Schedule of class meetings & readings

Topics in Ottoman history G57.2680.001 / G77.2680.-001 Fall 2006 Tuesdays 2-4:45pm, Kevorkian LL2 Leslie Peirce, 604 King Juan Carlos, leslie.peirce@...
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Topics in Ottoman history

G57.2680.001 / G77.2680.-001 Fall 2006 Tuesdays 2-4:45pm, Kevorkian LL2 Leslie Peirce, 604 King Juan Carlos, [email protected], tel: 8-8646 Office hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30 & by appointment

course description This course is intended to provide a broad overview of the political and social cultures of the Ottoman period. The unit of analysis is “empire”—not just imperial institutions or the culture of the ruling class, but also, perhaps more importantly, relations of power and understandings of rights and responsibilities that, arguably, facilitated initiative by groups traditionally viewed as marginal (e.g. non-Muslims, women, peasants, etc). The course aims to keep an eye on the broad geographical range of the empire in an attempt to rectify its usual classification as a “Middle Eastern” polity, which it became only over the course of the 19th century. This orientation raises, in turn, the challenging question of how and how much Islam influenced governance and the organization of society. The course serves as an introduction to the field of Ottoman studies, while at the same time it aims to provide an opportunity for more in-depth study to students with previous exposure to pre-modern Ottoman history; for most weeks, alternate or additional readings will be suggested. We will explore a number of themes and debates as they are treated in recent influential books and articles. Among the topics examined are the perennial debate about Ottoman origins; the shifting ideologies and mechanics of empire; Muslim religious cultures and controversies; legal & medical views of sexuality and gender; religious communal experiences and relations; late 19th-century imperial initiatives. Most class sessions will center on discussion of the week’s assigned reading. Occasionally there will be reports on other readings. Preparation for discussion will take two forms, a one-page reaction to the week’s reading or questions for discussion of the reading; reactions/questions are to be emailed to all members of the class by 10 a.m. on Tuesday and read by all before class. Each student will write a final paper of 15-20 pages, due December 19; as preparation for the final paper, 1) make an appointment with me by 11/27 to discuss ideas and bibliography and 2) submit a two-page abstract and preliminary bibligraphy by December 8 (this latter counts 10% of the final paper grade). Readings will be in English, although students are encouraged to use relevant languages in the research for their final papers

Schedule of class meetings & readings week one 9/5 – overview Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire 1700-1923

R (Bobst Reserve), B (bookstore)

Alternate/additional reading: Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire B

week two 9/12 - early history, modern historiographic debate Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds:The Construction of the Ottoman State R, B See addendum for alternate/additional readings

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week three 9/19 – imperial institutions and practices Colin Imber, The Ottoman Empire 1300-1650: Structure of Power R (Amazon, B&N) nb Chapter one, a long chronology, is optional; it’s useful for reference. Alternate/additional reading: chapter bibliographies, TBA

week four 9/26 – memalik-i mahruse, the domains of the empire Independent work: each student will choose a piece of the empire, learn about the circumstances of its conquest/incorporation into the empire, its social demography, its “role” within the whole, its “extra-Ottoman” regional contacts/economic & cultural links, etc. I will help with bibliography. Assignment: write 3 pages on your “domain” & prepare a brief report to be given in class. You may wish to comment on any historigraphical politics that you encounter in your search. Possibilities: Constantinople, Serbia, Bosnia, Greece, Hungary and/or Transylvania, Ragusa/Dubrovnik, the Crimea, North Africa, Egypt, Syria/Palestine, Lebanon, central/eastern Anatolia, Iraq, Yemen, Crete

week five 10/3 – fatigue of empire and the writing of history Cornell Fleischer, Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: the historian Mustafa Âli (1541-1600)i

week six 10/10 -- religious controversies of the 16th & 17th centuries Articles by M. Zilfi, D. Legall, M. Baer, D. Terzioğlu, L. Peirce Kâtip Çelebi, The Balance of Truth, exerpts

week seven 10/17 -- the so-called crisis of the 17th century Articles & chapters by S. Faroqui, G. Piterberg, B. Tezcan, K. Barkey

week eight 10/24 – TBD Possibilities: urban cultures, provincial landscapes, Ottoman empire & global relations

week nine 10/31 – law and gender Judith Tucker, In the House of the Law: gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine Leslie Peirce, MoralityTales: Law and gender in the court of Aintab

week ten 11/7 – sexuality and cultural change Dror Ze`evi, Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 [due out 10/2006]

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week eleven 11/14 – Jewish experiences in Ottoman domains Articles & chapters by B. Braude, A. Cohen, H. Gerber, D. Zeevi, others

week twelve 11/28 – Balkan Christians and Ottoman rule Articles & chapters by R. Gradeva, S. Ivanova, A. Anastasopoulos, A. Fotič, others

week thirteen 12/5 – communal tensions and 19th-century realities Bruce Masters, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab world : the roots of sectarianism

week fourteen 12/12 -- “renovatio” in the late Ottoman empire TBD:

Eugene Rogan, Frontiers of the state in the late Ottoman Empire : Transjordan, 1850-1921

OR Selim Deringil, The well-protected domains : ideology and the legitimation of power in the Ottoman empire, 1879-1909

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Alternate/additional readings for week two other interpretations of the early state

Heath Lowry, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State R Any of the histories discussed by Kafadar: Köprülü, Wittek, Lindner

(actually) constructing the Ottoman state

The Ottoman Emirate (1300-1389), ed. E. Zachariadou R Halil İnalcık, Part One in Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, ed. H. İnalcık & D. Quataert R

economic & fiscal questions

Kate Fleet, Europe and Islamic trade in the early Ottoman state: The merchants of Genoa and Turkey R Şevket Pamuk, A monetary history of the Ottoman Empire R

other [hi]stories, outsider views

Marko the Prince : Serbo-Croat heroic songs, trans. Anne Pennington and Peter Levi (Bobst PG1465 .M3 1984) Johannes Schiltberger, The Bondage and Travel of Johann Schiltberger : a native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 Bertrandon de la Broquiere [not in Bobst]

religious and cultural ambiance in late Byzantine/Seljuk times

Eflaki, Menakib ul-`Arifin [hagiographic history of Jalal al-Din Rumî & his followers], trans. John O’Kane, The Feats of the Knowers of God Manakib-i Haci Bektâs-i Veli, "Vilâyet-nâme" , ed. Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı [Turkish] G.Arnakis, “Gregory Palamas among the Turks and Documents of his Captivity as Historical Sources.” Speculum 26 (January 1951): 104-118. F.W. Hasluck, Christianity and Islam under the Sultans (2 vols.) [1929] Speros Vryonis Jr. The decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of Islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century Ahmet Karamustafa, God's unruly friends : dervish groups in the Islamic later middle period, 1200-1550

E.S. Wolper, “Khidr, Elwan Celebi and the Conversion of Sacred Sanctuaries in Anatolia.” The Muslim World 90, no. 3-4 (fall 2000). 309-322. _____, Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia.

studies by Nicolas Vatin

L'Ordre de Saint-Jean-de Jérusalem, l'Empire ottoman et la Méditerranée orientale entre les deux sièges de Rhodes, 1480-1522 Sultan Djem: un prince ottoman dans l’Europe du XVe siècle d’après deux sources

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hathaway dankoff evliya

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