{"product_id":"ottoman-war-and-peace-studies-in-honor-of-virginia-h-aksan-9789004413139","title":"Ottoman War and Peace: Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe articles compiled in Ottoman War \u0026amp; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210785284439,"sku":"9789004413139","price":133.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ottoman-war-and-peace-studies-in-honor-of-virginia-h-aksan-9789004413139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}