The Janissaries Of Damascus In The Sixteenth Century Or How Conquering A Province Changed

Author : Linda T. Darling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3868933085

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The Janissaries of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century, Or, how Conquering a Province Changed by Linda T. Darling Pdf

After the Ottoman conquest of Syria in 1516, the Janissaries of Damascus were employed to meet the manpower needs of further campaigns in Iran, Cyprus, and particularly Yemen. The recruitment of the necessary troops beyond the dev?irme dramatically changed the character of the Janissary corps and eventually the empire as a whole. It transformed the Janissaries from an elite military unit of slave soldiers into an assemblage of men from diverse origins, slave and free, who performed a variety of functions for the empire in addition to waging war. This transformation affected the role of the Janissaries in Ottoman politics as well as their own concept of themselves and their role, generating shifts among social groups and changes in the way Ottomans regarded their empire. This study examines the change in military recruitment in Syria through the documents of the Ottoman government, showing how the actual beginning of this transformation differed from its description by contemporary writers of nasihatnameler.

Author : Stephan Conermann,Gül Şen
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847011521

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The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition by Stephan Conermann,Gül Şen Pdf

While the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk realm in 1516-17 doubtlessly changed the balance of political power in Egypt and Greater Syria, the changes must be seen as a wide-ranging transition process. The present collection of essays provides several case studies on the changing situation during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and explains how the reconfiguration of political power affected both Egypt and Greater Syria. With reference to the first volume (2017), this second volume continues the debate on key issues of the transition period with contributions by scholars from both Mamluk and Ottoman studies. By combining these perspectives, the authors provide a more comprehensive and nuanced picture of the process of transformation from Mamluk to Ottoman rule.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004545809

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“Buyurdum ki....” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

This book is dedicated to Claudia Römer and brings together 33 contributions spanning a period from the 15th to the 20th century and covering the wide range of topics with which the honouree is engaged. The volume is divided into six parts that present current research on language, literature, and style as well as newer approaches and perspectives in dealing with sources and terminologies. Aspects such as conquest, administration, and financing of provinces are found as well as problems of endowments and the circulation of goods in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Another main topic is dedicated to minorities and their role and situation in various provinces and cities of the Ottoman Empire, as represented by various sources. But also topics like conversion, morality and control are illuminated. Finally, the volume provides an insight into the late Ottoman and early republican period, in which some previously unpublished sources (such as travel letters, memoirs) are presented and (re)discussed. The book is not only aimed at scholars and students of the Ottoman Empire; the thematic range is also of interest to linguists, historians, and cultural historians.

Author : Rudi Matthee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197754658

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Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door by Rudi Matthee Pdf

Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess--whether sultans and shahs in their palaces, or commoners in taverns run by Jews or Christians. This evocative study delves into drinking's many historic, literary and social manifestations in Islam, going beyond references to 'hypocrisy' or the temptations of 'forbidden fruit'. Rudi Matthee argues that alcohol, through its 'absence' as much as its presence, takes us to the heart of Islam. Exploring the long history of this faith--from the eight-century Umayyad dynasty to Erdogan's Turkey, and from Islamic Spain to modern Pakistan--he unearths a tradition of diversity and multiplicity in which Muslims drank, and found myriad excuses to do so. They celebrated wine and used it as a poetic metaphor, even viewing alcohol as a gift from God--the key to unlocking eternal truth. Drawing on a plethora of sources, Matthee presents Islam not as an austere and uncompromising faith, but as a set of beliefs and practices that embrace ambivalence, allowing for ambiguity and even contradiction.

Author : Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755638284

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Women in the Ottoman Empire by Suraiya Faroqhi Pdf

It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world, as in most empires, there were 'first-class' and 'second class' subjects. Among the townspeople, peasants and nomads subject to the sultans, who might be Muslims or non-Muslims, adult Muslim males were first-class subjects and all others, including Muslim boys and women, were of the second class. As for the female members of the elite, while less privileged than the males, in some respects their life chances might be better than those of ordinary women. Even so, they shared the risks of pregnancy, childbirth and epidemic diseases with townswomen of the subject class and to a certain extent, with village women as well. Thus, the study of Ottoman women is indispensable for understanding Ottoman society in general. In this book, the agency of women from a diverse range of class, religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds is, for the first time, woven into the social and political history of the Ottoman Empire, from the early-modern period to its dissolution in 1918. Suraiya Faroqhi charts the history of elite and non-elite women in thematic chapters concentrating on urban women, family life, work, slavery, education and survival in times of war. In the process the book introduces readers to the key sources, primary and secondary, necessary to reconstruct and understand the ways that females navigated social, legal and economic constraints, through the central prisms of family relations, work and charity. The first introductory social history of women in the Ottoman Empire, and including a timeline and extended further reading section, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Ottoman history and the history of women in the Middle East.

