitution: Young Ottomans and the KÄnûn-i Esâsî of 1876
âCemil Koçak
In Lieu of a Conclusion
18 Repertories of Empire: How Did the Ottomans Last So Long in a Changing World?
âKarl K. Barbir
Glossary
Index
Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Metin Kunt: Life and Work
âSelçuk AkÅin Somel and Seyfi Kenan
A Representative List of Metin Kuntâs Publications
Introduction: The Issue of Transformation within the Ottoman Empire
âSelçuk AkÅin Somel and Seyfi Kenan
part 1: Ottoman Historiography and Reflections
1 A Firman Issued by Mustafa the Son of Bayezid I Surnamed Düzme (1422)
âElizabeth A. Zachariadou
2 Imaginary Voyages, Imagined Ottomans: A Gentleman Impostor, the Köprülüs, and Seventeenth-Century French Oriental Romances
âTülay Artan
3 Practices of Remembrance and Sites of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Beheading of Åeyh Ä°smâil MaâʾÅûkî (d.1539)
âAslı NiyazioÄlu
4 Ottoman Artisans in a Changing Political Context: Debates in Historiography
âSuraiya Faroqhi
part 2: Ottomans â Culture and Careers
5 Türbedar of the Ottoman Sultans: Åevkî Ãelebiâs Nostalgia for the Bursa of Bayezid Han and Emîr Sultan
âFatih Bayram
6 The Personal Anthology of an Ottoman Litterateur: Celâlzâde Sâlih (d.1565) and His Mecmua
âCornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Åahin
7 Transforming the Abode of War into the Abode of Islam: A Local Grandee in Ottoman Hungary, Osman AÄa, Ãelebi and Bey
âPál Fodor
8 Making Recommendations: Azmîzâde and the Mahzar for Vücûdî Efendi, 1608
âChristine Woodhead
9 A Poetâs Warning: Veysîâs Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth Century
âMehmet Kalpaklı
10 From the âScribe of Satanâ to the âMaster of Belâgâtâ: Ottoman Chief Scribes and the Rhetorics of Political Survival in the Seventeenth Century
âEkin TuÅalp-Atiyas
11 The Compass and the Astrolabe: Empiricism in the Ottoman Empire
âB. Harun Küçük
PART 3: Law, Religion and Political Thought
12 In Search of the Ancient Law or KÄnûn-i Kadîm: Some Notes on Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Political Thought
âMehmet Ãz
13 Between a âBrilliant Retreatâ and a âTragic Defeatâ: Ottoman Narratives of the 1529 and 1683 Sieges of Vienna
âN. Zeynep Yelçe
14 Bidʾat, Custom and the Mutability of Legal Judgments: The Debate on the Congregational Performance of Supererogatory Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
âDerin TerzioÄlu
15 The Sicils of Karaferye (Veria) in the Eighteenth Century: A Case of Transformation?
âAntonis Anastasopoulos
16 Ottoman Legal Change and the Åeriat Courts in the Long Nineteenth Century
âIris Agmon
17 Transformation through Constitution: Young Ottomans and the KÄnûn-i Esâsî of 1876
âCemil Koçak
In Lieu of a Conclusion
18 Repertories of Empire: How Did the Ottomans Last So Long in a Changing World?
âKarl K. Barbir
Glossary
Index
All interested in the history of the Ottomans and Turkish conception of change and transformation from the late medieval age to modernity.