Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands

Published by Academic Studies Press 2018

Disliking Others

Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands

Edited by: Hakan T. Karateke , H. Erdem Çıpa and Helga Anetshofer

In the series Ottoman and Turkish Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618118813

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About this book

This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of tolerance that has long dominated the discussions in Ottoman history. The articles carefully strive to contextualize the many issues that sound like ethnic slurs, racial stereotyping, religious discrimination, misogyny and elitism to modern ears.

Author / Editor information

Hakan T. Karateke (PhD, Bamberg University) is Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language, and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Evliya Çelebi’s Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne (2013) and an article titled “The Rosy History of Jews in the Ottoman Empire: A Critical Approach to Jewish Historiography.”

H. Erdem Çıpa (PhD, Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Ottoman history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World (2017) and co-editor, with E. Fetvacı, of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future (2013).

Helga Anetshofer (PhD, Vienna University) is Lecturer for Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago. Her publications include her recent articles “Folk Etymologies and Stories of Toponyms from Danishmendid Territory in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname” (2015) and “The Hero Dons a Talismanic Shirt for Battle: Magic Objects Aiding the Warrior in a Turkish Epic Romance” (2018).

Reviews

“Overall this volume thus proposes highly interesting visions of forms of hostility in Ottoman society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century. … The volume … constitute[s] a major contribution … as well as a precious entry towards an understanding of the tensions at work in Ottoman society.” —Nora Lafi, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Turkish Historical Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Author Bios Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Changing Perceptions about Christian-Born Ottomans: Anti-k . ul Sentiments in Ottoman Historiography H. Erdem Çıpa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500–1730: The Eastern Alternative Jane Hathaway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier’s Treatise: A Comparative Look at Black Africans in Ottoman Letters in the Early Modern Period Baki Tezcan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550–1700 Bilha Moor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
An Ottoman Anti-Judaism Hakan T. Karateke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Evliyā Çelebī’s Perception of Jews Hakan T. Karateke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Ambiguous Subjects and Uneasy Neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans’ Attitudes toward the Ottoman State, “Turks,” and Vlachs Vjeran Kursar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
“Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land”: Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th–18th Centuries Konrad Petrovszky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
The Many Faces of the “Gypsy” in Early Modern Ottoman Discourse Faika Ç Çelik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Gendered Infidels in Fiction: A Case Study on S - ābit’s Ḥikāye-i Ḫvāce Fesād İpek Hüner-Cora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
“The Greatest of Tribulations”: Constructions of Femininity in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Physiognomy Emin Lelić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Defining and Defaming the Other in Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Invective Michael D. Sheridan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
“Are You From Çorum?”: Derogatory Attitudes Toward the “Unruly Mob” of the Provinces as Reflected in a Proverbial Saying Helga Anetshofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: The essays will be widely read by Ottomanists. They will be a necessary reading for any student of modern history of the Middle East, and of great interest to anybody studying the notions of racial, ethnic, gender or religious intolerance in the premodern era.
Pages
- Main content: 400
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16

eBook

Published: September 7, 2018
ISBN: 9781618118813