Author : Gül Şen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004510418

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Making Sense of History by Gül Şen Pdf

In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle

Author : Stephan Conermann,Gül Şen
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847010371

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Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire by Stephan Conermann,Gül Şen Pdf

Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire offers a new contribution to slavery studies relating to the Ottoman Empire. Given the fact that the classical binary of 'slavery' and 'freedom' derives from the transatlantic experience, this volume presents an alternative approach by examining the strong asymmetric relationships of dependency documented in the Ottoman Empire. A closer look at the Ottoman social order discloses manifold and ambiguous conditions involving enslavement practices, rather than a single universal pattern. The authors examine various forms of enslavement and dependency with a particular focus on agency, i. e. the room for maneuver, which the enslaved could secure for themselves, or else the available options for action in situations of extreme individual or group dependencies.

Author : Muḥammad ʻAdnān Bakhīt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Damascus (Syria)
ISBN : UOM:39015010757923

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The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century by Muḥammad ʻAdnān Bakhīt Pdf

Author : Muhammad Adnan Bakhit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0866853227

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Ottoman Province of Damascus in the 16th Century by Muhammad Adnan Bakhit Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004413146

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Ottoman War and Peace by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466829305

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Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.

Author : Jane Hathaway,Karl Barbir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875628

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The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule by Jane Hathaway,Karl Barbir Pdf

In this seminal study, Jane Hathaway presents a wide-ranging reassessment of the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq and Yemen - the first of its kind in over forty years. Challenging outmoded perceptions of this period as a demoralizing prelude to the rise of Arab nationalism and Arab nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hathaway depicts an era of immense social, cultural, economic and political change which helped to shape the foundations of today's modern Middle and Near East. Taking full advantage of a wide range of Arabic and Ottoman primary sources, she examines the changing fortunes of not only the political elite but also the broader population of merchants, shopkeepers, peasants, tribal populations, religious scholars, women, and ethnic and religious minorities who inhabited this diverse and volatile region. With masterly concision and clarity, Hathaway guides the reader through all the key current approaches to and debates surrounding Arab society during this period. This is far more than just another political history; it is a global study which offers an entirely new perspective on the era and region as a whole.

Author : Bethwell A. Ogot
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0435948113

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Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century by Bethwell A. Ogot Pdf

The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization. Each volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a comprehensive bibliography. This fifth volume of the acclaimed series covers the history of the continent from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the close of the eighteenth century in which two themes emerge: first, the continuing internal evolution of the states and cultures of Africa during this period second, the increasing involvement of Africa in external trade--with major but unforeseen consequences for the whole world. In North Africa, we see the Ottomans conquer Egypt. South of the Sahara, some of the larger, older states collapse, and new power bases emerge. Traditional religions continue to coexist with both Christianity (suffering setbacks) and Islam (in the ascendancy). Along the coast, particularly of West Africa, Europeans establish a trading network which, with the development of New World plantation agriculture, becomes the focus of the international slave trade. The immediate consequences of this trade for Africa are explored, and it is argued that the long-term global consequences include the foundation of the present world-economy with all its built-in inequalities.

Author : Fred Skolnik,Michael Berenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic reference sources
ISBN : UOM:39015066818793

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Encyclopaedia Judaica: Ja-Kas by Fred Skolnik,Michael Berenbaum Pdf

Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.

Author : Wantje Fritschy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004341289

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Public Finance of the Dutch Republic in Comparative Perspective by Wantje Fritschy Pdf

This study offers an overview of the development and structure of the remarkable public finances of the Dutch Republic. Comparisons with the Venetian Republic, Britain and the Ottoman Empire underline the importance of ‘urbanization trajectories’ in understanding differences in fiscal performance.