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The Ottoman world : a cultural history reader, 1450-1700
Title
The Ottoman world : a cultural history reader, 1450-1700 / edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Helga Anetshofer.
ISBN
9780520303430
0520303431
9780520303454
0520303458
9780520972711
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Physical Description
xx, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Summary
The Ottoman lands, which comprised a geography extending from modern Hungary to the Arabian peninsula, were home to a vast population with a rich variety of cultures. This is a primary source reader designed to reflect a wide and diverse set of voices across Ottoman society and bring them into the classroom. Written in many languages - not only Ottoman Turkish, but also Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and Persian - these texts span the extent of the early modern Ottoman empire, from the 1450s to 1700. Instructors are supplied with narratives conveying the lived experiences of individuals through texts that highlight human variety and accelerate a trend away from the "state-centric" approach to Ottoman history. In addition, samples from court registers, legends, biographical accounts, hagiographies, short stories, witty anecdotes, jokes, and lampoons provide us with exciting glimpses into popular mindsets in Ottoman society. -- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: The Ottoman world Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Letters of an insecure scholar, 1553
Adversities at sea : from Basra to Gujarat, 1554
Memoirs of an Ottoman captive in Malta, 1597-98
The excommunication of a Greek Orthodox priest, ca. 1642
Dream letters of a Sufi woman in Skopje, 1640s
Diary of a Sufi sheikh in plague-ridden Istanbul, 1661
Ramblings of an eccentric Sufi exiled on Limnos, ca. early 1680s
Adventures of an Ottoman officer in captivity, 1690-99
The trial of a heretic, 1527
The life and works of two mediocre poets
The extraordinary life story of a scholar
On servants and slaves
Children and youth
Women at courts of law
Prostitutes and pimps
On nocturnal activities
Impostors, frauds, and spies
The madman of Istanbul
Fetvas on non-Muslims
Conversion among Ottoman Jews
Marriage and divorce among Ottoman Jews
News from Istanbul at the turn of the seventeenth century
Propagating the faith in Constantinople
An Armenian chronicle of Crimea
On revenants and ghosts
Miracles of an Anatolian Sufi saint
A dispute concerning Sufi tombs, 1619
Preserving public health
Traditional medicine for everyday ailments
Snake medicine and snake charming in Cairo
On smoking tobacco
Diving past, present, and future in the sand
Reading character by appearance
Religious guidance for hunters
Cultivating the land
Wonders of art and nature
On the natural advantages of Edirne
The legend of the construction of Constantinople
On the construction of the pyramids, ca. 1545
An ode to Istanbul
Passion and murder on the Bosphorus
Stories of guilt and repentance
The wiles of women
Social criticism and invective in poetry
Shrewd witticisms by a master poet
Subversive jokes featuring a folk hero.
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