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Book SynopsisIt would not be an overstatement to say that Cemal Kafadar has transformed the field of Ottoman history. As a result of his pathbreaking books and articles, the field is experiencing a turn within itself as well as recasting its relationship with world history. This volume acts as a tribute to Kafadar and the important interdisciplinary work he has both done and inspired in the field. In line with the intellectual pluralism that Kafadar has cultivated over his career, readers will find a number of articles engaging with a wide range of questions, approaches, perspectives, and sources across Ottoman history. Kafadar's students and friends, individually or in pairs, researched and crafted contributions to this volume with a variety of conceptual premises, theoretical approaches, and interpretive tools to celebrate his thirty years of teaching, research, and mentorship, in addition to the overwhelming generosity of his intellectual and personal engagement.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yaycioğlu
Cemal Kafadar, A Çelebi for Our Times
Ahmet Karamustafa
Cemal Kafadar’s Teaching and Scholarship, 1981-2021
Part One: Texts
1. Narrating Ottoman Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Perspectives from Some Byzantine and Ottoman Histories.
Aslihan Akişik-Karakullukçu and Dimitri Kastritsis
2. Nişancı Mehmed Paşa and His History of the Ottoman House
Himmet Taşkömür and Hüseyin Yilmaz
3. Book-Picking in a Conquered Citadel
Serpil Bağci and Zeynep Yürekli
4. A Sufi Mirror: Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) Advice for the Ottoman Ruler
Timothy J. Fitzgerald
5. La Jetée and the Illustrated Ottoman History: An Inquiry into Word, Image, and Audience
Emine Fetvaci
6. How Did Evliya Çelebi Write His Travel Account?
Hakan T. Karateke
7. Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620-1840
Hülya Canbakal, Meredith Quinn, and Derin Terzioğlu
8. Blending Piety and Philology: A Seventeenth-Century Mecmua as the Mirror of Istanbul’s Persianate Urban Milieu
Aslihan Gürbüzel and Ekin Tuşalp Atiyas
9. An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik and Selim S. Kuru
Part Two: Lives
10. Uç beys, Dervishes, and Yürüks: The Cultural Politics of the Turahanoğlu of Thessaly
Theoharis Stavrides
11. A Short Account of Long Entanglements: Şeyh Bedreddin, ‘Abdurrahman al-Bistami, and his Durrat taj al-rasa’il
Cornell Fleischer
12. A Tale of Two Boils: Selim I, Melek Aḥmed Pasha, and Changing Perceptions of Medical Practice and Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
H. Erdem Çipa and Jane Hathaway
13. In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman Egypt
Aleksandar Shopov
14. The Eunuch, a Complete Statesman: Functional Historiography in the face of Social and Political Precarity
Jocelyne Dakhlia
15. Reorientation in Worldviews: Milescu and Cantemir
İsenbike Togan
16. The Hamidian Visual Archive, 1878-1909: A User’s Manual
Ahmet Ersoy and Deniz Türker
Part Three: Places
17. Ottoman Montology: Hazardous Resourcefulness and Uneasy Symbiosis in a Mountain Empire
Ali Yaycioğlu
18. Ottoman Mountains: Mobility in a Forbidding Environment
Molly Greene
19. A Code(x) of His Own: Deacon Mikayēl, Armeno-Turkish and Creative Conventions of “Collecting” in Seventeenth-Century Kaffa
Rachel Goshgarian
20. On Self and Empire: A Seventeenth-Century First-Person Narrative from the Mughal Domains
Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
21. Cabinetmaking for the Sultan: Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in the Life Narratives of German-Speaking Journeymen
Richard Wittmann
22. Conjuring Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through the Journalistic Writings of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1805-1887) and Basiretçi Ali (1845?–1910)
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi and Asli Niyazioğlu
23. Reşat Ekrem Koçu and İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Writing on Place
Shirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu
Part Four: Processes
24. Early Modern Reflections on Bayezid II’s Reign
İklil Selçuk and Cihan Yüksel
25. The Ottoman Fleet at the Battle of Mississippi: What Videogames Can Teach Us about History
Giancarlo Casale and Nicolas Trépanier
26. Continuity and Change in the Ottoman Early Modern Era: An Analysis of Adet-i kadime and Hâdis
Özer Ergenç
27. Between Soldier and Civilian: Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and Aleppo
Charles Wilkins and Eunjeong Yi
28. Confessionalization and Religious Nonconformity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Cases of Kizilbash/Alevi and the Sabbatean Communities
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump and Cengiz Şişman
29. De-ayanization: A Black Hole in Ottoman History
H. Şükrü Ilicak
30. Bitter Triumph of “the Declined” Dynasty? Notions of Universal Monarchy, Caliphate, and World Religions in Comparisons between Sultan Abdulhamid and Emperor Meiji
Cemil Aydin
Notes on Contributors
