Making a Living in the Ottoman Lands, 1480 to 1820
Author: Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
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Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire
Author: Mehrdad Kia
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-08-17
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a general overview of the daily life in a vast empire which contained numerous ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. The Ottoman Empire was an Islamic imperial monarchy that existed for over 600 years. At the height of its power in the 16th and 17th centuries, it encompassed three continents and served as the core of global interactions between the east and the west. And while the Empire was defeated after World War I and dissolved in 1920, the far-reaching effects and influences of the Ottoman Empire are still clearly visible in today's world cultures. Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire allows readers to gain critical insight into the pluralistic social and cultural history of an empire that ruled a vast region extending from Budapest in Hungary to Mecca in Arabia. Each chapter presents an in-depth analysis of a particular aspect of daily life in the Ottoman Empire.
Society and Politics in an Ottoman Town
Author: Hülya Canbakal
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9004154566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph provides a fresh insight into society, urban government and elite power in a little-studied region of the Ottoman Empire bridging Anatolia and Syria.
Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768
Author: Molly Greene
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-07-23
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0748694005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume considers the period of Ottoman rule in Greek history in light of changing scholarship about this era and makes it accessible for the first time to a wider audience.
The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo
Author: Paul M. Love, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-09-30
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1009254308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul M. Love, Jr. explores the history of the minority Ibadi Muslim community in Cairo from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Using a unique range of sources, Love both illuminates the events of Egyptian history and highlights the role of the Ibadis in shaping political, religious, and commercial life in Ottoman-era Cairo.
Jews in the Realm of the Sultans
Author: Yaron Ben-Naeh
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9783161495236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJewish society in the Ottoman Empire has not been the subject of systematic research. The seventeenth century is the main object of this study, since it was a formative era. For Ottoman Jews, the 'Ottoman century' constituted an era of gradual acculturation to changing reality, parallel to the changing character of the Ottoman state. Continuous changes and developments shaped anew the character of this Jewry, the core of what would later become known as 'Sephardi Jewry'.Yaron Ben-Naeh draws from primary and secondary Hebrew, Ottoman, and European sources, the image of Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire. In the chapters he leads the reader from the overall urban framework to individual aspects. Beginning with the physical environment, he moves on to discuss their relationships with the majority society, followed by a description and analysis of the congregation, its organization and structure, and from there to the character of Ottoman Jewish society and its nuclear cell - the family. Special emphasis is placed throughout the work on the interaction with Muslim society and the resulting acculturation that affected all aspects and all levels of Jewish life in the Empire. In this, the author challenges the widespread view that sees this community as being stagnant and self-segregated, as well as the accepted concept of a traditional Jewish society under Islam.
The Ottoman Empire [2 volumes]
Author: Mehrdad Kia
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume reference provides university and high school students—and the general public—with a wealth of information on one of the most important empires the world has ever known. Arranged in topical sections, this two-volume encyclopedia will help students and general readers alike delve into the fascinating story of an empire that continues to influence the world despite having been dissolved almost 100 years ago. Detailed entries describe the people, careers, and major events that played a central role in the history of the Ottoman Empire, covering both internal developments in Ottoman society and the empire's relationship with the powerful forces that surrounded it. Readers and researchers will find information pertaining to archaeology, geography, art history, ethnology, sociology, economics, religion, philosophy, mysticism, science and medicine, international relations, and numerous other areas of study. Many of the entries are enriched with material from Turkish and Persian primary sources written by courtiers, authors, and historians who were present at the time of major military campaigns or other important events in Ottoman history. These and other annotated primary documents will give students the opportunity to analyze events and will promote critical thinking skills. The language used throughout is accessible and based on the assumption that the reader is not familiar with the long, rich, and complex history of the Ottoman state.
Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire
Author: Madeline Zilfi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-22
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0521515831
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Biography of an Empire
Author: Christine M. Philliou
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0520266331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories—ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine Philliou brilliantly shines a new light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man. Stephanos Vogorides (1780–1859) was part of a network of Christian elites known phanariots, institutionally excluded from power yet intimately bound up with Ottoman governance. By tracing the contours of the wide-ranging networks—crossing ethnic, religious, and institutional boundaries—in which the phanariots moved, Philliou provides a unique view of Ottoman power and, ultimately, of the Ottoman legacies in the Middle East and Balkans today. What emerges is a wide-angled analysis of governance as a lived experience at a moment in which there was no clear blueprint for power.
The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands
Author: Alfred J. Rieber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-20
Total Pages: 651
ISBN-13: 1139867962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the Eurasian borderlands as contested 'shatter zones' which have generated some of the world's most significant conflicts. Analyzing the struggles of Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian and Qing empires, Alfred J. Rieber surveys the period from the rise of the great multicultural, conquest empires in the late medieval/early modern period to their collapse in the early twentieth century. He charts how these empires expanded along moving, military frontiers, competing with one another in war, diplomacy and cultural practices, while the subjugated peoples of the borderlands strove to maintain their cultures and to defend their autonomy. The gradual and fragmentary adaptation of Western constitutional ideas, military reforms, cultural practices and economic penetration began to undermine these ruling ideologies and institutions, leading to the collapse of all five empires in revolution and war within little more than a decade between 1911 and 1923.
