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E571 | Emre Can Dağlıoğlu’nun Arapların 1915’i: Soykırım, Kimlik, Coğrafya başlıklı derlemesine (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2022) odaklanan bu bölüm, 1915’i Osmanlı ve Osmanlı sonrası Arap dünyası bağlamında ele almanın önemine işaret ediyor. Hem soykırımı hem de 1915 sonrasını bölgenin siyasal, toplumsal ve çevresel krizleri içinde konumlandıran çalışma, Arap vilayetlerine sürülen Ermenilerin karşılaştıkları politikaları, hayatta kalma stratejilerini, Arap toplumları ve coğrafyasıyla kurdukları karmaşık ilişkileri inceleyen makalelerden oluşuyor. Bu podcastte, bu çalışmaların soykırımın tarihyazımında açtığı yeni pencereleri detaylandırırken 1915’i sabit bir kırılma anı olarak görmek yerine, farklı yerel dinamikler ve ilişkiler çerçevesinde zamansal ve mekânsal olarak genişleyen bir perspektifle ele almanın imkânları üzerine de sohbet ediyoruz. https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/03/daglioglu.htmlEmre Can Dağlıoğlu Stanford Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde doktora adayı. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Kültürel Çalışmalar Bölümü ve Clark Üniversitesi Holokost ve Soykırım Çalışmaları Bölümü’nde lisansüstü çalışmaları yaptı. Geç dönem Osmanlı ve Türkiye tarihinde egemen olmayan gruplar üzerinde çeşitli makaleler yayınladı. Halihazırda, geç dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda finansal kontrolün metalar, finansal ağlar, sosyo-politik ilişkiler ve çevresel dönüşüm üzerindeki etkileri üzerine çalışıyor. Ayrıca, Orta Doğu sol tarihi üzerine düşünmeyi seviyor. Nehna’nın kurucularından.Can Gümüş doktora derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü’nden 2025 yılında aldı. Can’ın geç dönem Osmanlı İstanbul'unda hijyen, kentsel dönüşüm ve yönetişim arasındaki bağlantıları araştıran doktora tezi, İstanbul’u sıhhileştirme çabalarının kentin kendine özgü sosyo-politik ve coğrafi bağlamı içinde farklı aktörlerin birbiriyle ilişkileri çerçevesinde gerçekleştiğini göstermeyi amaçlar. Araştırma alanları kentsel çevre tarihi, halk sağlığı tarihi ve tıp tarihini kapsamaktadır. Hâlihazırda Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde modern Türkiye tarihi dersleri veren Can, OHP ekibine 2018 yılında katılmıştır. Önder Eren Akgül Northwestern Üniversitesi Keyman Modern Türk Çalışmaları programında doktora sonrası araştırmacısı ve geç Osmanlı döneminde kriz, kapitalizm ve mülksüzleştirme nizamı üzerine kitap çalışmasına odaklanıyor. Doktora derecesini 2022 yılında Georgetown Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünden aldı. YAPIM VE YAYINBölüm No: 571Kayıt yeri: Kurtuluş, İstanbulYayın tarihi: 13 Mart 2025Ses Editörü: Can GümüşMüzik: Komitas, Al Ayloughs and Komitas, Hov Arek
Aslıhan Gürbüzel
Sunucu: Can Gümüş
| Bu bölümde, Doç. Dr. Aslıhan Gürbüzel’in bu sene başında University of California Press’ten çıkan kitabı “Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600–1700” başlıklı kitabı temelinde Osmanlı’da kamusal siyasetin oluşumunu tartışıyoruz. Kitap, Osmanlı’da devlet inşası sürecinin bir parçası olarak devletin artan merkezî gücüne, genişleyen bir kamusal siyasetin eşlik ettiğine işaret ediyor; erken modern dönemin aktif yurttaş oluşumunu görmek açısından kritik bir öneme sahip olduğunun altını çiziyor. Bu sohbette, söz konusu dönemdeki çoğul kamusal alanların katılımcılarını tanıyıp devletle ilişkilerini incelerken, Osmanlı örneğinin kamusal alan tartışmaları ve araştırmalarına sunduğu katkıları detaylandırıyoruz.
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E549 | Bu bölümde, Doç. Dr. Aslıhan Gürbüzel’in bu sene başında University of California Press’ten çıkan kitabı “Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600–1700” başlıklı kitabı temelinde Osmanlı’da kamusal siyasetin oluşumunu tartışıyoruz. Kitap, Osmanlı’da devlet inşası sürecinin bir parçası olarak devletin artan merkezî gücüne, genişleyen bir kamusal siyasetin eşlik ettiğine işaret ediyor; erken modern dönemin aktif yurttaş oluşumunu görmek açısından kritik bir öneme sahip olduğunun altını çiziyor. Bu sohbette, söz konusu dönemdeki çoğul kamusal alanların katılımcılarını tanıyıp devletle ilişkilerini incelerken, Osmanlı örneğinin kamusal alan tartışmaları ve araştırmalarına sunduğu katkıları detaylandırıyoruz.
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Aslıhan Gürbüzel, McGill Üniversitesi’nde Osmanlı Çalışmaları doçentidir. Aynı üniversitede Osmanlı tarihi ve modern Türkiye üzerine dersler veren Gürbüzel’in “Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600–1700” [Mesih’i Ehlileştirmek: Osmanlı Kamusal Siyasetinin Oluşumu, 1600-1700] başlıklı kitabı Ocak 2023’te University of California Press’ten yayımlanmıştır.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
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Bölüm No: 549 Kayıt yeri: İstanbul / Montreal Yayın tarihi: 12 Eylül 2023 Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş & Chris Gratien Müzik: DÜNYA - Ferahfeza Peşrev Kaynakça Aslıhan Gürbüzel müsaadesiyle
E548 | What can we learn about the late Ottoman Empire from the histories of its would-be margins? In this episode, we explore that question in multiple senses through a conversation with longtime Ottoman History Podcast contributor Sam Dolbee about his book "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East." The book studies the dynamic history of the Jazira region, which straddles the modern borders of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. From the Tanzimat-era reordering of the Ottoman provinces to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of new nation-states, we discuss how the environment of the Jazira region and its people were both actors and objects in the remaking of the Middle East. Building out from the changing lives of locusts, grasshoppers that intermittently imposed themselves on the Jazira's history by devouring agricultural crops, Dolbee casts light onto communities of nomads and migrants often excluded from the empire's modern history. In the process, he shows how the people of Jazirah both made and resisted new administrative and national borders of the period.More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/dolbee.htmlSamuel Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His is author of Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East.Chris Gratien is Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century.Reem Bailony is an Associate Professor of Middle East history at Agnes Scott College and formerly an American Druze Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Her book “Syria’s Transnational Rebellion: Diaspora Politics and the Revolt of 1925-1927" explores how the Syrian-Lebanese diaspora shaped the anti-French rebellion.CREDITSEpisode No. 548Release Date: 31 May 2023Recording Location: Nashville, TNSound production by Chris GratienMusic: Zé TrigueirosImages and bibliography courtesy of Samual Dolbee
This episode is cross-listed with The Southeast Passage.
E537 | Since the 19th century, different forms of missionary activities and preaching have been shaping the role of religion within the societies of the Middle East and North Africa. Not only Christian congregations, but also Muslim and Jewish institutions participated in this phenomenon. Emulation but also competition existed across confessional boundaries and intersected with colonialism, wars, emancipation projects, and state authority. In this episode, we approach the galaxy of missions and preaching in the longue durée with the three editors of a recently published edited volume, Missions and Preaching: Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century).This episode is cross-listed with The Southeast Passage: http://thesoutheastpassage.com/More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/sep2023.htmlNorig Neveu is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)/ Iremam. Her present research focuses on the reconfiguration of Christian and Muslim religious authorities in Jordan and Palestine from the end of the 19th century. From 2017 to 2021, she was co-PI and coordinator of the MisSMO research program about Christian missions in the Middle East since the late 19th century (https://missmo.hypotheses.org/). Her last publication includes the Special Issue: “Gender and Mission”, Social Sciences and Missions, 34:1–2 (2021) with Séverine Gabry-Thienpont.Karène Sanchez Summerer is Professor and Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies Programme at Groningen University (The Netherlands). Her current research considers the interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies, missionaries’ modalities and impact and the Arab Catholic communities in Palestine (1860–1948). She is the PI of the research project (2017–2022), ‘CrossRoads—A connected history between Europeans’ cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Mandate Palestine’ (project funded by The Dutch Research Council NWO), and was co-PI of MisSMO. Her last publications include Sanchez Summerer, K. and Zananiri, S., Imaging and Imagining Palestine- Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens (1918–1948) (Leiden/ Boston: Brill, 2021); Irving, S., Nassif, C. and Sanchez Summerer, K., The House of the Priest. A Palestinian life (1885–1954) (Leiden/ Boston: Brill, 2022).Annalaura Turiano is a postdoctoral researcher within the Archival City Project at the University Gustave Eiffel (Marne-la-Vallée). Her research interests span missionary education, trans-Mediterranean migrations, and philanthropy in modern Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. Her last publications include “Masculinity, Industrial Education and Fascism in Egypt. The construction of gender in the schools of the Salesian mission in Egypt (1900–1939)”, Social Sciences and Missions, 24/2021: 1–32. She is currently finishing a monograph entitled Missionnaires italiens en Égypte. De la pastorale migratoire à la coopération technique 1897-1970, EFR/ IFAO, forthcoming 2023.CREDITSEpisode No. 537Release Date: 6 March 2023Sound production by Andreas Guidi
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with Laleh Khalili hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How did massive, modern shipping ports emerge from the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, and what they teach us about our present forms of global exchange? Combining historical research with site visits that included multiple voyages around the Arabian Peninsula, our guest Laleh Khalili sheds light on these questions in this two-part series on shipping and empire around the Arabian Peninsula. Through her investigation of the entangled realms of commerce, technology, and empire in the Indian Ocean world, Khalili shows how changes in any of one of them sparked associated changes in the others. In this second part, we focus on the period from the mid-20th century period when new centers of trade like Dubai vied to attract commerce and investment to their shores. As vessel size grew, so too did ports, whose construction and maintainence have remade coastal ecologies in the Gulf. We discuss the the impacts of armed conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic on shipping, as well as the recent shifts in global logistics that have arisen with the rise of large Middle East-based ports management firms. « Click for More »
with Wendy M. K. Shaw hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What is an image in Islam? Is its permissibility the main preoccupation of Islamic discourses? In this episode, Wendy M.K. Shaw revisits the foundations of art history and considers their colonial and Eurocentric roots. She discusses the stories of art and artists that circulated in the Islamic world, not all of which were accompanied with images, in order to understand what the role of art and the artist were conceived of the pre-modern Islamic world. Redefining concepts such as the image, perspective, art, and history, she sketches the alternative Islamic perceptual culture in which seeing with the ear and seeing with the heart are central to understanding this world as the manifestation of the divine. « Click for More »
with Özge Calafato hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What can family and individual studio photographs tell us about social life in the early Republic of Turkey? In this episode, Özge Calafato highlights the negotiations between the Kemalist state, the photographers, and the people being photographed that led to classed and gendered representation of modern Turkish citizens in vernacular photography. Calafato analyzes not only the image, but also the context of production and the inscriptions written behind photographs. Looking at photos of subjects as ranging from beauty queens and feminist activists to bank employees and soldiers, she considers the production and circulation of photos not only in urban studios and within families but also in rural areas and within friendship groups. « Click for More »
with Laleh Khalili hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How did massive, modern shipping ports emerge from the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, and what they teach us about our present forms of global exchange? Combining historical research with site visits that included multiple voyages around the Arabian Peninsula, our guest Laleh Khalili sheds light on these questions in this two-part series on shipping and empire around the Arabian Peninsula. Through her investigation of the entangled realms of commerce, technology, and empire in the Indian Ocean world, Khalili shows how changes in any of one of them sparked associated changes in the others. In this first part, we focus on the period from the 16th century Ottoman entry into the region until decolonization in the 20th century, covering topics including the Hajj, disease, steam engines, ship laborers, Anglo-Ottoman rivalries, and the retreat of the British Empire after the Second World War. « Click for More »
with Ian Nagoski hosted by Suzie Ferguson | Zabelle Panosian's ethereal music transfixed audiences from Boston to Paris in the early years of the twentieth century. Yet, by the 1960s, her work was all but forgotten. In this episode, we explore Panosian's life story and some of her exceptional music. What did it mean to leave behind an Ottoman homeland, only to watch the destruction of the 1915 Armenian genocide from afar? What was it like to be diva in Europe and an ambitious Armenian woman artist in the United States, only to be siloed into the category of "ethnic music" by major record labels as anti-immigrant sentiment rose? In this epsiode, we listen to many of Zabelle's songs to explore these questions and more with record producer and music researcher Ian Nagoski. Zabelle's story helps us to understand how and why 'serious artists' have been remembered or forgotten in the annals of American music, especially the immigrants among them. « Click for More »
Episode 529 with Jesse Howell & Marijana Mišević hosted by Sam Dolbee | In this special episode of the Ottoman History Podcast, Sam Dolbee and Jesse Howell travel by bike along the Ćiro Trail from Dubrovnik in Croatia to Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they meet fellow Ottoman historian Marijana Mišević. Along the way, they consider the legacy and traces of early modern Ottoman caravan roads across this space, as well as their intersections with the Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav, and more recent past. The episode is about mobility, memory, and the built environment. Also bicycles, friendship, and the journey. « Click for More »
Episode 528
hosted by the Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association and featuring over a dozen of our contributors past and present
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Even though Ottoman History Podcast has been producing weekly episodes for over a decade, the times when our recording team and contributors have been able to gather to reflect on and celebrate our work have been rare. In April 2022, the Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association hosted a Zoom event for the OHP contributors and listeners to talk about what we have been doing since the podcast launched in 2011 and discuss the role it has played in the broader development of our fields of study. Join us to learn more about the history of our program and put faces to the voices you have been listening to over these years. As always, thank you to our hundreds of contributors and thousands of listeners for making this decade of experience worthwhile. And check out our special list of suggestions for further listening below compiled based on the recommendations of those who were in attendance!
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Episode 527 with Richard Antaramian hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire's many geographies and communities? This episode explores that question through the experiences of Armenians in the Ottoman East. Our guest, Richard Antaramian, shares some of his research, which argues that Ottoman shared governance worked through networks of power that linked center to periphery and sustained relationships among notables of different confessions, classes, and locations. The Ottoman tax-farming system of the 18th century forged ties among central authorities, provincial notables, and Armenian financiers. As the Ottoman government embarked upon the modernizing reform projects of the late 1700s and 1800s, those forms of shared governence frayed. In the Ottoman East, the Armenian Patriarchate's attempts to enact new notions of reform saw major successes, with the establishment limited representative governance, a constitution, and new educational institutions. Yet, those successes came at the cost of weakening the ties between provincial Armenians and important power brokers like provincial notables and Kurdish tribal leaders. Ultimately, the Armenian Patriarchate's successes at reform translated into trouble for its newly-isolated flock in the empire's eastern borderlands. « Click for More »
E527 | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire's many geographies and communities? This episode explores that question through the experiences of Armenians in the Ottoman East. Our guest, Richard Antaramian, shares some of his research, which argues that Ottoman shared governance worked through networks of power that linked center to periphery and sustained relationships among notables of different confessions, classes, and locations. The Ottoman tax-farming system of the 18th century forged ties among central authorities, provincial notables, and Armenian financiers. As the Ottoman government embarked upon the modernizing reform projects of the late 1700s and 1800s, those forms of shared governence frayed. In the Ottoman East, the Armenian Patriarchate's attempts to enact new notions of reform saw major successes, with the establishment limited representative governance, a constitution, and new educational institutions. Yet, those successes came at the cost of weakening the ties between provincial Armenians and important power brokers like provincial notables and Kurdish tribal leaders. Ultimately, the Armenian Patriarchate's successes at reform translated into trouble for its newly-isolated flock in the empire's eastern borderlands.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/05/antaramian.html
Richard Antaramian is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California. His research interests include, among others, the history of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire.
Matthew Ghazarian is a Manoogian Research Fellow in the Center for Armenian Studies and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. His research examines the intersection of social, economic, and environmental history in the late Ottoman Empire.
CREDITS
Episode No. 527 Release Date: 4 May 2022 Sound production by Matthew Ghazarian "Um Pepino" by Blue Dot Sessions Images and bibliography courtesy of Richard Antaramian available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/05/antaramian.html
Episode 526 with Ozan Ozavci hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | How was European military intervention in the Ottoman Empire justified throughout the nineteenth century? What did Ottoman statesmen and subjects think of these would-be attemepts to provide them with more security? From the late eighteenth century, as a new international system was emerging, European powers considered the Ottoman Empire a weaker foil to their own expanding empires. In this episode, Ozan Ozavci explores how this perception of Ottoman weakness, known as the Eastern Question, affected the Ottoman Empire's place in and engagement with the new international system and law. Exploring the different phases of the Eastern Question, from the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the Civil War in Greater Syria durings the 1860s, Ozavci highlights agency of individual actors in the Ottoman capital and the provinces. « Click for More »
E526 | How was European military intervention in the Ottoman Empire justified throughout the nineteenth century? What did the Ottoman statesmen and subjects think of these would-be attemepts to provide them with more security? From the late eighteenth century, as a new international system was emerging, European powers considered the Ottoman Empire a weaker foil to their own expanding empires. In this episode, Ozan Ozavci explores how this perception of Ottoman weakness, known as the Eastern Question, affected the Ottoman Empire's place in and engagement with the new international system and law. Exploring the different phases of the Eastern Question, from the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the Civil War in Greater Syria durings the 1860s, Ozavci highlights agency of individual actors in the Ottoman capital and the provinces.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html
Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project.
Zeinab Azarbadegan is a post-doctoral fellow at the Vienna School of International Studies. She completed her PhD at Columbia University. Her research focuses on imperial knowledge production about the space of Ottoman Iraq by the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the British in the late nineteenth century.
CREDITS
Episode No. 526 Release Date: 22 April 2022 Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan Music: "Melodia Arabia" from Franz Hünten's Fantaisie arabe op. 136 (1845). A famous French melody copied from a North African (Egyptian or Algerian) one since 1600s. "Partant pour la Syrie" sung by Joseph Saucier (Canadian National Archives). The lyrics were inspired by the French invasion of Egypt and Syria and was the French national anthem during the Second Empire. "Aldahre Kataâ Awsali " by Munira al-Mahdiyya (Free Music Archive). "Samaii Hijaz Kar Kurdi" by Chahadé Saadé(Free Music Archive) Images and bibliography courtesy of Ozan Ozavci available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html
Mayte Green-Mercadohosted by Brittany White
| In 1609, King Phillip III of Spain signed an edict to expel a community known as the Moriscos from the Iberian Peninsula. The Moriscos were Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity during the 16th century, after Christian kingdoms displaced the last remaining Muslim rulers in Iberia. The persecution and erasure of the Moriscos following the Reconquista are well documented in the historiography, where alongside Iberian Jews, they appear as victims of the fall of Islamic al-Andalus. But in this episode of Ottoman History Podcast, we’ll explore what these events looked like through the eyes of the Moriscos themselves and study their roles as political actors in the momentous political shifts of the 16th century. In this conversation with Mayte Green-Mercado about her book Visions of Deliverance, we discuss the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts, known as jofores; and how these texts were catalysts for morisco political mobilization against the Spanish crown. We chart the formal and informal networks of communication between Moriscos, the Ottoman Empire, and the broader Mediterranean world. And we reflect on the challenges and benefits of using biased sources like the records of the Inquisition alongside other material. « Click for More »
E525 | In 1609, King Phillip III of Spain signed an edict to expel a community known as the Moriscos from the Iberian Peninsula. The Moriscos were Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity during the 16th century, after Christian kingdoms displaced the last remaining Muslim rulers in Iberia. The persecution and erasure of the Moriscos following the Reconquista are well documented in the historiography, where alongside Iberian Jews, they appear as victims of the fall of Islamic al-Andalus. But in this episode of Ottoman History Podcast, we’ll explore what these events looked like through the eyes of the Moriscos themselves and study their roles as political actors in the momentous political shifts of the 16th century. In this conversation with Mayte Green-Mercado about her book Visions of Deliverance, we discuss the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts, known as jofores; and how these texts were catalysts for morisco political mobilization against the Spanish crown. We chart the formal and informal networks of communication between Moriscos, the Ottoman Empire, and the broader Mediterranean world. And we reflect on the challenges and benefits of using biased sources like the records of the Inquisition alongside other material.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/moriscos.html
Mayte Green-Mercado is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University—Newark, and the director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies minor in the department of History. At Rutgers she teaches courses on Islamic civilization, medieval and early modern Mediterranean and Iberian history, as well as migration and displacement. She has published articles on early modern apocalypticism, the conversion of Iberian Muslims, as well as race and ethnicity in early modern Spain. Her first book, Visions of Deliverance. Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Cornell, 2019) examined the political culture of Moriscos—Spanish Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism beginning in 1501—through their deployment of End Time prophecies. The book won the Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies from The Mediterranean Seminar. Her current book project, tentatively titled Mediterranean Displacements. Morisco Migrations in the Sixteenth Century traces the history of migrations and displacement of Moriscos around the Mediterranean basin in the pre-expulsion priod, from their forced conversion to Catholicism until their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1609. She is founder and co-director of the Mediterranean Displacements Project at Rutgers-Newark.
Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories.
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Episode No. 525 Release Date: 11 April 2022 Recording Location: Newark, NJ / Charlottesville, VA Sound production by Chris Gratien and Brittany White Music: Aitua; A.A. Aalto Bibliography and images courtesy of Mayte Green-Mercado available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/moriscos.html
with Helen Pfeifer hosted by Maryam Patton
| In 1517, the Ottomans captured Cairo and with it, the Arabophone lands of the Mamluk Sultanate. Suddenly, scores of learned scholars who had been preparing and vying for positions of esteem in either the academy or the bureaucracy found themselves under new authority. How did these scholars navigate the new political and linguistic environments? As Helen Pfeifer argues in a new book, Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands, the answer lies in gentlemanly salons, where elite men displayed their knowledge and status. These social laboratories played a key role in negotiating Syria and Egypt’s integration into the empire. Through Pfeifer's study of the life and network of the star scholar Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, we learn how urban elite of former Mamluk Syria and Egypt continued to exert social and political influence, rivaling powerful officials from Istanbul. The gentlemanly salons also illustrate how Ottoman culture was forged collaboratively by Arabophone and Turcophone actors. « Click for More »
E524 | In 1517, the Ottomans captured Cairo and with it, the Arabophone lands of the Mamluk Sultanate. Suddenly, scores of learned scholars who had been preparing and vying for positions of esteem in either the academy or the bureaucracy found themselves under new authority. How did these scholars navigate the new political and linguistic environments? As Helen Pfeifer argues in a new book, Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands, the answer lies in gentlemanly salons, where elite men displayed their knowledge and status. These social laboratories played a key role in negotiating Syria and Egypt’s integration into the empire. Through Pfeifer's study of the life and network of the star scholar Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, we learn how urban elite of former Mamluk Syria and Egypt continued to exert social and political influence, rivaling powerful officials from Istanbul. The gentlemanly salons also illustrate how Ottoman culture was forged collaboratively by Arabophone and Turcophone actors.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/salons.html
Helen Pfeifer is University Associate Professor of Early Ottoman History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire.
Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Episode No. 524 Release Date: 27 March 2022 Recording Location: Oxford, UK / Berlin Sound production by Maryam Patton Music: Pictures of the Floating World - Bumbling Bibliography and images courtesy of Helen Pfeifer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/salons.html
with Chris Gratien hosted by Susanna Ferguson | How did ordinary Ottoman subjects experience the momentous changes that made our modern world? This episode explores that question through the history of the Çukurova region of southern Turkey. As our guest Chris Gratien has argued in a new book entitled The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, Çukurova can be studied as a microcosm of social and environmental change in the late Ottoman Empire. In our conversation, we explore how the approaches of environmental history can offer a fresh perspective on the political history of the Tanzimat period, and we discuss how the history of malaria -- an ancient disease -- sheds light on a modern experience of displacement and dispossession for rural communities in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. « Click for More »
with Marina Rustow hosted by Chris Gratien
| State archives that function as a site of history scholarship are generally a modern creation. But in this episode, we discuss how past Islamic empires, while not necessarily leaving behind an organized archive used by scholars today, had much more sophisticated documentary practices than often assumed. As our guest Marina Rustow has recently shown in a new book entitled The Lost Archive, the relative absence of extant documentation, in the case of the Fatimid Caliphate of Cairo, belies a long paper trail. Using fragments of Fatimid documents surviving in the storeroom (genizah) of a Cairo synagogue, Rustow has identified traces of a lost Fatimid archive. In part one of this two-part interview with Professor Rustow, we explore how she followed a trail of scrap paper and scholarship to locate the lost archive of a medieval Islamic dynasty. « Click for More »
with Jörg Matthias Determann hosted by Shireen Hamza
| Islam and science fiction have more history together than you might expect. In this episode, we speak with Jörg Matthias Determann about the many ways science has fueled the imagination of people in Muslim-majority contexts over the last few hundred years. In his latest book, he shows how artists and missionaries participated in "cultures of astrobiology," or the study of life on other planets. Exploring the ways that a variety of authors, artists, and governments have imagined a future with and for Muslims, Matthias shows that there are many overlapping and competing visions of Muslim Futurism. « Click for More »
with Carlos Grenier hosted by Maryam Patton | How did one learn to be a good Muslim in the early 15th century? In newly conquered Ottoman lands where Christians and converts lived side by side, how would one go about learning the proper rites and beliefs to hold? This conversation with Carlos Grenier explores the lives and ideas of two brothers, Mehmed Yazıcıoğlu and Ahmed Bican, Sufis of the frontier city of Gelibolu who grappled with this very question. Their response was to craft a synthesis, an Ottoman Islam so to speak, in the form of Turkish texts that guided their communities on the proper way to be a Muslim. They reached an enormous readership and rank as some of the most popular books to ever be produced in Ottoman Turkish. And as Grenier explains, the Yazıcıoğlus articulated a new Ottoman spiritual vernacular forged in the balance between two worlds of the Balkan and Mediterranean frontiers and the Islamic intellectual sphere. « Click for More »
with Marc Baerhosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan
| The expulsion of Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula and their arrival in the Ottoman Empire thereafter changed the relationship of Jewish communities to the Ottoman dynasty. The history of Ottoman Jews would become part and parcel of a narrative that contrasted the Ottoman Empire's beneficence and tolerance with the anti-Semitism of other European societies. Yet as Marc Baer explains in this second part of a two-part conversation, the image of "Sultanic saviors" became entangled with the denial not only of anti-Semitism in Turkey but also of violence against Christians in the late Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. Adopting a history of emotions approach, Baer explores the reasons for the erasure of violence and persecution in the memory of the Ottoman Empire's relationship with Christians and Jews and uses the sentiments that animate this historiography and memory as a starting point for a way forward. « Click for More »
Episode 518
with Milena Methodieva hosted by Andreas Guidi and Jovo Miladinović
In 1878, following the Congress of Berlin, Bulgaria became a de facto independent principality. Not anymore under Ottoman rule, the Muslims of Bulgaria navigated this political shift by redefining their place as a minority of a nation-state. The community underwent a political polarization between traditional notables and a group pushing for reforms within Muslim institutions. In this episode, we discuss how these reformists engaged with state and nation-building in Bulgaria by highlighting their connections with the broader Muslim world. Not only did Bulgarian Muslims contribute to the rise of the Young Turk movement, they were also part of a transnational space in which intellectuals and activists debated issues such as the place of Islam in modern society, the value of education, and the question of political relationship with non-Muslim rulers.
This episode is cross-listed with The Southeast Passage.
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Emrah Şahin Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Amerikalı misyonerlerin Osmanlı Devleti sınırlarındaki faaliyetlerini incelemek, İslam ve Hristiyan dünyası ilişkilerine dair yaygın kabuller hakkında bize ne anlatır? Osmanlı Devleti sınırları dahilindeki misyoner varlığını tespit, teftiş ve tahdid etmek amacıyla hangi yöntemlere başvurmuş, bu süreç aktörler arasında ne gibi gerilimlere yol açmıştır? Bu bölümde Emrah Şahin ile ”İtikadın Peşinde: Osmanlı Bürokratları ve Amerikan Misyonerleri” kitabı odağında Amerikan misyonerlerinin Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda bıraktığı mirası ve devlet erkanı ile misyonerler arasındaki çok katmanlı ilişkiyi değerlendiriyoruz. « Click for More »
with Jyoti Balachandran hosted by Shireen Hamza
| How did Sufis shape the identity of Gujarat, a region in northwest India? Gujarat is best known for its ancient port cities and its connectivity to the broader Indian Ocean world. It is also the site of some of the oldest Muslim settlements in the Indian subcontinent. In this interview, Jyoti Balachandran traces the way Sufi saints and communities settled the region in the fifteenth century, with lasting impacts for Gujarat's regional identity. Taking us on a tour of the vast Sarkhej tomb complex outside Ahmedabad where Sufis and Sultans are buried side by side, and through a variety of historical texts from the Sultanate to the Mughal periods, Balachandran explores the many layers of this story of Muslim belonging. « Click for More »
with Shay Hazkani hosted by Sam Dolbee | The 1948 War resulted in the creation of the state of Israel and the Nakba of 750,000 Palestinian refugees. In Dear Palestine, Shay Hazkani sheds new light on these events through a unique source base: hundreds of personal letters secretly copied by an Israeli censorship apparatus. We talk in this episode both about his struggle to access these materials and the subversive truths that they reveal, including everything from Moroccan Jewish volunteers who felt solidarity with Arabs to Palestinian refugees who attempted to care for and return to their homes in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. « Click for More »
with Giancarlo Casalehosted by Brittany White
| Osman of Timișoara was a Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire born during the late 17th century in modern-day Romania. As a young man serving in the Ottoman military, he was captured by the Habsburg army. He would spend more than a decade as a captive in Austria. Many people of his time had similar stories. What made Osman special was that he left behind a rare autobiographical account of his experiences and exploits. In our conversation with Giancarlo Casale about his translation of Osman’s memoir entitled Prisoner of the Infidels, we’ll explore the similarities among experiences of enslavement in the Ottoman and Habsburg lands and learn how Osman positioned himself as a linguistic and later diplomatic go-between. And through the life of Osman, his account of his own efforts to return to the Ottoman Empire, and the momentous events he witnessed, we will reflect on his autobiography as a work of literature and the messages contained within it. « Click for More »
with Şölen Şanlı Vasquez hosted by Brittany White
| Over the course its final decades, millions of Muslim immigrants, many of them refugees of war and Russian conquest, settled in the Ottoman Empire. Between a quarter and a third of people in Turkey today have ancestors who arrived with those migrations. Yet their history often stops short of capturing the personal experiences of such people, what was erased, and what they have sought to preserve. In this episode, we speak with sociologist Şölen Şanlı Vasquez about how to write a more empathetic history of migration in Turkey through the lens of the Circassian diaspora. For her, this history is not just the story of how people from the North Caucasus were expelled from one empire and settled in an another. It is also a personal story about continuity, rupture, and recovery within the families of immigrants across generations and continents. Through a conversation about her ongoing research project called "The Home Within," we explore the themes of family, gender, ethnicity, race, and erasure --- not only in Turkey --- but across contexts of migration and displacement in the US and elsewhere. And we also reflect on the importance of public history that makes these issues relevant and relatable to a wider audience. « Click for More »
with Monica Green hosted by Chris Gratien
| For years, the historiography of the 14th-century Black Death produced more questions than answers. Then, roughly a decade ago, genomic research confirmed that the medieval Black Death was caused by the same bacteria, Yersinia pestis, which causes the modern bubonic plague. This settled the burning question of precisely which disease had caused the pandemic that produced colossal mortality in many parts of Europe, Asia, and North Africa. In this episode, we speak to Monica H. Green, whose recent work has raised new questions about the Black Death by showing that the chronology of the Black Death was incomplete. As she explains, prior outbreaks of plague in 13th-century Asia occurred at the edges of the ascendant Mongol Empire, roughly a century before the plague arrived in Western Europe. In our conversation, we learn how Green uncovered the new story of the "four Black Deaths" and in doing so, explore the historiography of the Black Death and how genetics, archaeology, and a fresh approach to textual sources have brought us to a deeper understand of one of history's deadliest pandemics. « Click for More »
with Rudi Lindner hosted by Joshua White & Maryam Patton
| Among the most murky periods of the Ottoman dynasty's six-century history is the period of its very emergence in medieval Anatolia. In this episode, we talk to Rudi Lindner about his attempts to understand this early period of Ottoman history and the development of hypotheses and methods concerning the investigation of Ottoman origins over the past century of scholarship. We also reflect on what decades of research and teaching have taught Lindner about sources for history and the questions they require us to ask. « Click for More »
with Laura Robson hosted by Sam Dolbee and Deren Ertaş
| Depictions of the Middle East as a space of timeless violence pervade media, popular culture, and scholarship. In The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East, Laura Robson offers a rejoinder to such misconceptions while providing a historical explanation of these distinctly modern forms of violence in greater Syria and Iraq, also known as the Mashriq. In this episode, we discuss how a new kind of territoriality in the late nineteenth century combined with imperialist interventions to transform violence into a way of making political claims through the twentieth century and up to the present across the region. We additionally talk about historical research and writing more generally, and how Robson’s past as a trained pianist has shaped her work. « Click for More »
with Nada Moumtaz hosted by Susanna Ferguson
| The waqf, often translated as "endowment," is a critical player in the story of urban landscapes, charitable giving, property management, and religion in the Islamic world. But what is a waqf? In this episode, Nada Moumtaz uncovers the many lives of waqf in the city of Beirut, from Ottoman times until the present. We talk about waqfs as buildings, processes, acts, and investments. We see how the story of waqf illuminates central features of the modern state while blurring boundaries between family life and public life, religion and business, charity and investment, past and future, and human and divine. « Click for More »
with Rayya Haddad
| The modern history of Beirut has been defined by periods of intense construction, destruction, and reconstruction. In this episode, we explore the layers of history in Beirut's cityscape through a walking tour with Rayya Haddad. We chart Beirut's transformation from its rise as a late Ottoman capital through the expansion of the port during the French Mandate period, its golden age as a commercial center in independent Lebanon during the 1950s and 60s, the long civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990, and the postwar reconstruction carried out by the company Solidere. We also explore the history of Beit Beirut, a unqiue building designed by Youssef Aftimus--Beirut's foremost architect of the late Ottoman and French Mandate period--from its Mediterranean revivalist origins to its redesign as a sniper's haven during the war, ending with its rescue and renovation by activists in recent decades. We conclude with some thoughts on what this layered history of the city means for the new layer of destruction and reconstruction created by the port explosion during August 2020. « Click for More »
with Fariba Zarinebaf hosted by Sam Dolbee and Nir Shafir
| In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf discusses the history of Galata and the early modern Mediterranean more broadly. Beginning with the incorporation of Galata's Genoese community of Istanbul under Ottoman rule in 1453, Zarinebaf explains how the treaties known as the capitulations (ahdname in Turkish) provided a durable framework for commercial exchange and pluralistic everyday life in Ottoman port cities. She also considers how these arrangements compared with commerce and life in non-Ottoman Mediterranean ports. Through a focus on French-Ottoman relations, Zarinebaf offers a glimpse of how treaties become involved in changing economic fortunes in the Mediterranean and the world. She also attends to how these economic patterns shaped the more intimate aspects of social life in Galata, closing with the impact of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt on the French community of Galata. « Click for More »
with Christine Philliou hosted by Sam Dolbee and Brittany White
| Refik Halit Karay (1889-1965) was a writer, bureaucrat, and political exile whose life spanned the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Christine Philliou traces his life as well as a genealogy of political opposition more broadly in her new book Turkey: A Past Against History. Following Refik Halit between his exiles in Sinop, Syria, and elsewhere as well as his momentous encounter with Mustafa Kemal in the Telegraph Episode, Philliou sheds light on the complicated transition between empire and nation. She also grapples with the challenge of telling history based on the voluminous and often satirical musings of a figure himself deeply invested in interpreting the past. « Click for More »
Ramazan Hakkı Öztan Sunucu: Can Gümüş | 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında, dinamit gibi patlayıcıların icadı ile küresel düzeyde oluşan küçük silah fazlası Osmanlı Balkanlarındaki devrimcileri hangi bakımlardan güçlendirdi? Osmanlı Devleti, imparatorluk karşıtı eylemleri kolaylaştıran bu "devrim karaborsası"nı hangi yöntemleri kullanarak kontrol etmeye çalıştı? Bu bölümde, Dr. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan ile geç Osmanlı Balkanlarında devrimcilik, şiddet ve teknoloji ilişkisini, meselenin küresel politik ekonomi boyutunu da dikkate alarak değerlendiriyoruz. Devrimci şiddetin kavramsallaştırılması ve ideolojilerin devrimci siyasetteki önemini eleştirel olarak ele alırken, bu alandaki arşiv kaynaklarının nasıl incelenebileceğini de örneklerle tartışıyoruz. « Click for More »
with Faisal Husain hosted by Chris Gratien
| The Ottoman conquests of the 16th century represented a watershed moment in many senses. Our guest Faisal Husain explains the most literal of these senses: the unification of the Tigris and Euphrates basins under a single political authority and its ramifications for the history of Iraq. In our conversation, we explore how Ottoman rule in Iraq created new ecological possibilities and realities, setting the stage for momentous interventions in the rivers detailed in Husain's recent book Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire. We also reflect on what Iraq reveals about Ottoman history writ large and the empire's dualist historical identity as an agrarian empire on one hand and flexible one on the other, in which accommodating local ecological difference was critical to governance. « Click for More »
with Marc Baerhosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | In this first part of a two-part interview, we talk to Marc Baer about how he first became interested in Ottoman history and explore the main themes and the questions underpinning the research in his five books. In this conversation, we place special focus on the books Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe and The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Our discussion centers on approaches to the subject of conversion in the Ottoman Empire and the history of the dönme community born out of the transformations of the 17th century. « Click for More »
with Zeynep Gürsel
| The Ottoman archives contain just over a hundred photographs that look like old family portraits, but they were created for an entirely different purpose. They document the renunciation of Ottoman nationality, "terk-i tabiiyet," by Armenian emigrants bound for the US and elsewhere. As our guest Zeynep Devrim Gürsel explains, these photographs were "anticipatory arrest warrants for a crime yet to be committed"--the crime of returning to the Ottoman Empire. Gürsel's research goes far beyond the story of the small number of photographs that remain as she has documented over four thousand individuals who went through the process of "terk-i tabiiyet." In this Ottoman History Podcast-AnthroPod collaboration, we talk to Gürsel about her research project on the production, circulation and afterlives of these photographs titled "Portraits of Unbelonging." It is a double-sided history that explores not only the context of Armenian migration and policing during the late Ottoman period but also the experiences of those pictured and their descendants following their departure from the Ottoman Empire. (Recorded August 2019) This episode is dedicated to the memory of Mary Lou Savage (née Khantamour). « Click for More »
with Michael Christopher Lowhosted by Sam Dolbee | In the Hijaz, the Ottoman Empire managed not only Mecca and Medina--the two holiest cities in Islam--but also port cities of the Red Sea with connections to the Indian Ocean and beyond. In this episode, Michael Christopher Low explains how the empire ruled this region as the hajj transformed thanks to steam travel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While European colonial anxieties about the hajj focused on epidemic disease and subversive politics, Ottoman concerns centered on the legal status of the region and its infrastructural networks. Although projects such as the Hijaz Railway are often understood as manifestations of Abdulhamid II's commitment to pan-Islam, Low suggests that these measures were more accurately a product of emerging technocratic forms of Ottoman governance. He also discusses continuities with the Saudi state. Low's book is Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj. « Click for More »
Episode 500
with Malte Fuhrmann hosted by Andreas Guidi and Zeynep Ertuğrul
At the turn of the twentieth century, Ottoman port cities of the Eastern Mediterranean were sites of vibrant cultural encounters. While infrastructural innovations at docks and quays reshaped the urban waterfront, the inhabitants of Izmir, Istanbul, and Salonica engaged with new forms of entertainment arriving from Europe. Operas, balls, and beerhouses changed the way people mingled and interpreted coexistence and diversity in their urban environment. Migrants from Europe and from the hinterlands of major port cities created an original form of Ottoman Mediterranean modernity. This cosmopolitan urban culture was alluring and festive but also had its discontents, who denounced it as decadent and servile to European imperialism. Exploring the everyday life of late Ottoman port cities reveals an effervescent lapse of time in which notions such as modernity, Europe, empire, and nation could be experienced in manifold ways, before the major conflicts of the twentieth century gave a fatal blow to Mediterranean urban diversity.
This episode is cross-listed with The Southeast Passage.
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Episode 499
with Dana Sajdi & Chris Gratien hosted by Meryum Kazmi and Harry Bastermajian
In this collaboration between the Harvard Islamica Podcast and the Ottoman History Podcast, we discuss the new series called "The Making of the Islamic World," using podcasts in the classroom, and engaging in public-facing history in the changing landscape of scholarship in the humanities. Chris Gratien shares his experiences as a long-time producer of public-facing scholarship through OHP and how he created and used the 10-part, multi-vocal series on "The Making of the Islamic World" to expose his students to diverse methods and perspectives on a millennium of Islamic history in his remote teaching amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Dana Sajdi, Associate Professor of History at Boston College, talks about her course on Ottoman history, "Podcasting the Ottomans," and the importance of of scholars adapting to the new realities of how the internet is changing the academic profession.
