This book is dedicated to Claudia Römer and brings together 33 contributions spanning a period from the 15th to the 20th century and covering the wide range of topics with which the honouree is engaged. The volume is divided into six parts that present current research on language, literature, and style as well as newer approaches and perspectives in dealing with sources and terminologies. Aspects such as conquest, administration, and financing of provinces are found as well as problems of endowments and the circulation of goods in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Another main topic is dedicated to minorities and their role and situation in various provinces and cities of the Ottoman Empire, as represented by various sources. But also topics like conversion, morality and control are illuminated. Finally, the volume provides an insight into the late Ottoman and early republican period, in which some previously unpublished sources (such as travel letters, memoirs) are presented and (re)discussed. The book is not only aimed at scholars and students of the Ottoman Empire; the thematic range is also of interest to linguists, historians, and cultural historians.
Hülya Ãelik, Ph.D. (2016) in Turkology, University of Vienna, is Juniorprofessor of Ottoman and Turkish Literature and Culture at the Ruhr University Bochum. Her most recent publications include Introducing Transcription Standards for Armeno-Turkish Literary Studies, in Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies 3,2 (2022), (together with Ani Sargsyan).
Yavuz Köse, Ph.D. (2011), in History and Culture of the Near East and Turkology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, is Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna. His most recent publications include the edited volume (together with Onur İnal) İktidar Tohumları. Osmanlı Ãevre Tarihi Ãzerine İncelemeler (İletiÅim Yayınları) (2022).
Gisela Procházka-Eisl, Ph.D. (1992) in Turkology, University of Vienna, is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Studies. She has published several monographs and many articles, mainly on Ottoman literature and culture. Her most recent book is EnverÄ«zÄde SaÊ¿dullÄh EnverÄ« Efendiâs. Treatise on Austria. (RisÄle-i Avusturya), (EBVerlag) (2022).
Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Contributors Publications by Claudia Römer Notes on Names, Terms, and Transliteration
Introduction
âHülya Ãelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl
Part 1: Language, Literature and Style
1 Bu neyiki? âWhat (on Earth) Is That?!â
âThe Old Anatolian Turkish Mirative Particle iki in Unresolvable Questions
âHelga Anetshofer
2 Questions, Answers, and Knowledgeable Ladies in an Ageless Turkic Textual Genre
âIngeborg Baldauf
3 More of the SAME: Is There a Standard Average Middle Eastern?
âGisela Procházka-Eisl and Stephan Procházka
4 Coffeeâs Elegy on the Death of Tobacco, 1636â1637 by Vardarlı Fazli
âAn Ottoman Social Parody and its Linguistic Particularities
âEdith Gülçin Ambros
5 Alexandros Karatheodoris and His Philological Articles on the Ottoman/Turkish Language
âPeri Efe
Part 2: Sources and Terminologies: New Readings, New Perspectives
6 Some Remarks on Marginal Notes in Ottoman Manuscripts
âMarinos Sariyannis
7 Ottoman Sofia through the Eyes of Its Denizens and Visitors
â(Late 14thâFirst Half of 16th Century)
âRossitsa Gradeva
9 Peacemaking between the Ottoman Empire, the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy
âSándor Papp
10 Traces of the Captive Copyist DerviŠİbrahim in Sebastian Tengnagelâs (d. 1636) Notebooks
âHülya Ãelik
11 Learning the Language of Things: Glimpses into Ottoman Inventories of the 16th and 17th Centuries
âHedda Reindl-Kiel
12 Ottoman History Viewed from the âPeripheryâ: Al-IsḥÄqÄ«âs 1623 Chronicle of Egypt
âJane Hathaway
13 Time-Related References and Markers in the Kadı Court Registers of Kandiye (Heraklion)
âAntonis Anastasopoulos
Part 3: Conquering, Administering and Financing Ottoman Provinces
14 On the Administration of the Ottoman âOne-Fifth Taxâ on Prisoners of War (15th to 17th Century)
âPál Fodor
15 Exchange Rates, Pay Years and Prebends in 17thâ18th Century Ottoman Europe as Reflected in Taxation and Funding the Military
âSome Key Examples
âNenad MoaÄanin
16 Financial Reporting from the Ottoman Syrian Provinces
âA Study On Provincial âBudgets,â the Income Side
âLinda T. Darling
20 âA Man You Do Not Meet Every Dayâ
âThe Waqf Founder as a Benevolent Employer and the Waqf as a Sinecure for the Founderâs Retainers
âKayhan Orbay
21 Sorge und Vorsorge
âDas Testament (vasiyetname) eines osmanischen Kavallerieoffiziers vor dem Feldzug 1664 und die Fromme Stiftung (vakıf) eines Oberstallmeisters vor einer Dienstreise nach Mekka im Jahre 1681
âHans Georg Majer
22 The Place of Egypt and Syria in the Circulation of Goods in the Eastern Mediterranean
âThe Abiding Importance of the Ottoman Domestic Market as a Key Dimension of Overall Maritime Trade in the Mid-18th Century
âRhoads Murphey
Part 5: Minorities, Moral and Control
23 Die politische Balkandiaspora im Abendland des 15. Jahrhunderts
âOliver Jens Schmitt
24 Zur Ãberlieferungsgeschichte des Ahdname von Fojnica
âMichael Ursinus
25 Grievance Redressal and Ecclesiastical Appointments
âSultanic Rescripts in Favour of Metropolitans and Bishops from the 17th Century
âEleni Gara
26 Living Together in the Quarters of a City
âNon-Muslims in the Judicial Registers (ÅerÊ¿i Mahkeme Sicilleri) of Trabzon in the Second Half of the 17th Century
âKenan İnan
27 İbrahim Efendi (d. 1697), an Ottoman Scribe Turned Dominican Monk, and His Library between Constantinople and Venice
âTijana KrstiÄ
28 Becoming a Master Artisan in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
âCentral Provinces, Late 1500s to Early 1800s
âSuraiya Faroqhi
29 Night Life in Istanbul: Sex Crimes and Social Control from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries
âFariba Zarinebaf
Part 6: The Empire at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century and beyond
30 Strolling around Vienna Unarmed. Rıza Nur and His âLetters from Viennaâ (1911)
âYavuz Köse
31 Some Remarks on the Hitherto Unpublished Memoirs of a Member of the Kuva-yi Milliye in the Sanjak of Alexandretta/Hatay
âHeidemarie DoÄanalp-Votzi
32 Making the Best of It. The Graduates of the Kindergarten Training College of Flaviana in Zincidere, 1911â1916
âMaria A. Stassinopoulou
33 Heritage Discourse in Early Republican Turkey: The Journal Ãlkü (1933â1950) Re-Examined
âAyÅe Dilsiz Hartmuth
Index
Students and scholars of Ottoman Studies, turkologists, historians, linguists, historians of the Middle Eastern, students and scholars of European history, historians of diplomacy, cultural studies.