Ottoman War and Peace

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41313-9
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Turkish, Ottoman, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 836 g

Reihe: Brill

The articles compiled in Ottoman War & Peace. Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan, honor the prolific career of a foremost scholar of the Ottoman Empire, and engage in redefining the boundaries of Ottoman historiography. Blending micro and macro approaches, the volume covers topics from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries related to the Ottoman military and warfare, biography and intellectual history, and inter-imperial and cross-cultural relations. Through these themes, this volume seeks to bring out and examine the institutional and socio-political complexity of the Ottoman Empire and its peoples.

Contributors are Eleazar Birnbaum, Maurits van den Boogert, Palmira Brummett, Frank Castiglione, Linda Darling, Caroline Finkel, Molly Greene, Jane Hathaway, Colin Heywood, Douglas Howard, Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Dina Rizk Khoury, Ethan L. Menchinger, Victor Ostapchuk, Leslie Peirce, James A. Reilly, Will Smiley, Mark Stein, Kahraman Sakul, Veysel Simsek, Feryal Tansug, Baki Tezcan, Fatih Yesil, Aysel Yildiz.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Castiglione, Frank

Menchinger, Ethan

Simsek, Veysel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Publications by Virginia H. Aksan
Introduction

Frank Castiglione, Ethan L. Menchinger and Veysel Simsek

Part 1: Ottoman Military and Society

1 Crime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden Age

Linda T. Darling

2 The Trouble with Timars: An Excursion into a Seventeenth-Century Documentary Landscape

Victor Ostapchuk

3 Ottoman Observers of Ottoman War in the 17th Century

Mark Stein

4 The Azadlu Gunpowder Works: Catalyst for the Military Industry Complexes of Istanbul

Kahraman Sakul

5 Drill and Discipline as a Civilizing Process: The Genesis of the Modern Soldier in the Ottoman Empire, 1789–1826

Fatih Yesil

6 Armatole Families in the 18th Century Balkans

Molly Greene

7 Under Fire and Lice: Experiences of an Ottoman Soldier in the First World War and the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)

Veysel Simsek

8 Shayzar, an Ottoman Fortress-Settlement in Syria

James A. Reilly

Part 2: Ideas, Political Thought, and the Circulation of Knowledge

9 A Cure for the Plague, and Other Prescriptions

Eleazar Birnbaum

10 A Phenomenology of Empire: Ayn Ali on the Ottoman Provinces

Douglas A. Howard

11 Visualizing Ottoman Space: Choiseul-Gouffier and the Passage through Anatolia, 1776

Palmira Brummett

12 On the Identity of a Reformist Intellectual: the Koca Sekbanbasi Debate Revisited

Ethan L. Menchinger and Aysel Yildiz

Part 3: Biography

13 The Law School of Mehmed II in the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century: A Glass Ceiling of the less connected Ottoman Ulema

Baki Tezcan

14 Writing Biography with Limited Sources and Fewer Models: The Case of Hurrem Sultan

Leslie Peirce

15 Tracing the Life of Hüsam Bey: Career Paths in the Sixteenth-century Ottoman Navy

Christine Isom-Verhaaren

16 Eunuchs and the State in the Mamluk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire: A Comparison

Jane Hathaway

17 “The clever Engineer Koehler”: The Clandestine Activities of George Frederick Koehler (1758–1800) in the Ottoman lands, 1791–93

Caroline Finkel

Part 4: Ottoman Identity and Inter-confessional Relations

18 An Ottoman “Exemption Letter (Mu‘af-name)” Dated 1015/1606 for the Karaite Descendants of Fatima Hatun, kira of Hafsa Sultan, the Mother of Süleyman the Magnificent: a Document from the National Museum of Lithuania

Colin Heywood

19 Ottoman Brokers in the 18th-Century Levant Trade

Maurits H. van den Boogert

20 The Battle of Ali Hoca Burnu: Framed Privateers, Questionable Loyalties, and a Sultanic Prize Court

Will Smiley

21 Revisiting the Escalation of Intercommunal Violence in Izmir (1797): “Anti-Greek,” or a More Complex Dynamic?

Feryal Tansug

22 Nationality and Sect in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Iraq

Dina Rizk Khoury

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Castiglione, Ph.D. (2016), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Ethan L. Menchinger, Ph.D. (2014), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Lecturer in the History of the Islamic World at the University of Manchester. He has published numerous articles on the Ottoman Empire and is author of the monograph The First of the Modern Ottomans: the Intellectual History of Ahmed Vâsif (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Veysel Simsek, Ph.D. (2015), McMaster University, is lecturer in Turkish at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. Previously, he held post-doctoral fellowships at McGill and Yale. He has taught and published on the political, social, and military history of the Ottoman Empire.