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with Christopher Silver
| The history of North Africa is usually framed by the period of French colonialism and the era of independent nations that followed. But what happens if we let an object like the 78 rpm record do the work of periodization? In this episode, we talk to Christopher Silver about the unique vantage point that gramophone records offer on the emergence of national culture in the Maghreb during the first half of the 20th century. We will explore the work of artists whose lives straddled Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco as well as the colonial metropoles, and we will highlight the role of North African Jewish singers, musicians, producers, and promoters in the development of the region's music industry. « Click for More »
with Dylan Baun hosted by Susanna Ferguson | Starting with the nationalist and anticolonial movements of the early 20th century, youth have played an important role in political life in the modern Middle East. But despite their importance, youth often go unrecognized as a category of analysis. In this episode, we speak with historian Dylan Baun about his work on youth politics in interwar Lebanon, exploring the rituals and political practices of groups like Kata'ib (Phalange) and the Progressive Socialist Party which would become key actors in the fighting of 1958 and later on, in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1990. We learn how young people forged political community both through and beyond sectarian violence, a phenomenon that Dr. Baun argues became strongly associated with rebellious youth. « Click for More »
with Ambereen Dadabhoy hosted by Maryam Patton and Chris Gratien
| William Shakespeare's lifetime overlapped with the height of Ottoman prowess on the world stage, which is partly why so many Turkish characters graced the Elizabethan stage during the 16th and 17th centuries. As our guest Ambereen Dadabhoy explains, the representations of "Turks" and "Moors" in early modern English drama offer a window onto conceptions of race in Europe before the modern period. In this conversation, Dadabhoy shares her experience writing and teaching about race in early modern English literature, and we reflect on the value of Shakespeare for charting connections and transformations in conceptions of Muslim societies from Shakespeare's time to the present. « Click for More »
Çiğdem Oğuz Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde Dr. Çiğdem Oğuz ile I. Dünya Savaşı’nda Osmanlı’da "ahlak buhranı"nı tartışıyoruz. "Ahlaki çöküş" ya da "ahlak buhranı" söylemlerinin farklı entelektüellerce nasıl kullanıldığını inceleyen Oğuz’un çalışması, bu tartışmalara odaklanmanın Osmanlı toplumunun söz konusu dönemde geçirdiği politik, siyasi ve kültürel dönüşümleri anlamada bir anahtar görevi üstleneceğini iddia ediyor. Oğuz aynı zamanda, bu tartışmaların ve ahlakı korumaya yönelik atılan adımların politik alanın yanı sıra, aileye ve toplumsal cinsiyet ilişkilerine yansımalarını da araştırıyor. « Click for More »
with Richard Breaux
| Richard Breaux needed a hobby. He began collecting 78 rpm records as a break from his work as a professor of Ethnic and Racial Studies at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. But when he stumbled upon a trove of Arabic language records at an estate sale, his hobby became a scholarly project of its own to document and reconstruct the history of the Arab diaspora in La Crosse, Wisconsin and the Greater Midwestern United States. In this episode, we talk about the history of early 78 rpm Arabic records in the United States, the people who owned them, and the story of a forgotten center of the Midwest Mahjar. « Click for More »
with Emily Drumsta hosted by Sam Dolbee | Nazik al-Mala'ika (1923-2007) is one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Arabic poetry. Born in Baghdad, she wrote about varied topics, ranging from the 1947 cholera epidemic in Egypt to the rise of communism in Iraq to a nighttime train ride. She pioneered what became known as "free verse," a form at once innovative but also based upon older metrical structures. Emily Drumsta has recently translated a collection of al-Mala'ika's poetry into English under the title of Revolt against the Sun, with Saqi Books. In this episode, we discuss how al-Mala'ika's Arab nationalist politics informed her metrical innovation, and how she played with gendered expectations in her poetry. We also talk about some of the challenges of preserving rhythm and sound in translation. « Click for More »
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde Dr. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı ile 2019’da Brill yayınevinden çıkan Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) başlıklı kitabı üzerine söyleşiyoruz. Bayrı bu çalışmasında, orta çağ Anadolu’sunda Türkçe yazılmış Battalname ve Danişmendname gibi kahramanları savaşçı ve Saltukname gibi kahramanı Abdalan-ı Rum’u dervişi olan epiklerin yanı sıra 13. ve 15. yüzyıllar arasında Bizanslılar tarafından yazılmış Yunanca şehitlik hikayelerini de incelenmektedir. Kitabın başlığı kahramanlara hikayelerde biçilen savaşçı, şehit ve derviş gibi temel rol kimliklerine gönderme yapar. Ancak kitap savaş, ölüm ve tasavvuftan ziyade bu hikayeleri birleştiren ana mekân Diyar-ı Rum’un tasvirini, sınırlarını ve algılanışını; karakterlerin bu mekândaki hareketlerini, bu mekânın Rum/Romalı, Müslüman ve Hıristiyan gibi kimlikleri belirlenmesindeki rolünü, yazar, bani ve dinleyici/okuyucu ilişkisi çerçevesinde tartışmaktadır. Bayrı’nın çalışması, yemek, aşk ve seyahat gibi başlığın okuyucuda hemen çağrışım yapmadığı ancak hikayelerde kimlikleri tanımlamada etkin olan konuları da inceler. « Click for More »
with Monica Ringer hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | What is Islamic modernism, and how did authors of this movement position themselves vis-á-vis other 19th century intellectual movements? In this episode, we examine how Islamic modernism was more than a product of 19th century social and political reforms or even an attempt at using Islamic language to justify such reforms. Rather, Islamic modernism was a substantive theological reform movement, fueled by the belief that God's intent could be recovered through correct and contextual readings of the past. As a result, Islamic modernists helped give rise not only to new understandings of Islam but also to new understandings of history. In our discussion, we draw on Dr. Ringer's book Islamic Modernism and the Re-enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History out from Edinburgh University Press in 2020. In it, she takes up the work of four authors from across Eurasia: Namık Kemal from the Ottoman Empire, Ataullah Bayezidof from the Russian Empire, Syed Amir Ali from British India, and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, who spent his formative years in Iran. Although they shared a religion, it was much more Islam that tied their ideas together. « Click for More »
with Nevila Pahumi hosted by Susanna Ferguson | In 1919, Paraskevi Kyrias went to Paris to advocate for Albanian independence. As a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine space of international diplomacy, she faced sexism and unwanted romantic overtures. Nevertheless, she called on her connections within a global Protestant community, her life in diaspora in the United States, and her experiences at the elite Constantinople Girls' School to play a unique role in the Albanian campaign for independence after World War I. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Nevila Pahumi about Kyrias' story, her leadership of the early Albanian women's movement, and the diary of her experiences in Paris she left behind. We also trace the history of this remarkable woman after 1919, as she and her family were repudiated by a secularizing Albanian state determined to exise Protestant activism from their national history -- until she was once again remade as a feminist icon in the last years of her life. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Mohamad Ballan, Joshua White, Zoe Griffith, Aslıhan Gürbüzel, Neelam Khoja, Fahad Bishara, Jeannie Miller, and Maryam Patton | Across the 14th to 17th centuries, significant political transformation occurred in the Islamic world. Muslim al-Andalus was conquered and largely erased by the Christian kingdoms of Iberia, and the Byzantine Empire was absorbed and conquered by the Ottoman Empire. By the beginning of the 17th century, much of the Islamic world was controlled by three major empires, the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals, who combined a long tradition of Turco-Persian culture and Islamic statecraft with the military organization of post-Mongol societies and new possibilities created by the adoption of firearms. The empires they built laid the foundation for the societies of the modern period. In this episode, we detail the momentous rises and fall that accompanied the early modern period in the Islamic world. Beginning with itinerant scholar-statesmen like Ibn Khaldun, we explore how the Islamic world was changing during the period following the Black Death of the mid-14th century. We cover the gradual erasure of al-Andalus as well as the rise of the Ottomans and their rivalry with the Safavids of Iran. We also detial the life of Babur and the Mughal Empire his descendants built, and we consider the enduring status of the Indian Ocean as a "Muslim lake." We conclude with a reflection on how the intellectual developments of the early modern period built on medieval legacies. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Wendell Marsh, Rabiat Akande, and Ann McDougall | From the 10th century onward, Islamic polities emerged in West Africa. Centered on the southern edge of the desert, these states built empires that benefited from the brisk Saharan trade. With time, they also built centers of Islamic learning as the wider population of West Africa began to embrace Islam. In this episode, we study what Islam meant for West Africa and what West Africa means for the history of Islam. We trace the evolution of Islamic polities in the region, which were built on the mineral wealth of salt and gold. Like other states of the period, they were also built on slavery and the slave trade. In our discussion, we focus on how the local tradition of Maliki jurisprudence engaged with the question of slavery, especially as the trade became increasingly racialized and global around the turn of the 17th century. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Joshua White, Zoe Griffith, Amina Elbendary, and Kristina Richardson | Military slavery was critical to the function of most imperial states in the medieval Islamic world. But in a moment of crisis during the 13th century, the cadre of enslaved military personnel or mamluks employed by the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt overthrew that dynasty, establishing their own sultanate that governed Egypt, Syria, and the Hijaz for more than two centuries. In this episode, we're examining the making of the Mamluk Sultanate and life in its capital of Cairo. We discuss the institutions and structures established in the city of Cairo as displays of power and charity by Mamluk elite, and we consider the role of urban protest and contention between the streets and the citadel as an integral facet of politics in Mamluk cities. We also shed light on the little-studied community of Ghurabā' who lived on the city's margins and engaged in one of the earliest examples of printing in the Islamic world. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Joshua White, Zoe Griffith, Sara Nur Yıldız, and Neelam Khoja | The Mongol conquests of the 13th century were an unprecedented event. Not since the Islamic conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries had such a rapid political rise occurred. For a time, Mongol successor states controlled most of Asia. And though many of these dynasties would not last, the lasting consequences of the Mongol Empire would be many. In this episode, we study the consequences of the Mongol period for the Islamic world, focusing both on the immediate destructive impacts that appear in the Islamic sources from the period as well as the lasting transformations introduced by Mongol rule. Whether in terms of political ideology, law, trade, or culture, the Mongol period represented a significant departure for Muslim societies east of Egypt. In addition to highlighting the impacts of the Mongols in former Seljuk domains of Iran and Anatolia, we discuss the rise of the Timurid dynasty in Khorasan and foreshadow its legacy for South Asia. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Joshua White, Maryam Patton, Zoe Griffith, and Gary Leiser | The Crusades loom large in the Western imagination of medieval history and Christendom's relationship with the Islamic world. But what did these wars of the 11th-13th centuries mean for Muslims at the time? In this episode, we explore the history of the Crusades and their impact on the Islamic world. While the wars of the Crusades were bloody, they were not necessarily the main event of Islamic history beyond the regions bordering the Crusader states. In the Eastern Mediterranean, these states emerged as sites of both conflict and contact between European Christians and Muslims. In our episode, we go beyond the battlefield to discuss the gendered portrayals of the Crusaders within Islamic sources, and we consider the intellectual implications of access to the Islamicate scholarly tradition offered in the Crusader states. We also discuss the history and memory of Salah ad-Din al-Ayyubi or Saladin, whose chivalry and military prowess inspired awe both among Europeans of his day and among Arab nationalists many centuries later during their struggle with Western imperialism. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Fahad Bishara, Jeannie Miller, and Mohamad Ballan | During the early 8th century, less than a century after the creation of the first Muslim communities, Islamic armies crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and quickly conquered most of modern-day Spain and Portugal. Muslim life in what became known as "al-Andalus" would last about eight centuries, reshaping the politics, culture, and landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula in numerous ways. In this episode, we're exploring the first centuries of Muslim life in al-Andalus and the legacies not just for Iberia but also for the rest of Europe and the Islamic world. We'll examine the distinctive Andalusi identity that emerged out of centuries of Muslims, Jews, and Christians living under Islamic polities. And we'll also consider the literary impact of Arabic on European culture and consider the historical significant of ecological exchange between the broader Islamic world and Iberia before the momentous date of 1492. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Marina Rustow, Neelam Khoja, Zoe Griffith, and Fahad Bishara | For brief period of history, the Fatimid Caliphate based in Egypt presided over arguably the most powerful empire in the Mediterranean. Yet because the legacy of this Ismaili dynasty was erased or downplayed by its Sunni rivals and successors, the Fatimids are often misunderstood. As we show in this installment of "The Making of the Islamic World," the Fatimid period and the sources that survive from it can in fact be critical to learning more about how pre-modern Islamic polities functioned, demonstrating that the Fatimids had a much more sophisticated state apparatus than some have assumed. The statecraft of a pre-modern Islamic empire is just one of the topics we can study in the Fatimid world thanks to a rich trove of documents from the Cairo Genizah. The Genizah was a storeroom of a synagogue in Fustat that ended up containing a wealth of documents, many of them simply discarded or reused, that reveal the complexity and interconnection of the medieval Mediterranean. In this episode, we explore how scholars make use of the Genizah documents and the interconnected world stretching from Southeast Asia to Mediterranean Europe reveals in the Genizah papers. In the process, we learn about the emergence of the Fatimid Caliphate as a dynasty and state structure and the developments that took place under Fatimid rule in Cairo. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Joshua White, Neelam Khoja, Aslıhan Gürbüzel, and Maryam Patton | The political expansion of the Umayyad and Abbasid periods brought a wide range of territories into the Islamic fold. By the end of the 9th century, the Abbasid Empire could no longer exert central authority over its vast caliphate. Semi-autonomous governors throughout the Islamic world would gradually form their own dynasties. In the eastern portion of the Islamic world, this resulted in the rise of a number of Persian and Turkic dynasties that rather than displacing the Arabo-Islamic culture of early Islam, fused it with a Persianate tradition of statecraft, literature, and scholarship. In this episode, we're exploring the Turco-Persian dynasties of the 9th-13th centuries. We'll discuss the works of scholars like Ibn Sina, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, and Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi and their far-reaching impacts in the Islamic world and beyond. In addition to examining the evolution of Islamic polities, we'll shed light on the rise of Sufism and how it tied the new regions of the Islamic world together. We'll call that world "Rumi's world" after the 13th century mystic, scholar, and poet who was born in Khorasan but rose to fame in the newly conquered lands of the Seljuk Empire in Anatolia. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien featuring Hugh Kennedy, Joshua White, Fahad Bishara, Maryam Patton, and Jeannie Miller | The first decades of Islam were characterized by a rapid territorial expansion accompanied by conflicts over leadership following the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Despite opposition from the supporters of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muawiya Ibn Abi Sufyan would become Caliph and establish a dynasty for his clan: the Banu Umayyah. The next centuries of Islamic history would be defined by the imperial Caliphates of the Umayyads and Abbasids, who controlled empires stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to India. This episode of The Making of the Islamic World focuses on the creation of these Islamic empires, their institutional legacy, and the intellectual life of the Abbasid Caliphate during its height. We conclude with the Abbasid luminary al-Jahiz and what his writings tell us about the changing social fabric of the Abbasid world during the 9th century. « Click for More »
narrated by Chris Gratien
featuring Saadia Yacoob, Intisar Rabb, Joshua White, Fahad Bishara, and Joel Blecher | Islamic legal traditions rest on the revelations of the Qur'an and precedents attributed to the Prophet Muhammad and the early Muslim community. But they also rest on over a millennium of interpretation and debate. In our first episode of this series on "The Making of the Islamic World," we're exploring the history of Islamic legal traditions and the ways in which scholarship on the past relates to how people imagine what Islamic law is and what it can be. In addition to discussing what Islamic jurisprudence is and how it developed, we examine the extent to which Islamic law provided a framework for addressing matters that had little to do with religion as we might conventionally understand it. We also feature the voices of scholars engaged in new research that makes us rethink common misconceptions about the early history of Islam that have implications for how Muslims understand Islamic law today. « Click for More »
E479 | Cihan Harbi’ne cephe gerisinden bakmak bize ne anlatır? Bu bölümde Yiğit Akın ile Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nu ve cephe gerisindeki toplumun savaşı ve seferberlik politikalarını nasıl deneyimlediğini konuştuk.
Yiğit Akın lisans eğitimini ODTÜ Makina Mühendisliği’nde, yüksek lisansını Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü’nde tamamladı. 2011 yılında Ohio State Üniversitesi’nden doktora derecesi aldı. 2004 yılında İletişim Yayınları’ndan çıkmış Gürbüz ve Yavuz Evlatlar: Erken Cumhuriyet’te Beden Terbiyesi ve Spor adlı kitabının dışında Geç Osmanlı ve Erken Cumhuriyet dönemleri üzerine çeşitli dergi ve derlemelerde yayınlanmış yazıları vardır. Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Osmanlı cephe gerisini ele alan ikinci kitabı When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire 2018 yılında Stanford Üniversitesi Yayınları tarafından yayımlanmıştır. Halen Ohio State Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır.
Önder Eren Akgül Georgetown Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde doktora öğrencisi. Doktora tezini İzmir ve Batı Anadolu'nun 19. yüzyıl boyunca ve 20. yüzyıl başında geçirdiği sosyal ve ekolojik dönüşüm üzerine yazıyor.
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Bölüm No: 479 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 17 Ekim 2020 Kayıt yeri: New Orleans Ses Editörü: Önder Eren Akgül Müzik: İstanbul - Karagüneş Görseller ve Kaynakça Yiğit Akın’ın müsaadesiyle
Episode 478
with Randa Tawil hosted by Chris Gratien
How do social categories like gender and race impact migrant trajectories as they move through different imperial, national, and liminal spaces? In this episode, we explore this question through the incredible journey of Zeinab Ameen, one of many Syrian migrants featured in the work of our guest Randa Tawil. Zeinab Ameen was born in late Ottoman Lebanon. Like hundreds of thousands of other people of her generation in the Ottoman Empire, she and her family decided to emigrate to America during the early 20th century. The result was a tale of tribulation that spans more than three decades. In telling Zeinab’s story, we’ll visit a number of other global ports, including Marseille, Liverpool, New York City, and Veracruz. We’ll also visit both land borders of the United States--the Canadian border and the Mexican border, as well as the Midwest, one of the great centers of the Syrian-American mahjar.
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E477 | Bu bölümde Dr. Toygun Altıntaş ile Ermeni siyasi aktivistleri ve devrimcilerinin 1880 ve 90'lı yıllarda Doğu ve Orta Anadolu'daki faaliyetleri üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Altıntaş'ın II. Abdülhamid dönemi politikalarıyla Ermeni devrimci hareketi arasındaki ilişkiye odaklanan çalışması, bu hareketin Osmanlı toplumunun farklı kesimleri ve uluslararası aktörlerle olan çok yönlü ve karmaşık etkileşimini inceliyor. Bu bağlamda hukukun üstlendiği role dikkati çeken ve Ermeni kadınlarının bu sürece nasıl müdahil olduğunu detaylandıran araştırma, Osmanlı Ermeni çalışmaları ve II. Abdülhamid Dönemi tarih yazımına önemli katkılar sunuyor.
Toygun Altıntaş geç dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda eşitsizlik ve azınlıklaştırmanın siyasi ve toplumsal tarihiyle ilgileniyor. Doktorasını Şikago Üniversitesi'nin Yakın Doğu Dilleri ve Medeniyetleri Bölümü’nde tamamladı. Bilgi ve Boğaziçi üniversitelerinde dersler verdi. 2020-2022 yılları arasında Humboldt bursiyeri olarak Almanya'da çalışmalarına devam edecek.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
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Bölüm No. 477 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 21 Eylül 2020 Kayıt Yeri: Bomonti, Istanbul Müzik: Habrban by Komitas (performed by Sato Moughalian and Alyssa Reit) Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/09/altintas.html
Episode 476
with Valerie McGuire hosted by Chris Gratien
The Dodecanese Islands in the Southeastern Aegean Sea are part of Greece today, and for centuries, they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire. But for a brief period, Italy governed the Dodecanese as part of its empire under the Fascist government of Mussolini. In this podcast, we talk to historian Valerie McGuire about the history of Italian Empire and the ignored importance of the Dodecanese Islands within the study of colonialism writ large. We explore how the islands changed under Italian rule and the creation of a special nationality known as Italian Aegean Citizenship. We also discuss the legacy of the islands beyond the amnesia and nostalgia concerning Italy's imperial impact on the Mediterranean region.
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Episode 475
with Aaron Jakeshosted by Susanna Ferguson
Nationalism is often seen as a natural political desire or as a modal form spread around the world by modern technologies and conditions, such as literacy or print media. In this episode, Aaron Jakes reframes the history of the nation-state by looking at the British occupation of Egypt which began in 1882. He shows how the specific conditions of colonial rule, as well as the ups and downs of finance capital in an early moment of globalization, shaped how people thought about sovereignty, territory, and emancipation. Looking at peasant petitions, spy reports, and writing in the Arabic press, he explains how many people came to believe that territorial nationalism was the secret to a better life in the decades leading up to the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. « Click for More »
Episode 474
with Cemal Kafadar hosted by Maryam Patton, Chris Gratien, and Sam Dolbee
In part two of our interview with Cemal Kafadar, we discuss how history writing might play an emancipatory role in the present. Turkey as a whole and Istanbul in particular seen grand urban development projects in the past decade, and we discuss how they have become flashpoints of protest for a number of reasons, including historical preservation. Kafadar links this issue to the broader question of what the Ottoman past means and for whom. He moreover thinks through the Gezi Park protests of 2013 and how they might connect to longer historical trajectories. He also offers a sense of how histories of place on a quotidian level might provide important perspective on these questions. In closing, we discuss homesickness and displacement, both in his own relationship with Istanbul and in the life of someone we discussed in part one of our interview: Cem Sultan.
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Episode 473
with Elisabeth Fraser hosted by Emily Neumeier
For centuries, people have been documenting their travels with images, which purportedly function as visual evidence for someone’s experience far from home. This was no less the case for Europeans touring through Ottoman lands, who created a whole industry selling pictures from their time abroad. In this episode, Elisabeth Fraser explains how Western European artists at the turn of the eighteenth century began to create a new type of popular media, the illustrated travel volume. But these were not small guide books to tuck away in your pocket, they were large-scale luxury publications for the discerning armchair traveler. The enormous size and high production quality of these books and the accompanying images means that they were not the work of a single person but rather a large team of artists. Reflecting on these questions of authenticity, Dr. Fraser discusses how her research aims to take up a more nuanced view of the complexities of cross-cultural encounter. « Click for More »
Episode 472
with Alan Mikhail hosted by Sam Dolbee
Sultan Selim I is well known for the conquests he pursued that brought places like Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca into the Ottoman Empire. But in this episode, we're exploring the life and times of Selim I in an entirely new light by placing the Islamic world at the center of the momentous events of the turn of the 16th century. We talk with historian Alan Mikhail about his new book God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World. We discuss the events and developments that led to Selim's rise as well as the ignored centrality of Islam in the imagination of the early European explorers of the Americas and thinkings of the Protestant Reformation. « Click for More »
Episode 471
with Sato Moughalian hosted by Sam Dolbee
David Ohannessian is one of the foremost pioneers of the ceramic styles associated today with the city of Jerusalem, but the remarkable story of how he ended up there has never been properly told. Born in 1884 outside of Eskişehir (modern-day Turkey), David Ohannessian became a master in the iconic Kütahya style of Ottoman ceramics. He worked on important architectural projects of the Ottoman government, only to be deported during the Armenian Genocide. He managed to survive, however, and continued his craft afterward in Jerusalem, where he became involved with restoration of the Dome of the Rock and opened his own ceramics studio in the Old City. Yet the past stayed with him, especially the weight of his experience during the genocide. In this episode, Sato Moughalian discusses Feast of Ashes, her recent biography of Ohannessian. She also talks about his story's personal resonance for her as Ohannessian's granddaughter. His artistic persistence provided a model of resilience to emulate in her own art, but the violence and displacement experienced by Ohannessian and his family also left a legacy of secrets and complicated grief in Moughalian's life that was long felt but seldom addressed. « Click for More »
E470 | Son elli yılda Türkiye’de tarih yazımında neler değişti? Osmanlı tarihi çalışmalarında hangi kaynaklar, hangi yöntemlerle kullanılıyor? Bu bölümde Edhem Eldem ile son kitabı Mitler, Gerçekler ve Yöntem: Osmanlı Tarihinde Aklıma Takılanlar üzerinden tarihçiliği ve Türkiye’de tarih yazımı üzerine konuşuyoruz.
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/07/edhem-eldem.html
Edhem Eldem Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümünde profesör ve Collège de France’da Uluslararası Türk ve Osmanlı Tarihi Kürsüsü sahibidir. Araştırmaları Doğu Akdeniz ticareti, Osmanlı Bankası tarihi, Osmanlı mezar kitabeleri, Osmanlı topraklarında arkeoloji tarihi, Osman Hamdi Bey, oryantalizm ve Osmanlı Batılılaşma süreci gibi konuları kapsamaktadır.
Işın Taylan Yale Universitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde doktora öğrencisi. On yedinci ve on sekizinci yüzyıllarda Osmanlı entellektüellerinin coğrafi bilgi üretimi üzerine çalışıyor.
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Bölüm No: 470 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 6 August 2020 Kayıt Yeri: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul Ses Editörü: Işın Taylan Müzik: Appreciation - Chad Crouch Görseller ve Kaynakça Edhem Eldem'in müsaadesiyle
Episode 469
with Sophia Balakian hosted by Chris Gratien
Resettling refugee families sounds like a straightforwardly noble goal. But what happens when a particular definition of the family is used to restrict opportunities for resettlement? In this episode, we speak to anthropologist Sophia Balakian about how the concerns of governments and refugee organizations with "family composition fraud" have impacted refugee families that do not fit a normative definition of what constitutes a family unit. We talk about her fieldwork between East Africa and the United States, examining the spaces of refugee resettlement and their increased securitization since the beginning of the War on Terror. We discuss how genetic testing is being used to exclude certain individuals or families from resettlement programs. And Balakian reflects on how her work involving survivors of war, genocide, and migration today relates to her own questions about the past as a member of the Armenian diaspora.
At the bottom of this post, we also offer an activity module for university classrooms that ties in with this podcast.
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Episode 468
with Gregory Maxwell Bruce hosted by Zoe Griffith
In 1892, the renowned Islamic scholar and educator Shibli Nomani traveled to the Ottoman Empire, where he visited cities in modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Egypt. His travelogue, entitled Safarnāmah-i Rūm o Miṣr o Shām, was published in the Urdu language within his own lifetime. In this episode, we talk to Gregory Maxwell Bruce, the author of an annotated translation of Shibli's travelogue, which has been recently published by Syracuse University Press. In our conversation, we delve into the process of translating the travelogue and explore the South-South connections between South Asia and the Middle East revealed by Shibli Nomani's relationships and contacts during his travels in the Ottoman Empire.
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Episode 467
with Jasmin Daam, Esther Möller, Cyrus Schayegh, and Selim Deringil hosted by Andreas Guidi
Modern Mediterranean history and Middle Eastern history rarely dialogue with each other. Whereas European ideas and practices of and in the Mediterranean have been studied thoroughly, only recently did researchers start to examine ideas and experiences through which actors on the Southern shore contributed to the making of the Mediterranean. In this episode, recorded in partnership with the Southeast Passage during a conference in Beirut, we discuss the relevance of the Mediterranean in Arab ideas, institutions and identity constructions in the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman period. We focus on topics such as tourism in the Mandates, spatial transformations in the former Western Arab provinces after the demise of the Ottoman Empire, emigration on sea from the coast of Lebanon, and humanitarianism in Egypt after WWII. Through such diverse perspectives, the episode asks what a focus on the Southern shore might add to our perception of the Mediterranean “liquid continent.”
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Episode 466
with Alden Young hosted by Chris Gratien
As a site of recent civil wars, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, Sudan's history is often framed by violence. In this podcast, our guest Alden Young offers an alternative framing of Sudan's modern history, as we discuss Sudan's economy and its relationship to the broader Middle East from the 19th century onward. We discuss Sudan's unique experience of colonialism under Ottoman/Egyptian rule and how the issue of slavery intensified as Sudan's ties to Egypt and the broader Ottoman world intensified during the 19th century. We also discuss how colonial planners slowly reoriented Sudan's economy towards agricultural export and away from pastoralism. We explore the Gezira scheme, a long foretold irrigation project that would become the centerpiece of Sudanese economic development after independence during the 1950s. And we consider the fate of the class of Sudanese economists and technocrats who straddled the late colonial and postcolonial periods.
At the bottom of this post, we also offer an activity module for university classrooms based on this podcast, a documentary about the Gezira scheme from the 1950s, and the novel Season of Migration to the North by Sudanese author Tayeb Salih.
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Episode 465
with Robyn Dora Radway hosted by Emily Neumeier
What was it like to be a foreigner living in Ottoman Istanbul? In this episode, our guest Robyn Dora Radway answers this question by providing an in-depth look at an unusual type of document: alba amicorum, or friendship albums, which were essentially the social media of the sixteenth century. Produced in the Habsburg embassy (aka the “German House"), these albums functioned like yearbooks in that the owners residing in the embassy would strive to collect all manner of mementos from their time abroad, including signatures, poems, short anecdotes, and even drawings and paintings. At the German House, men from all walks of life would end up assembling their own album amicorum, from the Habsburg ambassador to the cook (who was quite popular and had the largest album by far). We discuss how these albums can thus serve as a valuable resource for historians, as they offer a full picture of the social makeup of these kinds of diplomatic spaces—information that does not often turn up in more traditional archives. « Click for More »
Episode 464
with Cemal Kafadar hosted by Maryam Patton, Chris Gratien, and Sam Dolbee
In part one of our interview with Cemal Kafadar, we discuss his intellectual influences in the broadest sense, ranging from the Balkan accents of the Istanbul neighborhood in which he grew up to his early interest in theater and film. Kafadar talks about key events that shaped his worldview, including the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution. He also touches on the works of history and literature that inspired him, as well as his first archival forays in the shadow of the 1980 military coup. And in closing, he brings up a question that nagged him from the beginning: "do we do what we do to understand, or do what we do to change the world?"
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Episode 463
with Panayotis League hosted by Chris Gratien
What is Greek music? For our guest Panayotis League, it's no one thing. Rather, it is diversity that defines the many regional musical traditions of Greece and the broader Greek diaspora. In this episode, we discuss League's ethnomusicological research on Greek music in diaspora, and we explore the history and transformation of Ottoman Greek music before and after the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece. As League explains, Greek music in the Ottoman Empire was inextricably linked to the musical traditions of neighboring Turkish, Armenian, and Sephardic communities. However, the First World War, the Second Greco-Turkish War, and the exchange of populations that sent the entire Greek Orthodox population of Anatolia to Greece eliminated spaces of intercommunality where Ottoman music thrived. In our conversation, we discuss how the intercommunal music of the Ottoman Empire survived in Greece among exchanged people who pioneered the new rebetiko style that would reshape Greek popular music. We also discuss how the music of Ottoman Greeks fit into a larger diasporic communal dynamic in places like the United States.
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Episode 462
with Oludamini Ogunnaike hosted by Shireen Hamza
Reading and writing poems in praise of the prophet Mohammad is no simple matter in West Africa. Their composition was a vehicle for intellectual debate, just as their recitation was a means of spiritual transformation for the listener. In this episode, we speak to Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike, the author of a recent book about praise or "madih" poetry in West Africa, and we listen to recordings of several recitations. Madih poetry is widely recited by Muslims in West Africa; we learn of several major authors from the 18th century to now, including Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse and Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba. Professor Ogunnaike explains the complex Sufi cosmologies and epistemologies intrinsic to the memorization and recitation of madih poetry, which make this such a powerful and widespread practice in Muslim communities. Finally, we discuss why these poems -- manuscripts of which can be found in every collection in West Africa -- remain so little studied. While part of this can be explained by the colonial legacy of considering Islam to be essentially Arab, and thus a foreign importation to Africa, there are other epistemological issues at stake. Professor Ogunnaike's work thus broadens our understanding of a form of embodied knowledge in Islam.
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Episode 461
with Sylvia Angelique Alajaji hosted by Sam Dolbee
Music, at its best, can give us a reason to live. In this episode, Sylvia Alajaji discusses how in the wake of the Armenian Genocide, music not only served this function for Armenians, but also opened up broader questions about how to define what it meant to be Armenian. Drawing from her book Music and the Armenian Diaspora, she traces the Armenian musical cultures that emerged over a century from New York to Beirut to California. On one hand, the diaspora sought to preserve the folk music of Ottoman Armenian communities destroyed and scattered throughout the First World War and its aftermath. Meanwhile, in new homes like Beirut, Armenian artists began to create new musical forms in which the use of Armenian language was more crucial than the particularities of music style. At the same time, the memory of Ottoman Armenian music in the Turkish language that arrived in places like the United States with the first waves of migrant began to fade as the Armenian diaspora grew more distant from its origins in what is modern Turkey. For Alajaji these acts of preservation, creation, erasure, and recovery all are part of what music means to the Armenian diaspora. « Click for More »
E460 | Erken modern dönemde Avrupa’nın oyun dünyası nasıldı? Avrupa’nın çeşitli ülkelerinde üretilen bu oyunlarda Türkler nasıl temsil ediliyordu? Bu bölümde, Dr. Fatih Parlak ile bu sorular etrafında sohbet ediyoruz. Parlak’ın doktora tezi batılı kaynaklarda yer alan Türk imgesini durağan kabul eden ana akım yaklaşımları yeniden değerlendiriyor ve bu imgenin çok katmanlı ve çok yönlü olarak değerlendirilmesi gerektiğine vurgu yapıyor. Aynı zamanda, oyunları incelemenin açtığı yeni araştırma imkânlarını da tartışıyor.
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/turk-imgesi.html
Ömer Fatih Parlak lisans ve yüksek lisans derecelerini Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde tamamladı. Yüksek lisans çalışmasında, günümüz tarih yazımında pek yer bulmayan ‘Osmanlı’da frengi hastalığı’ üzerine yazılmış tıbbi eserleri Avrupalı muadilleriyle karşılaştırdı. Yeni Çağ Avrupası’nda oynanan masaüstü oyunları ve oyun kartlarında bulunan Türk imgeleri üzerine yaptığı çalışmasıyla Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona’da Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat ve Edebiyat Teorileri bölümünden doktor ünvanı aldı. Halen oyun tarihi, Yakın Çağ’da oyuncunun dünyası, Sömürge dönemi oyunlarında Doğu ve Doğulu tasviri, ve Asya’da üretilen dijital oyunlarda Batı ve Batılı tasviri gibi konularda çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir. Board Game Studies Journal’da yardımcı editörlük görevine devam etmektedir.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
YAPIM VE YAYIN
Bölüm No. 460 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 19 Mart 2020 Kayıt Yeri: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul Müzik: Bumble Bee Bossa; Bağlamamın Düğümü - Necmiye Ararat ve Muzaffer Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş Görseller ve kaynakça Fatih Parlak'ın müsaadesiyle: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/turk-imgesi.html
E459 | In this episode, anthropologist and lawyer Darryl Li discusses his new book The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. Based on ethnographic and archival research, the work explores the Bosnian jihad, in which several thousand Muslim volunteers ventured to the area to fight in response to the mass atrocities against Muslims in the midst of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995. Through this lens, Li critically engages with many of the omnipresent yet unexamined concepts associated with Muslim mobility and jihad. Or, as he pithily put it, he aimed "to write a book about jihad that didn't suck." With this goal in mind, he offers a perspective on the Bosnian jihad on its own terms. Highlighting the jihad as a universalist project, he moreover reveals unexpected intersections, including everything from South-South legacies of the Non-Aligned Movement to Habsburg Neo-Moorish design confused for Ottoman architecture to Sufi-Salafi alliances. He also grapples with the long shadows cast on Muslim mobility by the US-created global network of prisons in the context of the Global War on Terror.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/darryl-li.html
Darryl Li is an assistant professor of anthropology and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago and an attorney licensed in New York and Illinois.
Sam Dolbee is a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. He completed his PhD at New York University in 2017. His research is on the environmental history of the Jazira region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Matthew Ghazarian is a Ph.D. Candidate in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of sectarianism, humanitarianism, and famine in central and eastern Anatolia between 1839 and 1893.
CREDITS
Episode No. 459 Release Date: 15 April 2020 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Audio editing by Sam Dolbee and Chris Gratien Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Sombra"; Kai Engel, "Illumination"; Blue Dot Sessions, "Our Only Lark" Images and bibliography courtesy of Darryl Li at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/darryl-li.html
E458 | In the seventeenth century, the city of Isfahan flourished as the capital of the Safavid Empire. How did this vibrant and growing city shape the very nature of its inhabitants? In this episode, we speak to Kathryn Babayan about how the city’s residents learned to read its new architecture and social life and how this budding urbanity in turn developed new ways of being and belonging among its residents. She focuses specifically on anthologies, those personal collections of letters, paintings, and poems that survive today by the thousands. These anthologies, curated and preserved by urbanites over generations, are one of the finest testaments to the new subjectivities of the early modern city in the Safavid realms.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/UrbanIsfahan.html
Kathryn Babayan's research focuses on the social and cultural history of the early-modern Persianate world. She specializes in Safavi history, the history of Shi'ism, gender studies and the history of sexuality. Her forthcoming book with Stanford University Press is titled The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan.
Nir Shafir researches the intellectual and religious history of the Middle East, from roughly 1400-1800, focusing on material culture and the history of science and technology. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
CREDITS
Episode No. 459 Release Date: 8 April 2020 Recording Location: Budapest Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Fifteen Street Images and bibliography courtesy of Kathryn Babayan and Nir Shafir available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/UrbanIsfahan.html
E457 | Bu bölümde Selim Deringil ile, Birinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Suriye vilayetlerinde bulunmuş dört Osmanlı-Türk yöneticisi ve entelektüeli, Ali Fuad Erden, Münevver Ayaşlı, Hüseyin Kazım Kadri ve Falih Rıfkı Atay’ın yazdıkları tanıklıklardan bölümler okuyarak Arap topraklarında Cihan Harbi’nin getirdiği muazzam siyasal ve toplumsal sarsıntıyı ve Osmanlı yönetici elitinin bu toprakları savaş süresince nasıl idare ettiğini konuştuk. Ayrıca erken Cumhuriyet devrinde bu deneyimin Osmanlı-Türk elitleri tarafından nasıl hatırlandığı ve aktarıldığı üzerinde durduk.
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/selim-deringil.html
Selim Deringil tarihçi ve Lübnan Amerikan Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyesidir. The Well Protected Domains (1998), Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire (2012), The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands (2019) yazdığı kitaplar arasındadır.
Önder Eren Akgül Georgetown Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde doktora öğrencisi. Doktora tezini İzmir ve Batı Anadolu'nun 19. yüzyıl boyunca ve 20. yüzyıl başında geçirdiği sosyal ve ekolojik dönüşüm üzerine hazırlıyor.
YAPIM VE YAYIN
Bölüm No. 457 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 2 Nisan 2020 Kayıt Yeri: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul Ses Editörü: Önder Eren Akgül Müzik: İstanbul - Kara Güneş Kaynakça Selim Deringil'in müsaadesiyle: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/selim-deringil.html
Episode 456
with Harun Küçük hosted by Sam Dolbee and Zoe Griffith
What did science look like in early modern Istanbul? In this episode, Harun Küçük discusses his new book, Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732 (University of Pittsburgh Press), which tackles this question in a bold fashion. Tracing the impact of late seventeenth and early eighteenth transformations of the Ottoman economy, Küçük argues that the material conditions of scholars greatly deteriorated in this period. The changes did not, however, stop people from wanting to know about the world, but rather reoriented their work toward more practical applications of science. Küçük contrasts these conditions with those in some parts of northwestern Europe, where a more leisurely version of science--often theoretically inclined--emerged. He also grapples with the parallels between educational institutions in the early modern period and today.
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Episode 455
featuring Nükhet Varlık, Yaron Ayalon, Orhan Pamuk, Lori Jones, Valentina Pugliano, and Edna Bonhomme
narrated by Chris Gratien and Maryam Patton
with contributions by Nir Shafir, Sam Dolbee, Tunç Şen, and Andreas Guidi
The plague is caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which lives in fleas that in turn live on rodents. Coronavirus is not the plague. Nonetheless, we can find many parallels between the current pandemic and the experience of plague for people who lived centuries ago. This special episode of Ottoman History Podcast brings together lessons from our past episodes on plague and disease in the early modern Mediterranean. Our guests offer state of the art perspectives on the history of plague in the Ottoman Empire, and many of their observations may also be useful for thinking about epidemics in the present day.
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E454 | Hindistan'da endemik bir hastalık olan kolera, 19. yüzyılda nasıl bir pandemiye dönüştü? Osmanlı Devleti kolerayla nasıl tanıştı ve hangi yöntemleri kullanarak mücadele etti? Bu bölümde Düzce Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nden Doç. Dr. İsmail Yaşayanlar ile Osmanlı Devleti'nde salgın hastalıkları konuşuyoruz. Tıp ve bakteriyolojide kaydedilen ilerlemelerin ve modern devlet pratiklerinin kamu sağlığı yaklaşımlarını nasıl dönüştürdüğünü tartışıyor; bu dönüşümlerin yöneten ile yönetilen arasında ne gibi gerilimlere yol açtığını değerlendiriyoruz.
