{"product_id":"the-ottoman-world-9780520303430","title":"The Ottoman World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ottoman lands, which extended from modern Hungary to the Arabian peninsula, were home to a vast population with a rich variety of cultures. The Ottoman World is the first primary source reader to bring a wide and diverse set of voices across Ottoman society into the classroom. Written in many languagesnot only Ottoman Turkish but also Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and Persianthese texts, here translated, 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 a state-centric approach to Ottoman history. In addition, samples from court registers, legends, biographical accounts, hagiographies, short stories, witty anecdotes, jokes, and lampoons provide exciting glimpses into popular mindsets in Ottoman society. By reflecting new directions in the scholarship with an innovative choice of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Letters of an Insecure Scholar, 1553 \u003cbr\u003e Zaifi, d. after 1557\u003cbr\u003e Translated by A. Tunç Şen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Adversities at Sea: From Basra to Gujarat, 1554\u003cbr\u003e Seydi Ali Reis, d. 1562\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Ármin Vámbéry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 Memoirs of an Ottoman Captive in Malta, 1597–98 \u003cbr\u003e Macuncuzade Mustafa, d. ca. Early Seventeenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Helga Anetshofer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Excommunication of a Greek Orthodox Priest, ca. 1642\u003cbr\u003e Synadinos of Serres, d. after 1662\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Konrad Petrovszky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Dream Letters of a Sufi Woman in Skopje, 1640s\u003cbr\u003e Asiye Hatun, d. Second Half of Seventeenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Leslie Schick and Cemal Kafadar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 Diary of a Sufi Sheikh in Plague-Ridden Istanbul, 1661\u003cbr\u003e Seyyid Hasan Nuri, d. 1688\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Mary Işın\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 Ramblings of an Eccentric Sufi Exiled on Limnos, ca. Early 1680s\u003cbr\u003e Niyazi-i Mısri, d. 1694\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Hakan T. Karateke and Ferenc Csirkés\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 Adventures of an Ottoman Officer in Captivity, 1690–99\u003cbr\u003e Osman Agha of Timişoara, Written ca. 1724\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Hakan T. Karateke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9 The Trial of a Heretic, 1527\u003cbr\u003e Told by Celalzade Mustafa, d. 1567\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Kaya Şahin and Cornell H. Fleischer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10 The Life and Works of Two Mediocre Poets\u003cbr\u003e Told by  şık Çelebi, d. 1572\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Douglas Brookes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11 The Extraordinary Life Story of a Scholar\u003cbr\u003e Told by Mehmed Mecdi, d. 1591\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Helga Anetshofer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12 On Servants and Slaves\u003cbr\u003e Mustafa  li, d. 1600\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Douglas Brookes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13 Children and Youth\u003cbr\u003e Court Records, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e Selected by Yahya Araz; Translated by Hakan T. Karateke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14 Women at Courts of Law\u003cbr\u003e Court Records, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Hakan T. Karateke and N. İpek Hüner Cora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15 Prostitutes and Pimps \u003cbr\u003e Court Records and Imperial Council Registers, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Marinos Sariyannis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16 On Nocturnal Activities\u003cbr\u003e Court Records, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Hakan T. Karateke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 17 Impostors, Frauds, and Spies\u003cbr\u003e Various Documents, Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Christopher Markiewicz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18 The Madmen of Istanbul \u003cbr\u003e Evliya Çelebi, d. after 1683\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Hakan T. Karateke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19 Fetvas on Non-Muslims\u003cbr\u003e Various Grand Muftis, Sixteenth to Early Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Cornell Fleischer and Amir A. Toft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20 Conversion Among Ottoman Jews \u003cbr\u003e Responsa by Various Rabbis, Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Matt Goldish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21 Marriage and Divorce Among Ottoman Jews \u003cbr\u003e Responsa by Various Rabbis, Seventeenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22 News from Istanbul at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century\u003cbr\u003e The Chronicle of Selaniki\u003cbr\u003e Translated by H. Erdem Çıpa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 23 Propagating the Faith in Constantinople\u003cbr\u003e Catholic Missionary Reports, Seventeenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Paolo Girardelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 24 An Armenian Chronicle of Crimea\u003cbr\u003e Khachatur of Kaffa, d. 1658\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Naira Poghosyan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 25 On Revenants and Ghosts \u003cbr\u003e Various Documents, Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Marinos Sariyannis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 26 Miracles of an Anatolian Sufi Saint\u003cbr\u003e The Hagiography of Hacı Bektaş, ca. Late Fifteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Helga Anetshofer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 27 A Dispute Concerning Sufi Tombs, 1619\u003cbr\u003e Ömer Fuadi, d. 1636\u003cbr\u003e Translated by John Curry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 28 Preserving Public Health\u003cbr\u003e Court Records and Imperial Council Registers, Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Amir A. Toft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 29 Traditional Medicine for Everyday Ailments\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous, Late Fifteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Özgen Felek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 30 Snake Medicine and Snake Charming in Cairo\u003cbr\u003e Evliya Çelebi, d. after 1683\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 31 On Smoking Tobacco\u003cbr\u003e Abdulmalik al-Isami, d. 1628; Katib Çelebi, d. 1657\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Basil Salem and Geoffrey Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 32 Divining Past, Present, and Future in the Sand\u003cbr\u003e A Geomantic Miscellany, ca. Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Matthew Melvin-Koushki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 33 Reading Character by Appearance\u003cbr\u003e The Book of Physiognomy, Hamdullah Hamdi, d. 1503\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Helga Anetshofer and Hakan T. Karateke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 34 Religious Guidance for Hunters\u003cbr\u003e Ebu Bekr el-Kızılhisari, ca. Late Seventeenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Christopher Markiewicz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 35 Cultivating the Land\u003cbr\u003e The Splendor of the Garden, Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Hakan T. Karateke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 36 Wonders of Art and Nature\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous, Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Ido Ben-Ami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 37 On the Natural Advantages of Edirne\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous, Late Fifteenth to Early Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Amy Singer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 38 The Legend of the Construction of Constantinople\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous, Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Dimitris J. Kastritsis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 39 On the Construction of the Pyramids, ca. 1545\u003cbr\u003e Celalzade Salih, d. 1565\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Giancarlo Casale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 40 An Ode to Istanbul\u003cbr\u003e Eremia Keomurchean Çelebi, d. 1695\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Henry Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 41 Passion and Murder on the Bosphorus\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous Tıfli Story, Probably in Circulation During the Later\u003cbr\u003e Seventeenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Helga Anetshofer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 42 Stories of Guilt and Repentance\u003cbr\u003e Mehmed Nergisi, d. 1635\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Gisela Procházka-Eisl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 43 The Wiles of Women\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e Translated by N. İpek Hüner Cora and Helga Anetshofer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 44 Social Criticism and Invective in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e Various Poets, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Sooyong Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 45 Shrewd Witticisms by a Master Poet\u003cbr\u003e Zati’s Anecdotes, Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Helga Anetshofer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 46 Subversive Jokes Featuring a Folk Hero\u003cbr\u003e Nasreddin Hoca Jokes, Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Kathleen Burrill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402917552471,"sku":"9780520303430","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520303430.jpg?v=1730481841","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ottoman-world-9780520303430","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}