This book places the Ottoman Empire within the global context and provides insight into the multifaceted transimperial and transnational connections that characterized it in different periods. It focuses on the connections, interactions, exchanges, networks and flows in and around the Ottoman Empire. Contributions in the book reflect the evolving and dynamic nature of the Ottoman Empire from different angles.
Contributors are Ali Atabey, Serpil Atamaz, Lee Beaudoen, Emine Evered, Kyle Evered, Richard Eaton, Ziad Fahmy, Gülsüm Gürbüz-Küçüksarı, Onur İnal, Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Myrsini Manney-Kalogera, Claudia Römer, Alexander Schweig, Gül Åen, Baki Tezcan, Fariba Zarinebaf.
Serpil Atamaz, Ph.D. (2010), University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on women, revolution, and war in the late Ottoman Empire and on Ottoman and Iranian constitutionalists.
Onur İnal, Ph.D. (2015), University of Arizona, is an environmental historian based in the Near Eastern Studies Department of the University of Vienna. He is the author of Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and several edited collections and articles on the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.
Alexander Schweig, Ph.D. (2019), University of Arizona, is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the intersections between social, technological, medical, and environmental history. His most recent article is âProgressing into Disaster: The Railroad and the Spread of Cholera in a Provincial Ottoman Town,â published in History of Science.
List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
A List of Linda Darlingâs Publications
Part 1: Peoples
1 Turkish Encounters with Monuments and the Decline of Buddhism in North India
âRichard Eaton
2 Our Man on the Danube: Habsburg-Ottoman Border Diplomacy as Perceived in the Report of Ê¿OsmÄn Agha
âGül Åen
3 Secularist Anxieties Meet Evangelical Ones in Modern Turkish Historiography: İbrahim Müteferrika and the Risale-i İslamiye
âBaki Tezcan
4 Keeper of Secrets, Noble Highness: the Journey of the Mavrocordatos Family from a Borderland Perspective
âMyrsini Manney-Kalogera
Part 2: Places
5 Rowing to the Rescue: Defending the Black Sea 1559â60
âChristine Isom-Verhaaren
6 Urban Reforms in Pera and other Ottoman Ports in the Aftermath of Fires in the Nineteenth Century
âFariba Zarinebaf
7 Constructing Otherness in an Ottoman Borderland: Levantine Architecture in Izmir
âOnur İnal
8 Streams of Sultanic Grace for the Grand Vizier: a Firman of Selim II on the Water Supply of á¹¢oḳollu Meḥmed Pashaâs Palace (1567)
âClaudia Römer
Part 3: Practices
9 Real Transformation Starts in the Family: The Public Discourse on Marriage in Late Ottoman Turkey (1908â1918)
âSerpil Atamaz
10 Legal Chameleons and Jurisdictional Borderlands in Nineteenth Century Egypt
âZiad Fahmy
11 Social Worlds of Captivity: Charity and Support for Ottoman Captives in Early Modern Istanbul
âAli Atabey
12 The Oscillating Circle: Revisiting the Ottoman Fifteenth-Century Imperial Paradigm
âLee Beaudoen
scholars and students researching different aspects of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East