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/kolera.html
İsmail Yaşayanlar lisans, yüksek lisans ve Sinop, Samsun ve Trabzon’da Kolera Salgınları, Karantina Teşkilatı ve Kamu Sağlığı Hizmetleri (1876-1914) başlıklı çalışmasıyla doktorasını Uludağ Üniversitesi’nde tamamladı. Çalışmaları genellikle kent tarihi ve kurumları, sağlık tarihi, salgın hastalıklar, karantina ve göç tarihi konuları üzerine odaklanmıştır. Düzce Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır. Tarih Vakfı tarafından yayınlanan Toplumsal Tarih dergisinde yayın kurulu üyesidir.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
YAPIM VE YAYIN
Bölüm No. 454 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 11 Mart 2020 Kayıt Yeri: Tarih Vakfı, Istanbul Müzik: Zé Trigueiros - Sombra Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş Görseller ve kaynakça İsmail Yaşayanlar'in müsaadesiyle
Episode 453
with Nancy Um hosted by Zoe Griffith
The Red Sea port of Mocha enjoyed ties with London, Amsterdam, Surat, and Jakarta in the eighteenth century. But not all of the ivory, porcelain, and coffee that passed through Mocha was sold for a profit. In this episode, Nancy Um brings the eye of an art historian to the history of exchange and diplomacy in the early modern Indian Ocean, focusing on the ceremonies and gift exchanges that legitimated and lubricated English and Dutch trade with Yemen’s Qasimi rulers. Gift-giving was far more than an annoyance to the major overseas merchants in Mocha. We explore how “promiscuous” objects became valuable beyond their price tag, allowing merchants to communicate across linguistic, religious, and cultural lines.
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E452 | During the 9th century, Arab armies from North Africa conquered Sicily, leading to four centuries of Muslim history on the island, which is now part of Italy. Sicily during that period has often been portrayed as an interfaith utopia where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, giving rise to a cultural synthesis, but as our guest William Granara explains, the reality was more complex. In this conversation with Granara, author of Narrating Muslim Sicily, we explore the history of Muslim societies in Sicily, grappling with questions of representation and reality as well as conflict and coexistence. We also discuss what this history means today centuries after the departure of Sicily's last Muslims, as a new wave of Muslim migration arrives on the island.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/muslim-sicily.html
William Granara is professor of Arabic language and literature at Harvard University in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Literature, and is currently the director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He writes extensively on the history and literature of Muslim Sicily.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 452 Release Date: 27 February 2020 Recording Location: Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Music and Audio Elements: A.A. Aalto - Canyon; "TONNARA" by Cirrus Films UK; Chad Crouch - Lollygag; Taut; Tuscan Sun; Giovanni Vicari – Occhi di Bambola; Komiku - Un désert; ORAO - La Sicilia Arabo Normanna; Pictures of the Floating World - Softest Fabric; Favignana Pesca del Tonno Sound production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of William Granara available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/muslim-sicily.html
E451 | What did it mean to individuals from different ethnic and religious backgrounds to participate in World War I under the same banner? What do personal narratives tell us about the World War I? Accounts of soldiers, officers, and women as well as non-textual sources such as medals and postcards provide novel perspectives into thinking about the experience of the Great War. This episode brings together interviews conducted at Boğaziçi University during the Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War Conference in September 2019.
Yaşar Tolga Cora is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University. His research is on the social and economic history of the late Ottoman Empire, with a particular focus on Armenian communities in Anatolia, and life narratives of Ottoman Armenians.
Edhem Eldem is a professor in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and holds the International Chair of Turkish and Ottoman History at Collège de France since 2017. He has published extensively on the economic, intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
Nicole van Os works at Leiden University as a student advisor and programme coordinator and is an affiliated researcher of the Leiden Institute of Area Studies. She has been working on Ottoman women’s history since the late 1980s.
Johann Strauss taught at the universities of Munich, Birmingham, Freiburg and Strasbourg University. He has published numerous articles in English, French, and German on a variety of topics, in particular translations from Western languages, history of printing and publishing, and linguistic and cultural contacts between the various communities of the Ottoman Empire.
CREDITS
Episode No. 451 Release Date: 22 February 2020 Recording Location: Orient-Institut, Istanbul Audio editing by Işın Taylan Music: Silicon Transmitter - Electric Storm; Aitua - IV Volcano; A.A. Aalto - Traverse; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Scanglobe - Beanbag Fight Images and bibliography available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/world-war-i-ottoman-empire.html
E450 | II. Abdülhamid Dönemi yönetim anlayışı, Osmanlı Devleti’nin 16. yüzyıldan itibaren izlediği Alevi/Kızılbaş siyasetini nasıl dönüştürdü? II. Abdülhamid dönemi Alevi/Kızılbaş siyasetinin temel araçları nelerdi? Bu bölümde, Munzur Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nden Yalçın Çakmak ile “Sultan’ın Kızılbaşları: II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Alevi Algısı ve Siyaseti” başlıklı kitabı üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. II. Abdülhamid rejiminin kendi siyaset anlayışı ve araçları ile devletin genel Alevi politikası arasındaki paralellikleri ve değişimleri tartışıyoruz.
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/cakmak.html
Yalçın Çakmak lisans, yüksek lisans ve doktorasını Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde tamamladı. Kızılbaş/Alevilik, Bektaşilik, Türkiye’de dinî ve etnik gruplar başta olmak üzere dinler tarihi, Osmanlı ve Cumhuriyet dönemi dinî, toplumsal ve siyasal yaşam çalışma alanları arasındadır. Sultanın Kızılbaşları'nın yanı sıra İletişim Yayınları'ndan çıkan Kızılbaşlık, Alevilik, Bektaşilik: Tarih-Kimlik-İnanç-Ritüel ve Kürt Tarihi ve Siyasetinden Portreler başlıklı kitapların derleyenlerindendir. Aynı zamanda Kalan Yayınları imzalı Kelâm-ı Pîr: Kitâb-ı Heft Bâb başlıklı eserin de editörüdür. 2013-2018 yılları arasında Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü, 2019 yılından itibaren de Munzur Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde akademik çalışmalarını sürdürmekte olup, 2019 yılında Tarih Vakfı Mütevelli Kurulu üyeliğine seçilmiştir.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
Yapım ve Yayın
Bölüm No. 450 Yayınlanma Tarihi:: 16 Şubat 2019 Kayıt Yeri: Ankara Dersimliler Derneği Müzik: Thiaz Itch – Bratil Imuun Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş ve Chris Gratien Görseller ve Kaynakça Yalçın Çakmak'ın müsaadesiyle: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/cakmak.html
E449 | Popular revolts across the Middle East during the 19th and early 20th century have often been described as nationalist or anti-colonial. But on what basis did people mobilize and what rights were they attempting to assert? In this conversation, Pascale Ghazaleh examines the language of protest, focusing on the actions of peasants and the working class, their understandings of property rights and ownership, and what they say about their political aspirations. She also reflects on the slow process of doing archival research in Egypt and challenges of access.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/ghazaleh.html
Pascale Ghazaleh is chair of the History Department and director of HUSSLab, a Mellon-funded public humanities initiative, at the American University in Cairo. She has worked on the organization of craft guilds and the social networks and material culture of merchants in Ottoman Cairo. She is currently writing about nationalism and historiography in the contemporary Middle East and surveillance in Egypt under British occupation. Her ongoing research concerns property ties and citizenship in late nineteenth-century Egypt. Ghazaleh obtained her PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Nir Shafir researches the intellectual and religious history of the Middle East, from roughly 1400-1800, focusing on material culture and the history of science and technology. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD and one of the editors of the Ottoman History Podcast.
CREDITS
Episode No. 449 Release Date: 11 February 2020 Recording Location: Berlin Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Chad Crouch - Future You, Ink, Lilac; Robert John - Home Fire Bibliography courtesy of Pascale Ghazaleh available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/ghazaleh.html
Episode 448
with Burcu Karahan hosted by Suzie Ferguson
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"One Thousand Kisses," "Plate of Cream," "Story of a Lily:" these are some of the provocative titles that graced the covers of Ottoman erotic novels in the early decades of the twentieth century. While erotic fiction and poetry had a long history in Ottoman and Arabic manuscript culture, the erotic novels of the second constitutional period (1908-1914), some creatively adapted from French originals, emerged in a period of unprecedented freedom for writers. Yet the novels themselves were often less explicit and transgressive than their their titles might suggest. In this episode, Burcu Karahan shows how, in late Ottoman fiction, stories about sex and desire celebrated not only sexual freedom, but also conservative fantasies about male sexual power and the power of heterosexual love.
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Our full interview with Daniel Hershenzon. For more, see https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/pirates.html
Episode 446
featuring Emrah Safa Gürkan, Joshua White, and Daniel Hershenzon
narrated by Chris Gratien
with contributions by Nir Shafir, Taylor Moore, Susanna Ferguson, and Zoe Griffith
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Piracy is often depicted as a facet of the wild, lawless expanses of the high seas. But in this episode, we explore the order that governed piracy, captivity, and ransom in the early modern Mediterranean and in turn, how these practices shaped early modern politics, Mediterranean connections, and the emergent notions of international law. Emrah Safa Gürkan talks about Ottoman corsairs and the practicalities of piracy in the early modern Mediterranean. Joshua White discusses facets of Islamic law and gender in the realm of piracy. And Daniel Hershenzon explores the paradoxical connections forged by slavery, captivity, and ransom on both sides of the Mediterranean.
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Episode 445
with Mary Roberts hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan
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The line between Orientalist and Ottoman painting might at first seem clear. But in this episode, historian Mary Roberts argues that such distinctions are in fact complicated, drawing on her recent book Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. She explains how Istanbul became a global center of production, circulation, and exhibition of visual culture in the nineteenth century. Ottomans and Orientalists both contended and connected with each other--whether in Pera or in the palace--and Roberts discusses how these networks of patronage and apprenticeship eventually led to works that were produced in Istanbul ending up all around the world. There they became defined as Orientalist, but Roberts unearths the more tangled genealogy of their production, as well as the relevance of audience in these characterizations.
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E445 | The line between Orientalist and Ottoman painting might at first seem clear. But in this episode, historian Mary Roberts argues that such distinctions are in fact complicated, drawing on her recent book Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. She explains how Istanbul became a global center of production, circulation, and exhibition of visual culture in the nineteenth century. Ottomans and Orientalists both contended and connected with each other--whether in Pera or in the palace--and Roberts discusses how these networks of patronage and apprenticeship eventually led to works that were produced in Istanbul ending up all around the world. There they became defined as Orientalist, but Roberts unearths the more tangled genealogy of their production, as well as the relevance of audience in these characterizations.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/ottoman-paintings.html
Mary Roberts is Professor of Art History and Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sydney. She works on the late Ottoman Empire and Orientalist visual culture.
Zeinab Azarbadegan is a Ph.D. candidate in International and Global History at Columbia University. She is currently conducting research for her dissertation project on the subject of sovereignty and citizenship in nineteenth century Ottoman Iraq.
CREDITS
Episode No. 445 Release Date: 18 January 2020 Recording Location: Istanbul Audio editing by Maryam Patton Music: Komiku - Un désert; Istanbul by kara güneş Images and bibliography courtesy of Mary Roberts available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/ottoman-paintings.html
Episode 444
with Hüseyin Yılmaz hosted by Nir Shafir and Alp Eren Topal
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In medieval Anatolia, political authority could be found in surprising places. In this podcast, we speak to Hüseyin Yılmaz about the political role of Sufi leaders in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. We explore how these shaykhs could become powerful political leaders in their own right and how the nascent Ottoman state dealt with their power, ultimately participating in what Yılmaz calls "the mystical turn" in Ottoman political thought.
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Episode 443
with Faiz Ahmed hosted by Shireen Hamza and Huma Gupta
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In this episode, Professor Faiz Ahmed recounts the fascinating history of Afghanistan’s first modern constitution, contextualizing it within a broader legal and political history. The constitution was developed by Afghan, Ottoman and Indian and other scholars, at the behest of the country’s monarch, between 1919-1925. After the first world war, Afghanistan was one of few sovereign Muslim countries. This was one factor which drew many scholars and activists to the court of Amanullah Khan — a “Young Afghan,” graduate of an Ottoman institution in Kabul, and a Muslim modernizer. We learn about the role of figures like Queen Soraya, her father Mahmud Tarzi, and myriad scholars and jurists in shaping the constitution. We discuss the nature of the constitution as a living document, which acknowledges its place within an Islamic legal heritage — as well as the fact that the constitution will evolve. Professor Ahmed also reads from one section of the constitution, which determines “Who is an Afghan?,” and shares his translation. We also learn how the history of the constitution is remembered in Afghanistan today.
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E442 | In this episode, Professor Sunil Sharma shares his research on the cast of poets who wrote Persian poetry in India, and the poetic idea of Mughal India as a paradise, or an “Arcadia.” (He also shares some excerpts of this lovely poetry with us!) We discuss how specific regions, like Kashmir, became a hot new topic in Persian poetry, and explore the kinds of competitions that emerged between poets from different places across a broader “Persianate” world. The courtly environments in which these poets found patronage were multilingual and multiracial environments — where someone could enjoy poetry in Persian, Braj Bhasha, Hindavi and Chaghatai Turkish — but in this time, Persian poetry was what got you a job. By studying both poetry and painting, he reflects on the racial differences mentioned by poets, especially the initial difference between those born in India and those who had migrated from Iran and were “native speakers” of Persian. Finally, we discuss different meanings of the term “Indo-Persian,” in the study of the centuries that Persian was used as a language of governance, literature and science in India.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/mughal-arcadia.html
Sunil Sharma is Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University. His teaching and research interests are in Persian(ate) literatures, visual culture, and travel writing.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of medical exchange in the medieval Indian Ocean world. She is also the managing editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.
Naveena Naqvi is Assistant Professor of Persianate Islamic cultures of South Asia at University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her research interests include the Persianate world (ca. 13th-19th centuries), with a focus on non-courtly writers in regional contexts during early colonial rule.
CREDITS
Episode No. 442 Release Date: 16 December 2019 Recording Location: Boston, MA Audio editing by Chris Gratien and Shireen Hamza Music: Chad Crouch; Sergey Cheremisinov; Komiku; Soft and Furious; kara güneş
Episode 441
with Heather Fergusonhosted by Zoe Griffith
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In this episode, historian Heather Ferguson takes us behind the scenes of early modern Ottoman state-making with a discussion of her recent book The Proper Order of Things. We discuss how the architecture of Topkapı palace, the emergence of new bureaucratic practices, and the administration of space from Hungary to Lebanon projected early modern discourses of “order” that were crucial to imperial legitimacy, governance, and dissent. Heather also offers rare insights into the challenges, vulnerabilities, and victories of transforming a dissertation into a prize-winning book manuscript.
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Episode 440
with Nazan Maksudyan hosted by Chris Gratien
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Children are often imagined as victims of war or passive bystanders. But in this episode, Nazan Maksudyan is back on the program to talk about how the First World War looked through the eyes of Ottoman children and their lives as historical actors during and after the conflict. We explore the experience of child workers and the many situations faced by children throughout the war, and we also explore the themes of survival and resilience as expressed in the experience of children, especially Ottoman Armenians. We also discuss the challenges of writing amid a tumultuous period for Turkey and an experience of exile.
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E439 | How can we narrate human history in relation to the non-human world? In this inaugural installment of our new environmental humanities series Climes, we talk to Bathsheba Demuth about the craft of environmental history. She reads selections from her new book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, and we discuss how hunting, capitalism, and communism shaped the Arctic region of Beringia.
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Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University, where her research focuses on the Russian and North American Arctic. Her writing has appeared in publications from The New Yorker to The American Historical Review.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 439 Release Date: 6 December 2019 Recording Location: Harvard University Music (in order of appearance): Bumbling by Pictures of the Floating World; Homeroad by Kai Engel; Dark Depths by Brevyn; Badlands by Silicon Transmitter; So What by Soft and Furious; Negentropy by Chad Crouch; Beanbag Fight by Scanglobe Sound Elements: Factory Sounds; Bowhead Whale Audiograph; Bowhead Whale Ringtone; Sperm Whale Clicking Sounds; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Beaufort Lagoon - Coastline; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Beaufort Lagoon - Melt Off; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Timber Lake - June 4, 2006 - AM - Ice cracking; Boat Motor Sound Effect; Arctic White Noise And Wind THE BEST ASMR; Deeply Relaxing Underwater Sounds - 10 Hours | Deep Ocean Sounds - Sleep, Relax, Study, Meditation Audio editing by Chris Gratien Bibliography and images courtesy of Bathsheba Demuth available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/demuth.html
Episode 438
with Kristen Alff hosted by Chris Gratien
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Though the history of capitalism in the Middle East has been closely tied to the history of colonialism, local forms of capitalism emerged in the Ottoman Empire long before the advent of the British and French mandates. In this episode, Kristen Alff offers a new perspective on the joint-stock companies of mercantile families in the late Ottoman Levant. These families, the Sursocks being foremost among them, were largely based in Beirut, but they held property in modern-day Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Egypt. Throughout our discussion of these joint-stock companies, we consider what they mean for understanding a history of capitalism that pushes against a normative, Western European model and what they mean for understanding the politics of the post-Ottoman Middle East.
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E 437 | Osmanlı'da çiftler nasıl evlenir, nasıl boşanırdı? Bu podcast'te Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik ile İstanbul Bab, Davud Paşa ve Ahi Çelebi mahkemelerinin 1755-1840 yıllarındaki kayıtlarını inceleyerek tamamladığı doktora araştırması odağında, Osmanlı İstanbul'unda evlilik ve boşanma davaları üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Elbirlik'in araştırması, kadınların evlilik, boşanma ve mülkiyetle ilişkili konularda mahkemeleri aktif olarak kullandıklarını gösterirken, Osmanlı ailesinde ve toplumunda kadının rolüne dair yaygın kanıları da yeniden değerlendiriyor.
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Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatı Bölümü ve Humanities Programı'nda öğretim üyesidir. Lisans eğitimini Bard College'da, doktora çalışmalarını Harvard Üniversitesi Tarih ve Orta Doğu Çalışmaları'nda tamamlayan Elbirlik'in erken dönem Osmanlı tarihi, aile tarihi, kadın ve toplumsal cinsiyet çalışmaları odaklı araştırmaları, Archivum Ottomanicum, Sanat Tarihi Yıllığı ve Journal of Turkish Literature olmak üzere çeşitli dergilerde yayımlandı. Son dönemde duyguların tarihi ve çocukluğun tarihi üzerine yayına hazırladığı kitap bölümleri sırasıyla Edinburgh Press ve Brill tarafından yayınlanacaktır.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
Yapım ve Yayın Bölüm No. 436 Yayınlanma Tarihi:: 29 Kasım 2019 Kayıt Yeri: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş Müzik: Erkek Kadın Oyun Havası Görseller ve Kaynakça Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik'in müsaadesiyle
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E436 | In this roundtable entitled "Narrating Migration: Emerging Methods and Cross-Disciplinary Directions," held at the 2019 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, two historians--Reem Bailony and Andrew Arsan--and two sociologists--Rawan Arar and Neda Maghbouleh discuss their experiences and approaches to studying migration. Throughout this conversation with our four authors about their own research, we speak to the following questions: What are the promises and dangers of narrative in migration studies? What role do language and affect play in writing migrant stories? How should we write them? How do different disciplines approach migration? What challenges and possibilities are presented by the source base? How do various sources (e.g., state, personal, oral) intersect or diverge? What are overlooked areas (e.g., spatial, temporal, political, social) with regard to migration and the modern Middle East? How do experiences of MENA migration and diaspora contribute to migration studies broadly speaking? How does this work impact historiographies of the Global North, South-South relations, and other places where MENA migrants have gone? What promise might the study of MENA migration hold for decolonial scholarship?
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/11/narrating-migration-mesa-2019.html
Rawan Arar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California San Diego and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Rawan studies refugee displacement, international migration, and rights.
Andrew Arsan teaches modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (2014), and of Lebanon: A Country in Fragments (2018, paperback edition forthcoming 2020), a study of everyday life and politics in contemporary Lebanon.
Reem Bailony is Assistant Professor of History at Agnes Scott College. She is working on a book about the transnational context of the 1925 Syrian Revolt.
Neda Maghbouleh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, with graduate appointment to the St. George campus. She is author of The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press, 2017) and Principal Investigator of a longitudinal study (2018-2023) of Syrian refugee resettlement in Toronto titled RISE Team: Refugee Integration, Stress, & Equity.
CREDITS
Episode No. 436 Release Date: 25 November 2019 Recording Location: 2019 MESA Annual Meeting, New Orleans Music: Ketsa - Life Illusion; Tanious Hamlawe - Tabouly Audio editing by Chris Gratien Reading lists courtesy of roundtable participants available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/11/narrating-migration-mesa-2019.html
Episode 435
with Hans-Lukas Kieser hosted by Graham Auman Pitts and Önder Eren Akgül
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World War I and along with it the life of Talaat Pasha, who headed the Ottoman Ministry of Interior and became empire’s Grand Vizier after 1917, remain contentious in Turkey today. Hans-Lukas Kieser, professor at Australia’s Newcastle University, has recently published a pioneering biography of Talaat Pasha, which casts him as the primary author of the Armenian Genocide and a founder of modern Turkey. In this episode, we sit down with Kieser to talk about this new book and the significance of Talaat Pasha not only for understanding the history of the late Ottoman Empire but also Europe during an era of extremes.« Click for More »
Episode 434
with Sarah Abrevaya Stein hosted by Sam Dolbee
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In this episode, historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein speaks to us about the journey of one Jewish family from Ottoman Salonica in the late nineteenth century to Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and beyond during the twentieth century. In her new book Family Papers, she reveals the poignant continuities and changes that accompanied the Sephardic family's movement from an imperial world into a national one through stories of displacement and genocide, endurance and survival. She also discusses the cache of family papers that allowed her to provide this uniquely intimate vantage on large-scale historical transformations.« Click for More »
Episode 433
with David Gutmanhosted by Sam Dolbee
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Beginning in the 1880s, thousands of Ottoman Armenians left the Harput region bound for places all around the world. The Ottoman state viewed these migrants as threats, both for their feared political connections and their possession of foreign legal protections. In this episode, David Gutman discusses the smuggling networks that emerged in response to these legal restrictions, as well as the evolving understandings of citizenship they entailed. Restrictions on movement were repealed after the Constitutional Revolution in 1908, but the respite from control of motion would be short-lived for Harput's Armenians, many of whom were killed in the genocide of 1915. « Click for More »
E 432 | Bu bölümünde Ayşe Ozil ile geç Osmanlı döneminde millet sisteminin ne ifade ettiğini, Rum cemaatini, cemaat kavramının kendisini, Rum topluluklarının devlet ile ilişkisini ve bu ilişkinin ondokuzuncu yüzyıl ortalarından itibaren ne tür değişimler geçirdiğini konuştuk.
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Ayşe Ozil Sabancı Üniversitesi Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi öğretim üyesidir. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nden mezun olduktan sonra aynı üniversitenin Tarih Bölümü’nden yüksek lisans, Londra Üniversitesi Birkbeck College’dan doktora derecesini almıştır. Princeton ve Leiden Üniversitelerinde doktora sonrası araştırmalar yapan Ozil’in çalışma alanları 19. yüzyıl Osmanlı toplumsal tarihi, Rum toplulukları, modernleşme, milliyetçilik ve şehirleşmedir.
Önder Eren Akgül Georgetown University Tarih bölümünde doktora öğrencisi. Doktora tezini İzmir ve kırsal artalanının 19. yüzyıl boyunca ve 20. yüzyıl başında geçirdiği sosyal ve ekolojik dönüşüm üzerine hazırlıyor.
YAPIM VE YAYIN Bölüm No: 432 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 8 Kasım 2019 Kayıt Yeri: İstanbul Ses Editörü: Önder Eren Akgül Müzik: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Görseller ve Kaynakça Ayşe Ozil'in Müsaadesiyle
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E431 | When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim, and first member of a royal family in space. Twenty-five years later, the discovery of a planet 500 light years away by the Qatar Exoplanet Survey – subsequently named ‘Qatar-1b’ – was evidence of the cutting-edge space science projects taking place across the Middle East. Discussing his recent book, Space Science and the Arab World, Jörg Matthias Determann shows that the conquest of space became associated with national prestige, security, economic growth, and the idea of an ‘Arab renaissance’ more generally. Equally important to this success were international collaborations: to benefit from American and Soviet expertise and technology, Arab scientists and officials had to commit to global governance of space and the common interests of humanity.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/10/arabconquestofspace.html
Jörg Matthias Determann is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He also serves as Associate Editor for the Arabian Peninsula of the Review of Middle East Studies (Cambridge University Press). He is the author of Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East (London: I.B.Tauris, 2018).
Taylan Güngör is a doctoral candidate at SOAS in London. His interests are in Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean trading circles and his research is on trade in Istanbul after 1453. Taylan records and edits podcasts in London at the SOAS Radio studio.
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Episode No. 431 Release Date: 25 October 2019 Recording Location: SOAS Radio, London, UK Audio editing by Taylan Gūngör Music: Rampi Rampi by Turku, Nomads of the Silk Road Images and bibliography courtesy of Jörg Matthias Determann available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/10/arabconquestofspace.html
E430 | During the 19th century, Southeast Asia came under British and Dutch colonial rule. Yet despite the imposition of foreign institutions and legal codes, Islamic law remained an important part of daily life. In fact, as our guest Fadzilah Yahaya argues, Islamic law in the region underwent significant transformation as a result of British and Dutch policies. But rather than merely a top-down transformation, Yahaya highlights the role of the small and largely mercantile Arab diaspora as a major factor in European policy towards Islamic law in Southeast Asia. In our conversation, we discuss Islamic law and the Arab diaspora in Southeast Asia during the colonial period as well as some of the more unusual court cases arising from this period and the implications of this history for Southeast Asia today.
For more, see https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/10/yahaya.html
Nurfadzilah Yahaya is a legal historian at the National University of Singapore specializing in Islamic law in the Indian Ocean. She received her PhD in History from Princeton University, and was the Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Fellow in Islamic Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her forthcoming book, Fluid Jurisdictions of Arab Diaspora under Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia will be published by Cornell University Press in June 2020.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 430 Release Date: 8 October 2019 Recording Location: Harvard University Music: Monplaisir; Komiku; Soft and Furious Audio editing by Chris Gratien Bibliography and images courtesy of Nurfadzilah Yahaya available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/10/yahaya.html
Episode 429
with Yiğit Akınhosted by Chris Gratien and Susanna Ferguson
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World War I brought unprecedented destruction to the Ottoman Empire and resulted in its fall of as a political entity, but war also produced new politics. In this podcast, Yiğit Akın is back to talk about his book When the War Came Home and how years of war transformed the Ottoman Empire. We discuss how the experience of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars reshaped Ottoman officials' understanding of modern warfare and informed decisions taken during the First World War. We also discuss the social history of the war for ordinary Ottoman citizens and consider how the particularities of the Ottoman case reveal new insights about WWI and its legacy.
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E428 | How do ethnic and confessional identities become the basis for political mobilization? In this episode, Arbella Bet-Shlimon examines the long history of Iraq's first oil city, Kirkuk, to argue that the rise of ethnicized politics was by no means inevitable. She shows how a multilingual city long shared by Arabic, Turkish, and Kurdish-speaking communities transformed under Ottoman and British colonial rule, and how the political economy of oil shaped the city's politics in the twentieth century. In so doing, she sheds light on a question that should resonate far beyond Iraq: what does it mean for a conflict to be "about oil?" What does this explanation illuminate, and what does it obscure?
See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/09/ethnicity-and-politics-in-iraq.html
Arbella Bet-Shlimon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. In her research and teaching, she focuses on twentieth-century Iraq and the Persian Gulf region, as well as Middle Eastern urban history. She is the author of City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019).
Susanna Ferguson completed her Ph.D. in 2019 at Columbia University. Her work focuses on the conceptual and social history of education, gender, and democracy in Egypt and Lebanon. In 2019-2020, she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area studies.
Sam Dolbee completed his Ph.D. in 2017 at New York University. His book project is an environmental history of the Jazira region in the late Ottoman period and its aftermath. In 2019-2020, he will be a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University's Program for Agrarian Studies.
CREDITS
Episode No. 428 Release Date: 27 September 2019 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Audio editing by Susanna Ferguson and Chris Gratien Music: Kai Engel, Dark Alleys; Monplaisir, Hélice; Soft and Furious, Melancholic Ending Audio clip: Oil from Iraq Images and bibliography courtesy of Arbella Bet-Shlimon
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Episode 427
with Yonca Köksal hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud
How do social networks determine the results of government reform? In this episode we examine this quesiton during the Tanzimat reform era (1839-76) with historical sociologist Yonca Köksal. Her research focuses on the differing outcomes of the Tanzimat in two core provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Ankara and Edirne. Applying social network analysis to imperial correspondence and provincial petitions, Köksal shows how differing network structures could lead to different outcomes in government reforms, empowering local dynasties in some areas and giving rise to cross-confessional coalitions in others. « Click for More »
A preview of our interview with historian Yiğit Akın about how war transformed Ottoman society. Thanks to Sara Afonso and Sato Moughalian for music
E426 | In this episode, we sit down with Anahit and Gohar, creators of Akanjogh: Armenia's first podcast about feminism. The name of their program plays on the Armenian words for "earring" and "take heed," and the goal of this program is to grab a new Armenian audience of podcast listeners by the ear and draw their attention to enduring importance of feminist thought in the context of Armenia's new post-Revolution politics. In our conversation, we talk about the joys and challenges of pioneering a nascent podcast culture in Armenia, as well as some of the issues that Akanjogh tackles in each its episodes. We also discuss how feminist consciousness fits into the broader political transformation that is currently underway in Armenia and the role that podcasts may play in teaching the Armenian diaspora about the perspectives of the new generation that has grown up in the independent Republic of Armenia.
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Anahit Ghazaryan holds a B.A. of Philology and Qualification of a Teacher in the field of Armenian Language and Literature and M.A. of Philology in the field of World Literature and Literary Theory from Yerevan State University. She has studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerevan, from 2014 until 2016. Prior to 2014, Anahit has worked as a radio reporter for a local radio station in Armenia for two years. Currently, she is conducting research on the life and work of Mariam Shahinyan (1911-1996), the first female photographer in Turkey. Anahit's favorite pastime is forcing her friends and random people she meets to write a poem with her.
In addition to working on Akanjogh, Gohar Khachatrian is Program Manager at Birthright Armenia. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the Yerevan State Institute of Economics and M.S. in Political Science and International Affairs from the American University of Armenia. As an introvert, Gohar enjoys mostly solitary activities but will also totally come to your party if you bring a dog.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 426 Release Date: 9 September 2019 Recording Location: Yerevan, Armenia Music: Zé Trigueiros; kara güneş Audio editing by Chris Gratien
Episode 425
with Alp Eren Topalhosted by Susanna Ferguson and Sam Dolbee
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In this episode, Alp Eren Topal traces the history of medical metaphors for describing and diagnosing state and society in Ottoman political thought. From the balancing of humors prescribed by Galenic medicine to the lifespan of the state described by Ibn Khaldun and the germ theory of nineteenth-century biomedicine, we explore some of the ways people thought about the state and its health or illness in the early-modern and modern Mediterranean world. How did these metaphors and images change over time, and how did they inform the policies of the Empire and its rulers?
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E424 | The 1001 Nights, an Arabic collection of tales, have been translated into numerous languages and adapted to many cultural contexts. In this episode, we explore the impact of the 1001 Nights on the history of cinema. As our guest Samhita Sunya explains, the 1001 Nights corpus influenced Western cinema from the earliest decades of the medium's rise. However, in our conversation, we focus on the cinematic influence of the tales beyond Europe and North America. From Japan and South Asia to Iran and the Caucasus, we discuss the many forms the 1001 Nights have assumed in cinema the world over and reflect on the significance of the often ignored connections between these different world regions.
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Samhita Sunya is an Assistant Professor of Cinema in the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of Virginia. Supported by a Spring 2018 residence at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and 2018-2019 Mellon Humanities Fellowship, her current project builds on research conducted at the National Film Archive of India as well as the American University of Beirut, exploring South-South histories of cinema over the decades of the Cold War.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 424 Release Date: 30 August 2019 Recording Location: Charlottesville, VA Audio editing by Chris Gratien Bibliography and clips courtesy of Samhita Sunya available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/08/1001-nights.html
Episode 423
with Matthew Ellishosted by Zoe Griffith
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When the Ottoman state granted the province of Egypt to the family of Mehmed Ali Pasha in the 19th century, neither party much cared where Egypt's western border lay. As Matthew Ellis argues in his book, Desert Borderland, sovereignty in the eastern Sahara, the expanse of desert spanning Egypt and Ottoman Libya, was not simply imposed by modern, centralized states. In this episode, we discuss the various groups and actors who complicated the question of borders and political identity in one of the least studied corners of Ottoman and Middle Eastern history. Conflict and negotiations between oasis dwellers, Ottoman bureaucrats, Egyptian royals, the Sanusi order, and colonial officials kept this territory unbounded until the border was ultimately drawn in 1925. How did modern states attempt to practice sovereignty and claim territory in this vast desert borderland? And how did local populations resist and assist in state-making in the decades surrounding the First World War?
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E 422 | Edebiyat ve kurmacanın tarihyazımına sunduğu imkânlar nelerdir? Bu bölümde, aynı kuşaktan 14 genç tarihçinin arşiv belgesi, gazete kupürü, günlük, mektup gibi tarihsel bir malzemeden ya da metinden yola çıkarak kurguladığı öykülerden oluşan "Tarihçilerden Başka Bir Hikâye" kitabı üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Kitabın editörlerinden Fatih Artvinli ve Ebru Aykut ile tarihsel gerçeklik, edebiyat ve kurmacanın ilişkisini değerlendirirken, kitabın nasıl bir tarihyazımsal müdahaleye işaret ettiğini tartışıyoruz.
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Fatih Artvinli Acıbadem Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Tarihi ve Etik Anabilim Dalı'nda öğretim üyesidir. Marmara Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü'nden mezun olduktan sonra Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi Bölümü'nde yüksek lisans, Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Bölümü'nde ise doktorasını tamamladı. Öğrenim hayatı boyunca sağlık memuru olarak çalıştı. Doktora sonrası araştırmalarını Harvard Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi ve Boston Children's Hospital'da yaptı. Fatih Artvinli'nin History of Psychiatry, History of Neurosciences, Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları gibi dergilerde yayımlanan makalelerinin yanı sıra, yayımlanmış iki kitabı bulunmaktadır: Seraba Harcanmış Bir Ömür: Osman Bölükbaşı (Kitap Yayınevi, 2007) Delilik, Siyaset ve Toplum: Toptaşı Bimarhanesi (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2013).
Ebru Aykut Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü'nden lisans, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü'nden yüksek lisans derecesini aldıktan sonra, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü'nde "Alternative Claims on Justice and Law: Rural Arson and Poison Murder in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire" başlıklı teziyle doktorasını tamamladı. Geç Osmanlı taşrasında suç, ceza ve adalet arama pratiklerinin sosyal-hukuki tarihi, tıp ve beden tarihi, toplumsal cinsiyet tarihi alanlarında çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesidir.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
Yapım ve Yayın Bölüm No: 422 Yayınlanma Tarihi:: 17 Ağustos 2019 Kayıt Yeri: Istanbul, Türkiye Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş Müzik: Kadifeden Kesesi, Hafiz Burhan Sesyilmaz Görseller ve Kaynakça Fatih Artvinli ve Ebru Aykut'un müsaadesiyle
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Episode 421
with Gülhan Balsoy and Tuba Demircihosted by Suzie Ferguson
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How did the experience of pregnancy and childbirth change in the Ottoman Empire in the context of nineteenth-century reforms? In this episode, we discuss how the question of managing a "population" become a key concern for the Ottoman state, bringing new opportunities and difficulties for Ottoman mothers and midwives alike. Questions about childbirth also became enmeshed in late-imperial demographic and cultural anxieties about the relationship between the Empire and its non-Muslim populations. As pregnancy and childbirth drew the attention of medical men, state bureaucrats, and men and women writers in the emerging periodical press, new technologies, regulations, and forms of medical knowledge changed what it meant to give birth and raise a child.
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Episode 420
with Will Smileyhosted by Zoe Griffith
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How did an Irish-born Russian nobleman serving in the Russian army end up an Ottoman slave and valet to an Ottoman-Albanian officer? And what possibilities existed for his eventual release? In this episode, Will Smiley traces the history of Ottoman laws of captivity and ransom in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how older practices of enslavement and ransom transformed into a new legal category of "prisoner of war" and shedding light on a path to modern international law that lies outside of Europe.
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E 419 | Ottoman literature is heavily associated with verse, namely, Ottoman court poetry, and to some extent, folk literature. Ottoman stories, however, remain unexplored, even though they circulated in the empire and entertained many. For us, today, they are an invaluable source to study daily life, gender and space in the early modern Ottoman world. What is an Ottoman story? What do Ottoman stories tell us? In this episode, İpek Hüner Cora joins the podcast to talk about fictional prose stories in the Ottoman Empire and we discuss the gendered and spatial aspects of stories scattered in manuscript collections.
See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/07/the-story-has-it.html
İpek Hüner Cora completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in Fall 2018. She is currently an instructor at Boğaziçi University teaching classes on Ottoman Turkish, literature, gender, and space.
Işın Taylan is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University. Her research examines the Ottoman intellectuals' production of geographical knowledge in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
CREDITS Episode No. 419 Release Date: 15 July 2019 Recording Location: Istanbul, Turkey Audio editing by Işın Taylan Music: Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Images and bibliography courtesy of İpek Hüner Cora
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E 418 | Bu bölümde Egemen Yılgür ile 19. yüzyılın son çeyreğindeki kitlesel göç hareketlerinin yarattığı konut talebiyle eş zamanlı olarak yaygınlaşmaya başlayan teneke mahalleleri üzerine yürüttüğü araştırmaları üzerine sohbet ettik. Bomonti, Nişantaşı ve Kumkapı'daki teneke mahalleleri temelinde, bu mekânsal odakların oluşumuna yol açan toplumsal ve siyasi süreçleri inceledik; göç ve kent yoksulluğu bağlamında farklı toplumsal gruplara mensup mahalle sakinlerinin birbirleriyle ve devletle olan ilişki ve gerilimlerini, sosyal mobilite imkânlarını ve kent deneyimlerini detaylandırdık.
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Egemen Yilgür Doktora derecesini Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Genel Sosyoloji ve Metodoloji programından, "Geç-Peripatetik Roman Tütün İşçilerinde Ücretli İstihdam ve Politikleşme Deneyimleri" başlıklı teziyle aldı. Halen Beykoz Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümünde öğretim üyesidir.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
Yapım ve Yayın Bölüm No: 418 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 6 Temmuz 2019 Kayıt Yeri: Istanbul, Türkiye Ses Editörü: Taylan Güngör Müzik: "Turkish Lady Face" by The Underscore Orkestra Görseller ve Kaynakça Egemen Yilgür'ün müsaadesiyle
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E417 | After their expulsion from the Iberian peninsula during the 15th century, Jewish communities settled throughout the Mediterranean, with many finding new homes in the cities of the ascendant Ottoman Empire. Centuries later, Ottoman Jews descended from this early modern diaspora still spoke a language related to Spanish, often referred to as Ladino. During the late 19th century, a new wave of migration out of the Eastern Mediterranean began, giving rise to a modern Sephardi diaspora of migrants from modern-day Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and other parts of the former Ottoman world. As our guest Devi Mays explains in this interview, the Iberian heritage and language of these migrants played a distinct role in their global migration experience, as many ended up settling in countries like Mexico, Cuba, and Argentina. In this episode, we explore the history of the modern Sephardi diaspora and its relationship to the history of Mexico. In some cases, Ladino-speaking Jews from the former Ottoman Empire appeared as welcome immigrants in Mexico even when Jews from other parts of the world faced discrimination and increased immigration restriction during the 20th century. In other cases, Iberian heritage meant that Jews looking to settle in the United States could pass as Mexican or Cuban nationals when seeking to cross the border. Through the individual experiences and lives that comprise the modern Sephardi diaspora, we highlight the unique experiences of migrants mediated by gender and class, and we appreciate the strategies such people developed to navigate an increasingly anti-immigrant world.
For more, visit https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/07/mexico-sephardi-diaspora.html
Devi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies. After receiving her Ph.D. in Jewish History from Indiana University in 2013, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She has published in Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies, and has translated for Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, ed. (Stanford UP, 2014). Her work has appeared in several edited collections, including World War I and the Jews (Berghahn Books, 2017), and Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, forthcoming). She is currently revising a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 417 Release Date: 4 July 2019 Recording Location: San Antonio, Texas Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Zé Trigueiros Bibliography and images courtesy of Devi Mays available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/07/mexico-sephardi-diaspora.html
Episode 416
with Sooyong Kimhosted by Nir Shafir and Elisabetta Benigni
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What made for a good poet in the Ottoman Empire? It is a question that far too few historians tackle because Ottoman poetry, especially that of the court, is often regarded as inaccessible. In this podcast, Sooyong Kim brings to life the social world of Ottoman poets, focusing in particular on Zati, a poet plying his trade in the imperial court in the first half of the sixteenth century. We speak about how poets succeeded and failed and why Zati's successors erased him from the canon of good poetry.
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E 415 | Bu bölümde Erol Ülker ile 1918 - 1923 yılları arasında İstanbul'da işgal güçlerine karşı oluşan direniş hareketini, bu hareket içerisinde yer alan İttihatçılar'dan, komünistlere farklı kesimlerin siyasal faaliyetlerini, birbirileri ile olan ilişkilerini ve gerilimlerini konuştuk. Ayrıca dönem içinde çok canlı olan işçi hareketine ve aynı zamanda da İstanbullu gayr-i Müslimler tarafından bu dönemin nasıl deneyimlendiğine değindik.
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/direnis-ve-sol.html
Erol Ülker tarihçi ve Işık Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümünde öğretim üyesi. 2013 yılında "Sultanists, Republicans, Communists: The Turkish National Movement in Istanbul, 1918-1923" isimli tezini savunarak Şikago Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde doktora eğitimini tamamladı. Halen Türkiye Sosyal Tarih Araştırma Vakfı'nda (TÜSTAV) Yönetim Kurulu üyesi, araştırma ve arşiv sorumlusu olarak görev yapmaktadır.
