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Book SynopsisThe 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 Şakul, Veysel Şimşek, Feryal Tansuğ, Baki Tezcan, Fatih Yeşil, Aysel Yıldız.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Publications by Virginia H. Aksan Introduction Frank Castiglione, Ethan L. Menchinger and Veysel Şimşek Part 1: Ottoman Military and Society 1 Crime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden Age Linda T. Darling 2 The Trouble with Timārs: 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 Şakul 5 Drill and Discipline as a Civilizing Process: The Genesis of the Modern Soldier in the Ottoman Empire, 1789–1826 Fatih Yeşil 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 Şimşek 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 Sekbanbaşı Debate Revisited Ethan L. Menchinger and Aysel Yıldız 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 Mamlūk 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‘āf-nāme)” Dated 1015/1606 for the Karaite Descendants of Fātima Hātūn, kira of Hafsa Sultan, the Mother of Süleymān 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 İzmir (1797): “Anti-Greek,” or a More Complex Dynamic? Feryal Tansuğ 22 Nationality and Sect in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Iraq Dina Rizk Khoury Index
