Reading Ottoman History

A Sourcebook
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-009-26509-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten

Charting the history of the Ottoman Empire through a wide range of primary sources dated from 1300 to 1920, this sourcebook renders Ottoman history newly accessible to beginners. The 73 texts represent the most comprehensive offering of Ottoman sources published for the classroom, translated from Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Greek and Armenian. The selected texts range from chronicles to treaties, poetry and folk tales to essays, and biography to legal court registers, imperial orders, and financial records. Each source is accompanied by a short contextual introduction and study questions; maps and illustrations immerse students in the diverse Ottoman world. Suitable for either a one-semester or two-semester course, Reading Ottoman History will serve as an ideal accompaniment to popular textbooks such as Douglas A. Howard's A History of the Ottoman Empire, offering students vivid inside views of the political, military, economic, social, cultural and religious history of the Ottoman Empire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Darling, Linda T.

Lubin, Matthew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Ottoman calendars; Ottoman coinage; 1. Yunus Emre, Poems, c.1300: Knowledge, love, and Sufism Halil Ibrahim Gemici; 2. Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The histories, early 14th century: Excerpts on Osman Anthony Kaldellis; 3. Orhan Gazi, The Mekece Vakfiye, 1324: The oldest surviving Ottoman document Kacey Evilsizor; 4. Asik Pasa, Garibname, 1330: The human body is like a city Sedanur Temel; 5. Asikpasazade, Tevarih, The wedding of prince Bayezid, 1376 Linda T. Darling; 6. Manuel II, Letters, 1391: With the Ottoman army Linda T. Darling; 7. Yazicizâde Ali, Oguzname Sevim Yilmaz Önder; 8. The detailed survey register of Prizren, 1571 Tatjana Katic; 9. Anonymous, laws of the Janissaries: Janissary recruitment, 15th century Linda T. Darling; 10. Mehmed II, Ottoman official documents, 1453–1469 Several translators; 11. Mehmed II, order for the conscription of raiders (Akincis), 1472 Linda T. Darling; 12. The Petition of 1486: By an Ottoman prisoner of the Mamluks E. Cihan Yüksel and Giancarlo Casale; 13. Bayezid II, Kavanin-i Örfiyye-i Osmani, 1501: The status of the Ottoman peasant Fatma Gül Karagöz; 14. Ibn al-Hanbali, Pearls of Dew in the history of Aleppo's Notables: Sultan Selim conquers the Mamluks, 1516–17 Timothy J. Fitzgerald; 15. Ottoman documents on the Nile and its irrigation, early 16th century Wakako Kumakura; 16. Ottoman maps, 1539, 1550: Cartography and imperial vision Pinar Emiralioglu; 17. Ebussüud Efendi, Fetvas, c.1548: On fighting against the Kizilbas: Abdurrahman Atçil; 18. A Morisco appeal for help, 1541: And an Ottoman promise of aid, 1570 Matthew Lubin; 19. Ottoman calligraphy: Form, meaning, and function Esra Akin-Kivanç; 20. Ottoman poetry in the Süleymanic age Mehmet Kalpakli; 21. Ottoman manuscript painting ('Miniatures') Sinem Arcak Casale; 22. Selaniki, A history: The martyrdom of Sokollu, 1579 Christine Woodhead; 23. Documents on conversion to Islam, 1550–1732 Rossitsa Gradeva; 24. Documents on running a coffeehouse, 1618–1690: Equipment,

Über Autor(innen)

Darling, Linda T.
Linda T. Darling is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, where she has taught Ottoman and Middle Eastern history at undergraduate and graduate levels for thirty-five years. Darling has authored numerous publications on Ottoman History including Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy: Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560–1660 (1996) and A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East: The Circle of Justice from Mesopotamia to Globalization (2013), both translated into Turkish.

Lubin, Matthew
Matthew Lubin is a historian specialising in Europe and the Middle East, with an interest in languages and cross-border topics. He has taught early modern History at Duke, Boston College, and UNC-Chapel Hill. Lubin has contributed articles to edited volumes including Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts (2018) and Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania (2012).