Önder Eren Akgül Georgetown University Tarih bölümünde doktora öğrencisi. Doktora tezini İzmir ve kırsal artalanının 19. yüzyıl boyunca ve 20. yüzyıl başında geçirdiği sosyal ve ekolojik dönüşüm üzerine hazırlıyor.
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Bölüm No: 415 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 20 Haziran 2019 Kayıt Yeri: Istanbul, Türkiye Ses Editörü: Önder Eren Akgül ve Matthew Ghazarian Müzik: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Görseller ve Kaynakça Erol Ülkerin müsaadesiyle
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/direnis-ve-sol.html 'da bulunur.
E414 | Abdul Rahman Munif is one of the most celebrated authors in the Arabic language. In this episode, we sit down with literature scholar Suja Sawafta to learn about the social and political experiences that shaped Munif as an author, and in particular, we explore the role of the environment in some his most important works such as Cities of Salt. We discuss why Munif's politics led him to literature, and we explore how through his fiction writing, Munif provides a vivid account and critique of the history of oil and its impact in the Middle East.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/munif.html
Suja Sawafta is a DPhil Candidate in Modern Arabic Literature at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford and Visiting Lecturer of Modern Arabic Literature at the University of Virginia. She holds an M.A. in Franco-Arab Studies from UNC Chapel Hill and a joint Graduate Certificate in Middle East Studies from Duke and UNC. Her research on Munif lies at the intersection of exile, intellectual commitment, political dissent, and post-colonial studies.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Rebecca Alemayehu is a rising third year from Houston, Texas at the University of Virginia . She is studying Political and Social Thought with plans to pursue law school post-graduation.
CREDITS
Episode No. 414 Release Date: 14 June 2019 Recording Location: University of Virginia Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Zé Trigueiros Bibliography courtesy of Suja Sawafta available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/munif.html
E 413 | Our latest podcast in collaboration with The Southeast Passage examines how Kemalism as a political category has been used widely and often ambiguously throughout the history of the Turkish Republic in public discourse as well as in historiography. In this episode, we discuss Kemalism from an innovative transnational perspective. The making of Kemalism was embedded in hybridity and circulations involving other regions of the post-Ottoman space. Practices of governance, material objects, new conceptions of the body and gender roles, and scientific debates created a convergence of Islam and modernity which was influenced by external references but also attracted observers from surrounding countries such as Albania, Yugoslavia and Egypt.
See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/transnational-kemalism.html
Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek are members of the Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC). They are the editors of Kemalism: Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World(London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
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Episode No. 413 Release Date: 9 June 2019 Recording Location: Paris, France Audio editing by Andreas Guidi Music: "The Southeast Passage Theme," Giulio Stermieri and "Yanık Ömer," performed by Bayan Safiye Images and bibliography courtesy of Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek
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Episode 412
with Ian Nagoskihosted by Chris Gratien
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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of thousands of people from the Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman states emigrated to the U.S. Among them were musicians, singers, and artists who catered to the new diaspora communities that emerged in cities like New York and Boston. During the early 20th century, with the emergence of a commercial recording industry in the United States, these artists appeared on 78 rpm records that circulated within the diaspora communities of the former Ottoman Empire in the United States and beyond, singing in languages such as Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, Kurdish, and Ladino. Their music included folks songs from their homelands and new compositions about life and love in the diaspora. In this episode, Ian Nagoski of Canary Records joins the podcast to showcase some of these old recordings, which he has located and digitized over the years, and we discuss some of the remarkable life stories of these largely forgotten artists in American music history.
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Victoria Saker Woeste was educated at the University of Virginia (B.A. 1983) and the University of California at Berkeley (M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1990). Since 1994 she has been a member of the research faculty at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, where she specializes in U.S. legal history and writes about political economy, hate speech, antisemitism, and modern American political conservatism.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/05/ford.html
Sarah Milov is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on modern US history. Her first book, The Cigarette: A Political History, will be published by Harvard University Press in the fall of 2019.
Reading list:
Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Sharon Leon, An Image of God: the Catholic Struggle with Eugenics Paul Lombardo,
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
James Whitman, Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era, ed. Paul Lombardo
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/05/eugenics.html
Episode 411
Produced and Narrated by Chris Gratien
Episode Consultant: Devin Naar
Series Consultant: Emily Pope-ObedaScript Editor: Sam Dolbee
with additional contributions by Devi Mays, Claudrena Harold, Victoria Saker Woeste, Sam Negri, and Louis Negri
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Leo lived in New York City with his family. Born and educated in the cosmopolitan Ottoman capital of Istanbul, he was now part of the vibrant and richly-textured social fabric of America's largest metropolis as one one of the tens of thousands of Sephardic Jews who migrated to the US. Though he spoke four languages, Leo held jobs such as garbage collector and shoeshine during the Great Depression. Sometimes he couldn't find any work at all. But his woes were compounded when immigration authorities discovered he had entered the US using fraudulent documents. Yet Leo was not alone; his story was the story of many Jewish migrants throughout the world during the interwar era who saw the gates closing before them at every turn. Through Leo and his brush with deportation, we examine the history of the US as would-be refuge for Jews facing persecution elsewhere, highlight the indelible link between anti-immigrant policy and illicit migration, and explore transformations in the history of race in New York City through the history of Leo and his family.
This episode is part of our investigative series Deporting Ottoman Americans.
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E 410 | Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde Doğan Çetinkaya ile 1908 - 1914 yılları arasında Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda ortaya çıkan boykot hareketlerine odaklanarak, II. Meşrutiyet dönemindeki kitle hareketi mefhumunu, toplumsal sınıfların siyasal alandaki yeni rollerini, Müslüman-Türk milliyetçiliğin aşağıdan toplumsal bir olgu olarak gelişimini ve Osmanlı toplumsal ve siyasal ikliminde bu kısa zaman zarfında ortaya çıkan dönüşümleri ve kırılmaları konuştuk.
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/04/ii-mesrutiyette-kitle-hareketi.html
Y. Doğan Çetinkaya Doktora derecesini Hollanda'nın Leiden Üniversitesi'nden aldı. Halen İ.Ü. Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nde öğretim üyesidir. Tarih Vakfı Başkan Yardımcılığı ve Türkiye ve Ortadoğu Forumu Vakfı (Özgür Üniversite) yönetim kurulu görevlerini yürütüyor. Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları ve Toplumsal Tarih dergisi yayın kurulu üyesidir.
Önder Eren Akgül Georgetown University Tarih bölümünde doktora öğrencisi. Doktora tezini İzmir ve kırsal artalanının 19. yüzyıl boyunca ve 20. yüzyıl başında geçirdiği sosyal ve ekolojik dönüşüm üzerine hazırlıyor.
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Bölüm No: 410 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 17 Nisan 2019 Kayıt Yeri: Istanbul, Türkiye Ses Editörü: Önder Eren Akgül Müzik: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Görseller ve Kaynakça Y. Doğan Çetinkaya'un müsaadesiyle
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/04/ii-mesrutiyette-kitle-hareketi.html
E409 | In 1827, Hussein Dey, the Ottoman governor of Algiers, hit a French consul on the nose with a fly whisk during a dispute over unpaid French debts. And as the story goes, the rest is history. France soon invaded Algeria and stayed for over 130 years. But as our guest in this episode Jennifer Sessions explains, France's decision to invade and colonize Algeria beginning in 1830 was far less arbitrary and far more intertwined with domestic French politics than lore would have it. And while the invasion was partially about political divisions in France, even as French politics transformed French colonization in Algeria became a national consensus over the course of the 19th century. In this episode, we examine the importance of the early decades of French colonialism in Algeria for understanding what followed, and we consider the legacy of French colonialism in Algeria for France and Algeria today.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/04/france-algeria.html
Jennifer Sessions is Associate Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the history of French settler colonialism in Algeria, and she is currently writing a book about the Margueritte Insurrection of 1901.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 409 Release Date: 7 April 2019 Recording Location: University of Virginia Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Zé Trigueiros; Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal Bibliography and images courtesy of Jennifer Sessions available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/04/france-algeria.html
E408 | Colonialism and violence are frequently paired in studies of the modern Middle East, but environment and violence are less commonly paired. But in this episode, Jennifer Derr explains the indelible connection between the two in a conversation about her recent monograph The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt. According to Derr, the transformation of Egypt's economy under British rule was experienced as a form of violence for ordinary Egyptians. "The violence of colonial economy and specifically colonial labor was made manifest on the bodies of laborers." In our conversation, we explore the transformation of the Nile and its environment under colonialism and consider how these transformations changed the nature of disease in the region with damaging consequences for the workers in intimate contact with the new nature of the Nile.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/04/derr.html
Jennifer L. Derr is an historian of science, medicine, political economy, and the environment in the modern Middle East. She is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Edna Bonhomme is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science where she is working on her book manuscript "Ports and Pestilence in Alexandria, Tripoli, and Tunis" which addresses the convergence of sanitary imperialism and traditional medicine during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to her book project, she is collaborating with Berlin–based artists and writers who are using decolonial methodologies, feminist practices and diachronic histories in order to upend uneven power dynamics in archives, pedagogy, and science. In addition to her academic interests, she writes for publications including but not limited to Africa is a Country, Contretemps, Der Freitag, Jacobin Magazine, Mada Masr, and Viewpoint Magazine. She has previously taught at Drexel University (2016, 2017), Humboldt University (2018), and Bard College Berlin (2019).
CREDITS
Episode No. 408 Release Date: 2 April 2019 Recording Location: Berlin, Germany Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Zé Trigueiros Bibliography courtesy of Jennifer Derr available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/04/derr.html
Episode 407
with Heghnar Watenpaughhosted by Emily Neumeier
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The genre of biography usually applies to people, but could a similar approach be applied to an object? Can a thing have a life of its own? In this episode, Heghnar Watenpaugh explores this question by tracing the long journey of the Zeytun Gospels, a famous illuminated manuscript considered to be a masterpiece of medieval Armenian art. Protected for centuries in a remote church in eastern Anatolia, the sacred book traveled with the waves of people displaced by the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the chaos of the First World War, it was divided in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty Museum in LA. In this interview, we discuss how the Zeytun Gospels could be understood as a "survivor object," contributing to current discussions about the destruction of cultural heritage. We also talk about the challenges of writing history for a broader reading public.
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E 406 | This episode explores the post-World War II travelogues of Bosnian journalist Hasan Ljubunčić, who went on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca after the Second World War. His narrative showcases the entanglements between religion and politics, Bosnian Muslims and their contemporaries in Turkey and the broader Muslim world, and socialism and Islamic modernism. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Bosnian Hajjis sought alliances within the Muslim world. The travelogues thus speak to multiple audiences: local Muslim populations, socialist authorities, and international interlocutors. On a broader level, this evolving Hajj discourse speaks to similarities between Islamic and socialist modernist projects and the practical ways these were used in postwar Bosnia.
See more at: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/comrades-on-hajj.html
Dženita Karić recently received her PhD from SOAS, University of London and is currently a researcher at the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo. Her research focuses on transformations of religious discourse in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bosnia, with a particular emphasis on changes in conceptualizations of Hajj.
Taylan Güngör is a doctoral candidate at SOAS in London. His interests are in Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean trading circles and his research is on trade in Istanbul after 1453. Taylan records and edits podcasts in London at the SOAS Radio studio.
CREDITS Episode No. 406 Release Date: 17 March 2019 Recording Location: SOAS Radio Studios, University of London Audio editing by Taylan Güngör Music: Yegah Sirto by Ehl-i Keyif Images and bibliography courtesy of Dr. Dženita Karić
Available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/comrades-on-hajj.html
E 405 | About a half-hour's drive from Abu Dhabi sits Masdar City, a clean technology and renewable energy business cluster and research institute. Founded in 2006, Masdar imagines a sustainable and business-savvy future where technology, ecology, and humanity co-exist and thrive, even in the oil-rich deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. In this episode we speak with Gökçe Günel, who spent over a year at Masdar examining the anthropology of renewable energy and green technology development. We talk about the challenges of pioneering greener versions of transportation, currency, and energy, as well as how experts imagine and produce these projects. How can developing technologies help us mitigate or even avert ecological disaster? And how does faith in their powers define whether and how we can transform our current patterns of consumption and energy use?
See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/status-quo-utopias.html
Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she works on the anthropology of energy and climate change. Her book, Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi(Duke University Press, 2019), focuses on the construction of renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures in the United Arab Emirates, concentrating on the Masdar City project.
Matthew Ghazarian is a Ph.D. Candidate in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of sectarianism, humanitarianism, and famine in central and eastern Anatolia between 1839 and 1893.
CREDITS
Episode No. 405 Release Date: March 11, 2019 Recording Location: Istanbul Audio editing by Matthew Ghazarian Music: "Sombra" by Zé Trigueiros Images and bibliography courtesy of Gökçe Günel Available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/status-quo-utopias.html
E404 | By the time of the First World War, there were roughly 500,000 Lebanese and Syrians in the Americas. And as Stacy Fahrenthold argues in a new book entitled Between the Ottomans and the Entente, this diaspora played a critical role in the transformation of politics in Greater Syria over a period of incredible flux. In our conversation, we discuss how the diaspora embraced and sustained the revolutionary fervor of the post-1908 Ottoman Empire into the First World War, when loyalties to the Ottomans and their Entente adversaries were divided. After the war, this diaspora likewise sought to influence the outcome of the postwar map after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. But what would be the fate of the Greater Syrian diaspora with the establishment of the French Mandates?
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/ottomans-entente.html
Stacy Fahrenthold is an assistant professor of history at University of California, Davis, currently focusing on labor migration and mass politics in Middle Eastern diasporas. She is the author of Between the Ottomans and the Entente: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (Oxford, 2019).
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 404 Release Date: 1 March 2019 Recording Location: Washington, DC Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Zé Trigueiros; Muhyiddin Bayun - Taxim Alal Wahidat Bibliography and images courtesy of Stacy Fahrenthold available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/ottomans-entente.html
E403 |Many students of Middle Eastern history know that that some non-Muslims subjects of the Ottoman Empire became "proteges" of European states in the nineteenth century and thus acquired extraterritorial legal protections. While we know the institutional history of extraterritoriality, the individual motivations and histories of those who chose to become proteges is relatively unknown. In this podcast, Sarah Stein speaks about what extraterritoriality meant to those Jews of the former Ottoman Empire that chose to take this path. In particular, it exposes the tenuous meaning of citizenship in the quickly changing legal world of the early twentieth century, as empires collapsed and new regime of borders and national belonging emerged. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/02/extraterritoriality.html
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History, Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA, and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. A former Guggenheim Fellow, her award-winning books include Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria (University of Chicago Press, 2014), and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce (Yale University Press, 2008). She is also co-editor of four books, including The Holocaust and North Africa, edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Stanford University Press, 2018) and Sephardi Lives: a documentary history, 1700-1950, edited by Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Stanford University Press, 2014). She is now completing a history that traces the story of a single Sephardic family across the globe and the arc of the twentieth century for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Macmillan Publishers.
Nir Shafir researches the intellectual and religious history of the Middle East, from roughly 1400-1800, focusing on material culture and the history of science and technology. He serves an assistant professor of history at UCSD and is part of the editorial board of Ottoman History Podcast as well curating it series on history of science.
CREDITS Episode No. 403 Release Date: 26 February 2019 Recording Location: Santa Monica, Calif. Audio editing by Nir Shafir Music: "Bağlamamın Düğümü" by Necmiye Ararat Images and bibliography courtesy of Sarah Abrevaya Stein available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/02/extraterritoriality.html
E 402 | Does everybody have a childhood? What kinds of childhood experiences have defined the modern Middle East? In this episode, three scholars discuss the methodological excitements and challenges of studying the history of childhood and youth in the modern Middle East. They discuss the roles of institutions like the army, the medical mission, and the school; the rise of state and colonial power; and the emergence of youth politics, all with an eye to history's younger actors and witnesses. Throughout, they consider how using age as a category of analysis might change the ways we understand the past and the ways we live in the present.
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Dylan Baun is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and current program chair of the Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS). He is preparing a manuscript based on his current research, entitled Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism and the Production of Sectarian Violence in the Middle East, 1920-1958.
Heidi Morrison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse and President of the Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS). She is author of Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt and the editor of The Global History of Childhood Reader. She is working on a book, Surviving Memory in Palestine: Narration, Trauma, and Children of the Second Intifada.
Murat Yıldız is is Assistant Professor of History at Skidmore College. He specializes in the cultural and social history of the modern Middle East. His research and teaching interests focus on the intersections of subject formation, the body, gender, and popular culture in the late Ottoman Empire.
CREDITS
Episode No. 402 Release Date: 19 February 2019 Recording Location: San Antonio, Texas Audio editing by Susanna Ferguson and Matt Ghazarian Music: "Hey Onbeşli," with special thanks to Doğa Için Çal Images and bibliography courtesy of Dylan Baun, Heidi Morrison, and Murat Yıldız Available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/02/childhood-and-youth.html
E 401 | Since the early centuries of Islam, Muslims have put tremendous effort into knowing and verifying reports of what the Prophet Mohammad said and did, known as hadith. They have written books collecting hadith, and even longer books explaining what they mean and how they should inform Muslim life. However, these books emerged (and continue to emerge) from a vibrant oral culture of hadith commentary. In this episode, Joel Blecher brings to life many sessions of hadith commentary from three different contexts: classical al-Andalus, Mamluk Egypt and modern India. Blecher tells us of al-Baji, who stirred up controversy in a quiet seaside town of Spain, of ibn Hajar's spontaneous poetic polemics at the Mamluk court, and of how al-Maqsari witnessed the Prophet in attendance in a hadith commentary session in Yemen. Concluding with modern Indian scholars' comments on British colonial officials, Blecher reflects on the way hadith commentary has always been a site of politics as well as piety.
See more at: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/02/hadith-commentary-joel-blecher.html
Joel Blecher is an Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University, in Washington D.C., and the author of Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium (University of California, 2018). He is writing his second book on Islam and the Spice Trade, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of medical exchange in the medieval Indian Ocean world. She is also the managing editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS Episode No. 401 Release Date: 10 February 2019 Recording Location: Washington D.C. Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: The Overseas Ensemble Images and bibliography courtesy of Joel Blecher Available at: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/02/hadith-commentary-joel-blecher.html
Episode 400
with Nir Shafirhosted by Suzie Ferguson
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In this episode, Nir Shafir talks about the problem of "fake minatures" of Islamic science: small paintings that look old, but are actually contemporary productions. As these images circulate in museums, on book covers, and on the internet, they tell us more about what we want "Islamic science" to be than what it actually was. That, Nir tells us, is a lost opportunity.
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Episode 399
with Zeynep Çelikhosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Matthew Ghazarian
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How did the Ottomans react to European attitudes and depictions of their own lands? Pondering on the groundbreaking book 'Orientalism' by Edward Said forty years after its publication, our guest Zeynep Çelik discusses the ways in which urban, art, and architectural historians have grappled with representations of the Ottomans by Europeans and representations of Ottomans by Ottomans themselves. Telling us about a number of paintings, monuments, scholarly writings and stories, she argues that Orientalism is still relevant and with us wherever we go.
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Episode 398
with Şevket Pamukhosted by Matthew Ghazarian
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What forces have governed Turkey's economic growth over the past two centuries? In this episode we speak with Şevket Pamuk about development in Turkey since 1820. In the late Ottoman period, low barriers to trade, agrarian exports, and European financial control defined the limits of economic expansion, while the transition from Empire to Republic brought more inward-looking policies aimed at protecting domestic industries. From the 1980s until the present, the Turkish government came to embrace the set of policy recommendations now called the Washington Consensus, defined by trade liberalization, privatization, and de-regulation. We discuss key moments during each of these periods, comparing Turkey to other countries around the world. We also discuss broader historical debates about Islam in economic history as well as approaches to the economic as an object of study. « Click for More »
E397 | What is "development?" What can we learn about this key concept of the 20th century world by looking at it through the history of modern Iraq? In this episode, Sara Pursley unpacks the history of "development" in many forms to show how ideas about what the future should look like have governed what's possible in the present and the ways that we can narrate the past. From the girls' schools of interwar Iraq, to the "family farms" instituted there by American experts in the 1940s, to literacy programs instituted after Iraq's 1958 revolution, we see how projects meant to give Iraqis better futures often had unintended and contradictory effects.
See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/crisis-and-development.html
Sara Pursley is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. She is the author of Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2019) and a number of articles, including, most recently, "`Ali al-Wardi and the Miracles of the Unconscious," Psychoanalysis and History 20 (December 2018): 336-51.
Suzie Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently finishing a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
CREDITS Episode No. 397 Release Date: 08 January 2019 Recording Location: New York, New York Audio editing by Matthew Ghazarian Music: Louisa Tounsia, "Ya Bent el-Nass" Images and bibliography courtesy of Sara Pursley, available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/crisis-and-development.html
E396 | In this special episode, novelist Orhan Pamuk and historian Nükhet Varlık discuss how to write about plague and epidemics in Ottoman history. Orhan Pamuk is a Nobel Prize-winning novelist whose works such as My Name is Red drew masterfully on the literature and art of early modern Ottoman society. In an ongoing project, Pamuk is turning his attention towards the Ottoman experience of plague. Nükhet Varlık is a historian whose award-winning book Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600 was the first to systematically examine the history of the Black Death and subsequent plague outbreaks from the vantage point of the Ottoman state and its subjects. Varlık is currently involved in multidisciplinary collaborations with scientific researchers who are using new methods to solve longstanding mysteries about past plagues. In this wide-ranging conversation organized by Tunç Şen and the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University and presented by Sam Dolbee, Pamuk, and Varlık discuss the Ottoman experience of plague from a variety of angles. Varlık describes how new research is overturning many misconceptions about the plague and its history, allowing writers of all varieties to re-imagine the Ottoman encounter with plague, and Pamuk discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by using fiction to address the very real experience of plague in past contexts.
This podcast is based on a recording of a free public event entitled "Imagining & Narrating Plague in the Ottoman World: A Conversation with Orhan Pamuk & Nükhet Varlık" held on November 12, 2018 at Columbia University organized by A. Tunç Şen and The Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies. The event was sponsored by The Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, The Columbia University School of the Arts, The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and The Department of History at Columbia University.
CREDITS
Episode No. 396 Release Date: 3 January 2019 Recording Location: Columbia University Special thanks to The Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, The Columbia University School of the Arts, The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and The Department of History at Columbia University. Audio editing and presentation by Sam Dolbee Music: Zé Trigueiros Bibliography courtesy of Nükhet Varlık available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/plague.html
Episode 395
with Metin Atmacahosted by Matthew Ghazarian
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Zones of autonomy and resistance make up the region historically called Kurdistan - areas that can include parts of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Armenia - depending on whom you ask. This region, whose territory spans the boundaries of nation-states created after the First World War, continues to host conflict between powerful states and their opponents. Who ruled these areas in the past, and how did they become the rebel lands they are today? In this episode, we speak with Metin Atmaca about the rise and fall of Kurdish emirs who ruled in the Ottoman-Iranian borderlands, from their rise in the 1500s to their fall in the 1850s. We also discuss the afterlife of the Kurdish dynastic families who, in exile, re-invented themselves as political leaders, bureaucrats, and rebels in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world.
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E394 | How do you conduct research on an archive you can’t talk about? This was the problem faced by our guest Olly Akkerman on her research trip to Gujarat when she went to work on the manuscript library of the Alawi Bohra community of Baroda. The sacred library was only accessible to the leaders of the Bohra community and its contents can’t be revealed publicly. In this podcast, Akkerman tells us the story of how she turned an initial obstacle into an opportunity to conduct a type of anthropological research on the social lives of manuscripts, a method she calls social codicology. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/12/secretarchives.html
Olly Akkerman is a specialist on Arabic manuscripts and Shi’i Islam. She is a lecturer and research associate at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universitaet Berlin. Her research focusses on the social life of manuscript archives among the Alawi Bohras in South Asia and the larger Western Indian Ocean. She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph entitled An Ethnography of Manuscripts and their Social Lives.
Nir Shafir is a historian researching the intellectual and religious history of the early modern Middle East, with a focus on material culture and the history of science and technology. He is currently the editor of the Ottoman History Podcast and curates it series on history of science. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
CREDITS Episode No. 394 Release Date: 23 December 2018 Recording Location: Jena Audio editing by Nir Shafir Music: Thanks to Bandista for use of their song "Antikapitalista" and Overseas Ensemble for use of their music. Images and bibliography courtesy of Olly Akkerman available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/12/secretarchives.html
E393 | In this episode from our friends at Trending Globally (https://soundcloud.com/watsoninstitute/sets/trending-globally), Sarah Baldwin talks with Elias Muhanna about an essay he wrote for the New Yorker in May 2018 in which he describes recent advances in translating pre-Islamic Arabic texts. The conversation focuses on the groundbreaking translations of Muhanna's friend and colleague Ahmad Al-Jallad and how his work has changed our understanding of life on the Arabian peninsula before Islam.
This episode comes directly from our friends at Trending Globally, a podcast of Brown University's Watson Institute. https://watson.brown.edu/news/trending-globally
Elias Muhanna is the Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is a scholar of classical Arabic literature and Islamic intellectual history.
Sarah C. Baldwin is the host of Trending Globally and a writer for the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
CREDITS
Episode No. 393 Release Date: 13 December 2018 Recording Location: Brown University Audio editing by Babette Thomas Music by Henry Ross Bloomfield http://www.heybloomfield.com/
E392 | Bu bölümde Stefo Benlisoy ile II. Meşrutiyet döneminde Osmanlı sosyalist ve işçi hareketinin oluşumunu ve gelişimini konuşup Osmanlı'daki sosyalist grupların faaliyetlerini, yayınlarını, ve geliştirdiği siyasal perspektifleri incelemenin Osmanlı-Türkiye tarihini ve tarih yazımını anlamak açısından nasıl alternatif kanallar açabileceğine değindik. Özel olarak da Mayıs 1909’dan başlayarak İstanbul’da örgütlenmeye çalışan, Ergatis adlı bir gazete çıkaran, ağırlığını Rumlar’ın oluşturduğu Türkiye Sosyalist Merkezi örgütünü, bu örgütün İstanbul’daki işçilerle, imparatorluktaki diğer sosyalist çevrelerle ve uluslarası sosyalist hareketle ilişkilerini, ve ayrıca gazete sayfalarında feminizmin nasıl yer bulduğunu ele aldık.
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Stefo Benlisoy, tarihçi ve İTÜ İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümünde öğretim üyesi. Lisansüstü ve doktora çalışmalarını Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde 19. Yüzyıl Kapadokyasında Ortodoks Cemaatinin Eğitimi konusunda tamamladı. Foti Benlisoy ile birlikte yazdığı "Türk Milliyetçiliği'nde Katedilmemiş Bir Yol: Hıristiyan Türkler ve Papa Eftim' başlıklı kitabı 2016 yılında, ‘’İstanbul’un Irgatları: II. Meşrutiyet’te Sosyalist Bir İşçi Örgütü’’ adlı kitabı ise geçtiğimiz Nisan ayında kendisinin de kurucuları arasında olduğu İstos Yayın tarafından basıldı.
Önder Eren Akgül Georgetown University Tarih bölümünde doktora öğrencisi. Doktora tezini İzmir ve kırsal artalanının 19. yüzyıl boyunca ve 20. yüzyıl başında geçirdiği sosyal ve ekolojik dönüşüm üzerine hazırlıyor.
Yapım ve Yayın
Bölüm No: 392 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 7 Aralık 2018 Kayıt Yeri: Istanbul, Türkiye Ses Editörü: Sam Dolbee Müzik: Zé Trigueiros Kaynakça Stefo Benlisoy'un müsaadesiyle
Episode 391
with Stefano Tagliahosted by Taylan Güngör
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The use of stimulants, what we now refer to as recreational drugs (marijuana and hashish – esrar and haşiş), in the late Ottoman world constitutes a lens through which one can observe multiple aspects of both the history of the Ottoman Empire and its historiography in its broader sense. The life and social dynamics of those involved in drug consumption contributes to sketching a picture of the social life of the Ottoman Empire and its capital and, in this sense, helps expand a field that is somewhat limited.
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Episode 390
Produced and Narrated by Chris Gratien
Episode Consultant: Reem Bailony
Series Consultant: Emily Pope-ObedaScript Editor: Sam Dolbee
with additional contributions by Akram Khater, Graham Pitts, Linda Gordon, Victoria Saker Woeste, Nadim Shehadi, and Mohamed Okdie
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In the years after the world war that ravaged the Ottoman Empire, Hassan left his native village in modern-day Lebanon to join his parents and siblings in the growing Midwest town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. To do so, he had to sidestep the stringent immigration quotas newly implemented by the US. But years later, when the authorities learned that he entered and was living in the US illegally, he was threatened with deportation. Through Hassan's story, we'll learn about the experience of Arab migration to the United States and get to know the Syrian-American community that despite numbering in the hundreds of thousands by the 1920s, found itself repeatedly compelled to prove its worthiness to be included in a society where nativism was on the rise and being entitled to full citizenship often meant being considered white.
This episode is part of our investigative series Deporting Ottoman Americans.
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A short interview with historian Linda Gordon about her book "The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition" (Liveright, 2017)
Recorded in conjunction with our investigative series "Deporting Ottoman Americans" - http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/doa.html
E388 | Tangier is in the midst of a massive renovation and expansion -- a new ferry and cruise port, a duty-free zone, and the massive Tangier Med shipping facility all meant to make the city and Morocco into a critical juncture of the global flows of goods, people, services, and capital. Of course, Tangier’s proximity to Europe and position astride the Strait of Gibraltar has long provided it with a cosmopolitan, international character, typified by the International Zone days during European colonial rule of Morocco in the first half of the twentieth century. But Tangier’s polyglot, imperial past goes back much further. In this episode, we turn to one of those more distant episodes: the English occupation of Tangier from 1661 to 1684. It was a brief interlude: control of the city itself was part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry to King Charles II, but English forces quickly found the situation (under intermittent but heavy resistance from local Moroccan tribes) unsustainable. The period produced some interesting characters on both sides--Samuel Pepys, for one, was a resident--but has generally been overlooked by scholars in favor of the Portuguese imperial enclaves on the Atlantic coast. What made English Tangier unique? Why did it fail, and how did the experience shape Moroccan-English relations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/english-tangier.html
Karim Bejjit is Head of the English Department at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, at the University Abdelmalek Essaadi, in Tetouan, Morocco.
Graham H. Cornwell is Assistant Dean of Research at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University.
CREDITS
Episode No. 388
Release Date: 25 October 2018 Recording Location: Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies Special thanks to John Davison Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Saliba Atrib - Oud Longha Higaz Kar; Chikha Aicha El Hertitia – Âaita Baidaouiya Bibliography and Images courtesy of Karim Bejjit available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/english-tangier.html
E387 | Antoine Köpe was never a prominent politician or public figure, but he was witness to extraordinary events. Born in late Ottoman Istanbul to French and Hungarian parents, Antoine was there to celebrate the 1908 Young Turk revolution, fight in the First World War, live under an Allied occupation, and experience the emergence of the national resistance and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Driven by an irresistible instinct to document, he produced writings, drawings, audiovisual recordings, and a 10-volume memoir of his unusual life. In this episode, our guest filmmaker Nefin Dinç shared more about the life of Antoine Köpe, which is the subject of a documentary project titled "Antoine the Fortunate."
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/dinc.html
Nefin Dinç is an assistant professor in the School of Media Arts and Design at James Madison University. She studied Economics at Ankara University, Political Science Faculty and has a Masters degree in Media and Culture from Strathclyde University, Scotland as well as a MFA degree in Documentary Filmmaking from the University of North Texas, U.S.A. She has produced six documentaries on Turkey and its surrounding countries and is currently producing "Antoine the Fortunate."
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 387 Release Date: 20 October 2018 Recording Location: Hanover, Germany Audio editing by Chris Gratien Bibliography, images, audio clips courtesy of Nefin Dinç available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/dinc.html
Episode 386
with Suzy Hansenhosted by Chris Gratien
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Turkey is a country that most Americans know little about, and yet the United States has played an extraordinary role in the making of modern Turkey. In this podcast, we explore this disparity of awareness and the role of the US in the history of the Middle East through the lens of an American journalist's slow realization of her own subjectivity and the myriad ways in which the US and Turkey have been intertwined. In this conversation with Suzy Hansen about her award-winning book "Notes on a Foreign Country," we critically examine the formation of journalistic and scholarly expertise, and we discuss reactions of readers and reviewers to Hansen's work.
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E384 | Toplumsal cinsiyet bakış açısının son birkaç on yılda Osmanlı tarih yazımına yaptığı müdahaleler, saray kadınlarının imar faaliyetlerinde üstlendiği rolün giderek daha çok araştırılmasına da vesile oldu. Muzaffer Özgüleş’i konuk ettiğimiz bu bölümde, Sultan IV. Mehmed’in hasekisi, Sultan II. Mustafa ve Sultan III. Ahmed’in validesi Gülnuş Emetullah Sultan’ın imar faaliyetlerini detaylandırırken kadın baniler odağında kent, mimarlık üretimi ve toplumsal cinsiyet ilişkisini değerlendiriyoruz.
Muzaffer Özgüleş doktorasını İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlık Tarihi programında "Gülnuş Emetullah Sultan'ın İmar Faaliyetleri" başlıklı teziyle 2013’te tamamladı. 2014-2015 yıllarında Oxford Üniversitesi bünyesindeki Khalili Research Centre'da doktora sonrası araştırmacı olarak bulundu ve buradaki çalışmalarının ürünü olan “The Women Who Built the Ottoman World: Female Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gülnuş Sultan” adlı kitabı 2017’de I.B. Tauris tarafından yayımlandı. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi’ndeki öğretim üyeliği görevini çocuk yazarlığı alanındaki çalışmalarıyla birlikte sürdürüyor.
Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü’ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.
YAPIM VE YAYIN
Bölüm No: 384 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 10 Ekim 2018 Kayıt Yeri: Istanbul, Türkiye Ses Editörü: Matthew Ghazarian Müzik: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Görseller ve kaynakça Muzaffer Özgüleş'in müsaadesiyle: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/ozgules.html
In this bonus conversation, film scholar Samhita Sunya previews a trio of blockbuster Middle Eastern comedies that will enjoy their official US theatrical premiers at the Virginia Film Festival. For more, visit http://virginiafilmfestival.org/film-guide/
“Letters of Love (LOL) From the Middle East to South Asia: A Film Series of Contemporary Genre Comedies in U.S. Theatrical Premieres”
Description by Samhita Sunya:
The “LOL” series will mark the second-ever US screenings - and the official US theatrical premieres! - of all three films. The package showcases three witty blockbusters from a region that is all-too-often conflated with footage of war, authoritarianism, crises, and patriarchal/sexual violence.
In an attempt to resist a reductive conflation of the Middle East solely with violence, on the one hand, and to highlight the varied filmmaking and film-viewing practices in the region, on the other, this sidebar brings to VFF three zany, popular transregional comedies that have not been screened in the US prior to the special preview presentation of the package, which I curated at Yale University this last April.
Each film is a comedy whose action takes place across the Middle East and South Asia, as they self-reflexively - and lovingly - pay homage to global genres (stoner comedy, road movie, gangster comedy) as well as the longstanding presence and popularity of Bollywood films in the Middle East
Series sponsored by Virginia Film Festival, UVA Institute for Humanities & Global Cultures, and UVA Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures.
Films:
Road to Kabul - Stoner comedy. Brahim Chkiri / 2012 / Morocco / Arabic with English subtitles Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BFlqo0zKIw Saturday, Nov 3, 2018 7:15 PM Violet Crown 6 & 7 Tickets - http://virginiafilmfestival.org/films/road-to-kabul/
Bir Baba Hindu (An Indian Godfather) - Gangster comedy. Sermiyan Midyat / 2016 / Turkey / Turkish with English subtitles Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7V9qqmYF7w Saturday, Nov 3, 2018 2:00 PM Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 5 Tickets - http://virginiafilmfestival.org/films/indian-father-bir-baba-hindu/
Gahim Fel Hend (Hell in India) - Musical comedy. Moataz Eltony / 2016 / Egypt / Arabic with English subtitles Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0C3DM69NPs Thursday, Nov 1, 2018 8:45 PM Newcomb Hall Theatre Tickets: http://virginiafilmfestival.org/films/hell-india-gahim-fel-hend/
E383 | The history of capitalism and the world economy, while increasingly global in its perspectives, remains a Eurocentric story, and one struggles to find the place of non-European modes of exchange and legal frameworks such as Islamic law within the big picture. In this episode, we talk to Fahad Ahmad Bishara about his book A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press), which argues that concepts and legal frameworks arising from Islamic societies deserve an important place in this narrative. As we discuss, merchants, cultivators, and financiers in the Indian Ocean world were linked in a shared understanding of commerce that employed Islamic legal frameworks. Throughout our conversation, we seek to understand what a picture of the emergence of capitalism in the Western Indian Ocean looks like when local actors are placed at its center.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/bishara.html
Fahad Ahmad Bishara is an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the legal and economic history of the Indian Ocean and Islamic world, and is now spends his time thinking about dhows, the sea, and world history.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 383
Release Date: 5 October 2018 Recording Location: Charlottesville, VA Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Bandista - Gavur İmam İsyanı; Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Special thanks to karagüneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Bibliography and images courtesy of Fahad Bishara available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/bishara.html
Episode 382
with Ohannes Kılıçdağıhosted by Sam Dolbee
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The history of Ottoman Armenians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ottoman Empire is inevitably in the shadow of 1915. In today’s episode, we explore new approaches to this history with Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı. We speak in particular about the hopes that the empire’s Armenian citizens attached to the 1908 Constitutional Revolution, which were high indeed. On the basis of research utilizing Armenian-language periodicals from across the empire, Kılıçdağı explains how the Armenian community enthusiastically embraced military conscription, and how this phenomenon connects to the theme of citizenship in the late Ottoman Empire more generally. We conclude by considering what use there is for history in the politics of the present.
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E381 | The historian who wishes to study episodes of mass violence is confronted by numerous challenges. Perpetrators of violence may seek to obscure or distort historical events; victims are often left without a voice. Accounts found in newspapers, books, and archives may offer vivid detail but frame events in a biased or incomplete manner. How can the scholar account for diverging narratives or subjective experiences of violence while seeking to separate facts from fiction? In this episode, we speak to Ümit Kurt and Owen Miller, two scholars who have studied the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the Armenian Genocide through the cases of Aintab and Sasun respectively. We will discuss perils and possibilities of studying violence in the late Ottoman Empire, and we'll learn about the different perspectives on the past that await researchers in the archive and beyond.
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Ümit Kurt earned his PhD in history at Clark University in 2016. He is Polonsky Fellow in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Kurt is engaged in his work with examining transfer of Armenian wealth, transformation of space, elite-making process, ordinary perpetrators, collective violence, microhistories, inter-ethnic conflicts, Armenian genocide and early modern Turkish nationalism. He has taught at Clark University, Boğaziçi, Fresno State University, and Sabancı University. He was the recipient of prestigious Armenian Studies Scholarship Award from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016-17 in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Türk'ün Büyük Biçare Irkı: Türk Yurdu'nda Milliyetçiliğin Esasları 1911-1916 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2012); the co-author of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015); editor of Kıyam ve Kıtal: Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e Devletin İnşası ve Kolektif Şiddet (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı, 2015); and the author of Antep 1915: Soykırım ve Failler (Istanbul: İletişim, 2018). His translations from Armenian to Turkish and English have been published in Gomidas Institute and Tarih Vakfı. His articles have appeared in Nations and Nationalism, Middle Eastern Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, The Journal of Genocide Research, Genocide Studies International, Patterns of Prejudice, Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Études arméniennes contemporaines and Culture and Religion. He is now Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State University.
Owen Miller is currently an assistant professor at Bilkent University. He received his B.A. from U.C. Santa Cruz and Ph.D. in International and Global History from Columbia University. He studies histories of upland communities, violence, and colonialism in the late Ottoman Empire. He is currently writing a book on the experiences of the Goodell family in the Ottoman Empire, the American South and Hawai'i.
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Episode No. 381 Release Date: 30 September 2018 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Audio editing by Sam Dolbee Music: Zé Trigueiros Bibliography and images courtesy of Ümit Kurt and Owen Miller available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/umit-kurt-owen-miller.html
E380 | When does a concubine need to join the reading group? And should the six-month old son come along as well? The answers are in our interview with Konrad Hirschler on the libraries of medieval Damascus. Using aoriginal catalog of the Ashrafiyya Library of Damascus, Hirschler discusses the types of books that were donated to libraries, the surprising reading interests of medieval scholars, and how we might discover this lost world of bibliophiles. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/medievallibrary.html
Konrad Hirschler is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on Egypt and Syria in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (c. 1200-1500) with a focus on social and cultural history.
Nir Shafir is a historian whose research explores the intellectual and religious history of the early modern Middle East, with a focus on material culture and the history of science and technology. He is currently the editor of the Ottoman History Podcast and curates it series on history of science. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
CREDITS Episode No. 380 Release Date: 25 September 2018 Recording Location: Jena, Germany Audio editing by Nir Shafir Music: "Haymatlos" and "Bir Daha Asla" by Bandista Images and bibliography courtesy of Konrad Hirschler available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/medievallibrary.html
Episode 379
with Ahmet Ersoy & Deniz Türkerhosted by Matthew Ghazarian and Zeinab Azarbadegan
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How did the Ottomans come to visually represent their mythical origins? And to what ends? In this episode we speak with Ahmet Ersoy and Deniz Türker about the formation, development, and visualization of Ertuğrul sancak, the mythical birthplace of the Ottoman dynasty. In 1886, Sultan Abdülhamid II commissioned an expedition of military photographers, painters, and cartographers to record the region, its architecture, and its nomadic tribes. Ersoy and Türker talk to us this mission and its economic and diplomatic ramifications, drawing on their recent exhibition, Ottoman Arcadia, at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul. Our discussion touches on the proliferation and dissemination of visual materials during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909), as well as his massive collection of visual materials held today as part of the Yıldız Palace Library.
