Summary of Suraiya Faroqhi’s The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It
Summary of Suraiya Faroqhi’s The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It

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Published: 2022-04-15

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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Suraiya Faroqhi’s The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It (2004) is a study of a vast Muslim empire that once controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. Suraiya Faroqhi offers an extensive analysis of its political developments, military encounters, and cultural and religious connections with both Muslim and non-Muslim neighbors. She focuses mostly on the years between 1560 and 1774, but also covers other important events in an empire that endured from the fourteenth century to the early twentieth.

The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it
The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-12-20

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0857730231

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In Islamic law the world was made up of the 'House of Islam' and the 'House of War' with the Ottoman Sultan - successor to the early Caliphs - as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in this ground-breaking study of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no 'iron curtain' between the Ottoman and 'other' worlds but rather a long-established network of connections - diplomatic, trading and financial., cultural and religious. These extended beyond regional contacts to the empires of Asia and the burgeoning 'modern' states of Europe - England, France, the Netherlands and Venice. Of course, military conflict was a constant factor in these relationships, but the overriding reality was 'one world' and contact between cultured and pragmatic elites - even 'gentlemen travelling for pleasure' - as well as pilgrimage and close artistic contact with the European Renaissance. Faroqhi's book is based on a huge study of original and early modern sources, including diplomatic records, travel and geographical writing, as well as personal accounts. Its breadth and originality will make it essential reading for historians of Europe and the Middle East.

Approaching Ottoman History
Approaching Ottoman History

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-12-09

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780521666480

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Suraiya Faroqhi's scholarly contribution to the field of Ottoman history has been prodigious. Her latest book represents a summation of that scholarship, an introduction to the state-of-the-art in Ottoman history. In a compelling exploration of the ways that primary and secondary sources can be used to interpret history, the author reaches out to students and researchers in the field and in related disciplines to familiarise them with these documents. By considering both archival and narrative sources, she explains why they were prepared, encouraging her readers to adopt a critical approach to their findings, and disabusing them of the notion that everything recorded in official documents is necessarily true! While the book is essentially a guide to a complex discipline for those about to embark upon their research, the experienced Ottomanist will find much that is original and provocative in its sophisticated interpretation of the field.

The Ottoman and Mughal Empires
The Ottoman and Mughal Empires

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2019-08-08

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1788313666

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For many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insulated from the outside world, except when it came to 'campaigns and conquests' on the one hand, and 'incorporation into the European-dominated world economy' on the other. However, now many scholars have come to accept that the Ottoman Empire was one of the - not very numerous - long-lived 'world empires' that have emerged in history. This comparative social history compares the Ottoman to another of the great world empires, that of the Mughals in the Indian subcontinent, exploring source criticism, diversities in the linguistic and religious fields as political problems, and the fates of ordinary subjects including merchants, artisans, women and slaves.

Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire
Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2016-10-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781784536367

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It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities--since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legitimately leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel. However Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that this was not the case. Pious men from all walks of life went on pilgrimage to Mecca, slaves fled from their masters and craftspeople travelled in search of work. Faroqhi shows that even those craftsmen who did not travel extensively had some level of mobility and that the Ottoman sultans and viziers, who spent so much effort in attempting to control the movements of their subjects, could do so only within often very narrow limits. Challenging existing historiography and providing an important new perspective, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Ottoman history.

A Cultural History of the Ottomans
A Cultural History of the Ottomans

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-05-24

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0857727826

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Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this vast empire illustrate the real and everyday concerns of its subjects and elites and, with this in mind, Suraiya Faroqhi, one of the most distinguished Ottomanists of her generation, has selected 40 of the most revealing, surprising and striking.Each image - reproduced in full colour - is deftly linked to the latest historiography, and the social, political and economic implications of her selections are never forgotten. In Faroqhi's hands, the objects become ways to learn more about trade, gender and socio-political status and open an enticing window onto the variety and colour of everyday life, from the Sultan's court, to the peasantry and slavery. Amongst its faiences and etchings and its sofras and carpets, A Cultural History of the Ottomans is essential reading for all those interested in the Ottoman Empire and its material culture. Faroqhi here provides the definitive insight into the luxuriant and varied artefacts of Ottoman world.

Bread from the Lion's Mouth
Bread from the Lion's Mouth

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1782385592

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The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries. The guilds transformed and eventually dissolved as they were increasingly co-opted by modernization and state-building projects, and by the movement of manufacturing to the countryside. In consequence by the 20th century, many artisans had to confront the forces of capitalism and world trade without significant protection, just as the Ottoman Empire was itself in the process of dissolution.

Pilgrims and Sultans
Pilgrims and Sultans

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Published: 2014-03-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781780767710

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The pilgrimage to Mecca - the hajj - is a major aspect of the Islamic religion, yet little has been written about its history or of the conditions under which thousands of pilgrims from far flung regions of the Islamic world traveled to the heart of the Arabian peninsula. This pioneering book concentrates on the pilgrimage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Mecca was ruled by the Ottoman sultans. At a time when, for the majority of the faithful, the journey was long, arduous and fraught with danger, the provision of food, water, shelter and protection for pilgrims presented a major challenge to the provincial governors of the vast Ottoman Empire. Drawing on rich documentation left by Ottoman administrators and on the accounts of contemporary pilgrims, Suraiya Faroqhi here sheds new light on the trials and experiences of everyday life for those undertaking the hajj.

Artisans of Empire
Artisans of Empire

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848859609

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The manufacture and trade in crafted goods and the men and women who were involved in this industry - including metalworkers, ceramicists, silk weavers, fez-makers, blacksmiths and even barbers - lay at the social as well as the economic heart of the Ottoman empire. This comprehensive history, by leading Ottoman historian Suraiya Faroqhi, presents the definitive view of the subject, from the production and distribution of different craft objects to their use and enjoyment within the community. Faroqhi sheds new light on all aspects of artisan life, setting the concerns of individual craftsmen within the context of the broader cultural themes that connect them to the wider world. Combining social, cultural, economic, religious and historical insights, this will be the authoritative work on Ottoman artisans and guilds for many years to come.

Celebration, Entertainment and Theatre in the Ottoman World
Celebration, Entertainment and Theatre in the Ottoman World

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780857420442

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Celebration, Entertainment and Theatre in the Ottoman World gathers twenty-four original essays exploring a broad range of historical performances in the Ottoman Empire. Offering a reappraisal of research on Ottoman festivities, celebrations and entertainment, the volume also examines the European-style theater that flourished in Istanbul during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Contributors address issues such as the use of Istanbul's public space in celebrations, the possibilities for "having fun" in a small Aegean town, and the role of the Ottoman Sultans in promoting both art forms and public amusement. Other essays focus on the connections between puppet theater and early Ottoman comedies, the performance of Ottoman and foreign-style music in Istanbul and the everlasting problems of the sultans' censors. By exploring festivals, ceremonies, and entertainments in their historical context, these essays provide a new approach to historical performances in the age of the Ottoman Empire.--Amazon.com.