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Episode 378
with Özlem Gülin Dağoğluhosted by Sam Dolbee and Shireen Hamza
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Many myths have accompanied the life of Mihri Rasim, but few are as interesting as her life itself. Born to a wealthy family in Istanbul in the late Ottoman period, Mihri Rasim became a politically connected painter, living in Italy for several years on her own and then Paris, where she played a key role in the salons of Ottoman dissidents known as the Young Turks. In the wake of the 1908 Constitutional Revolution, she returned to Istanbul, and opened the Fine Arts School for Women in Istanbul, where she went on to teach. After the war, she went to Italy, and then the United States, where she continued her work painting and teaching. In addition to many self-portraits, she also painted various powerful figures, among them Mustafa Kemal, Mussolini, and Thomas Edison. Listen for a discussion of art, gender, and migration in a period of momentous political change.
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E376 | Mesleğiniz tarih sayfalarından silinirse ne hissedersiniz? İstanbul'da yüzlerce meslek artık yok ve yok olmaya devam ediyor. Bu bölümde, Rita Ender ile Kolay Gelsin kitabı üzerine konuşuyoruz. Kolay Gelsin Agos Gazetesi’nde 2012 - 2014 yılları arasında Meslekler ve Mekanlar adıyla yayınlanmış söyleşilerden oluşuyor ve her bir söyleşi İstanbul tarihine, esnaflığa, değişen yeme-içme kültürlerine, demografik değişikliklere ve kültür tarihine ışık tutuyor. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/kolaygelsin.html
Rita Ender 1984’te İstanbul’da doğdu. 2003 yılında İstanbul Özel Saint Joseph Fransız Lisesi’nden, 2008 yılında Marmara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nden mezun oldu. Ocak 2010’da avukatlığa başladı. Galatasaray Üniversitesi ve Panthéon - Assas Üniversitesi’nde (Paris II) yüksek lisans yaptı ve azınlık hakları üzerine çalıştı. 2001 yılından beri çeşitli gazete ve dergilerde yazan Ender'in, "Mümkündür Mucizeler-Rafael Torel'in Hayatı (Gözlem Yayınları) , Kolay Gelsin: Meslekler &Mekanlar (İletişim Yayınları), İsmiyle Yaşamak (İletişim Yayınları) isimli kitapları ve Las Ultimas Palavras isimli bir belgeseli bulunmaktadır.
Matthew Ghazarian, Columbia Üniversitesi Ortadoğu, Güney Asya ve Afrika Çalışmaları Bölümü'nde doktora öğrencisi. 1839- 1893 tarihleri arasında Orta ve Doğu Anadolu’da doğal afetler, hayırseverlik, ve mehzepçilik üzerine çalışıyor.
Işın Taylan, Yale Universitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde doktora öğrencisi. On yedinci ve on sekizinci yüzyıllarda Osmanlı entellektüellerinin coğrafi bilgi üretimi üzerine çalışıyor.
CREDITS Bölüm No: 376 Yayınlanma Tarihi: 9 September/Eylül 2018 Kayıt Yeri: Istanbul, Türkiye Ses Editörü: Matthew Ghazarian Müzik: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Görseller ve kaynakça Rita Ender'in müsaadesiyle, https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/kolaygelsin.html 'da bulunur.
E375 | The rise of record labels and new recording technologies played an important role in the history of the Nahda (Arabic Renaissance). In Egypt and Lebanon, independent labels like Baidaphon competed with their American and European counterparts to record local singers and popular music styles in an effort to preserve Arab voices. For the first time, these singers could hear their voices played back at them, often with mixed reactions. Listen in as we explore an early twentieth-century soundscape made available thanks to a collection of over 600 Arabic 78rpm records in the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/arabic-records.html
Peter Laurence is Senior Curatorial Assistant for the Archive of World Music in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. In that role he provides intellectual access to collections through online finding guides, assists patrons and researchers in accessing recordings, prepares metadata about original recordings for digital transfer, serves as liaison with faculty and collection donors, and selects commercial audiovisual recordings for the archive.
Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Abdul Latif is a PhD Student in Columbia’s department of religion. He is currently interested in Ottoman social history, Persianate epics, and early modern representations of Islam.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean world.
TRACK LIST 00:00 | Al-Sitt Aminah al-Iraqiyah, Victor label, 1910 12:06 | Faraj Allah Afandi Baida, Baidaphon, 1910 14:50 | Ibrahim Abbani, recorded in Cairo 20:00 | Ahmed El Agami 25:30 | Andrawus Afandi Makni and Na’im Afandi Karkand 33:14 | Muhiddin Afendi Bouyoun, “Umri Alayk,” 1912 Gramaphone
CREDITS Episode No. 375 Release Date: 3 September 2018 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Audio editing by Maryam Patton Music: All audio samples provided by courtesy of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. Images and bibliography courtesy of Peter Laurence available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/arabic-records.html.
E374 | How did Russia rule its Central Asian borderlands? In this podcast, we explore the long history of local intermediaries in imperial rule through the lens of the Kazakh elite from the 18th century onward. We talk to Ian Campbell about his book Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 (Cornell University Press) and then continue the discussion into the early Soviet period through a conversation with Maria Blackwood about her dissertation research on the first generation of Soviet Kazakhs.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/kazakh.html
Ian Campbell completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan in 2011. A specialist in imperial Russian and Central Asian history, he is currently Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is currently working on a trans-regional history of conquest and counterinsurgency in the Russian Empire.
Maria Blackwood is a Title VIII Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute. She completed her PhD in History at Harvard University in 2018. Her book manuscript examines the process of elite formation in early Soviet Kazakhstan, looking in particular at the first generation of Kazakhs who joined the Communist Party.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 374 Release Date: 31 August 2018 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Katibim (Üsküdar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer Special thanks to Karagüneş for use of "Istanbul" Images and bibliographies courtesy of Ian Campbell and Maria Blackwood available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/kazakh.html
E371 | In recent decades, the US has come to deport hundreds of thousands of people every year. However, the origins of the laws and institutions that facilitate deportation are much deeper. In this episode, we focus on the period of the 1920s, the era during which the US began to deport thousands of people each year for the first time in its history. As our guest Emily Pope-Obeda explains, deportation involved the coordination of various levels of the state and reflected social anxieties about morality, poverty, sexuality, and race during a period of insularity and anti-immigrant sentiment in American history.
Emily Pope-Obeda received her PhD in History in 2016 from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She spent the 2016-2017 academic year as a Visiting Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University. She is currently a lecturer in the History and Literature program at Harvard University, where she working on a book manuscript on the American deportation system during the 1920s.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 371 Release Date: 14 August 2018 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Kirishima Noboru - Akagi Blues Bibliography courtesy of Emily Pope-Obeda available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/08/deportation-state.html
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E373 | Who do you think of, when you think of Beirut? In this episode, we speak to Sumayya Kassamali about the many non-citizen workers living in Beirut today, and how migration, race, class and gender affect their lives there. Many domestic workers who have migrated from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and other countries to work in Beirut have fled their employers' homes. Focusing on the neighborhood of Dawra, Sumayya explains the many creative ways these women find to navigate life while undocumented in Beirut, how their lives have intertwined with other non-citizen peoples, like Syrian and Palestinian refugees, and more recently, the labor organizing of a vocal minority. We discuss how these migrant workers may also be thought of as exiles, and how the idea of a normative "Middle Eastern" subject needs to change.
See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/08/migrant-labor-in-contemporary-beirut.html
Sumayya Kassamali is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. She received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in 2017.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean World.
Sam Dolbee completed his Ph.D. in 2017 at New York University. His book project is an environmental history of the Jazira region in the late Ottoman period and its aftermath.
CREDITS Release Date: 19 August 2018 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: Special thanks to The Overseas Ensemble for permission to use multiple tracks from their album Images and bibliography courtesy of Sumayya Kassamali available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/08/migrant-labor-in-contemporary-beirut.html
How do you deport someone whose country no longer exists? In the Deporting Ottoman Americans podcast series, we'll be telling the stories of migrants born in the Ottoman Empire and ordered to be deported from the United States during the Great Depression. New episodes this fall. More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/doa.html
This episode introduces the Deporting Ottoman Americans podcast series. Narrated by Chris Gratien and featuring Emily Pope-Obeda, Torrie Hester, and Devin Naar.
Most Americans descend from people born elsewhere. But what if instead of simply a nation of immigrants, we see our society as a eugenicist project forged by immigration quotas and selective deportation policies? This proposal may fly in the face of the civic nationalism many hold dear. Generations of politicians have repeated the mantra that anyone can be an American and that our identity is defined not by race or blood but by the embrace of laws and ideals. Yet many historians have dedicated their lives to studying the pivotal role of exclusion in making American identity through the histories of those who were deprived of the American dream because of race, color, and creed. In this introductory episode, we talk to scholars who have written about the emergence of deportation as a method of population control and punishment wielded by the US government on a mass scale since the 1920s. Then, we set the stage for the rest of our series by considering how people from the former Ottoman Empire were part of both the making and unmaking of America as a nation of immigrants.
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CONTENTS Section 1 - 1936 FDR Speech at Statue of Liberty (0:00) Ottomans at Ellis Island (1:45) Intro Montage (6:16) Section 2 - Introduction (7:36) Section 3 - Ottoman Immigration The Late Ottoman Empire (9:32) Ottoman Immigrants (12:27) Section 4 - US Immigration Policy The Anti-Immigrant Turn (18:32) The Birth of Immigration Quotas (22:23) Section 5 - The Modern State America's Town Meeting of the Air (26:12) The Anti-Immigration Consensus (30:48) Section 6 - The Deportation State Immigration Policy During Great Depression (32:30) Pope-Obeda on Deportation History (38:13) Hester on Deportation and Diplomacy (44:41) Section 7 - Race and Immigration Racial Bias in the 1924 Quotas (51:10) Interwar Racism (56:14) Section 8 - Excluding Ottoman Americans Ottomans Caught in Between (58:27) WWI in Ottoman Empire (1:00:26) Impact of Quotas on Ottomans (1:02:16) Naar on Ottoman Americans (1:03:56) Deportation and Nationality (1:06:27) Section 9 - Series Preview (1:08:40) Section 10 - Credits (1:13:07)
Episode 369
with Jane Hathawayhosted by Sanja Kadrić and Emily Neumeier
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For more than three centuries, a cadre of African eunuchs were responsible for guarding the Ottoman harem at the imperial palace in Istanbul. The head of this group, the Chief Harem Eunuch, emerged as an extremely influential individual at the court. This was especially true during the crisis years of the long seventeenth century, when the palace became divided along ever-shifting lines of political factions. In this episode, we trace the long trajectory of the office of Chief Harem Eunuch, from its establishment—coinciding with the sultan’s decision to begin residing full-time in the harem—until the ultimate demise of the empire. In particular, we highlight the high degree of mobility for these eunuchs, beginning with their initial journey from Ethiopia to the shores of the Bosphorus, and later on using their position to maintain strong ties to Cairo as well as the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. A liminal figure in every sense of the word—in terms of gender, race, and his duties at the court—the Chief Harem Eunuch offers unique insights into the nature of political life at the Ottoman palace.
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E368 | What does it mean to study the past in the midst of momentous change in the present? In this special episode, we discuss history and history-in-the-making with Omar Mohammed, a scholar and activist from Mosul. For several years, Omar was an undercover chronicler of ISIS through the blog and Facebook group Mosul Eye. Currently, he is working on a Ph.D. project about the history and historiography of Mosul in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We examine the connections between the two endeavors, all the while exploring modern Iraqi history and, with it, colonialism, nationalism, regional connections, and everyday life.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/mosul.html
Omar Mohammed is a scholar and activist from Mosul, Iraq. He has a master’s degree in history from University of Mosul, and is currently working on a PhD in Europe on Mosuli history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century. For several years, he has operated the blog Mosul Eye. He has been selected as a Yale World Fellow for 2018.
Sam Dolbee completed his Ph.D. in 2017 at New York University. His book project is an environmental history of the Jazira region in the late Ottoman period and its aftermath. In 2018-2019, he will be a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Mahindra Humanities Center.
CREDITS
Episode No. 368 Release Date: 26 July 2018 Recording Location: Paris, France Interview recording by Chris Gratien Script and audio editing by Sam Dolbee Music by Zé Trigueiros, and the songs are "Sombra," "Petite Route," "Chiaroscuro," "Fast," and "Big Road of Burravoe." The music is used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-License, and has in some cases been modified from its original. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Z_Trigueiros/ Bibliography available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/mosul.html
Episode 367
with Salim Tamarihosted by Sam Dolbee
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Nationalism has greatly influenced the way we think about Palestinian history. In this episode, Salim Tamari discusses this question in relation to his new book, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine, which explores Palestine under Ottoman rule during World War I. Tamari highlights the transformative nature of the conflict in Palestine, and the Ottomanist roots of many Palestinian and Arab nationalists. He also tackles the question of sources in Palestine, and how family papers have been crucial to his work. We conclude by discussing the stakes of recovering that past as the dispossession of Palestinians continues into the present.
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E366 | How did a poem by Palestinian poet, Samih al-Qasim, come to be known and published under George Jackson's name, in English translation? George Jackson, a Black revolutionary writer, was incarcerated in California for more than a decade, until he was killed in 1971 by prison guards. Among the ninety-nine books Jackson had in his cell at the time of his death, one was "Enemy of the Sun," a collection of Palestinian resistance poetry. For four decades, the title poem of the collection has circulated in Black Panther newspapers and other venues under George Jackson's name. In this episode, Greg Thomas discusses his recovery of this shared history, and the traveling exhibition that emerged from his research. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/george-jackson-in-sun-of-palestine.html
Greg Thomas, a “native” of Southeast, Washington DC, is a Black Studies professor in English at Tufts University. Author of books such as The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power (2007) and Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh (2009), he is also curator of the traveling art exhibition, “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine,” an outgrowth of his current book projects on “Comrade George” and political captivity.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean World.
CREDITS Episode No. 366 Release Date: 11 July 2018 Recording Location: Tufts University Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: Special thanks to bANDiSTA for the use of their song, Haymatlos/Sınırsız Ulussuz Sürgünsüz Images and bibliography courtesy of Greg Thomas Available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/george-jackson-in-sun-of-palestine.html
E365 | In the early twentieth century, Muslim modernizers all over the world were making new claims about Islam, and the Muslims of China were no exception. In this episode, we discuss the relationship of Southeast Asia to the emergence of a modern Chinese Islam. In a period often characterized in terms of non-Arab Muslims' rediscovery of the Middle East, John Chen shows how connections between Chinese Muslims (Hui) and diverse groups across the Indian Ocean also shaped the new Chinese Islam. The processes often considered to be Arabization were in fact multiregional exchanges. Delving especially into the histories of Islamic medicine in China, John illustrates how Chinese Muslim leaders, imams, and historians took to print, radio, and even to sea routes, to articulate new visions of identity in an emerging nation-state and a changing Islamic world. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/muslim-medicine-modern-china.html
John Chen earned his PhD in History from Columbia University in 2018. He is currently preparing a book manuscript based on his dissertation, "Islamic Modernism in China: Chinese Muslim Elites, Guomindang Nation-Building, and the Limits of the Global Umma, 1900-1960."
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean world.
Nir Shafir is a historian whose research explores the intellectual and religious history of the early modern Middle East, with a focus on material culture and the history of science and technology. He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
CREDITS Episode No. 365 Release Date: 2 July 2018 Recording Location: Berlin, Germany Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: "Qadim Praise in Yunnan," courtesy of Guangtian Ha and Sounding Islam in China Images and bibliography courtesy of John Chen available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/muslim-medicine-modern-china.html
E364 | Today’s scholars of early modern Europe continue to explore the myriad ways in which Islam and Middle Eastern culture found its way into European society. In this episode, we unravel another thread by focusing on an anonymous, printed Italian Qur’an that appeared in Venice in 1547. The story of this first vernacular Qur’an and its accompanying biography of Muhammad reveals a complicated tale of a text aimed at different levels of readership. Pier Mattia Tommasino shows how this Qur'an, in addition to serving as a general Renaissance guide to Islamic history, was also a manual for European refugees seeking to relocate to the Ottoman Empire. In the second half of the episode, we revisit the classic microhistory, The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg. The tale of the oddball Friulian miller named Menocchio takes another turn when it is revealed that the Qur’an he read is this very same Venetian Qur’an. Re-reading Menocchio’s testimony in light of the Venetian Qur’an allows us to reflect once more on the historian’s craft and the problem of 'distance.' See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/06/venetian-quran.html
Pier Mattia Tommasino is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Columbia University. He is currently working on a project on Oriental studies in seventeenth-century Florence.
Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean world.
CREDITS Episode No. 364 Release Date: 26 June 2018 Recording Location: Cambridge, Mass. Audio editing by Maryam Patton Music: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep from Excavated Shellac. Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Pier Mattia Tommasino available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/06/venetian-quran.html
Episode 363
with Lauren Davishosted by Susanna Ferguson
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What did Istanbul's Spice Bazaar smell like in Ottoman times? In this episode, we explore the historical smellscape of this iconic market space from its early history up to the present day. Through a story about Ottoman smells and their transformations in the twentieth century, we touch on the trade routes of exotic spices, Ottoman marketing practices, and the greener, more fragrant Istanbul that still lives in the memories of twentieth-century shopowners who spent their lives in and around the Bazaar. Finally, we consider how telling history through smell could change the way we think about the past and struggle to preserve it.
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A bonus conversation with Fahad Bishara. Look forward to our interview with Fahad Bishara about his new book A Sea of Debt in Season 8 of Ottoman History Podcast!
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/a-sea-of-debt/976469F77E9D08E56CFC6C10BB4B3F66
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Aslanian, Sebouh. From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (University of California Press, 2011) Bhacker, Mohammed Redha. Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar: The Roots of British Domination (Routledge, 1992) Bishara, Fahad Ahmad. A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Bose, Sugata. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Harvard University Press, 2006) Goswami, Chhaya. The Call of the Sea: Kachchhi Traders in Muscat and Zanzibar, c. 1800-1880 (Orient Blackswan 2011) Ho, Engseng. The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2006) Limbert, Mandana. In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town (Stanford University Press, 2010) Machado, Pedro. Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa, and the Indian Ocean c. 1750-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2015) Mathew, Johan. Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea (University of California Press, 2016) McDow, Thomas. Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean (Ohio University Press, 2018) Stockreiter, Elke. Islamic Law, Gender, and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Wilkinson, John. The Imamate Tradition of Oman (Cambridge University Press, 1985)
Episode 362
with M’hamed Oualdi & Hayri Gökşin Özkorayhosted by Andreas Guidi
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Our latest podcast in collaboration with The Southeast Passage examines how slavery flourished in the Ottoman Mediterranean in the wake of growing connectivity with other world regions and territorial expansion. The discussion draws out the ambiguity between slavery and servitude in the case of the Mamluks of the Tunisian Beylik during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Which economic processes, legal interpretations, and geographic routes impacted the evolution of the slave trade from the sixteenth century until its abolition? What are the possibilities for and problems in retracing the self-narratives of those directly involved in the slave trade?
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E361 | In our final episode of Season 7, we feature four student contributions on life in the early modern Ottoman world. These student podcasts come from two university courses in which the podcast medium was integral as both course material and assignment: "Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (Michael Talbot, University of Greenwich) and "Podcasting the Ottomans" (Dana Sajdi, Boston College). Through these student podcasts, we explore how art and aesthetics figured into Ottoman engagements with their neighbors, and we go beyond the palace walls to explore facets of urban life in Ottoman cities.
Featuring Matthew Nolan and Amber Volz, Suleyman's Crown Tanya Skyba-Bartholomew, The Mahalle (Neighborhood) Megan Rowlands, Guilds Max Bechtold and Haley Holmes, Quatrefoil Rug
E360 | In 2017, our episode Podcasting the Ottomans took a look at Professor Dana Sajdi’s Ottoman history course at Boston College that was based primarily on episodes of the Ottoman History Podcast, and elicited student reactions to the medium. In this conversation, we explore students’ experiences of making their own podcasts as we sit down with Dr. Michael Talbot to discuss the pedagogic thinking behind his course, ‘Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire.’ After talking to Dr. Talbot about his experience with the course, we chat with some of his final year undergraduate students from the History programme at the University of Greenwich in London to hear about their own engagement with Ottoman history, podcasts, and podcasting.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/podcasting-ottomans-2.html
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Episode No. 360 Release Date: 29 April 2018 Recording Location: University of Greenwich Audio editing by Taylan Güngör Special thanks to Muhtelif for use of "Bint El Shalabiya"
Episode 359
with Zeynep Oktay Usluhosted by Matthew Ghazarian and Işın Taylan
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In this episode, we explore the evolution of Abdal and Bektashi doctrine from the 14th to 17th centuries. The Abdals of Rum and the Bektashis were two dervish groups in Anatolia who by the 16th century would merge to become the Bektashi Sufi order. Many Bektashi beliefs and practices are also inter-connected with those of Alevi communities. By taking a closer look at Abdal and Bektashi poetry, we examine how poetry, fiction, and other aspects of dervish piety evolved into the core beliefs of contemporary Alevism in Turkey.
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E358 | Discourses surrounding the family and morality have played an important role in modern political debates. In this episode, we discuss the politics of family in Turkey and its relationship to both religion and government policy. Our guest Hikmet Kocamaner discusses how the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs--the Diyanet--oversees a range of activities concerning the family as part of the project of a "New Turkey" championed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). In particular, we discuss family-oriented television programming related to Diyanet. While distinctively Islamic in their rhetoric, these programs in fact serve as a fascinating meeting point for various expert approaches to social issues and the family, demonstrating the complex entanglement of Islamic and secular institutions in modern Turkey.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/family.html
Hikmet Kocamaner is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he teaches anthropology of gender, ethnographic writing, and religion and politics. His article on Islamic television and the politics of the family was published in Anthropological Quarterly. He is currently completing his book manuscript, provisionally entitled Governing the Family through Religion in a Secular State: Islam, Expertise, and the Politics of the Family in the New Turkey.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 358 Release Date: 17 April 2018 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien and Hikmet Kocamaner Special thanks to Mutelif for "Samsa" and Kara Günes for "Istanbul" Bibliography courtesy of Hikmet Kocamaner available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/family.html
Episode 357
with Didem Havlioğluhosted by Chris Gratien
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What did it mean to be a woman in the intellectual world of early modern Islamic empires? In this episode, our guest Didem Havlioğlu offers one answer to this question through the life and works of Mihrî Hatun, an Ottoman woman from 15th-century Amasya whose poetry survives to this day. Mihrî was unique within the male-dominated sphere of early modern love poetry, and as we discuss in this podcast, her position as a woman was integral to her poetry and its meaning. These poems and the relationships of this exceptional writer are the subject of Havlioğlu's new book entitled Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press).
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E356 | "They Can Live in the Desert" with Ronald Grigor Suny In this episode we talk about the history of the Armenian genocide, drawing on Ronald Grigor Suny’s 2015 monograph, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide. First, we discuss the conditions that led to these events, which affected not only Armenians but also Assyrians, Kurds, and a host of others across the empire. What factors set the stage for mass violence, who were the key actors, and how was the destruction actually carried out? In the second half, we turn to the legal and political developments at the United Nations, among Armenian communities in the diaspora, and within Turkey, to examine how the genocide has been remembered, commemorated, and written into history. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/suny.html
Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton University Press, 2015).
Matthew Ghazarian is a Ph.D. Candidate in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of natural disaster, humanitarianism, and sectarianism, in central and eastern Anatolia between 1839 and 1893.
CREDITS Episode No. 356 Release Date: 7 April 2018 Recording Location: Istanbul, Turkey Audio editing by Matthew Ghazarian Music: "Qele-qele" and "Antuni" – sung by Armenak Shahmuradian, accompanied and arranged by Komitas Vartabed, courtesy of the Virtual Museum of Komitas. Images courtesy of Houshamadyan and Wikimedia Commons. Available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/suny.html
E355 | Comment s’informe t-on dans l’Algérie coloniale ? Quels liens peut-on établir entre l’apparition de medias de masse, comme le cinéma ou la radio, et l’émergence d’une nouvelle forme de communauté politique dans l’Algérie de l’entre-deux-guerres ? Dans cet épisode, Arthur Asseraf décrit le paysage médiatique très diversifié et en pleine mutation des années 1930s, où medias traditionnels et modernes, locaux et internationaux, coexistent, se superposent et s’affrontent. Déconstruisant l’idée reçue selon laquelle l’avènement de la radio aurait engendré un public homogène favorisant l’émergence du nationalisme algérien, Arthur Asseraf insiste sur la grande diversité des canaux et des sources d’informations dans l’Algérie de l’entre-deux-guerre. Chaque média véhiculant sa propre orientation idéologique et reflétant la fragmentation de la société algérienne et ses multiples clivages. La discussion évoque d’abord l’impact des nouveaux médias sur l’émergence de radicalités politiques ainsi que la censure de l’actualité par les autorités coloniales. Elle aborde ensuite la question des publics visés et de la langue à adopter (arabe classique ou dialectal, français ou kabyle ?). Enfin, la discussion met au jour l'importance de l'actualité internationale en Algérie et la pénétration de médias issus de France, mais aussi du Caire, de Tunis ou même d'Italie ou d'Espagne. Pour finir, la discussion évoque le rôle de la « rumeur » dans la fabrique de l’information et l’étymologie de l’expression « téléphone arabe ».
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Arthur ASSERAF est maître de conférences (lecturer) en histoire contemporaine de la France et du monde francophone à l'université de Cambridge et fellow de Trinity College. Ses travaux portent sur l'histoire de la colonisation, des médias, et de l'information au Maghreb et en France au XIXe et XXe siècles. Son premier livre, Electric News in Colonial Algeria, porte plus particulièrement sur les transformations de la notion d'"actualité" en Algérie sous la domination française.
Dorothée Myriam KELLOU est une journaliste et réalisatrice basée à Paris. Elle est diplômée du master d'études arabes de l'Université de Georgetown à Washington D.C. et développe actuellement un projet de film sur les regroupements de populations pendant la guerre d'Algérie, prenant pour point de départ la mémoire/l'oubli de son père.
Aurélie PERRIER est docteur en histoire contemporaine du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord et membre du centre de Recherches Historiques à Paris. Ses centres d'intérêts principaux sont l'histoire sociale du Moyen-Orient, le Maghreb colonial, et le genre et la masculinité dans la Méditerranée du XIXe siècle.
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Episode N. 354 (Tout/MO N. 3) Date de rela: 4 Avril 2018 Lieu de l’enregistrement: Paris, France Montage et production par Chris Gratien Extraits sonores: Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; Kara Günes - "Istanbul" Bibliographie et images fournies par Arthur Asseraf http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/asseraf-2.html
Episode 354
with Natalie Rothmanhosted by Nir Shafir and Aslihan Gürbüzel
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Dragomans are often known as diplomatic translators, but their responsibilities and roles went much further than being mere interpreters. In this podcast, we speak with Natalie Rothman about how dragomans negotiated both linguistic space and social space across the Eastern Mediterranean. Focusing specifically on the case of Venetian dragomans, we discuss their training and how they managed to become brokers of knowledge and connections between the Ottoman Empire and myriad publics in Venice and beyond. In the second half of the podcast, we delve a bit deeper and examine how dragomans came to contribute to the budding world of Orientalist knowledge among seventeenth-century European scholars.
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E 353 | For the first time on the podcast, we discuss the role of archaeology and its potential to contribute to our knowledge of the Ottoman world. More specifically, we explore how the field of landscape archaeology can offer a better understanding of how different factors of religion, politics, and culture impacted the manipulation of territory over millenia. The large-scale examination of material culture and vernacular architecture in a rural setting particularly has the potential to fill in the gaps of the historical archive, providing information about communities that otherwise remain relatively unknown. In this episode, we speak with Renata Holod, who co-directed a multi-year archaeological and architectural survey of the island of Jerba, off the coast of Tunisia. Our conversation not only explains the techniques and methodologies deployed during the project, but also ranges to wider reflections on the different ways the arrival of the Ottomans on the island can be read in the landscape itself. see more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/jerba.html
Renata Holod is the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Curator in the Near East Section of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She has done archaeological and architectural fieldwork in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Central Asia, Turkey, and Tunisia.
Emily Neumeier is ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at The Ohio State University. Her research concerns the art and architecture of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic. She is co-curator of our series The Visual Past and editor of the blog "stambouline," a site where travel and the Ottoman world meet.
CREDITS Episode No. 353 Release Date: 28 March 2018 Recording Location: Philadelphia, Penn. Audio editing by Emily Neumeier Music: Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul." Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Images and bibliography courtesy of Renata Holod, available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/jerba.html
E352 | In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, over 100,000 Arabic-speaking immigrants settled in Argentina, making it the second most popular destination after the United States for participants in the mahjar, or diaspora of Arabic speaking migrants. In this episode, Lily Pearl Balloffet discusses transnational connections between Latin America and the Eastern Mediterranean. In particular, we focus on how the mahjar influenced the Middle East in the twentieth century and how Arabic-speaking Argentines forged community ties within Argentina. Balloffet describes the role of women’s philanthropy networks in creating interprovincial, rural-urban, and transnational connections. At the end of the podcast, she shares how she has been able to employ database work and digital mapping tools to understand more holistically the geographical breadth and social characteristics of the Argentine mahjar.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/argentine-mahjar.html
Lily Pearl Balloffet is an Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University. Her research is on South-South connections between Latin America and the Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediterranean. She is also one of the editors of Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies.
Ella Fratantuono is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research focuses on migration and settlement policies in the late Ottoman Empire.
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Episode No. 352 Release Date: 16 March 2018 Recording Location: Charlotte, NC Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Fairuz - Tango Argentino en árabe "Caminito" Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul". Images and bibliography courtesy of Lily Pearl Balloffet available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/argentine-mahjar.html
E351 | In 1609 the Moriscos were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula, marking the end of a hundred year effort to assimilate as New Christians these former Muslims. In this podcast, Seth Kimmel speaks to us about the impact of these conversions and expulsions on Iberian intellectual history. We discuss how Spanish officials and scholars attempted to force Moriscos to abandon practices like speaking Arabic and going to the bathhouse. In the process, each of these groups had to define the line between religion and culture, not only for Islam but also for Christianity. At the same time, the need to explain the failure of Morisco integration required new techniques of narration, source usage, and philological expertise. Taken together, these are unexpected intellectual and religious developments from a tragic chapter of history. see more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/moriscos.html
Seth Kimmel is assistant professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, where he studies the literatures and cultures of medieval and early modern Iberia. He is the author of Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Nir Shafir is a historian whose research explores the intellectual and religious history of the early modern Middle East, with a focus on material culture and the history of science and technology. He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of HAZINE, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
CREDITS Episode No. 351 Release Date: 13 March 2018 Recording Location: La Jolla, Calif. Audio editing by Matthew Ghazarian Music: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep and Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer Images and bibliography courtesy of Seth Kimmel Available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/moriscos.html
E 350 | In this episode, we discuss the emergence of new masculinities, femininities, and visions of "good sex" in Egypt's al-Mahalla al-Kubra, a city in the Nile Delta that became one of the main centers of industrial production and manufacturing in the early twentieth century. How did men and women who came to al-Mahalla to work in the factory, run boardinghouses, and perform other forms of labor negotiate the coercive hierarchies of industrial capitalism in their daily and intimate lives? What can we learn about modes of existence and resistance from considering their experiences, and how do the stories of working-class men and women challenge or nuance the more well-known accounts of gender and family in Egypt that have been based on the middle-class press?
See more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/industrial-sexualities.html
Hanan Hammad is Associate Professor of History and the director of Middle East Studies at Texas Christian University. She earned her Ph.D. in Middle East History with a supporting field in Persian studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 and was a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany) in 2011 and at Woolf Institute (Cambridge, UK) in 2015.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
Seçil Yilmaz received her PhD degree in History from the Graduate Center, CUNY with her dissertation entitled "Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922." She is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Society for the Humanities and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.
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Episode No. 350 Release Date: 05 March 2018 Recording Location: Washington, D.C. Audio editing by Susanna Ferguson Music: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Images and bibliography courtesy of Hanan Hammad Available at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/industrial-sexualities.html
Episode 349
with Noémi Lévy-Aksuhosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael Talbot
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Idare-i örfiyye (or örfi idare), loosely translated as a “state of emergency or siege,” was a neologism introduced in the first Ottoman constitution in 1876 to allow the suspension of ordinary legal order in Ottoman localities in case of actual or potential uprisings. While the term clearly referred to the Ottoman legal tradition, the idare-i örfiyye was also inspired by contemporary definitions of regimes of exception in France and other countries. This conversation offers an insight into the genesis of this legal notion and seeks to understand the political, geographic and social impact of the widespread implementation of idare-i örfiyye in the Ottoman provinces during Abdülhamid II reign and the early Young Turk period.
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Episode 348
with Alexander Bevilacquahosted by Maryam Patton and Shireen Hamza
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When and how did European scholars first begin to seriously study Islam and the Arabic language? It has often been assumed that Medieval misconceptions and polemic towards Muslims were not cast off until the secularism of the European Enlightenment. In this episode, we learn that the foundations of the modern Western understanding were actually laid as early as the 17th century. Alexander Bevilacqua shares his research on the network of Catholic and Protestant scholars he calls the “Republic of Arabic Letters.” These scholars went to great lengths to learn Arabic and gather Arabic books and manuscripts, and eventually produced careful translations of the Qur’an and histories of Muslim societies based on Arabic sources.
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E347 | What are the origins of the Arabic language, and what are its foundational texts? Most writers of lexicons of the Arabic language center the Arabian peninsula and the Quran. In this episode, we discuss an alternative narrative put forth in the nineteenth century by an Arab Christian writer, Buṭrus al-Bustānī. Rana Issa explores the passages in al-Bustānī's lexicon of the Arabic language, Muḥīṭ al-Muḥīṭ, in which he offers biblical origins for many Arabic words. Though his lexicon drew on conventional methodologies, it offered a history of Arabic tied closely to Christianity and the Levant. Issa explains how al-Bustānī contributed to Christianizing the Syro-Lebanese national identity, and the Arabic language, in the wake of the Mount Lebanon Civil War. See more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/arabic-bibleland.html
Rana Issa is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include Arabic literary and linguistic history, translation studies and philology, the Nahda, the Bible and other foundational texts
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean World.
CREDITS Episode No. 347 Release Date: 15 February 2018 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: Grandelavoix; Album: Cypriot Vespers Images and bibliography courtesy of Rana Issa available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/arabic-bibleland.html
E346 | Over the course of the seventeenth century, Kashmir became a valley adorned with gardens as Mughal emperors and nobles built garden after garden across the valley floor and mountainous landscape. In this episode, we speak with landscape architect and preservation specialist Jan Haenaerts on his research into the history of these gardens. We discuss not only their historical formation and usage of these spaces but also how they differed from the more well known Mughal gardens surrounding the Taj Mahal and Humayun's tomb. In the second half of the episode we also explore the difficulty of conserving historical gardens and landscapes in general and how this occurs in conflict areas such as Kashmir. See more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/kashmirgardens.html
Jan Haenraets is a Landscape Architect and preservation specialist, and Professor at the Preservation Studies Program at Boston University. He is a Director of Atelier Anonymous, Vancouver, BC, a landscape consultancy team, and is a founder of the AtelierAnon-Global Landscape Foundation. He was Head of Gardens and Designed Landscapes of the National Trust for Scotland and supports the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Jammu and Kashmir Chapter as an adviser.
Nir Shafir is a historian whose research explores the intellectual and religious history of the early modern Middle East, with a focus on material culture and the history of science and technology. He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of Hazine, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
Polina Ivanova is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University and a 2016-18 Tyler Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her interests include history of the medieval Mediterranean, Anatolia and Iran, as well as archaeology and material culture studies.
CREDITS Episode No. 346 Release Date: 12 February 2018 Recording Location: Washington, D.C. Audio editing by Onur Engin Music: Tou Bal Da Rayni Saari Raat Album: Yaar Di Mehndi Images and bibliography courtesy of Jan Haenraets available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/kashmirgardens.html
E345 | In this episode, Will Hanley transports us to the gritty, stranger-filled streets of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, as we discuss his book, Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria. We explore how nationality—an abstract tool in the pages of international legal codes—became a new social and legal category that tangibly impacted the lives of natives and newcomers to Alexandria at the turn of the twentieth century. We consider how nationality brought together the previously impersonal, stranger networks using an array of paper technologies, vocabularies, and legal practices that forged bonds of affiliations between the individuals and groups that inhabited the city. Finally, we discuss how Egyptians and non-European foreigners, such as Algerians, Tunisians, and Maltese, benefited or were disenfranchised from a legal hierarchy that privileged white, male Europeans.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/alexandria.html
Will Hanley is associate professor of history at Florida State University. He is currently working on a historical gazetteer of the Ottoman empire (ottgaz.org) and a digitization of the Egyptian Gazette (dig-eg-gaz.github.io)
Taylor M. Moore is a PhD Candidate in Modern Middle Eastern History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is interested in the interconnected histories of medicine, magic, and ethnographic museums in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt.
Episode No. 345 Release Date: 8 February 2018 Recording Location: Princeton University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Mohamed Abdel Wahab - Al-Dunya al-Leil wal-Nugum Bandista - Gavur İmam İsyanı Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Bibliography courtesy of Will Hanley available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/alexandria.html
E344 | 2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War and the start of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights. Gershon Shafir discusses why this occupation has lasted for so long in the West Bank and how “the Occupation” has differed from earlier forms of settler colonialism in Israel-Palestine. In particular, we focus on the state of “permanent temporariness” that the Israeli government has purposefully inculcated in the face of international law and the emergence of a specific movement of religious-nationalist settlers. At the end, Shafir contemplates how the Occupation has changed the larger Arab-Israeli conflict itself and, by means of a feasibility study, suggests a variety of different visions for the future of the area. See more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/occupation.html
Gershon Shafir is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He has published and edited numerous books on the topics of nationalism, ethnicity, citizenship and human rights, especially in regard to Israel/Palestine.
Release Date: 5 February 2018 Recording Location: La Jolla, Calif. Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Ben Yemenimi Al Isterim - Hafiz Burhan; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography curated by Nir Shafir avaiable at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/occupation.html
E343 | How do we assess fizzling protest movements? How do social scientists account for difficult-to-quantify facets of political engagement like emotion and momentum? In this episode, we discuss ihbat, or disillusionment, in the failures of Morocco’s February 20th movement. Part of the Arab Spring movements across the region, the coalition of groups that comprised February 20th rather quickly ground to a halt a few months later. In a major speech in March 2011, King Mohammed VI pledged major reforms, a new constitution, and a new election. In July of that year, Moroccans voted overwhelmingly in favor of stability and “consultation” and approved the new constitution. The euphoria of the early days of the movement subsided and gave way to feelings of ihbat. But disillusionment, as we discuss here, is not as one-dimensional nor permanent as one might think. Taieb Belghazi and Abdelhay Moudden point towards a possible new direction in political science research that uses literary and artistic sources to get at the emotional aspect of political engagement and organization.
Taieb Belghazi is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculté des Lettres at Mohammed V University and Academic Director of the SIT Multiculturalism and Human Rights Program in Morocco.
Abdelhay Moudden is Professor of Political Science at Mohammed V University and the co-founder of the Center for Cross Cultural Learning in Rabat.
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Episode No. 343 Release Date: 26 January 2018 Recording Location: Center for Cross-Cultural Learning, Rabat (12/15/2016) Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Hocine Slaoui – Yal Cahla Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Taieb Belghazi & Abdelhay Moudden available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/01/ihbat.html
E 342 | In this episode, we discuss the history of Beyoğlu's Emek Cinema from its construction in 1884 to its 2013 destruction, which sparked major opposition among Turkish intellectuals, writers, researchers, members of the film industry, and lovers of cinema and of Beyoğlu, many of whom fought to keep this piece of Istanbul's cultural and architectural heritage. Through a wide-ranging discussion with architects and historians, this episode shows how the history of one building can speak to trajectories of urban development, violence, and transformation in Istanbul from Ottoman times until today.
See more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/01/emek-cinema.html
Seda Kula Say received her PhD degree from Istanbul Technical University at the department of Architectural History. Currently she teaches at Gebze Technical University at the faculty of architecture. Her research interests include Ottoman architecture, Ecole des Beaux Arts and eclecticism, and 19th century Ottoman cities.
Selcen Coşkun graduated with a bachelors' degree in Architecture from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, where she received her PhD degree in the Heritage Conservation. During 2014-2015 she was a post-doctoral visitor at the University of York in UK. Since 2006 she teaches Heritage Conservation to architecture students at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
Lorans Tanatar Baruh is currently working as Associate Director of Research and Programs at SALT. Her interest areas include late Ottoman economic, social and urban history, History of Istanbul, Eastern Mediterranean port cities, archives and digitisation.
CREDITS Episode No. 342 Release Date: 23 January 2018 Recording Location: SALT Galata, Istanbul Audio editing by Matthew Ghazarian Music: Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla, Harmandali-Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Images and Bibliography available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/01/emek-cinema.html
E341 | In this episode, we explore debates about aesthetics, headwear, and dress in interwar Algeria and Turkey. Why did hats and hijabs generate so much debate among Algerian thinkers, both men and women? How did expectations about what men would wear on their heads carry different political connotations than similar debates about women's head coverings? This episode takes up the role of dress and comportment in shaping Algerian conversations about colonialism, feminism, and Islamic reform, as well as the importance of a "Turkish model" in interwar Algerian debates.
See more at www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/01/hats-and-hijabs-in-algeria-and-turkey.html
Sara Rahnama is is a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University. Her work explores out how ideas about Islam and gender were key to how Algerian thinkers interpreted and negotiated European and Middle Eastern intellectual movements.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
Seçil Yilmaz received her PhD degree in History from the Graduate Center, CUNY with her dissertation entitled "Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922." She is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Society for the Humanities and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.
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Episode No. 341 Release Date: 17 January 2018 Recording Location: Washington, D.C. Audio Editing by Susanna Ferguson Music: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Bibliography courtesy of Sara Rahnama available at www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/01/hats-and-hijabs-in-algeria-and-turkey.html
Episode 340
with Leslie Peircehosted by Suzie Ferguson and Seçil Yılmaz
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In this episode, we explore the life and times of Roxelana, also known as Hürrem Sultan, a slave girl who became chief consort and then legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I (r. 1520-1566). We trace Roxelana's probable beginnings and the possible paths that took her to Istanbul, asking how she rose above her peers in the Old Palace to become a favored concubine and then the wife of the Sultan. We explore her relationship to other women at the Ottoman court, the politics of her motherhood and philanthropy, and her role in Ottoman diplomacy. In the end, Roxelana's work, her relationship with Suleiman, and the unusual nuclear family they created despite the otherwise polygynous patterns of reproduction at the Ottoman court would transform the rules of Ottoman succession, the role of Ottoman royal women, and the future of the Empire as a whole. The life story of this one remarkable woman sheds light on many facets of the history of the Ottoman Empire, showing how a single individual's story can serve as a lynchpin for grasping the complexities of an age.
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Episode 339
with Aylin de Tapiahosted by Susanna Ferguson, Seçil Yilmaz and Ella Fratantuono
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In this episode, we consider the story of the Tanzimat reforms from the perspective of rural Cappadocia, a region in central Anatolia now famous as a tourist destination. In the nineteenth century, Cappadocia was home not only to the Muslim subjects who made up the majority of Anatolia's population but to a large population of Orthodox Christians as well. How did these communities experience the Tanzimat period and how did their relationships to each other and to the state change between 1839 and the demise of the Ottoman Empire?
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E338 | The history of al-Andalus has a special place in Arabic poetry -- as well as in American hiphop. al-Andalus, a name for the Iberian peninsula when under the political rule of Muslim dynasties, has remained a symbol of loss, exile and memory, centuries after the last Muslim king lost power. In this episode, Anna Cruz explores this phenomenon through Arabic poetry by Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati and Mahmoud Darwish, speeches by Malcolm X and the music of Ras Kass. We discuss the way this history of al-Andalus is shaped through retelling by these twentieth century writers and artists. Anna also considers what it would mean to create an archive of al-Andalus that included these multiple ways of understanding its history.
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Anna C. Cruz is Faculty of Arabic and Spanish at Choate Rosemary Hall. She received her PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016 and most recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. She is currently at work on a publication tentatively titled “The Moor: Reinventing the History of Islamic Spain through Arabic Poetry and Hip Hop.”
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean World.
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Episode No. 339 Release Date: 27 November 2017 Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: Nature of the Threat - Ras Kass Special thanks to Ras Kass for the use of this song. Images and bibliography courtesy of Anna Cruz available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/11/the-lyrical-archive-of-al-andalus.html
E337 | During the late Ottoman period, the diverse and vibrant Aegean ports of Izmir (Smyrna) and Thessaloniki (Salonica) experienced rapid growth and transformation through the increased interconnection of the Mediterranean world and the rise of maritime trade. But in the tumultuous final decade of the Ottoman period, both cities witnessed political and demographic upheaval as well as outright destruction by fire. With Thessaloniki permanently incorporated into Greece and Izmir into the new Republic of Turkey in 1923, the two cities seemed destined to follow different paths. Yet as our guest Kalliopi Amygdalou explains, interesting comparisons and parallels between the development of Izmir and Thessaloniki endured even after they ceased to be part of a unified Ottoman polity. In this episode, we follow the story of urban and architectural transformation in Izmir and Thessaloniki after the decade of war between the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and the period that followed in the two cities under a transition from empire to nation-state.
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Kalliopi Amygdalou is an architect and architectural historian, currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, working on the politicisation of architectural heritage in south-eastern Europe. She completed her doctoral studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture (U.C.L.) in 2014 with her thesis titled 'A Tale of Two Cities in Search of a New Identity: The Politics of Heritage and Modernisation in early 20th-century Izmir and Thessaloniki'. From 2015-2017 she taught at the Department of Architecture of Izmir Institute of Technology in Turkey.
Michael Talbot received his PhD from SOAS in 2013 for a thesis on Ottoman-British relations in the eighteenth century, and now lectures and researches on a range of topics in Ottoman history at the University of Greenwich in London.
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Episode No. 337 Release Date: 23 November 2017 Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Muhtelif for the use of "Ta Paidia & Lamma Bada" Images and bibliography courtesy of Kalliopi Amygdalou available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/11/izmir-thessaloniki.html
E336 | How did people in Tibet view the Islamic World, and vice versa? How did a figure like Galen travel from Ancient Greece, through the Islamic World, and end up as a founding father in Tibetan medical history? In this episode, we speak to Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim about the exchange of knowledge, and especially medicine, between these regions. We discuss objects like musk, which originated in Tibet but played a huge role in the Muslim world, and scholars like Rashid al-Din al-Tabib, who wrote about Buddhism and Chinese medicine from Il-Khanid Iran. The silk road is often thought of as a trade route connecting China and Greece, but Ronit uses a new framework, the "Musk Route," for looking at the transmission of knowledge between Tibet and the Islamic world. She also describes the role of some important archives in shaping our understandings of these connections, like Dunhuang and the Cairo Geniza.
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Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research deals with the transmission of medical ideas along the so-called ‘Silk-Roads.’
Taylor M. Moore is a PhD Candidate in Modern Middle Eastern History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is interested in the interconnected histories of medicine, magic, and ethnographic museums in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt.
Shireen Hamza is a PhD student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean World.
Episode No. 336 Release Date: 3 November 2017 Recording Location: International Congress of Traditional Asian Medicines, Kiel, Germany Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: "Eeyori jon" and "Tchaman" by Hadar Maoz Bibliography courtesy of Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/11/ronit-yoeli-tlalim.html
E335 | In this episode, we uncover histories of feminist writing and activism in the Modern Middle East, asking how women's textual production and activism changed over the twentieth century and looking at new directions in research on the history of women and feminism in the region. In the first half of the episode, Marilyn Booth introduces us to feminist writer and biographer Zeinab Fawwaz, who transformed women's writing in 1890s Egypt. We show how central questions of gender, marriage, and girls' education were to discussions about society and nation after the British occupation of Egypt in 1882 and through the first decades of the twentieth century. In the second half of the episode, Nova Robinson discusses her research on Nour Hammada, a women's activist from interwar Lebanon who argued for an "Eastern" or "Arab" women's rights framework. At the end, we come together to think about the new avenues of inquiry shaping Middle East history and the history of women and gender in the region.
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Marilyn Booth is the Khalid bin Abdullah al-Saud Professor in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Oxford University. She is a well-known translator and author of many works, most recently Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History through Biography in Fin-de-Siècle Egypt, out from Edinburgh University Press in 2015.
Nova Robinson is an Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Seattle University. Her research is situated at the intersection of women's history, Middle Eastern history, and the history of international governance. She is presently working on her manuscript, "Truly Sisters": Syrian and Lebanese Women's Transnational Activist Networks, 1910-1955. Recent articles have been published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.
Seçil Yilmaz received her PhD degree in History from the Graduate Center, CUNY with her dissertation entitled "Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922." She is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Society for the Humanities and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
Episode No. 335 Release Date: 8 October 2017 Recording Location: Hofstra University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: from archive.org - Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; from Excavated Shellac - Munira al-Mahdiyya – Aldahre Kataâ Awsali Bibliography courtesy of Nova Robinson and Susanna Ferguson available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/10/arab-feminists.html
Episode 334
with Emrah Safa Gürkanhosted by Chris Gratien
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Along with new maritime networks, information stiched together the empires of the early modern period. One component of the growing networks of information in the increasingly connected space of the Mediterranean world was espionage. As we learn in our latest conversation with Emrah Safa Gürkan about his new book Sultanın Casusları (Spies of the Sultan), the Ottoman Empire was both party and subject to the fascinating exploits of early modern spies. In this episode, we learn about the lives of Ottoman spies profiled in Gürkan's book, and we consider how the transformation of espionage in the Mediterranean relates to the development of early modern empires.
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E333 | Pirates are usually imagined as outlaws. But as the history of the early modern Mediterranean demonstrates, the line between illegal raiding and legitimate maritime violence was blurry, easily crossed, and often a moving target. In this episode, we talk to Joshua White about his book Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean. We consider how piracy shaped legal institutions and thought in the Ottoman world, and we get a glimpse of the fascinating and liminal world of pirates, jurists, and officials in the Ottoman Mediterranean.
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Joshua M. White is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean (Stanford University Press, 2017).
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939.
Taylor M. Moore is a PhD Candidate in Modern Middle Eastern History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is interested in the interconnected histories of medicine, magic, and ethnographic museums in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt.
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Episode No. 333 Release Date: 16 September 2017 Recording Location: Burgazada, Turkey Audio editing by Chris Gratien, Matthew Ghazarian, Susanna Ferguson, Ella Fratantuono, and Taylor Moore Music: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; from Excavated Shellac - Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Joshua White available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/piracy.html
Bibliography and full episode at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/diaspora.html
Episode 331
with Ella Fratantuonohosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz
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Though it is often ignored among the many histories of the great migrations of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire experienced the arrival of millions of migrants over the course of its last decades. The migrant or muhacir was therefore not just a critical demographic component of both Ottoman cities and the countryside but also part of and subject to different political projects associated with the empire's transformation. In this conversation with Ella Fratantuono, we offer an introduction to the history of migration in the late Ottoman Empire and seek to understand the muhacir as a legal, administrative, and conceptual figure in Ottoman society.
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E330 | When did Muslims first come to the South Asian subcontinent? The answer to this question has formed a crucial part of nationalism in both India and Pakistan, where the story begins with the conquest of Sind by Muhammad ibn Qasim in 712 AD. In this episode, we speak with Manan Ahmed Asif about his book, A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia, which reexamines a key text in this narrative about Islam in South Asia: The Chachnama. Written in Sind in the 13th century, this text draws on multiple Indic and Islamic literary traditions to respond to its contemporary political context. We discuss the ways in which the text puts forth political theories, based on the lives of Brahmin rulers of Sind -- including the eponymous Chach -- as well as Muhammad ibn Qasim. Rather than a straightforward story of Muslim conquest, the text advocates a mode of rule which acknowledges and engages with the cultural and religious diversity of Sind. Finally, we touch on the ways this history is alive today among residents of Uch, the city most discussed in the Chachnama.
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Manan Ahmed Asif is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. He specializes in the intellectual history of Islam in South and Southeast Asia, frontier-spaces and the city in medieval South Asia and colonial and post-colonial North India and Pakistan. He is the co-founder of the Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities at Columbia.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically during the Delhi Sultanate.
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Episode No 330 Release Date: 24 August 2017 Recording Location: Columbia University, New York Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: Special thanks to Ganavya Doraiswamy - (Black, Brown, Beige) Are the Colors Images and bibliography courtesy of Manan Ahmed Asif available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/08/muslim-origins-in-south-asia.html
E329 | In this interview, we explore the early history of Islam in West Africa with Professor Ousmane Kane, who has mapped out the networks of Islamic learning in the region. We discuss intellectual history, the curricula of madrasas and a day in the life of a 16th-century student in Sankore. We then turn to the role of language in West African Muslim intellectual production, and the effects of colonialism on education, broadly. West African Islam is neglected by both Islamic Studies and African studies, despite its rich history, from the first centuries of Islam to the present. We end with a discussion of how these disciplines draw boundaries that have thus far discouraged many from looking beyond material exchange in Timbuktu to the broader study of Islamic intellectual history in West Africa.
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Ousmane Oumar Kane holds the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair on Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at the Harvard Divinity School and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at Harvard University. Kane studies the history of Islamic religious institutions and organizations, and he is engaged in documenting the intellectual history of Islam in Africa. Kane has also focused on the phenomenon of Muslim globalization.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically, in medieval South Asia.
Abdul Latif is an MTS student at Harvard Divinity School focusing on Islamic Studies.
CREDITS Episode No. 329 Release Date: 21 August 2017 Recording Location: Harvard Divinity School Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Images and bibliography courtesy of Shireen Hamza at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/08/beyond-timbuktu.html
Episode 328
with Khaled El-Rouayhebhosted by Shireen Hamza and Abdul Latif
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The seventeenth century, contrary to popular belief, was a time of great originality and change for scholars in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb. In this interview, Khaled El-Rouayheb debunks the many myths of intellectual decline by showing how the intellectual production changed in tandem with major migrations across the Islamic world. We start with the influx of Kurdish and Azeri logicians into the Ottoman Empire, and the new disciplines that they brought with them. We then discuss the movement of scholars from North Africa to Egypt and the Hejaz, and how they insisted on methods of taḥqīq, or verification, rather than taqlīd, or the acceptance of knowledge based on authority alone. Finally, we touch on how the spread of Sufi orders from India and Central Asia into Arabic-speaking regions impacted the development and disputation of the concept of waḥdat al-wujūd, or the unity of being. How does this detailed research on intellectual trends change our understanding of "modernity" and the period we call the "early modern"?
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Episode 327
with contributions by Zeynep Çelik, Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen, Mehmet Kentel, Michael Talbot, Murat Yıldız, Burçak Özlüdil Altın, Seçil Yılmaz, Burçin Çakır, Zeinab Azerbadegan, Dotan Halevy, Chris Gratien, and Michael Ferguson
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Visual sources such as photographs, maps, and miniatures often serve as accompaniment or adornment within works of Ottoman history. In this episode, we feature new work that interrogates methods of analyzing and employing visual sources for Ottoman history that go beyond the practice of "image as decoration." Following a conversation with the organizers of the "Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History" conference held at Columbia University in April 2017, we speak to conference participants about the visual sources they employ in their work and how these visual sources allow us to understand the history of the Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman world in a new light.
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E326 | Commodities, their circulation, and their consumption have long been favorite topics of cultural and economic historians alike. In this episode, we build on the historiography of commodities by studying further the social and political context of two particular commodities: coffee and marijuana. Our guests, Casey Lurtz and Lina Britto, have each studied these commodities in their Latin American contexts, and following a global discussion of coffee and marijuana with some focus on the Middle East, we talk to each of these scholars about their respective research projects. We examine how the arrival of coffee impacted local political economies in Mexico, and we explore how the history of marijuana as a "drug" has had political consequences for modern Latin American countries. We conclude with a roundtable discussion on the history of commodities like coffee and marijuana and what they tell us about the changing cultural context surrounding both these items today.
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Lina Britto is assistant professor of History at Northwestern University. Her research explores the origins of the U.S.-Colombia drug connection, while her teaching focuses on modern Latin America, and processes of nation-state formation, popular culture, and violence.
Casey Lurtz is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, was previously the Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and will be joining the history department at Johns Hopkins University in the fall as an assistant professor. Her research examines globalization from the perspective of rural Latin America.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 326 Release Date: 20 July 2017 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: from Excavated Shellac- Hermanos Hernández – Eugenia; Luna y Delgado – Sal A Tus Puertas; Nicandro Castillo con sus Huastecos – El Llorar; from archive.org - Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Casey Lurtz and Lina Britto available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/coffee-marijuana.html
E325 | A perennial question in Ottoman history is why printing was not fully adopted in the Middle East for the production of books until the late nineteenth century. Armenians, however, did start to print their books as early as the sixteenth century. In this episode, Sebouh Aslanian explains this rather sudden shift by telling the story of how the twin traumas of the Celali Rebellions and Shah Abbas’s scorched-earth campaigns against the Ottoman Empire spurred the mass migration of Armenians away from their traditional centers in the Eastern fringes of Anatolia, the Armenian Plateau and the Caucasus and toward major cities of Western Anatolia and Iran. As the traditional centers of Armenian manuscript production were disrupted by war and banditry, Armenians turned to printing presses in the European diaspora to satisfy their needs for books.
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Sebouh Aslanian is Associate professor of history and Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History at UCLA. He is he author of From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (Berkley: University of California Press, 2011) and Dispersion History and the Polycentric Nation: The Role of Simeon Yerevants‘i's Girk‘ or Kochi Partavchar in the Armenian National Revival (Venice: 2004) and is currently completing a book manuscript titled Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world. He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
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Episode No. 325 Release Date: 18 July 2017 Recording Location: Long Beach, CA Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" and to Sato Moughalian for "Tamzara" Images and bibliography courtesy of Sebouh Aslanian available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/julfans.html
Episode 324
with Elise Burtonhosted by Shireen Hamza, Chris Gratien, and Maryam Patton
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Genetics have emerged as a new scientific tool for studying human ancestry and historical migration. And as research into the history of genetics demonstrates, genetics and other bioscientific approaches to studying ancestry were also integral to the transformation of the very national and racial categories through which ancestry has come to be described over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. In this podcast, we speak to Elise Burton about her research on the development of human genetics in the Middle East. Burton has studied the history of genetics within a comparative framework, examining the interrelated cases of human genetics research in Turkey, Israel, Iran, and elsewhere. In this episode, we focus in particular on the history of genetics in Turkey and its relationship to changing understandings of nation and race within the early Republic. In a bonus segment (see below), we also look under the hood of commercial genetic ancestry tests to understand present-day science within the context of these historical developments.
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Episode 323
with Erik-Jan Zürcherhosted by Andreas Guidi and Elif Becan
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In this collaboration with The Southeast Passage, we discuss the emergence of the Turkish nationalist movement under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the establishment of a sovereign Republic of Turkey in 1923. As our guest Prof. Erik-Jan Zürcher notes, Kemalism can be studied both as a political transformation from armed struggle to a one-party state administration system and as a repertoire of discursive symbols based on the imaginary of nation, civilization, and modernity. This installment is structured along a series of lectures that Prof. Zürcher has given at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, in which he has framed Kemalism’s activism and worldview within its contemporary international context as well as along a broader chronological axis continuing into the 1950s.
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E322 | This episode examines historical approaches to Armenians, Kurds, and Turks in the eastern provinces of Ottoman Anatolia. "Shared history" has been offered up as a corrective to the existing historiography's nationalist and often exclusionary approaches, but what does writing a "shared history" actually look like? Yaşar Tolga Cora and Dzovinar Derderian talk about their approaches in their recent 2016 edited volume, The Ottoman East in the Nineteenth Century: Societies, Identities and Politics. The volume discusses Trans-regional Connectivity; the fluidity of identities and loyalties, state and local politics; and the social history of space. They draw on the work to unpack the political and scholarly challenges of writing a "shared history" for an area that has been and still is marked by deep conflicts.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/ottoman-east.html
Yaşar Tolga Cora received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2016 and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Armenian Studies Program and History Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He focuses on the social history of Armenian communities in the Eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire before the Genocide.
Dzovinar Derderian is a Ph. D. Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation explores iterations of belonging to nation and empire through love, law and knowledge among Ottoman Armenians of Van in the mid-nineteenth century.
Matthew Ghazarian is a Ph.D. Candidate in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of sectarianism, humanitarianism, and political economy in central and eastern Anatolia between 1856 and 1893.
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Episode No. 322 Release Date: 1 July 2017 Recording Location: Boston, MA Audio editing by Matthew Ghazarian Music: Katibim (Üsküdar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla and Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer Images and bibliography courtesy of Yaşar Tolga Cora, Dzovinar Derderian, and Ohannes Kılıçdağı available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/ottoman-east.html
E321 | What is the aural possibility of Islamic life in the European cities today? This special episode begins with a ten-minute segment from an audio composition crafted by our guest, musicologist Peter McMurray, from recent field recordings and ethnographies he conducted among various Turkish communities in Berlin. As the discussion progresses we weave in and out of two discussions. First, we look at the means by which Turkish migrants from the Alevi, Shi’i, and Sufi communities use the different private and public spaces of the city as a stage for their religiosity. We add to this a second discussion of how ethnography, aesthetics, and the aural intersect in scholarship today.
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Peter McMurray is an ethnomusicologist and media artist. He is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, where he is completing a book and film project, Pathways to God: The Islamic Acoustics of Turkish Berlin. He holds a PhD from Harvard in Ethnomusicology and an MFA from Brandeis in Music Composition. Other research interests include South Slavic oral poetry and music/sound among Syrian refugees.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently assistant professor of history at UCSD.
Huma Gupta is a Ph.D. student at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation research focuses on the structural relationships between urban planning, architecture, state formation and migration in modern Iraq. She is also interested in the sonic and visual past and continues to think of ways to integrate sensory histories into her research.
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Episode No. 321 Release Date: 26 June 2017 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Audio editing by Chris Gratien Audio segments: "God Listens To Those Who Praise Him (introduction/excerpt from 48', 16-channel audio piece)" by Peter McMurray Untitled video, Commemoration of 1993 Sivas Massacre by the Berlin Alevi Association (July 2015) recorded by Peter McMurray Holy Weeping (Amplified) (excerpts from 30', 4-channel audio piece) by Peter McMurray Images and bibliography courtesy of Peter McMurray
Episode 320
featuring Bruce Burnside & Sam Dolbee
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The distance between the shores of the Ottoman Empire and New York City may be great, but, as this episode suggests, a great many connections exist between these places, too. This episode explores both the everyday lives of those hailing from the Ottoman domains over several centuries in the Big Apple, as well as the perceptions New Yorkers and Americans more generally had of the Ottoman Empire. Through visits to sites across the island of Manhattan, we shed light on the long and largely forgotten shared history of the Ottoman Empire and New York City, and we find it in unlikely places – such as a modest walk-up apartment on the Upper East Side – as well as in the shadow of New York landmarks like 1 World Trade Center and the Stonewall Inn.
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E319 | The rise of Islamic modernist movements from the 19th century onward brought two potentially contradictory processes. On the one hand, Muslim thinkers began to imagine an increasingly global Muslim community unified by identity that might transcend many of the communal and political divisions of the day. On the other hand, in seeking to delineate the parameters of modern Islam, such thinkers were impelled to account for the great diversity and heterogeneity within Islamic beliefs and practices. In this episode, we speak to Teena Purohit about her ongoing research on this very subject. Specifically, we discuss the case of Muhammad Iqbal, one of most important Muslim scholars in British South Asia, and his treatment of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the Ahmadiyya movement. Through Iqbal's writing on the Ahmadis and other movements of the period, we examine both the religious and political implications of modernist debates about inclusion and orthodoxy in Islam.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/ahmadi.html
Teena Purohit is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University. She is the author of The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India (HUP, 2012).
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically on the history of women's health.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 319 Release Date: 22 June 2017 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: from Excavated Shellac - Veena Dhanammal – Javali (Kamas) Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" and Rajna Swaminathan for "Entangled Hierarchy" Bibliography courtesy of Teena Purhoit available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/ahmadi.html
E318 | Long before European contact with the Americas forged transoceanic networks and connections in the Atlantic and Pacific, the Indian Ocean served as a maritime space that connected the many states, economies, and communities of its vast basin stretching from East Africa to Southeast Asia. In this multi-part episode, we follow this maritime space into the modern period, exploring the endurance of Indian Ocean connections. We discuss how commerce and politics fueled the expansion of the Ottoman diplomatic presence in South Asia, and we consider how lingering connections between East Africa and the Indian Ocean world forged by dhow traffic reveal both continuities and transformations in the history of economy, mobility, and empire along the coasts today.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/indian-ocean.html
Nidhi Mahajan is a Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Humanities at Tufts University. Her book project titled "Moorings: The Dhow Trade and the State in East Africa" is a historical ethnography of the dhow trade and multiple regulatory regimes in the Western Indian Ocean.
Jeffery Dyer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Boston College. He is completing a dissertation on Ottoman engagement with the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian Ocean in the last decades of the empire entitled “Ottomans in the Age of Empire: Ottoman Consular Diplomacy and the Indian Ocean Frontiers of the Arabian Peninsula, 1870-1914.”
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically on the history of women's health.
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Episode No. 318 Release Date: 21 June 2017 Recording Locations: Boston College / Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: from archive.org - Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul", Rajna Swaminathan for "Entangled Hierarchy", and Muhtelif for "Bint El Shalabiya"
E317 | The history of late Ottoman Palestine and the changes in settlement, agriculture, economy and politics that occurred there remain a subject of great interest for historians of the Middle East. In this episode, our guest Tamar Novick introduces a new approach to that history using the lens of ecology. We explore changes in late Ottoman Palestine through environment and human-animal relations and in particular, the transformation of beekeeping practices that arrived with Europeans during the late 19th century. We learn about how the introduction of movable hives transformed the relationship between beekeepers, bees, and the landscape, and we consider how European settlers saw in the bees of the Holy Land a unique animal stock that could be developed and possibly exported elsewhere while simultaneously casting the bee and apiculture in Ottoman Palestine as a site of technological intervention.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/bees.html
Tamar Novick is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and the co-leader of "The Body of Animals" working group there. Her book manuscript, entitled Milk & Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land, examines how settlers in Palestine in the long 20th century attributed special qualities to their land, and used science and technology to reconstruct a plentiful mystical past – literally, "a land flowing with milk and honey."
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 317 Release Date: 19 June 2017 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Tamar Novick available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/bees.html
E316 | Among the many important medieval texts written in Arabic, few have received more attention from scholars in Europe than The Muqaddimah, an introduction to history by the 14th-century North African writer Ibn Khaldun. In this episode, we explore another of arena for reception of Ibn Khaldun, the Ottoman Empire, with our guest Kenan Tekin. In particular, we examine Ottoman translations of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah, especially that of the 19th-century statesman and scholar Ahmet Cevdet. In our discussion of Cevdet's translation of and commentary on Ibn Khaldun's work, we explore the intellectual engagement of Ottoman Tanzimat-era thinkers with ideas from the past centuries of Islamicate scholarship and consider Cevdet's late Ottoman work as an early example of writing about the history of science.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/khaldun.html
Kenan Tekin is a research assistant at Yalova University. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2016. His research interests include history and philosophy of science and religion, Ottoman and Islamic intellectual history, and transformations from manuscript to print culture.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 316 Release Date: 15 June 2017 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Kenan Tekin available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/khaldun.html
E315 | Orientalist representations loom large in the history of 19th-century colonialism and European engagement with the late Ottoman Empire. But how did the orientalist discourses of the late Ottoman period compare with European representations of the Ottoman Empire during its early rise? In this episode, Pascale Barthe revisits this question through the lens of 16th century French encounters with the Ottoman Empire. Through Renaissance period French accounts of travel in and political engagement with the Ottoman Empire, we discuss early Franco-Ottoman rapprochement and cross-cultural exchange pursued by French monarchs and subjects with the would-be eastern other of the "Turk."
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/05/france-ottomans.html
Pascale Barthe is Associate Professor of French at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she teaches a variety of courses on language, literature, and culture, including an undergraduate seminar titled “La France-Méditerranée.” She specializes in early modern France and has focused on cross-cultural relations between Renaissance France and the Ottoman Empire. Her new research project examines political, religious, and literary intersections between the kingdom of Louis XIV and the Safavid and Mughal Empires. She is particularly interested in studying the global experiences of Frenchmen in the middle of the seventeenth century when the Compagnie des Indes Orientales was founded.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world. He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
Michael Talbot received his PhD from SOAS in 2013 for a thesis on Ottoman-British relations in the eighteenth century, and now lectures and researches on a range of topics in Ottoman history at the University of Greenwich in London.
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Episode No. 315 Release Date: 23 May 2017 Recording Location: MESA Conference, Boston Audio editing by Onur Engin Music: from archive.org - Nusret Yılmaz - Severim Her Güzeli Senden Eserdir Diyerek https://archive.org/details/hicaz_201403, Aziz Türk Sanat Müziği Grubu - Ud Taksimi https://archive.org/details/FaslUdTaksimi Images and bibliography courtesy of Pascale Barthe available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/05/france-ottomans.html
E314 | Salonica was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world until its liquidation by the Nazis in 1943. Historians often mark the beginning of the end of the Jewish community in 1913 when the city was annexed by Greece. Devin Naar challenges this presumption in this podcast by looking at how the Jewish community continued to flourish and adapt as part of the new Greek nation-state. Ultimately, the community was both sustained and limited by its continued use of the millet structure from the late nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and its strong attachment to the city as a political space. As such, the interwar history of the Salonican Jews becomes an important study of the legacies of the Ottoman Empire and the types of politics it continued to create well into the twentieth century.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/05/jewish-salonica.html
Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he directs the Sephardic Studies Program. Naar received his PhD in History from Stanford University, served as a Fulbright Scholar in Greece, and sits on the Academic Advisory Council of Center for Jewish History in New York.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world. He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano is a PhD candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. His dissertation explores how Ottoman intellectuals and bureaucrats in the 14th and 15th centuries provided models for social and political behavior through the creation of a new literary and poetic language.
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Episode No. 314 Release Date: 19 May 2017 Recording Location: University of Washington Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Devin Naar at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/05/jewish-salonica.html
E313 | In political discourses today, the “Muslim world” is evoked in a variety of contexts, ranging from pan-Islamic visions of political unity to a set of racist generalizations that present roughly a fifth of the world’s population as a monolithic whole. But as our guest in this episode, Cemil Aydın explains in his new book The Idea of the Muslim World, the very notion of a Muslim world is recent and requires historicization. In this episode, we explore the imagining of the Muslim World as a concept, tracing its early origins in the history of colonialism and the late Ottoman Empire and considering its transformation over the past century. We also discuss alternate geopolitical imaginaries and reflect on the implications of the racialization of Muslims.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/05/muslim-world.html
Cemil Aydın is teaching Ottoman history and global history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Cemil Aydin’s recent publications include his book on the Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia (Columbia University Press, 2007) and “Regionen und Reiche in der Politischen Geschichte des Langen 19 Jahrhunderts, 1750-1924 (Region and Empire in the Political History of the Long 19th Century” in Geschichte Der Welt, 1750-1870: Wege Zur Modernen Welt (A History of the World, 1750-1870)“ (Beck Publishers, July 2016) pp: 35-253.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Abdul Latif is an MTS student at Harvard Divinity School focusing on Islamic Studies.
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Episode No. 313 Release Date: 16 May 2017 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Muzaffer Akgun - Ha Bu Diyar; Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Additional segments: "A Short History of the Ertuğrul" by Michael Talbot Images and bibliography courtesy of Cemil Aydın available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/05/muslim-world.html
E312 | More and more, podcasts are appearing on university syllabi. But is it possible to conduct an entire university course that revolves entirely around the podcast medium? In this special episode, we sit down with Dana Sajdi and a class of over 20 students at Boston College who are enrolled in an experimental course entitled "Podcasting the Ottomans." In our conversation, we take a look inside the syllabus of a course in Ottoman history that relies primarily on episodes of Ottoman History Podcast and we get feedback from students about their daily engagement with the podcast medium and some of the most popular episodes of our program. Our student guests also discuss their short-form podcast final projects and reflect on the joys of learning through podcasts.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/04/podcasting-the-ottomans.html
Dana Sajdi is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Boston College. In addition to authoring The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the 18th Century Levant, she is editor of Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century (I.B. Tauris, 2008; in Turkish, Koc University Press, 2014).
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 312 Release Date: 26 April 2017 Recording Location: Boston College Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Syllabus courtesy of Dana Sajdi available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/04/podcasting-the-ottomans.html
E311 | For much of the twentieth century, military officers have been the most successful political operatives in Middle East politics. In this episode we explore the conditions that gave rise to these figures from their schooling to the disingenuous colonial politics of the interwar mandates. Our guest, Michael Provence, speaks to us about the overlooked the military schools in the late Ottoman Empire that drew in an aspiring middling class of rural Muslims, quite different from the urban and urbane classes that attended the civil schools, and molded them into loyal imperial subjects. We then explore how these men navigated the complex politics of the post-war Middle East as the world that the empire they had championed for so long fell apart around them.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/04/ottoman-military-education.html
Michael Provence is Associate Professor of modern Middle Eastern history at UCSD. He is the author of The Great Syrian Revolt (2005), and The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East (May 2017).
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world. He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
Reem Bailony is currently the American Druze Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University. Her book manuscript tentatively titled, Transnational Rebellion: The Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927, uncovers the critical role Syrian-Lebanese migrants played in defining and shaping the anti-colonial rebellion.
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Episode No. 311 Release Date: 7 April 2017 Recording Location: UC-San Diego Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Michael Provence available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/04/ottoman-military-education.html
E310 | The “nahda” is often seen as the beginning of the modern intellectual revival of the Arabs, when European Enlightenment ideas were adopted by Middle Eastern thinkers from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. In this podcast with Peter Hill, we discuss a circle of Syrian Christians in Damietta, Egypt who were actively translating Greek, Italian and French Enlightenment texts into Arabic in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, well before the start of the so-called nahda. Hill describes not only who these translators and patrons were, but also how this challenges diffusionist and connective conceptions of the intellectual history of the Middle East.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/DamiettaNahda.html
Peter Hill is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford, working on the intellectual history of the Arab world in the nineteenth century. He recently completed a D.Phil. thesis on utopian aspects of the cultural production of the Arab ‘Awakening’ (nahda), and their grounding in the social history of the Arab lands and Ottoman Empire in the long nineteenth century.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world. He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically on the history of women's health.
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Episode No. 310 Release Date: 1 April 2017 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: from Excavated Shellac - Munira al-Mahdiyya – Aldahre Kataâ Awsali; Hocine Slaoui – Yal Cahla Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Peter Hill available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/DamiettaNahda.html
E309 | Photography came to the Ottoman empire almost as soon as it was invented in Europe. Over subsequent decades, however, techniques improved, cameras got cheaper and more portable, and photographic production, circulation, and collection in Ottoman lands moved outside of the rarefied circles of the elite studios and the state. In this episode, Ahmet Ersoy discusses one of the main media for this kind of vernacular photography--the illustrated journals of the late Ottoman empire. What can understanding the circulation of images in this form help us to understand about history, identity, and print culture in the late Ottoman Empire, as well as about how to study photography itself?
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/illustratedjournals.html
Ahmet Ersoy is Associate Professor at the History Department at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. His work deals with the history of the Late Ottoman Empire with a special focus on the changing role and status of visual culture during a period of westernizing change. He is the author of the book, Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary: Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire, and he is currently pursuing research on the confluence of photography, new media technologies and print culture in the late Ottoman world
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939.
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Episode No. 309 Release Date: 30 March 2017 Recording Location: ANAMED, Istanbul Audio editing by Onur Engin Music: Müzeyyen Senar - Ayrılık Yaman Kelime Images and bibliography courtesy of Ahmet Ersoy available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/illustratedjournals.html
Episode 308
with Cengiz Şişmanhosted by Matthew Ghazarian
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In 1665, an Izmir-born Rabbi named Sabbatai Sevi (1626-76) was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah. His messianic movement attracted tens of thousands of followers and become known throughout the early modern world. Ottoman authorities, however, arrested Sevi in 1666, and, under duress, the charismatic leader converted to Islam. Many members of his movement followed suit and became the communities who today are called dönme (which literally means "convert"). After Sevi's death, dönme communities continued to outwardly practice Islam but inwardly retain practices of Judaism. In this episode, Cengiz Şişman talks about his research on the development of Sevi’s movement, the trajectories of dönme communities, and questions of conversion and communal boundaries, which became more pressing in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.
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E307 | Le mouvement des Jeunes Turcs et la Révolution de 1908 bouleversent profondément le système multiethnique et multiconfessionnel de l’empire ottoman en établissant un nouveau cadre politique pour les identifications concernant l’ État et la Nation. Dans cet épisode, François Georgeon explore avec nous les origines et les principales transformations du mouvement Jeune Turc: qui sont ces révolutionnaires ? Sont-ils des libéraux ou des réactionnaires, et comment caractériser leur rapport au passé ottoman, aux institutions ottomanes et à la modernité ? Enfin, comment s’articulent les identités nationalistes et impérialistes qu’ils invoquent et quelles conséquences pour la notion du vivre ensemble au sein de l’empire Ottoman et dont la République Turque hérite ?
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/Les-Jeunes-Turcs.html
François GEORGEON est directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS et membre titulaire du Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques (CETOBaC) de l'EHESS à Paris. Spécialiste de l'Empire Ottoman au XIXe et XXe siècles, il est l’auteur d’une biographie d’Abdülhamid II et de nombreux ouvrages sur les nationalismes ottomans et turcs.
Aurélie PERRIER est docteur en histoire contemporaine du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord et membre du centre de Recherches Historiques à Paris. Ses centres d'intérêts principaux sont l'histoire sociale du Moyen-Orient, le Maghreb colonial, et le genre et la masculinité dans la Méditerranée du XIXe siècle.
Andreas GUIDI est doctorant au CETOBaC/EHESS à Paris et à la Université Humboldt à Berlin. Son projet de thèse porte sur l'histoire social du passage de l'Empire Ottoman à l'occupation italienne à Rhodes au prisme des rapports entre générations au début du XXe siècle. Andreas est aussi l'éditeur du Podcast The Southeast Passage sur l'histoire de l'Europe du Sud-Est.
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Episode N. 307 (Tout/MO N. 3) Date de rela: 23 Mars 2017 Lieu de l’enregistrement: Paris, France Montage et production par Chris Gratien Extraits sonores: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/Les-Jeunes-Turcs.html
E306 | This episode examines new perspectives on the study of nationalism through a discussion of emerging themes in the history of Eastern Europe. We talk to two researchers about their ongoing projects concerning the history of nationalism in place that did not necessary fit the mold. Cristian Florea discusses the history of Bukovina, a borderland region that often found itself divided between multi-ethnic empires and during the 20th century, between emergent nation states. Malgorzata Kurjanska offers an introduction to her work on the historical sociology of Eastern Europe and her comparative study of civil society and elite competition multiple regions of former Congress Poland. In addition, we reflect on the value of studying the phenomenon of nationalism in "non-national" geographies and at the would-be margins of Europe.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/bukovina-poland.html
Cristina Florea is a historian of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, currently working on a book on the contested province of Bukovina, entitled Land of Longing: Bukovina at the Crossroads of Empire. Cristina obtained her PhD in History from Princeton University and is currently a member of the Harvard Academy of Scholars.
Malgorzata Kurjanska is a sociologist who studies how elites and their conflicts shape the representation of social alliances and cleavages within civil society. She received her PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Maria Blackwood is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University working on the history of Central Asia. Her dissertation examines the establishment of Soviet power in Kazakhstan, looking in particular at the first generation of Kazakhs who joined the Communist Party.
Bibliography available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/bukovina-poland.html
Music: From Excavated Shellac - Franciszek Dukla Wiejska Banda – Nikto to nam; Maria Mordazova and M. Zelenova – Da zadumal malchik zhenitsya; Samuel Pilip, John Karliak, i ich Lemkiwska Orchestra – Lemkiwsky Sztayer, Taneć; Kolomyjka Buczaćka by Ukrainska Orchestra Michala Thomasa; Kozak-Trepak by Ukrainska Orchestra Pawla Humeniuka
E305 | The destruction of Ottoman-era waqf institutions in the Balkans during the wars of the 1990s was extensive, from masjids and tekkes to bridges and libraries. A bibliographer at Harvard's Fine Arts Library, András Riedlmayer, traveled throughout the region to document this destruction during and after the wars. In this podcast, Riedlmayer describes his work on waqf institutions in the Balkans and his testimonies about the destruction of culture for international war tribunals over the last two decades. We discuss the fate of antiquities during wars and the ethical implications for historians, collectors and museums.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/balkan-waqf.html
András Riedlmayer is the bibliographer in Islamic Arts and Architecture for the Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library. He specializes in the history and culture of the Balkans, and documented the destruction of cultural heritage in Bosnia and Kosovo during the wars of the 1990s.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically on the history of medicine and sexuality.
Gwendolyn Collaço is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University's joint program for History of Art and Architecture and Middle Eastern Studies. She specializes in Ottoman painting and social history. Her dissertation analyzes costume albums produced by bazaar artists and their translations into European turquerie across media.
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Episode No. 305 Release Date: 10 March 2017 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Ben Yemenimi Al Isterim - Hafiz Burhan; Nazmiye - Rizeli Sadik Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of with András Riedlmayer available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/balkan-waqf.html
E304 | For much of the early modern period, the Crimean Khanate was the staunch ally of the Ottoman state in its rivalry with the growing Russian Empire. In this regard, Crimea's annexation by Russia in 1783 represented an major historical departure. But as our guest in this episode, Kelly O'Neill, explains, the early period of Crimea's incorporation into the Russian Empire was characterized by continuities as well as ruptures. In this conversation, we explore the subjects of Islamic law and endowments in Crimea under Russian rule and issues of political identity, as well as the history of the Black Sea slave trade and O'Neill's historical GIS project about the Russian Empire called "Imperiia: Mapping the Russian Empire."
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/russian-crimea.html
Kelly O'Neill is Associate Professor of History at Harvard University. Her forthcoming monograph entitled “Southern Empire: the Logic and Limits of Russian Rule in Crimea” explores the history of Russian rule in Crimea during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Erin Hutchinson is a PhD candidate in History at Harvard University focusing on the social and cultural history of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin. Her dissertation project explores how intellectuals of rural origins, especially those from Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Armenia, sought to transform cultural understandings of the nation in the second half of the twentieth century.
CREDITS
Episode No. 304 Release Date: 9 March 2017 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul"
Episode 303
with Stefan Winterhosted by Chris Gratien
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Although the Alawi communities of Syria have played an important role in the politics of the 20th century, the longer history of these communities has often been obscured by generalizations and discourses of mystification. In this episode, we talk to Stefan Winter about the history of the Alawis over the centuries, which is the subject of his new book A History of the ‘Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. In particular, we focus on the ways in which Syrian Alawis were incorporated into the Ottoman Empire and experienced changes in Ottoman politics and governance. We also examine the social and economic history of the Alawis during the early modern period and the encounter with modernity.
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E302 | Depuis la fin de la guerre d’indépendance, la question des harkis agite les consciences en France comme en Algérie. Pierre Daum, journaliste au Monde Diplomatique et auteur du livre Le dernier tabou : les « harkis » restés en Algérie après l’indépendance, est parti à la rencontre de ces supplétifs de l’armée française et de leurs descendants. Dans cet épisode, il explore avec nous les non-dits et tabous qui entourent cette question : qui sont ces plus de 400,000 Algériens, qui à un moment ou un autre entre 1954 et 1962, se sont engagés aux côtés de la France? Quelles étaient leurs motivations, et quel fut leur sort suite à l’indépendance de 1962? Au fil de la discussion, Pierre Daum bat en brèche un certain nombre d’idées reçues sur les harkis et explore leur signification dans l’imaginaire français et algérien.
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Pierre DAUM est un journaliste et écrivain français, auteur d’enquêtes sur le passé colonial de la France. Il collabore régulièrement pour le Monde Diplomatique.
Dorothée Myriam KELLOU est une journaliste et réalisatrice basée à Paris. Elle est diplômée du master d'études arabes de l'Université de Georgetown à Washington D.C. et développe actuellement un projet de film sur les regroupements de populations pendant la guerre d'Algérie, prenant pour point de départ la mémoire/l'oubli de son père.
Aurélie PERRIER est docteur en histoire contemporaine du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord et membre du centre de Recherches Historiques à Paris. Ses centres d'intérêts principaux sont l'histoire sociale du Moyen-Orient, le Maghreb colonial, et le genre et la masculinité dans la Méditerranée du XIXe siècle.
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Episode N. 302 (Tout/MO N. 2) Date de rela: 2 Mars 2017 Lieu de l’enregistrement: Paris, France Montage et production par Chris Gratien Extraits sonores: en Excavated Shellac - Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; en archive.org - Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Monsieur Doumani - "The System/Το σύστημαν"; Kara Güneş -nbsp;"Istanbul" Bibliographie fournies par Pierre Daum
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E301 | In the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman/Qajar borderlands (today’s Turco-Iranian border), East Syrian Christians had their first encounters with American Protestant missionaries. These encounters brought to the region new institutions like printing presses and American-style schools. They also helped remap Neo-Aramaic concepts for communal belonging like melat and tayepa – which loosely correspond with the Ottoman and Arabic terms millet and taife, what today we might translate as “nation” and “sect.” An older generation of scholars characterizes the missionary project as one of enlightenment or modernity, while others describe it as a form of colonialism. In this interview with Professor Adam Becker, we discuss approaches to studying changing notions of piety as well as different ways of thinking about the missionary encounter.
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Adam H. Becker (Princeton Ph. D. 2004) is Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at New York University. His research interests include Christian martyrdom in the Sasanian Empire, Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity, the social and intellectual history of the Syriac (Christian Aramaic) tradition, and the missionary encounter in the nineteenth century.
Matthew Ghazarian is a Ph.D. Candidate in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of sectarianism, humanitarianism, and political economy in central and eastern Anatolia between 1856 and 1893.
CREDITS
Episode No. 301 Release Date: 21 February 2017 Recording Location: New York University Audio editing by Matthew Ghazarian and Chris Gratien Music: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Images and bibliography courtesy of Adam Becker available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/becker.html
Episode 300
with Baki Tezcanhosted by Susanna Ferguson
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Did the Ottoman Empire "decline" after an initial golden age of rapid expansion and military conquest? This question has long haunted the telling of Ottoman history. Critics note that describing centuries of Ottoman history simply as "decline" makes it seem inevitable that the Empire would be defeated in World War I, emptying the story of the contingency and nuance it deserves. How else might we describe the nature of political, economic, and cultural change in the later centuries of the Ottoman Empire? What other questions could we ask? In this episode, Baki Tezcan describes the period he calls the "Second Ottoman Empire," between roughly 1580 and 1826, not as a period of decline but as one of political transformation. His story radically remakes existing narratives about the nature and history of Ottoman political authority and governance and offers an important alternative to the "decline thesis" that has haunted Ottoman history for so long.
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E299 | In this episode, we approach the religious architecture of the Alevis, to examine how practice shapes architectural space and how socioeconomic change transforms such spaces. Many of our episodes on Ottoman History Podcast have focused on how monumental architecture, such as mosques and other buildings of religious significance, are tied to political transformation and expressions of political power and ideology. Taking a different perspective, our guest, Angela Andersen, researches the history and development of Alevi architectural forms in Turkey and abroad. Historically, Alevi religious practice and cem ceremonies took place in homes and other multi-purpose buildings, which could be configured as ad hoc meeting places for local communities during the communal cem ceremony. But with Alevi urban migration to cities in Turkey, Germany, and elsewhere, the creation of a "permanent address" for Alevis has emerged in the form of community centers providing a number of services, including designated rooms or halls for the cem. In this episode, we trace the genealogy of the modern cemevi to older contexts of Alevi religious practice and consider the role played by the cemevi in Turkey's new political landscape.
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Angela Andersen focuses on the inter- and intra-religious interactions that take place via architecture in the Islamic world, in both the historical and contemporary contexts. Her current research engages the role and meaning of architecture for the Alevi minority, and the diversity of Islamic spaces for worship and practice.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically on the history of women's health.
CREDITS
Episode No. 299 Release Date: 14 February 2017 Recording Location: Harvard University Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: from archive.org - Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Vinyl recording of "Hazin Hazin Ağlar Gönül" by Ali Ekber Çiçek digitized by Chris Gratien Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Angela Andersen available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/alevi-architecture.html
E298 | A handful of obscure archival fragments from Sultan Abdülhamid II’s imperial library in Yıldız have revealed a curious architectural practice that took place in the urban gardens of members and officials of the Ottoman court: they had a penchant for imported chalets. In this episode, Deniz Türker discusses her research on how this relatively niche fad for importation quickly shifted to widespread local prefabrication in the last decades of the nineteenth century. With the entrepreneurial oversight of production facilities in Istanbul, a larger swath of the capital’s population began to find ways to express their domestic tastes in an extremely competitive spirit on Istanbul’s expanding suburbs. In tracing these practices through state archives, newspapers, novel, and photographs, Türker also proposes some preliminary answers to the scarcity of original architectural drawings in the Ottoman archives.
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Deniz Türker is the Fari Sayeed Fellow in Islamic Art at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. She has received her PhD in History of Art and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, where she completed a dissertation on Yıldız, the Ottoman Empire’s last palace. Her current research follows two separate threads, one is to understand the patronage and public role of the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat, and the other is to trace the life and work of two prolific imperial photographers, Kevork Abdullah, and Bahaeddin Bediz.
Taylan Güngör is a doctoral candidate at SOAS in London. His interests are in Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean trading circles and his research is on trade in Istanbul after 1453.
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Episode No. 298 Release Date: 12 February 2017 Recording Location: SOAS, London Recorded at SOAS Radio studios. SOAS Radio is an outlet for creative media and talent housed by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Run by alumni, current students and staff at the School, including volunteers from like-minded communities, SOAS Radio is dedicated to varied and original programming on world music, culture and current affairs. Audio editing by Taylan Güngör Music: Muzaffer Akgun - Ha Bu Diyar Images and bibliography courtesy of Deniz Türker
Episode 297
with Massumeh Farhad & Simon Rettighosted by Emily Neumeier
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The preeminent position of manuscript painting and poetry at the Ottoman court has been well established by historians, yet the equally important practice of commissioning and collecting sumptuously decorated copies of the Qur’an--the sacred text of Islam--has been less explored. The role of the Qur’an in the artistic culture of the Ottoman world is just one facet of the landmark exhibition The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The show traces the formal evolution of the Qur’an, especially in terms of calligraphy and manuscript illumination, with over 60 manuscripts and folios spanning a thousand years and created in an area stretching from Egypt to Afghanistan. Besides having an opportunity to appreciate the level of labor and skill invested in producing such high-quality manuscripts, visitors will also be surprised to learn about the mobility of these books, as they were avidly collected, repaired, and donated by members of the Ottoman court to various religious institutions around the empire. In this episode, curators Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig sit down with us to reflect both on the reception of the exhibition in the United States, as well as the process of organizing this collaborative venture between the Smithsonian and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Istanbul.
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E296 | In French Algeria, the colonial imperatives of assimilation and difference gave birth to legal pluralism. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Ghabrial explains what it meant for Algerian women to have different legal structures operating at the same time. The ability to argue one's case in an Islamic court and also appeal it in French common law provided openings for women in matters of personal status. But it also had limits. They may have ultimately been able to divorce their husbands, but divorcing themselves from patriarchal structures of power proved more difficult, if not impossible. At the same time as legal codes changed, so, too, did medicine. As in much of the world, a state-sponsored scientific medicine, mostly practiced by men, began to crowd out local healing practices and knowledge of bodies, in many cases performed and possessed by women such as midwives. But it would have a particularly racialized impact in French Algeria. We also examine the impact of this change in court, where the latter form of medicine came to be an arbiter of truth, particularly in divorce cases. We close by shifting from matters of impotence to questions of agency, and how useful of a concept it is for this history.
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Sarah Ghabrial is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her current book project, Colonial Law and the Muslim Family in Algeria (1870-1930), uses social and gender history approaches and untapped judicial archives to examine the French governance of Islamic law in colonial Algeria. Her article, "The Traumas and Truths of the Body: Medical Evidence and Divorce in Colonial Algerian Courts” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (November 2015) won the 2014 JMEWS Graduate Student Paper Prize.
Edna Bonhomme is a doctoral candidate in History of Science at Princeton University. Her dissertation focuses on the history of the bubonic plague in Cairo and Tunis during the outbreaks in the 1780s and 1790s. She graduated from Reed College in 2006 with a degree in Biology and from Columbia University with a master's in public health. Prior to pursuing history, she was a research assistant at the Oregon Health and Sciences University. In addition to academic work, she occasionally writes for Socialist Worker and Red Wedge Magazine.
Sam Dolbee is a PhD student completing his dissertation on the environmental history of the late-Ottoman and mandate-era Jazira region at New York University in the joint program in history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
CREDITS
Episode No. 296 Release Date: 7 February 2017 Recording Location: New York, NY Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: from Excavated Shellac - Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; Hocine Slaoui – Yal Cahlafrom archive.org - Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Images and bibliography courtesy of Sarah Ghabrial available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/ghabrial.html
E295 | We often assume that as we become increasingly connected to ever larger networks of information and news we become part of larger and more cohesive polities. In this episode, Arthur Asseraf discusses how the introduction of new networks of communication in colonial Algeria generated friction and unevenness instead of expansive flows. Looking at telegraphs, newspapers, cinemas and more we discuss not only the types of intermediaries that flourished in this new environment, but also how news led to new and imagined forms of Muslim belonging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. From a discussion of telegrams and coffee shops we jump into discussions of pan-Islamism, colonial conspiracy theories, and the nature of polities.
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Arthur Asseraf is currently Examination Fellow in History at All Souls College, Oxford and from 2017 will be University Lecturer in the History of France and the Francophone World since c.1800 at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the history of information in the modern Mediterranean and on the colonial and post-colonial history of France and North Africa.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently assistant professor of history at UCSD.
CREDITS
Episode No. 295 Release Date: 23 January 2017 Recording Location: Rethymno, Greece Audio editing by Shireen Hamza Music: from Excavated Shellac - Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; from archive.org - Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and to Monsieur Doumani for allowing us to use "The System/Το σύστημαν" in the outro Images and bibliography courtesy of Arthur Asseraf available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/01/ColonialNews.html
E294 | In this episode, Christine Philliou traces the story of Istanbul's Phanariots, a group of wealthy, "Greek-identified" families who rose to play a central role in Ottoman foreign policy and diplomacy in the 17th and 18th centuries. What happened to these families in the tumultuous years preceding and following Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832? In this episode, we explore the biography of Phanariot Stephanos Vogorides and ask what his story has to offer Ottoman history. His story and that of the Phanariots shed light on Ottoman governance and diplomacy, as well as relations between Muslims, Christians, Ottomans, and Greeks in the important but often-overlooked moment just prior to the 19th century reforms known as the Tanzimat.
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Christine Philliou is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey and Greece, and is the author of Biography of an Empire : Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate in History at Brown University working on political economy and governance in Egypt and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Zoe is a co-curator of the OHP series on legal history in the Ottoman Empire and Islamic world.
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Episode No. 294 Release Date: 18 January 2017 Recording Location: University of California, Davis Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: archive.org - Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Muhtelif for the use of "Ta Paidia & Lamma Bada" Bibliography courtesy of Christine Philliou available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/01/ottoman-and-greek.html
E293 | The Opium Wars and the massive trade in opium between South Asia and China over the nineteenth century made famous the role of opium within the history of colonialism and globalization. But it is less well known that in the early twentieth century, the Republic of Turkey became the largest exporter of opium in the world. In this episode we speak with Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal about how and why opium became an export commodity in Turkey and how Turkish citizens smuggled the substance out once it became formally illegal. Along the way we gain a glimpse into the economic history of the young republic, the legal life of its citizens abroad, and how these smuggling operations built new forms of cosmopolitanism from the ground up as the Turkish republic became less and less accommodating for non-Muslims.
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Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal is a research fellow at the British Institute At Ankara and an affiliated post-doc at Middle East Technical University working on smuggling in the inter-war eastern Mediterranean. He was awarded his PhD at Cambridge University in 2014 for his thesis on the British/Allied occupations of Thessaloniki, Alexandria, and Istanbul during and immediately after the First World War, which he is now revising for publication.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an assistant professor of history at UCSD.
Credits
Episode No. 293 Release Date: 14 January 2017 Recording Location: Rethymno, Greece Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: from archive.org - Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Güneş for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" Additional segments: "Smoking Shoes" by Sam Dolbee Images and bibliography courtesy of Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/01/opium.html
E292 | Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde, Özge Samancı ile Osmanlı’da saray, elit mutfağı ve sokak yemek kültürü üzerine bir sohbet gerçekleştirdik. Osmanlı saray mutfaklarında çalışanlar arasında nasıl bir işbölümü olduğuna ve mutfağın mekansal düzenine değindik. Alaturka ve alafranga mutfak kültüründe, yemek ve içecek olarak tüketilen ürünleri ve nasıl tüketildiklerinin yanı sıra tüketim alışkanlıklarının kültürel ve toplumsal boyutunu da ele almaya çalıştık.
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Araştırma alanları Osmanlı ve Türk mutfak kültür ve tarihi olan Doç. Dr. Özge Samancı 1995 yılında Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü lisans programından, 1998 yılında aynı üniversitesinin Tarih Yüksek lisans programından mezun olmuştur. 2009’da yılında Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS-Paris)’te tarih ve medeniyetler alanında doktora derecesini alan Samancı Yeditepe Üniversitesi Gastronomi ve Mutfak Sanatları Bölümü öğretim üyesidir. Food & History ve Yemek ve Kültür dergilerinin yayın kurulu üyesidir.
Ufuk Adak, İstanbul Kemerburgaz Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Bölümü öğretim üyesidir. Adak, University of Cincinnati'den Tarih doktorası aldı. Doktora tezi, son dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda doğu Akdeniz liman kentlerindeki sosyal ve politik dönüşümü, suç, ceza, sosyal kontrol ve hapishaneler üzerinden ele almaktadır. Adak, Berlin'de Zentrum Moderner Orient'te (ZMO) doktora sonrası araştırmalarda bulunmuştur.
Doktorasını 2015 yılında Binghamton Üniversitesi, Tarih Bölümü'nde tamamlayan Nurçin İleri, Boğaziçi Arşiv ve Dokümantasyon Merkezi’nde koordinatör yardımcısı. Çalışmalarında, XIX. Yüzyıl Osmanlı ve Erken Cumhuriyet dönemi liman kentlerinde yaşanan toplumsal ve kültürel dönüşümleri, sosyal tarih, teknoloji tarihi, duyuların tarihi ve toplumsal cinsiyet tartışmaları ekseninde ele almaktadır.
Yapım ve Yayın
- Bölüm Yayın Tarihi: 11 Ocak 2017 Kayıt Yeri: ANAMED, İstanbul Ses editörü: Onur Engin Müzik: archive.org - Müzeyyen Senar - Ölürsem Yazıktır Sana Kanmadan Görseller ve kaynakça Özge Samancı müsaadesiyle
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Episode 291
with Omnia El Shakryhosted by Susanna Ferguson
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A tale of mutual ignorance between psychoanalysis and Islam has obscured the many creative and co-constitutive encounters between these two traditions of thought, both so prominent in the 20th century. This presumed incommensurability has hardened the lines between the "modern subject," assumed to be secular and Western, and its Others, often associated with Islam or with the East. In this episode on her forthcoming book, The Arabic Freud, Dr. Omnia El Shakry asks what it might mean to think psychoanalysis and Islam together as a "creative encounter of ethical engagement." She shows how psychoanalysts and thinkers in Egypt after World War II drew on Freud and Horney alongside Ibn 'Arabi and Abu Bakr al-Razi to explore the nature of the modern subject, the role of the unconscious, and the gendered process of ethical attunement. In so doing, she suggests that Arabic psychoanalytic texts were neither epiphenomenal to politics nor simply political allegory for nationalism or decolonization; rather, we have ethical and historiographical responsibilities to read these texts and others like them as something more than a product of their time.
Release Date: 8 January 2017
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E290 | National language politics and the transformation of literacy have effected major changes in both spoken and written language over the course of the last century, but few languages have changed as dramatically as modern Turkish. The reform of the language from the 1920s onward, which not only replaced the Ottoman alphabet with a new Latin-based alphabet but also led to a radical transformation of the lexicon and grammar, has been described by Geoffrey Lewis as "catastrophic success" due to the extreme but unquestionably successful nature of this attempt to revolutionize language in Turkey. In this episode, we talk to Emmanuel Szurek about his research on the politics of the alphabet change, the language reforms, and the surname laws of the early Republican period. Our extended interview is followed by a brief conversation in French about the history of French Turcology.
CREDITS
Episode No. 290 Release Date: 4 January 2017 Recording Location: Paris, France Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: from archive.org - Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Special thanks to Erik Bullot for the "Alphabet March." This march was composed by Osman Zeki (Üngör) in Fall 1928 as a homage and incitement for the Romanization campaign. The partition was found by the cinematographer Erik Bullot and his team while preparing his film 'La révolution de l'alphabet' (Capricci 2014). For this recording (Ankara, September 2013), the conductor was Tuncay Doğu, while Kaan Yüksel was at the piano and the choir was composed of students from the Music Department of ODTÜ Üniversitesi. The sound recording was made by Jean-François Priester. Additional segments: "Talvasa" read by Seçil Yılmaz; "" with Aurelie Perrier and Emmanuel Szurek Images and bibliography courtesy of Emmanuel Szurek available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/01/turkish-language-reform.html
Episode 289
with İrvin Cemil Schickhosted by Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian
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What terms and ideas were considered erotic in early modern Ottoman literature, and what can studying them tell us about later historical periods and our own conceptions of the beauty, love, and desire? In this episode, we welcome İrvin Cemil Schick back to the podcast to discuss a project he is compiling with İpek Hüner-Cora and Helga Anetshofer: a dictionary called the "Erotic Vocabulary of Ottoman Literature."
Release Date: 18 December 2016
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E288 | The political, social, and cultural roots of the modern Middle East stretch into the early modern period of Ottoman and Safavid rule and even beyond. So how should we narrate the long making of the Middle East within the context of an ever-changing present? In this episode, we talk to Betty Anderson about the perspectives and practices that inform her new textbook A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues. We consider ways of organizing and thematically arranging the history of a diverse region over hundreds of years, we discuss the importance of bringing previously silenced actors and groups into the historiography, and we reflect on how the past decades of historiography as well as recent events have changed how we conceptualize prevailing narrative of Middle East history.
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Betty Anderson is author of Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education, and A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues. Her current project examines the economic, educational, political and social changes that have come to Beirut, Amman, and Ramallah over the last 25 years. At Boston University, she is director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 288 Release Date: 11 December 2016 Recording Location: Belmont, MA Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; from Excavated Shellac - Munira al-Mahdiyya – Aldahre Kataâ Awsali Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and outro music Bibliography courtesy of Betty Anderson available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/modern-middle-east.html
E287 | Pre-Saharan Morocco is a transitional space between the Atlas Mountains in the north and the Sahara in the south, and the oases of pre-Saharan Morocco have long been marked by local autonomy, diversity, and particularities of agriculture, property ownership, class, and race. In this episode, we talk to Karen Rignall about her research on land, labor, and social life in a Moroccan oasis and discuss socioeconomic change in rural morocco through the lens of agricultural production in the transitional environments and political economies of the pre-Sahara.
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Karen Rignall is assistant professor in the Community and Leadership Development Department of the University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. A cultural anthropologist by training, her work addresses land rights, the practice of farming, and the governance of social life. She is currently completing a book manuscript provisionally entitled “An Elusive Common: Land, Labor and Belonging in a Moroccan Oasis.”
Graham H. Cornwell is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Georgetown University. His work examines the history of tea and sugar consumption in Northwest Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is also the editor of tajine, a podcast and blog about North African Studies.
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Episode No. 287 Release Date: 7 December 2016 Recording Location: University of Kentucky Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; from Excavated Shellac - Hocine Slaoui – Yal Cahla; Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal Images and bibliography courtesy of Karen Rignall available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/rignall.html
E286 | During the late 19th century, Louis Pasteur and his disciples promoted a laboratory-based study of disease and contagion that led to what many call "the bacteriological turn" and reshaped public health in France and beyond. In this episode, we sit down with doctor, philosopher, and historian Anne-Marie Moulin to talk about the history of the Pastorians and the early establishment of Pasteur Institutes in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. We explore the role of the Ottoman Empire in the creation of the Pasteur Institutes and their global network, and we consider the relationship between medicine and religion, politics, and colonialism in North Africa and the Middle East.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/pasteur.html
Anne-Marie Moulin is a doctor with decades of experience in the fields of medicine and public health and emeritus director of research at CNRS in Paris. In addition to her research in the fields of immunology and tropical medicine, she has published widely on the history of science and medicine in France, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 286 Release Date: 5 December 2016 Recording Location: Paris, France Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; from Excavated Shellac - Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Additional thanks to Seçil Yılmaz
E285 | Famous images such as Amin al-Husayni's meeting with Hitler have come to dominate the public imagination of Arab-Nazi relations in Western societies. But to what extent does this imagery reflect actual trajectories of reception and reflection of fascist ideology in the Middle East or the experience that Arabs and Muslims of other origins had under Nazi rule? In this episode, we discuss the ideological options of interwar nationalists from the Arab world with Peter Wien, author of Iraqi Arab Nationalism: Authoritarian, Totalitarian, and Pro-Fascist Inclinations, 1932-1941 and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East (forthcoming). We examine the possible models adopted by political movements of the Arab world in their nation-state projects and struggles with British and French colonialism, and we explore the fates and resonance of ideologies such as fascism and communism in the Arab world. In doing so, we unearth the experiences of Arab nationalists in Nazi Germany, and we consider the relationship between European anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism in the modern Middle East.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/peter-wien.html
Peter Wien is Associate Professor for Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Maryland in College Park. He is the author of Iraqi Arab Nationalism: Authoritarian, Totalitarian and Pro-Fascist Inclinations, 1932-1941 (2006) and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East (2017).
Graham H. Cornwell is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Georgetown University. His work examines the history of tea and sugar consumption in Northwest Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is also the editor of tajine, a podcast and blog about North African Studies.
Alissa Walter is a Ph.D. candidate in Georgetown University's History Department. The title of her dissertation is "The Ba‘th Party in Baghdad: State-Society Relations through Wars, Sanctions, and Authoritarianism."
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Episode No. 285 Release Date: 2 December 2016 Recording Location: Washington, DC Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Turnalar Turnalar - Darulelhan Heyeti Special thanks to Monsieur Doumani for allowing us to use "The System/Το σύστημαν" Images and bibliography courtesy of Peter Wien available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/peter-wien.html
E284 | The history of Mediterranean islands offers a dynamic paradox of insularity engendered by geographical isolation and connectivity fostered by access to ports and maritime networks. In this podcast, we discuss those themes through a conversation about the transformation of Cyprus over the centuries of Ottoman imperial rule. Our guest Antonis Hadjicyriakou has studied the history of Cyprus from the earliest years of Ottoman rule during the late 16th century into the 19th century. In the interview, we explore agricultural production and political economy in Cyprus through geo-spatial analysis of early Ottoman documentation and consider how the local politics and economy of Cyprus were situated in a changing Mediterranean.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/ottoman-empire-cyprus.html
Antonis Hadjikyriacou is Marie Curie Intra-European fellow at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas. He earned his Ph.D. in History from SOAS, University of London, and he has previously worked and taught at Princeton University, SOAS, the University of Crete, and the University of Cyprus. Ηe is currently completing his monograph entitled "Insularity and Empire: Ottoman Cyprus in the Early Modern Mediterranean."
Michael Talbot received his PhD from SOAS in 2013 for a thesis on Ottoman-British relations in the eighteenth century, and now lectures and researches on a range of topics in Ottoman history at the University of Greenwich in London.
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Episode No. 284 Release Date: 29 November 2016 Recording Location: Rethymno, Greece Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Monsieur Doumani for allowing us to use "The System/Το σύστημαν" Images and bibliography courtesy of Antonis Hadjikyriacou
To learn more about the Mediterranean Insularities project, visit http://medins.ims.forth.gr/
E283 | The epithet "abid," Arabic for "slave," still follows those with dark skin as they move around today's Cairo. The word and its negative connotations, however, have a long history. In this episode, Professor Eve Troutt Powell explores this history by tracing the many lives of slaves and slavery in late Ottoman Egypt. She draws on the narratives of Ottoman Egyptian elites, Sudanese slave traders, and slaves themselves to show how the practice of owning people with dark skin shaped a regional Ottoman-Egyptian-Sudanese economy, gendered patterns of elite household life, and prominent forms of textual and visual culture. She reads representations of slavery and slaves' lives in the late nineteenth century to show how practices of Egyptian and Sudanese slave trading and owning, developed far from the decks of Atlantic slavers, nevertheless produced their own forms of racist thinking that have persisted into the present in Egypt as elsewhere.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/eve-troutt-powell.html
Eve M. Troutt Powell is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain and the Mastery of the Sudan (University of California, 2003) and Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement in Egypt, Sudan and the Late Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2012). She was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2003.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
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Episode No. 283 Release Date: 25 November 2016 Recording Location: University of Pennsylvania Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; from freemusicarchive.org - Bumble Bee Bossa by Podington Bear Special thanks to Muhtelif for allowing us to use "Bint El Shalabiya" and to Kara Güneş for the composition "Istanbul" Bibliography available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/eve-troutt-powell.html
E282 | Classical encyclopedias and compendia such as Pliny’s Natural History have long been known to Western audiences, but the considerably more recent works of medieval Islamic scholars have been comparatively ignored. In this episode, we talk to Elias Muhanna about his new translation of a fourteenth-century Arabic compendium by Egyptian scholar Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, which covers everything from astrological and natural phenomena to religion, politics, food, animals, sex, and of course history. Al-Nuwayri’s compendium, entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (Nihayat al-arab fi funun al-adab), is rare glimpse into not only the worldview of a 14th century scholar but also the centuries of texts and learning available to the literati of the Mamluk Empire and the medieval Islamicate world.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/medieval-islamic-encyclopedia.html
Elias Muhanna is the Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is a scholar of classical Arabic literature and Islamic intellectual history.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate in History at Brown University working on political economy and governance in Egypt and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Zoe is a co-curator of the OHP series on legal history in the Ottoman Empire and Islamic world.
Nora Lessersohn is a Ph.D. student in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Her work focuses on Ottoman Armenians in Anatolia, Istanbul, and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Episode No. 282 Release Date: 16 November 2016 Recording Location: Brown University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Additional music recordings of Charbel Rouhana (oud) and Samir Siblini (nay), July 2003, courtesy of Elias Muhanna Bibliography courtesy of Elias Muhanna available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/medieval-islamic-encyclopedia.html
with Dana Sajdi
hosted by Chris Gratien and Shireen HamzaDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud
In the conventional telling of the intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamicate world, there has been very little room for people outside the ranks of the learned scholars or ulema associated with the religious, intellectual, and political elite of Muslim communities. But in this episode, we explore the writings of Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, an 18th-century Damascene barber, as well as a host of writers that our guest Dana Sajdi has described as representatives of "nouveau literacy" in the Ottoman Levant. We discuss how non-elite writers left records of the people and events they encountered during a period of socioeconomic transformation in Greater Syria, and we listen to readings from the text of Ibn Budayr--the barber of Damascus--that bring to life the literary style of the unusual and extraordinary authors who wrote from the margins of the learned establishment in early modern Ottoman society.
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E280 | What happens when we encounter "Orientalist" aesthetics outside the West? In the late nineteenth century, a cosmopolitan group of Ottoman architects turned to modern forms of art history writing to argue that synthesis and change stood at the heart of a particularly "Ottoman" architectural aesthetic. Working together, these writers produced the first text of modern art history writing in the Ottoman empire, the Usul-ı Mi’marî-yi Osmanî or The Fundamentals of Ottoman Architecture. This volume was published simultaneously in Ottoman Turkish, French and German for the Universal Exposition or World's Fair in Vienna in 1873. In this episode, Ahmet Ersoy explores the making of this text, its arguments, and its implications for understanding the relationship of the late-Tanzimat Ottoman Empire with Europe, its own cosmopolitan "hyphenated-Ottoman" intellectuals, and historical imagination.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/architecture-historical-imagination.html
Ahmet Ersoy is Associate Professor at the History Department at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. His work deals with the history of the Late Ottoman Empire with a special focus on the changing role and status of visual culture during a period of westernizing change. He is the author of the book, Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary: Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire, and he is currently pursuing research on the confluence of photography, new media technologies and print culture in the late Ottoman world.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
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Episode No. 280 Release Date: 8 November 2016 Recording Location: ANAMED, Istanbul Audio editing by Onur Engin Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Müzeyyen Senar - Gözlerin Bir İçim Su Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Ahmet Ersoy available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/architecture-historical-imagination.html
E279 | Between December 1991 and February 2002, Algeria experienced a protracted civil war, which earned the period the designation of the "dark decade." In this episode, we explore how Algerians experienced and coped with the violence and trepidation of the civil war through the lens of humor. Our guest Elizabeth Perego has studied to role of humor, jokes, and caricatures in the politics of Algeria since the struggle against French colonialism in the 1950s. In our conversation, we focus on the dark humor of the dark decade, retelling some of the most widespread jokes of the period in a discussion of how humor provided a source of relief and platform for commentary on the unsettling realities of the war.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/humor-war-algeria.html
Elizabeth Perego is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the Ohio State University. She is completing a dissertation entitled "Laughing in the Face of Death" which analyzes the evolution of political humor in post-independence Algeria. Her broader research focuses on the intersection of culture, media, and conflict in the modern Maghrib. She has previously published scholarship in the Journal of North African Studies and Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World.
Graham H. Cornwell is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Georgetown University. His work examines the history of tea and sugar consumption in Northwest Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is also the editor of tajine, a podcast and blog about North African Studies.
Soha El Achi is completing a Ph.D. in the Department of History at Georgetown University. Her dissertation examines the history of French colonialism, slavery, and abolition in North Africa.
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Episode No. 279 Release Date: 5 November 2016 Recording Location: Georgetown University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; from Excavated Shellac - Hocine Slaoui – Yal Cahla Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music Image courtesy of Sofiane Zouggar Images and bibliography available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/humor-war-algeria.html
E278 | The French military struggle to maintain control over Algeria throughout the war period (1954-1962) is remembered for its violent and destructive impacts. But during the war, the French administration also sought to maintain control over Algeria by attempting to build the rural economy and deepening the structures of colonial rule in the countryside. In this episode, we talk to Muriam Haleh Davis about the Constantine Plan, a project of social and economic development carried out within the context of the Algerian War and the rise of Cold War developmentalism. In our conversion, we explore the understandings of race embedded in French development in Algeria and situate the context of the Algerian War within the broader history of decolonization, the rise of the social sciences, and the making of the European Community.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/development-race-algeria.html
Muriam Haleh Davis is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently working on a manuscript that studies how the postwar reinvention of a market economy influenced prevailing ideas of race and national identity in Algeria.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Aurelie Perrier holds a Ph.D. in Middle East and North African history from Georgetown University and is a member of the Centre de Recherches Historiques in Paris. Her research interests include the social history of the Middle East, the colonial Maghreb and gender and masculinity in the 19th-century Mediterranean.
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Episode No. 278 Release Date: 3 November 2016 Recording Location: Paris, France Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from Excavated Shellac- Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; from archive.org - Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; from freemusicarchive.org - Bumble Bee Bossa by Podington Bear Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Muriam Haleh Davis available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/development-race-algeria.html
E277 | The Algerian War is perhaps the most recognizable national and anti-colonial movement of the 20th century. From the iconic film “The Battle of Algiers” to Frantz Fanon's influential book The Wretched of the Earth, the violence of the Algerian fight for independence and the French reaction has marked depictions of not only the war but representations of Algerian history on the whole. In this podcast, however, we explore another battlefield of contention during the Algerian War: medicine and humanitarian relief. As our guest Jennifer Johnson demonstrates in her new monograph The Battle for Algeria (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), both the French government and the Algerian National Liberation Front used medicine and public health as a tactic, and the presence of humanitarian organizations in Algeria as well rendered the war not just a national struggle but in fact an international affair.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/humanitarianism-algerian-war.html
Jennifer Johnson is an Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. She received her PhD from Princeton University. Her main research interests are 20th century Africa, specifically the Maghrib, nationalism, decolonization, and public health. She is the author of The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project which examines the relationship between public health and state-building in postcolonial North Africa.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate in History at Brown University working on political economy and governance in Egypt and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Zoe is a co-curator of the OHP series on legal history in the Ottoman Empire and Islamic world.
Nora Lessersohn is a Ph.D. student in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Her work focuses on Ottoman Armenians in Anatolia, Istanbul, and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Episode No. 277 Release Date: 31 October 2016 Recording Location: Brown University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; from Excavated Shellac- Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and outro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Jennifer Johnson available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/humanitarianism-algerian-war.html
with Gábor Ágoston
hosted by Graham Auman Pitts and Faisal HusainDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud
Whereas military histories once focused narrowly on armies, battles, and technologies, the new approach to military history emphasizes how armies and navies were linked to issues such as political economy, gender, and environment. In this episode, we sit down with Gábor Ágoston to discuss the principal issues concerning the relationship between the Ottoman-Habsburg military frontier in Hungary and the environmental history of the early modern period. From the battle of Mohacs in 1526, through the dramatic battle of Vienna 1683, and until the Treaty of Sistova 1791, the Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the site of fighting, fortification, and mobilization. In our conversation, we consider the environmental dimensions of these centuries of conflict and contact, focusing on how the military revolution transformed the way in which armies used and managed resources and the role of both anthropogenic and climatic factors in reshaping the Hungarian landscape.
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E275 | The turn of the nineteenth century was a period of tumult and transformation in the Ottoman Empire, as in many places around the world from France to Haiti, China, and the United States. With people, ideas, and armies on the move as never before, new geopolitical pressures pushed states around the globe to reinvent their relationships to their subjects and citizens. In this episode, we talk with Ali Yaycioglu about his new book Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions. We explore the Ottoman experience during the Age of Revolutions, which saw the rise of new participatory mechanisms that brought Ottoman subjects from many walks of life into the arena of imperial politics. We discuss the empowerment of local committees and the election of ayans in the countryside, and consider the Janissaries as the voice of the popular will in Ottoman cities. Ultimately, we ask why new forms of participatory politics and limits on central authority failed to take root, even as they laid the foundation for later experiments in constitutional government during the Tanzimat era and beyond.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/ottoman-empire-revolutions.html
Ali Yaycioglu is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His main focus is on the transformation of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries, forms of acquiring and losing wealth and power, and spatiality and spatial imaginations in the Ottoman world.
Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate in History at Brown University working on political economy and governance in Egypt and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Zoe is a co-curator of the OHP series on legal history in the Ottoman Empire and Islamic world.
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Episode No. 275 Release Date: 24 October 2016 Recording Location: ANAMED, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music and to Monsieur Doumani for "The System/Το σύστημαν" Images and bibliography courtesy of Ali Yaycioglu available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/ottoman-empire-revolutions.html
E274 | How does the structure of bureaucracies and state administrations influence the capacity for political and social change, and what are the legacies of empire for contemporary societies? In this episode, we take a comparative look at these questions by focusing on former regions of the British Empire that have been subject to different forms of political partition. Our guest Yael Berda is a sociologist who has examined the histories of British colonialism in Cyprus, Palestine, India, and beyond, and in our conversation, we focus in on the subject of population management and censuses in the Protectorate of Cyprus and Mandate Palestine. We discuss how the British administration inherited, adopted, and modified systems of governance and categorization of people from their Ottoman forebears, and we consider how ethnic, religious, and racial categories employed by the British Empire influenced eventual questions of citizenship and political partition.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/population-cyprus-mandate-palestine.html
Yael Berda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (and a recovering constitutional lawyer ) She teaches and writes about bureaucracy, security and emergency practices and what these do to possibilities for democracy.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically on the history of women's health.
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Episode No. 274 Release Date: 22 October 2016 Recording Location: Harvard University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: from archive.org - Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; from freemusicarchive.com - Bumble Bee Bossa by Podington Bear Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Yael Berda available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/population-cyprus-mandate-palestine.html
E273 | The Palestinian Arabs who remained within the borders of Israel after the 1948 war became citizens of the new state. But in those early years Arab villages lived under military rule that would last nearly two decades. In this episode, Shira Robinson discusses the research for her book Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State, which examines the crucial and neglected experience of Palestinians in the early years after the founding of the state of Israel. In our conversation, we explore how the ideal of liberal democracy and the promise of equal citizenship were at odds with the project of the nation-state.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/citizenship-israel.html
Shira Robinson is the author of Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State. She teaches History and International Affairs at the George Washington University.
Graham Auman Pitts holds a doctorate in history from Georgetown University's Department of History. His dissertation, "Fallow Fields: Famine and the Making of Lebanon," probes the intersections of ecology, capital, and colonialism in the modern Middle East. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University.
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Episode No. 273 Release Date: 20 October 2016 Recording Location: Baltimore, MD Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Turnalar Turnalar - Darulelhan Heyeti Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Shira Robinson available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/citizenship-israel.html
E272 | The 1925 Palestine Citizenship Order-in-Council, passed by the British government and implemented in the Palestine Mandate, was the first piece of mandate legislation to officially recognize Palestine's Arab community as citizens of Palestine rather than 'ex-enemy Ottoman subjects.' This marked a change in the legal position of Palestine's Arab residents, and a confirmation of the de facto status of Palestine's Jewish residents. But as our guest Lauren Banko explains in this episode, the reality on the ground for the Arab inhabitants of Palestine and emigrants settled outside of the former Ottoman realms did not reflect the British mandatory understanding of citizenship. In line with a communitarian understanding of nationality and civic belonging, the Palestinian Arabs reacted to the order-in-council and its subsequent amendments through actions, behaviours, and discourses which emphasized their understanding of Ottoman-era jus sanguinis and jus soli provisions of nationality and citizenship. This contrasted sharply with the order's provisions for Jewish citizenship and immigrant naturalization policy, and its denial of Palestinian citizenship to Arabs who emigrated temporarily or habitually abroad. In the mandate decades, nationality and citizenship became less like abstract or ideological concepts for Palestine's Arab community both inside and outside of Palestine as these legal statuses were integrated into most aspects of social, civic, and political life as markers of a new (and often contested) identity in a changing quasi-colonial, political, national, and social landscape. For Palestine's indigenous population, the Ottoman markers of citizenship and identity remained essential components of the opposition to, and negotiation with, the apolitical status imposed by Great Britain in the territory during the interwar period.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/citizenship-in-mandate-palestine.html
Lauren Banko is a postdoctoral research fellow in Israel/Palestine Studies in the department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester. She completed her PhD in 2014 in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. Her research focuses on nationality, citizenship, popular politics, borders, and emigration as related to Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean between the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.
Michael Talbot received his PhD from SOAS in 2013 for a thesis on Ottoman-British relations in the eighteenth century, and now lectures and researches on a range of topics in Ottoman history at the University of Greenwich in London.
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Episode No. 272 Release Date: 16 October 2016 Recording Location: University of Greenwich, London Audio editing by Onur Engin Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Bibliography courtesy of Lauren Banko available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/citizenship-in-mandate-palestine.html
E271 | L’histoire de l’Algérie coloniale est souvent abordée du point de vue des bouleversements économiques et politiques engendrés par l’occupation française. Mais cette dernière entraîna un remaniement dans la sphère de l’intime qui fut tout aussi significatif, bien que peu étudié. Dans cet épisode, Aurélie Perrier se penche sur la question de l’évolution des formes de sexualités illicites en Algérie, particulièrement de la prostitution. Organisée et mise en place par les autorités françaises dès l’arrivée des premières troupes en 1830, la régulation de la prostitution apparait rapidement comme un enjeu médical et social majeur pour les français : il s’agit à la fois d’enrayer le péril vénérien qui sévit au XIXe siècle et d’assurer la pureté de la race « blanche » en limitant les contacts sexuels entre les deux communautés (européenne et autochtone) au cadre prostitutionnel.
Si les courtisanes existaient bien à l’époque ottomane, leur statut était très différent. Nombre d’entre elles étaient musiciennes ou poètes, ce qui leur permettait de contribuer à la vie sociale et culturelle de leur société. Après 1830, la courtisane devient simple prostituée. Par ailleurs, les autorités françaises mettent en place de nouveaux espaces et modalités de contrôle des « filles soumises ». Le bordel et le quartier réservé, jusque là inconnus en Algérie, apparaissent dans une majorité de villes Algériennes tandis que médecins et police des mœurs élaborent des règles rigoureuses visant à de discipliner ces filles dont la sexualité et le mode de vie sont considérés comme dangereux.
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Aurelie PERRIER est docteur en histoire contemporaine du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord et membre du centre de Recherches Historiques à Paris. Ses centres d'intérêts principaux sont l'histoire sociale du Moyen-Orient, le Maghreb colonial, et le genre et la masculinité dans la Méditerranée du XIXe siècle.
Dorothée Myriam KELLOU est une journaliste et réalisatrice basée à Paris. Elle est diplômée du master d'études arabes de l'Université de Georgetown à Washington D.C. et développe actuellement un projet de film sur les regroupements de populations pendant la guerre d'Algérie, prenant pour point de départ la mémoire/l'oubli de son père.
Tout MO (Tout Moyen-Orient) est une série de podcasts en français produite en coopération avec Ottoman History Podcast. L'émission vise à offrir un regard sensible et complexe sur l'histoire et l'actualité du Moyen-Orient, à contre-courant de toutes ces idées reçues qui circulent sur la région. Dans nos différents épisodes, nous irons à la rencontre de chercheurs, universitaires, journalistes, cinéastes ou encore de photographes qui partageront avec nous leur compréhension d’une région qu’ils étudient, vivent et aiment. Pour tous les férus (présents et futurs) du Moyen-Orient !
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Episode N. 271 (Tout MO N. 1) Date de rela: 12 Octobre 2016 Lieu de l’enregistrement: Paris, France Montage et production par Chris Gratien Extraits sonores: en Excavated Shellac - Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; Munira al-Mahdiyya – Aldahre Kataâ Awsali; en archive.org Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Images et bibliographie fournies par Aurélie Perrier: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/la-prostitution.html
E270 | Genomic research is resolving old questions about the history of plague, revealing, for example, that the Black Death was caused by the same species of plague that exists today and demonstrating the complex ways in which plague moved throughout the medieval and early modern world. Yet even as scientific methods today shed light on the history of plague, past understandings and depictions of disease remain both highly relevant and ignored. In this episode, we chat with Lori Jones about early modern European views of plague and explore the relationship between disease, landscape, and geography within the European imagination. We talk about the origins of environmental understandings of disease and how plague became increasingly associated with eastern and southern locales such as the Ottoman Empire and Southern Europe. We also have a separate conversation (beginning at 32:30) about the misuse of medieval images concerning disease and medicine in the 21st century as digital media facilitate both the spread and disembodiment of historical images.
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Lori Jones is a PhD Candidate in the University of Ottawa's Department of History. Her research focuses on how written portrayals of the geographical and historical origins of the plague evolved across the late medieval to early modern periods.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.
Andreas Guidi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the EHESS in Paris researching on networks, generations, and capital transmission in late and post-Ottoman Rhodes. He is also the creator of the Southeast Passage podcast.
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Episode No. 270 Release Date: 19 September 2016 Recording Location: Paris, France Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and outro music SoundCloud image: The burial of plague victims in Tournai (Detail of a miniature from “The Chronicles of Gilles Li Muisis” (1272-1352), abbot of the monastery of St. Martin of the Righteous. Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 13076-77, f. 24v) Images and bibliography courtesy of Lori Jones available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/09/disease-landscape-europe.html
E269 | In many countries of the Middle East and North Africa, European colonial rule lasted only for a matter of decades, and yet its influence in the realms of politics and economy have been profound. In this episode, we talk to Jonathan Wyrtzen about the legacy of colonialism in Morocco for the politics of identity, which is the subject of his new book entitled Making Morocco. As Dr. Wyrzten explains, colonial rule shaped understandings of issues such as territoriality, religion, ethnicity, and gender that remain relevant to this day.
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Jonathan Wyrtzen is an Associate Professor of Sociology, History, and International Affairs at Yale University. His research focuses on empire and colonialism, state formation and non-state forms of political organization, and ethnicity and nationalism in North Africa and the Middle East. His book Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity was published by Cornell University Press in 2015. His current book project comparatively analyzes five sites of conflict from Morocco to Iraq to examine how new political topographies were forged in the Middle East and North Africa during the interwar period.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 269 Release Date: 15 September 2016 Recording Location: Yale University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: From archive.org - Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; From Excavated Shellac - Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; Louisa Tounsia – Ya Bent El Nass Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Bibliography courtesy of Jonathan Wyrtzen available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/09/morocco.html
E268 | While the millet system has been used as a means of studying the special case of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire, many have pointed to the limitations of this framework in which religious communities appears as segmented units separate by firm boundaries. In this interview with Nathalie Clayer, we discuss new ways of thinking about religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire through the case of the late Ottoman Balkans by interrogating notions such as conversion, orthodoxy, and ethnic identity.
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Nathalie Clayer is a professor at the EHESS and a senior research fellow at the CNRS (Paris). Her main research interests are religion, nationalism and state-building process in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman space. Her publications include Aux origines du nationalisme albanais. La naissance d’une nation majoritairement musulmane en Europe (Karthala, 2007), Conflicting Loyalties in the Balkans (Tauris, 2011) co-edited with Hannes Grandits and Robert Pichler, and Penser, agir et vivre dans l’Empire ottoman et en Turquie (Peeters, 2013), co-edited with Erdal Kaynar.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.
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Episode No. 268 Release Date: 9 September 2016 Recording Location: EHESS, Paris Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music and to Muhtelif for the use of "Ta Paidia & Lamma Bada"
E267 | During the 1920s, a publisher in Lahore published a satire on the domestic life of the Prophet Muhammad during a period of religious polemics and communal tension between Muslims and Hindus under British rule. The inflammatory text soon became a legal matter, first when the publisher was brought to trial and acquitted for "attempts to promote feelings of enmity or hatred between different classes" and again when he was murdered a few years later in retaliation for the publication. In this episode, Julie Stephens explores how this case highlights debates over the meaning of religious and political liberties, secularism, and legal transformation during British colonial rule in South Asia. In doing so, she challenges the binary juxtaposition between secular reason and religious sentiment, instead pointing to their mutual entanglement in histories of law and empire.
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Julie Stephens is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on how law has shaped religion, family, and economy in colonial and post-colonial South Asia and in the wider Indian diaspora. Her new book Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Tyler Conklin is a Ph.D. student in the Yale University History Department. His dissertation research focuses on identity formation and early modern hajj narratives in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires.
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Episode No. 267 Release Date: 7 September 2016 Recording Location: Yale University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Julie Stephens available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/09/stephens.html
E266 | The changing of one's religion may be viewed today as a matter of personal spirituality or identity, but as the historiography of the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere increasingly shows, conversion was often a public act with political, socioeconomic, and gendered components. In this episode, Elyse Semerdjian returns to the podcast to discuss her research on conversion in early modern Aleppo and how women sometimes utilized the act of conversion (or non-conversion) and the legal structures of the Ottoman Empire to gain the upper hand in familial and economic matters.
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Elyse Semerdjian is the Director of Global Studies and Associate Professor of Middle East/Islamic World History at Whitman College. A specialist in early modern Ottoman history and Syria, she authored “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (Syracuse University Press, 2008) as well as several articles on gender, non-Muslims, and law in the Ottoman Empire.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
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Episode No. 266 Release Date: 4 September 2016 Recording Location: Bebek, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Rizeli Sadik - Erkek Kadin Oyun Havasi; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Bibliography courtesy of Elyse Semerdjian available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/09/conversion-islam-aleppo.html
E265 | The Capitulations are regarded as one of the most obvious and humiliating signs of European dominance over Ottoman markets and diplomatic relations in the 19th century, granting European merchants and their Ottoman protégés extensive extraterritorial privileges within the empire. In this podcast, Professor Omar Cheta probes the limits of the Capitulations in the Ottoman province of Egypt, where the power of the local Khedives intersected and overlapped with the sovereignty of the sultan and the capitulatory authority of the British consulate. Commercial disputes involving European merchants and their protected agents on Ottoman-Egyptian soil reveal the ambiguous and negotiable nature of jurisdiction and legal identities in the mid-19th century. These ambiguous boundaries provided spaces for merchants and officials to contest the terms of extraterritorial privileges. The creation of new legal forums such as the mixed Merchants' Courts gave rise to new norms and procedures, while reliance on Shari'a traditions continued to appear in unexpected places.
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Omar Cheta is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Historical Studies at Bard College. His current book project focuses on the intertwined histories of law and commerce in nineteenth-century Egypt.
Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate in History at Brown University working on political economy and governance in Egypt and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Zoe is a co-curator of the OHP series on legal history in the Ottoman Empire and Islamic world.
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Episode No. 265 Release Date: 1 September 2016 Recording Location: ANAMED Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music Bibliography courtesy of Omar Cheta available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/capitulations-egypt.html
E264 | The period from the 1870s to 1914 was the peak of the nineteenth-century globalisation characterised by increased movement of capital across the world. In this podcast, Coşkun discusses his recent book on ‘Sovereign Debt and the International Financial Control: the Middle East and the Balkans, 1870-1914’, the role of banks as intermediaries between the Ottoman government and international financial markets, the Ottoman Public Debt Administration and the cases of sovereign debt in Egypt, Serbia and Greece.
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Coşkun Tuncer is Lecturer in Modern Economic History at University College London, Department of History. Previously he taught and worked as a researcher at the London School of Economics and the European University Institute. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2011 after completing his BA, MSc and MPhil degrees in Turkey and Greece. His research focuses on the economic and financial history of the Middle East and Southeast Europe, and long-term history of international financial markets. His recent book is entitled Sovereign Debt and the International Financial Control: the Middle East and the Balkans, 1870-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Taylan Güngör is a doctoral candidate at SOAS in London. His interests are in Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean trading circles and his research is on trade in Istanbul after 1453.
Michael Talbot received his PhD from SOAS in 2013 for a thesis on Ottoman-British relations in the eighteenth century, and now lectures and researches on a range of topics in Ottoman history at the University of Greenwich in London.
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Episode No. 264 Release Date: 29 August 2016 Recording Location: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Audio Editing by Taylan Güngör Recorded at SOAS Radio studios. SOAS Radio is an outlet for creative media and talent housed by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Run by alumni, current students and staff at the School, including volunteers from like-minded communities, SOAS Radio is dedicated to varied and original programming on world music, culture and current affairs. Musical Excerpt: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer Bibliography courtesy of Coşkun Tuncer available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/debt.html
E263 | Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde, Nurçin İleri ile geç dönem Osmanlı İstanbul’unda gece, korku ve suç ilişkisi üzerine konuştuk. Farklı toplumsal tabakalardan insanların, demografik ve fiziksel anlamda hızla dönüşen kent mekanınını sokakların aydınlatılması çalışmaları, geceleri mobilite, kamusal eğlence ve aktivitelerin kontrolü ekseninde nasıl deneyimledikleri ve ne hissettiklerini tartıştık. Aynı zamanda geceleri kent mekanlarının iktidar ilişkilerini nasıl yeniden ürettiğini ve bunların temsiliyet biçimlerini ele aldık.
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Doktorasını 2015 yılında Binghamton Üniversitesi, Tarih Bölümü'nde tamamlayan Nurçin İleri, Boğaziçi Arşiv ve Dokümantasyon Merkezi’nde koordinatör yardımcısı. Çalışmalarında, XIX. Yüzyıl Osmanlı ve Erken Cumhuriyet dönemi liman kentlerinde yaşanan toplumsal ve kültürel dönüşümleri, sosyal tarih, teknoloji tarihi, duyuların tarihi ve toplumsal cinsiyet tartışmaları ekseninde ele almaktadır.
Ufuk Adak University of Cincinnati'den Tarih doktorası aldı. Doktora tezi, son dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda doğu Akdeniz liman kentlerindeki sosyal ve politik dönüşümü suç, ceza, sosyal kontrol ve hapishaneler üzerinden ele almaktadır. Adak, Berlin'de Zentrum Moderner Orient'te (ZMO) doktora sonrası araştırmalarda bulunmuştur.
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Bölüm No. 263 Yayın Tarihi: 26 Ağustos 2016 Kayit Yeri: ANAMED Ses Editörü: Chris Gratien Müzik: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Muhtelif - Ta Paidia, Bint El Shalabiya Görseller ve kaynakça: Nurçin İleri'nin müsadesiyle - http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/gece.html
with Gwendolyn Collaço
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The illustrated account of the festivals surrounding the circumcision of Sultan Ahmed III's sons in 1720 is one of the most iconic and celebrated depictions of urban life in Ottoman Istanbul. With its detailed text written by Vehbi, accompanied by the vibrant miniature paintings of Levni, this work has been used as a source for understanding the cast of professions and personalities that occupied the public space of the Ottoman capital. In this episode, we focus not on the colorful characters of Levni's paintings but rather the backdrop for the celebrations: the Golden Horn and the waterfront of 18th-century Istanbul. As our guest Gwendolyn Collaço explains, the accounts of festivals in early modern Istanbul reflect the transformation of the city and an orientation towards the waterfront not only in the Ottoman Empire but also neighboring states of the Mediterranean.
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Emerging as a literary genre towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman novel has been overshadowed by the transformation of the Turkish language and alphabet after 1928. In this episode, we speak with Melih Levi about his recent English translation with Monica Ringer of one the first examples of the Ottoman novel, Ahmed Midhat Efendi's Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi (Syracuse University Press, 2016). Far from a derivative imitation of European literary themes and forms, Ahmed Midhat's novel revolves both seriously and playfully around the concepts of ala franga and ala turca, cajoling and instructing its readers on how live as authentically "modern" Ottomans in a rapidly modernizing empire. Published in 1875, the novel opens windows onto the Ottoman family, slavery, masculinity, and social orders, as well as literal and psychological relations with Europe in nineteenth-century Istanbul. « Click for More »
E260 | Ottoman-German relations have usually been studied in the context of great-power politics, imperialism both hard and soft, or the military and economic spheres. In this podcast Philipp Wirtz presents some initial findings of a larger research project focusing on personal networks and experiences of Germans residing in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic and two German expatriates in particular: the journalist Friedrich Schrader and the academic Martin Hartmann. As theatre-goers, buyers of books and writers of literary reviews, both took an active part in the cultural life of the Ottoman capital in the years following the Young Turk Revolution. Using their local knowledge and fluency in Ottoman Turkish, both were able to gain unique insights at odds with the popular portrayal of Ottoman affairs in the western media. On the other hand, neither of these authors was immune to the biases of their times, constantly questioning the extent to which Ottoman literary expression, and in particular the emerging “Turkish national literature” were “original” or “civilised.
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Philipp Wirtz studied the history, languages and cultures of Europe and the Middle East in Frankfurt am Main, Bamberg and London, with research trips taking him to Iran and Turkey in between. He received his PhD from SOAS, University of London, in 2013 for a dissertation that analysed the ways in which the 'lost world' of the Ottoman Empire was presented in Turkish autobiographies of the 20th century. He currently is a Teaching Fellow in Middle East History at the Department of History, University of Warwick, and Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS
Taylan Güngör is a doctoral candidate at SOAS in London. His interests are in Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean trading circles and his research is on trade in Istanbul after 1453.
Michael Talbot received his PhD from SOAS in 2013 for a thesis on Ottoman-British relations in the eighteenth century, and now lectures and researches on a range of topics in Ottoman history at the University of Greenwich in London.
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Episode No. 260 Release Date: 22 August 2016 Recording Location: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Audio Editing by Taylan Güngör Recorded at SOAS Radio studios. SOAS Radio is an outlet for creative media and talent housed by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Run by alumni, current students and staff at the School, including volunteers from like-minded communities, SOAS Radio is dedicated to varied and original programming on world music, culture and current affairs. Sound excerpt: Ben Yemenimi Al Isterim - Hafiz Burhan Bibliography courtesy of Philipp Wirtz available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/germans-ottoman-istanbul.html
E259 | In this episode, we talk with Marc Aymes about his approach to Ottoman provincial history through the history of 19th century Cyprus. What is the difference between an Ottoman "provincial history" and "a history of the Ottoman provinces?" Can a "provincial" approach to Ottoman history change the way we understand major questions in Ottoman historiography, including the impact of 19th century reforms (Tanzimat), the role of Europe and Europeans in Ottoman society, and the relationship between Istanbul and other parts of the Sultan's well-protected domains? How might research on Ottoman Cyprus enable us to rethink not only established hypotheses about Ottoman governance, social life, and political transformation in the 19th century, but also our very modes of doing and understanding history itself?
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Marc Aymes is a Permanent Research Fellow at CNRS (France) affiliated with the Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques. Over the past few years, he conducted research and teaching in Cyprus, Greece, France, Germany, Turkey and the US, with a focus on Mediterranean provincials and forging Ottomans. Recent publications include A Provincial History of the Ottoman Empire: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century and Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (co-edited with Benjamin Gourisse and Élise Massicard).
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
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Episode No. 259 Release Date: 18 August 2016 Recording Location: Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music Bibliography courtesy of Marc Aymes available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/cyprus.html
E258 | The body of water now known as the Red Sea lay well within the bounds of the Ottoman Empire's well-protected domains for nearly four centuries. It wasn't until the 19th century, however, that this body of water began to be called or conceived of as "the Red Sea" by either Ottomans or Europeans. In this episode, Professor Alexis Wick argues that we have much to learn about how history (and Ottoman history in particular) "makes its object" by studying not only the emergence of the concept of the Red Sea, Ottoman or otherwise, but also the surprising absence of such a history in previous scholarship. His new book The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space (University of California Press, 2016) is both a conceptual history of the Red Sea as seen through both Ottoman and European eyes, and a reflection on the methodologies, tropes, and preoccupations of Ottoman history writ large.
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Alexis Wick is is Assistant Professor of history at the American University of Beirut. His first book, The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016), presents an innovative account of the Ottoman Red Sea world even as it traces the genealogy of the concept of the sea. His current research explores the history of coffee, the poetics and practices of space in the Islamic tradition, and the introduction of a new concept of humanity in 19th century Ottoman and Arabic discourse. He is also writing a collection of essays on the various embodiments of the idea of Palestine in different times and places.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
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Episode No. 258 Release Date: 16 August 2016 Recording Location: American University, Beirut Audio Editing by Onur Engin Sound excerpts: Müzeyyen Senar - Gülsen-i Hüsnüne Kimler Varıyor Images and bibliography courtesy of Alexis Wick available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/red-sea.html
E257 | The Ottoman slave trade, which was part of an increasingly globalized trafficking network of the early modern period, brought millions of people from the surrounding regions of Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Ottoman Empire. While abolition and emancipation movements occurred in various forms throughout the last century of the empire's history, slavery remained in practice until its very end. In recent decades, the ignored history of the Ottoman slave trade has received more attention, but there has been considerably less discussion of how enslaved people brought to the empire contributed to its socioeconomic and cultural transformation and where the descendants of such people can be found today. In this episode, we talk to Michael Ferguson about his research on the African diaspora in modern Turkey, especially around the city of Izmir. We discuss the origins of Izmir's Afro-Turk community, their historical experience during the late Ottoman and early Republican periods, and the ways in which the Afro-Turk identity has been transformed and revived in recent years. We also delve into shared aspects of history and culture between diasporic African communities in other parts of the Middle East.
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Michael Ferguson is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK. Michael’s research focuses on questions of identity, marginalization, and minorities in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey. His current book project examines the relatively unknown social and cultural history of enslaved and emancipated Africans and their descendants in Izmir in the late Ottoman Empire.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Saghar Sadeghian is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Willamette University. She is a former Henry Hart Rice Family Foundation Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University's MacMillan Center. Her research focuses on the ideas of nationality, constitution, and modern institutions in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is specifically interested in minority groups in the Middle East and the question of gender, race, religion and ethnicity.
CREDITS
Episode No. 257 Release Date: 10 August 2016 Recording Location: Yale University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Esmeray - 13.5 (digitized vinyl) Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Bibliography courtesy of Michael Ferguson available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/african-diaspora-izmir.html
E256 | After facing the destruction of their community during the First World War, former Ottoman Armenians set about rebuilding in Turkey first during a period of relative optimism under the Allied occupation of Istanbul and later as non-Muslim citizens of new Turkish nation-state. In her new work entitled Recovering Armenia, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu explores the changes and continuities in the identity of Istanbul's Armenian community during this transformative period. In this interview, we explore Armenian collective politics, feminist movements, and expressions of loyalty through the Armenian press and through the writings of women in particular, and we examine the issue of Armenian belonging in Turkey through the lens of "secular dimmitude" among non-Muslim citizens of a predominantly Muslim but secular republic.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/armenians-early-republican-turkey.html
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu is McMillan-Stewart Associated Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on Armenian and Ottoman/Turkish history, including women’s history.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.
Eda Çakmakçı is a PhD student in the Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies Program at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the politics of nature in Turkey.
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Episode No. 256 Release Date: 6 August 2016 Recording Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Urakh Ler - Mari Pozapalian; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Murat Kenarinda - Agyazar Efendi Images and bibliography courtesy of Lerna Ekmekçioğlu available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/armenians-early-republican-turkey.html
E255 | Interest in Ottoman photography has tended to focus on the orientalist gaze or the view from the imperial center. In this episode, Armen T. Marsoobian offers us the unique lens of the Dildilian family of Armenian photographers in provincial Anatolia. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the Dildilians worked to memorialize portraits of fragmenting families and to document everyday scenes in provincial cities such as Sivas, Samsun, and Merzifon. Marsoobian, himself a descendant of the Dildilians, has woven together the family's remarkable photographic archive along with their memoirs and oral histories, to describe how through ingenuity and professional connections, the family and with them much of their art survived the genocide in 1915-16.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/armenian-photography-anatolia.html
Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and editor of the journal Metaphilosophy. In addition to his numerous publications in American philosophy, aesthetics, and genocide studies, he is the author of Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia (IB Taurus, 2015), and has organized numerous exhibitions of the Ottoman-era photography of the Dildilian family in Anatolia.
Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Brown University. Her work focuses on political economy and governance in Egypt and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Zoe is a co-curator of the Ottoman History Podcast series entitled "Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law."
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Episode No. 255 Release Date: 4 August 2016 Recording Location: Koç RCAC, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Sato Moughalian for the use of "Al Ayloughs (Komitas)" and "Keler Tsoler (Komitas)" Images courtesy of Armen Marsoobian available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/armenian-photography-anatolia.html
E254 | Since its foundation in 1928 by Boghos Nubar, son of Egyptian Prime Minister and Ottoman dignitary Nubar Pasha, the Nubarian library in Paris has served as a major resource for Armenian intellectual life and historical research in the diaspora. What is less well-known is how the library's rich holdings in Ottoman Turkish, Armeno-Turkish, French and English as well as in Armenian might be useful for historians of the larger Ottoman world. In this episode, we talk with library director Boris Ajemian about the extensive archival, photographic, and periodical collections available at the Nubarian library, new directions and possibilities for Armenian and Ottoman social and cultural history, and the library's own fascinating past.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/nubar.html
Dr. Boris Adjemian is the Director of the Nubarian Library and author of La fanfare du Négus: Les Arméniens en Éthiopie.
Matthew Ghazarian is a Ph.D. student in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of sectarianism, humanitarianism, and political economy in central and eastern Anatolia between 1856 and 1893.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
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Episode No. 254 Release Date: 2 August 2016 Recording Location: Nubarian Library, Paris Editing and production by Chris Gratien Special thanks to Sato Moughalian for use of "Chinar Es" and "Habrban" (Find on CD Baby | iTunes) Images and bibliography courtesy of Boris Adjemian available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/nubar.html
E253 | The styles of Iznik and Kütahya porcelain, which have become synonymous with excellence in Ottoman-Turkish ceramics, adorned and renovated buildings in a radius extending beyond the Anatolian heartland and including Damascus, Mecca, and Cairo. They bear a striking resemblance to the colorful and ornate tiles on many buildings in the city of Jerusalem today, including the Dome of the Rock. This is due to the fact that the iconic ceramics industry of Jerusalem was founded after the First World War by Armenian ceramists who had gotten their start in the resurgent tile industry of late Ottoman Kütahya. As we learn from our guest in this episode, Sato Moughalian, the transfer of this celebrated ceramics tradition from Kütahya to Jerusalem was largely through the figure of David Ohannessian (1884-1953), a master ceramist who came up in the local ceramic arts of the western Anatolian region and received commissions from the likes of Ottoman governors, revivalist architects, and European notables, including Sir Mark Sykes. He survived the travails of deportation to the Syrian desert during WWI only to recreate his art and business in Mandate Palestine. In the podcast, we trace the material history of Ottoman Armenians through the life and journeys of Ohannessian and reflect on the history of Armenian music through some pieces recorded by Moughalian and her colleagues.
Visuals and more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/armenian-ceramics.html
New York flutist Sato Moughalian has a multi-faceted career, performing as a chamber musician, solo and orchestral player, and has recorded widely. In 1993, she founded Perspectives Ensemble at Columbia University to culturally contextualize the works of composers and in 2013 was awarded the Catalan government's Ramon Llull Prize for Creative Arts for her work on Xavier Montsalvatge. Additionally, she has been researching the life of her grandfather, David Ohannessian (1884-1953), who founded the Armenian ceramics tradition in Jerusalem in 1919, and is writing his biography for publication by Redwood Press/Stanford University Press.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Seçil Yılmaz received her PhD degree in History from the Graduate Center, CUNY with her dissertation entitled “Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922.” She is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Society for the Humanities and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.
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Episode No. 253 Release Date: 31 July 2016 Recording Location: Manhattan, NY Editing and production by Chris Gratien Images and bibliography courtesy of Sato Moughalian Music courtesy of Sato Moughalian
TRACK LIST
from Oror / Lullaby by Sato Moughalian & Alyssa Reit Find it on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/oror-lullaby/id988550822
Tamzara Shushiki (Komitas) Gurung (Komitas) Keler Tsoler (Komitas) Miyan Kez (Suni) Arants Kez Inch Ganim (Sayat-Nova)
from Sato Moughalian, Jacqueline Kerrod, and John Hadfield
Kamancha (Sayat-Nova), arrangement by Alyssa Reit Makam, arrangement by John Hadfield
Images and bibliography available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/armenian-ceramics.html
E252 | Geneticists and historians are generally considered strange bedfellows. However, new advances in bio-archaeology and genetics are facilitating this odd coupling. In this episode, we speak to Nükhet Varlık, author of Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World : the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600 (Cambridge University Press), about how genetic evidence has transformed the study of the Plague in the past ten years, allowing geneticists to more readily identify the presence of Yersinia pestis bacteria in a human remains. Whereas before historians had been hesitant to diagnose diseases posthumously, they can now speak with greater certainty about the presence of plague. We then discuss the life of plague in the early modern Ottoman Empire in particular, focusing on the creation of ‘plague capitals’ in the urban centers of the Ottoman Empire following the conquest of Constantinople and how integrating the Ottoman experience of plague changes the story of how historians of medicine approach the topic. To inspire future collaborations among our listeners, we end with a peek at the process of working with geneticists and what such approaches can contribute to the study of the history of the Middle East.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/plague.html
Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark. She is a historian of the Ottoman Empire interested in disease, medicine, and public health.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.
CREDITS
Episode No. 252 Release Date: 29 July 2016 Recording Location: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Muhtelif for allowing us to use "Bint El Shalabiya" Images and bibliography courtesy of Nükhet Varlık avaiable at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/plague.html
E251 | Commentaries are a common, even a nearly ineluctable, part of the textual landscape of the early modern Ottoman Empire. Especially when it came to philosophy, commentaries were perhaps the main venue of discussions. An earlier generation of scholars believed these commentaries to be derivative but we now see them as a major piece in the development of the philosophical tradition in the Middle East. In this podcast, we speak with L.W.C (Eric) van Lit about how to approach these commentaries and their effect on the intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth century.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/ghazali.html
Eric van Lit works on the history of Islamic philosophy and theology, especially of the post-classical period. He wrote a dissertation on the notion of a world of image in Suhrawardī (d. 1191) and his commentators, at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is currently a postdoc at Yale University. You can find more information at www.digitalorientalist.com.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 251 Release Date: 27 July 2016 Recording Location: Yale University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Muhtelif for allowing us to use "Bint El Shalabiya" in the intro music and Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music Bibliography courtesy of Eric van Lit available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/ghazali.html
E250 | A man known as Wojciech Bobowski to some, Albertus Bobovius to others, and Ali Ufki to yet others, is one of the prime examples of an early modern intermediary operating in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. In this podcast, we discuss with Michael Tworek the fascinating figure of the Bobovius, from his childhood in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, to his capture in a Tatar slave raid, to his numerous translations both from and to Ottoman Turkish. These included musical treatises, the translation of the New Testament, the Genevan Psalter and more. In particular, we focus on how Bobovius mediated and developed his image as an inter-imperial mediator to his correspondents in the Republic of Letters.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/bobovius-ali-ufki.html
Michael T. Tworek is a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University, where he earned his PhD in History in 2014. Michael’s areas of research include the Renaissance in central and eastern Europe, the reception of classical tradition, history of education and travel, and global early modern history. He has series of forthcoming articles on cross-cultural encounters of Polish travelers in China, Italy, Istanbul, and Dutch Brazil and is completing a monograph on the rebirth of cosmopolitanism through travel and learning in sixteenth-century Europe.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
Polina Ivanova is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University and a 2016-18 Tyler Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her interests include history of the medieval Mediterranean, Anatolia and Iran, as well as archaeology and material culture studies.
Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, and more specifically on the history of women's health.
CREDITS
Episode No. 250 Release Date: 24 July 2016 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Editing and production by Chris Gratien Special thanks to DÜNYA ensemble for use of "The Psalms of Ali Ufki" in this episode Bibliography courtesy of Michael Tworek available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/bobovius-ali-ufki.html
E249 | We often regard print as a motor of social change, leaving revolutions in its wake, whether political and religious. For historians of the Middle East, this line of thought always leads to the (predictable) question: why didn’t Muslims or Ottomans or Arabs adopt print? In this episode, Kathryn Schwartz discusses why this question is often poorly posed and then delves into an in-depth look at how and why people used print in one particular historical context—nineteenth-century Cairo. Touching upon topics such Napoleon, Mehmed Ali, and the Bulaq press, we explore how print slowly and haphazardly embedded itself into various aspects of Egyptian learned life. This fresh history casts nineteenth-century Egypt in a new light by examining the technological adaptation of print not as an act of unstoppable and transformative modernity, but as a slow and incremental expansion of already existing practices of book production.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/print-cairo.html
Kathryn Schwartz is an Arabist and historian of the modern Middle East. She is currently the Postdoctoral Fellow for the Digital Library of the Eastern Mediterranean at Harvard. Kathryn earned her Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard in 2015, and her B.A. in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies from King’s College, the University of Cambridge in 2008. She is currently revising her dissertation into a book entitled "Print and the People of Cairo, 19th century."
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
CREDITS
Episode No. 249 Release Date: 15 July 2016 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Kathryn Schwartz available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/print-cairo.html
E248 | With political and economic developments in 19th century Egypt, the lives of women began to change in dramatic ways. From the rise of wage labor and the restructuring of rural households to the emergence of women's movements and publications, pre-colonial Egypt witnessed numerous transformation in the realm of gender. In this episode, Liat Kozma shares her research regarding some of the most marginalized women in Egyptian society during this period of change. Manumitted slaves, doctors and midwives, factory employees, and sex workers were some groups of women who left many historical traces in the police, court, and medical records of the Khedival government.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/marginalized-women-in-egypt.html
Liat Kozma is a senior lecturer at the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies, the Hebrew University. She is currently working on a book manuscript on regulated prostitution in the interwar Middle East and North Africa.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
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Episode No. 248 Release Date: 14 July 2016 Recording Location: Okmeydanı, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Image and bibliography courtesy of Liat Kozma Image source: US Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/item/2002718733/
E247 | During the late nineteenth century, Egyptian society witnessed the rise of new debates and practices concerning reading and writing in the Arabic language. In this episode, Hoda Yousef explores the discources surrounding literacy in Egypt, which is the subject of her first book entitled Composing Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2016). This work examines how different actors from Islamic modernists and feminists to journalists and officials sought to produce particular kinds of Egyptians through language politics. Dr. Yousef demonstrates that emergent practices of reading and writing had impacts well beyond the conventionally-defined literate circles. Even for those who did not read and write, the written word became an important part of daily life. Through the medium of public exchange created by the writing, different segments of Egyptian society could engage in discussions regarding nation, home, and belonging.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/literacy-egypt.html
Hoda Yousef is Assistant Professor of History at Denison University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of language, literacy, education, and gender in modern Egypt.
Graham Auman Pitts is a PhD Candidate in Georgetown University's History department, where he studies the environmental history of the modern Middle East. He is currently finishing a dissertation entitled "Fallow Fields: Famine and the Making of Lebanon (1914-1952)," which probes the intersections of ecology, capital, and colonialism.
CREDITS
Episode No. 247 Release Date: 11 July 2016 Recording Location: Georgetown University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Abdel Wahab-Balash--Nile records # 117-B Images and bibliography courtesy of Hoda Yousef available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/literacy-egypt.html
E246 | The fountain standing in the Hippodrome (At Meydanı) in Istanbul, located just a few steps away from some of Turkey’s most famous tourist attractions like Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, doesn’t attract much notice these days. But wrapped up in this monument, gifted to the people of the city by the German Emperor Wilhelm II, is a story that sheds some light on the bilateral relations between the Ottoman Empire and their European neighbors before WWI. What is the role that the arts play in this diplomatic relationship? Under what conditions could such an object be inserted in the topography of Istanbul’s historic monuments? In this episode, Emily Neumeier and Sotirios Dimitriadis speak with Lorenz Korn about his research on the imperial fountain, tracing the process of its design, construction and reception.
This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled "The Visual Past." Images and more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/german-fountain.html
Lorenz Korn is an art historian and archaeologist of the Islamic world. Since 2003, he has served as full professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Bamberg. His research focuses on the architecture of the central Islamic lands between the 10th and 16th centuries, Islamic minor arts such as metalwork, and Arabic epigraphy. His recent publications include articles and books on the architecture of the mosque and on artistic exchange between Europe and the Islamic World.
Emily Neumeier is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at University of Pennsylvania. Her research concerns the art and architecture of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic. She is currently preparing a thesis on the architectural patronage of provincial notables in Ottoman Greece and Albania. Emily is also editor of stambouline, a site where travel and the Ottoman world meet.
Sotirios Dimitriadis is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire, whose research focuses on issues of urban and social history. He completed his doctoral dissertation in the School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London, and is currently teaching at the International Hellenic University.
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Episode No. 246 Release Date: 8 July 2016 Recording Location: University of Bamberg Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Muhtelif for allowing us to use "Bint El Shalabiya" in the outro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Lorenz Korn available at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/german-fountain.html
E245 | In the classical Ottoman period, European embassies in Istanbul pretty much looked like any other residential building. At the end of the eighteenth century, however, a period of dramatic geo-political and social change, official foreign residences likewise underwent a process of transformation. Architectural designs shifted from Ottoman to Western styles, and these landmarks became increasingly prominent and visible in the urban landscape. In this episode, Emily Neumeier speaks with Paolo Girardelli about how Pera became the “district of diplomacy” in the Ottoman capital, the subject of his forthcoming book project, Landscapes of the Eastern Question: Architecture and Identity in Galata, Pera, and the Bosphorus, 1774-1919.
This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled "The Visual Past."
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/pera.html
Paolo Girardelli is Associate Professor of History at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. He is an art and architectural historian, working especially on European and non-Muslim presence in the late Ottoman cities. His publications and graduate seminars focus on the relation between space, visuality, diplomacy, religion and communal identities in the multi-cultural contexts of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Emily Neumeier is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at University of Pennsylvania. Her research concerns the art and architecture of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic. She is currently preparing a thesis on the architectural patronage of provincial notables in Ottoman Greece and Albania. Emily is also editor of stambouline, a site where travel and the Ottoman world meet.
CREDITS
Episode No. 245 Release Date: 5 July 2016 Recording Location: Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Paolo Girardelli
Bibliography and images at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/pera.html
E244 | As spaces fundamental to Muslim religious and communal life, mosques have historically served as sites of not just architectural but also ideological construction. As our guest Kishwar Rizvi argues in her latest book entitled The Transnational Mosque (UNC Press 2015), states operating in transnational contexts have taken a leading role in the building of mosques and in doing so, they forge political, economic, and architectural networks that span the globe. In this episode, we discuss the architectural exports of the four states covered in Prof. Rizvi's monograph: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. In addition to situating and comparing transnational mosques of different states, we give special attention to the rise of Neo-Ottoman architecture in modern Turkey and its role in re-branding Turkey's image on the global stage.
This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled "The Visual Past."
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/mosque.html
Kishwar Rizvi is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Yale University. She writes on issues of religion, politics, and self-representation in the early modern period, as well as on the intersection of nationalism and architecture in the modern Middle East
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 244 Release Date: 2 July 2016 Recording Location: Yale University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music and to Muhtelif for the use of "Ta Paidia & Lamma Bada" Images and bibliography courtesy of Kishwar Rizvi Additional photographs courtesy of Leili Vatani
Images and bibliography at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/mosque.html
Join us in this special introductory episode to "The Visual Past" series on Ottoman History Podcast featuring Nina Ergin with Chris Gratien and Emily Neumeier. Special thanks to our friends at Muhtelif for the intro music.
"The Visual Past” is a podcast series curated by Emily Neumeier and Ünver Rüstem. It showcases the latest research by scholars who explore the visual, spatial, and material culture that shaped the Ottoman world. The series will address not only objects, images, and calligraphy, but also works of architecture that were themselves contexts for other media. Before being designated historical landmarks or enshrined in museum displays, these rich artistic and architectural products constituted an intrinsic part of Ottoman life, intersecting with and affecting all levels of society. Episodes in this series investigate crucial issues about sight and seeing in the Ottoman Empire, including the power of the gaze, the depiction of human and animal imagery, and questions of style, aesthetics, and patronage. The series also explores transformations in technology that opened up new possibilities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for the popular dissemination of images through photographs, print media, and film.
E243 | Although artistic production occurs in a political context, art and politics are often studied as separate fields of historical inquiry. Our guest in this episode, Dr. Sarah-Neel Smith, offers a reflection on the close relationship between art and politics in Turkey through a discussion of her research on the figure of Bülent Ecevit. As a politician, Ecevit is remembered for his four stints as Prime Minister of Turkey and his prominent positions in the Republican People's Party (CHP) and later in the Democratic Left Party (DSP). Yet during the early years of his career, Ecevit was also extremely active in intellectual pursuits as a writer and art critic. In this episode, Dr. Smith explores the intellectual life of Bülent Ecevit and the link between debates about art and culture and the development of democratic politics in Turkey during the 1950s.
Sarah-Neel Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work focuses on art of the modern Middle East, modernism in a global and comparative perspective, and histories of museums, exhibitions, and display. Her current book project, Art, Democracy, and the Culture of Dissent in 1950s Turkey, focuses on the intersection of art and politics in Turkey and the ways that local art galleries, painting practices, and art criticism were informed by international discourses about democracy after WWII.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/art-and-politics-in-1950s-turkey.html
Nicholas Danforth holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the history and historiography of modern Turkey. In addition to currently serving as senior political analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center, he is creator and editor of The Afternoon Map blog.
CREDITS
Episode No. 243 Release Date: 29 April 2016 Recording Location: Washington, DC Editing and production by Chris Gratien Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Images and bibliography courtesy of Sarah-Neel Smith
E242 | “Hrig,” the Moroccan Arabic term for “illegal” immigration, translates to “burning.” In the latest episode of Tajine, Isabella Alexander discusses the dramatic rise in sub-Saharan migrants attempting to enter the E.U. from Morocco - now the primary entry point for all African migrations north. As Spanish officials start exploring their border controls further south in response, hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharans now find themselves trapped in Morocco. Their act of “burning” signifies the literal burning of their identification papers to avoid repatriation when arrested by European authorities, but also the symbolic burning of their pasts in hopes of a better future abroad. They wait in sprawling slums outside of Moroccan cities, scraping together enough money to attempt the journey into Spain by boat or by land once again. But, what happens when their position in this liminal space—Morocco—becomes a permanent one?
Anthropological studies of migration have long been situated in migrants’ sending or receiving communities, but saturated labor markets in traditional immigrant-receiving countries like those across the E.U. have led to less permeable borders and migration routes are changing. In this podcast, Dr. Alexander urges us to question what “the burning” means for the rapidly expanding population of sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco. We discuss Morocco’s response to the crisis, its current relations with the E.U., and what daily life looks like for these men, women, and children trapped in between two worlds. Finally, we draw some parallels between Morocco and the unfolding migration and refugee crises throughout the Mediterranean.
Isabella Alexander is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She earned her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2016 with a dissertation entitled “Burning at the E.U. Border: Liminality, Belonging, and Morocco’s New Migrant Class.” She also holds a B.A. from New York University, a M.F.A. from Speos Institut de la Photographie, and a M.A. from the University of Chicago. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at Emory and is currently working on a documentary film entitled “The Burning: An Untold Story from the Other Side of the Migrant Crisis.” (http://www.theburning.org/).
Graham H. Cornwell is a PhD Candidate in History at Georgetown University. His dissertation is entitled "Sweetening the Pot: A History of Tea and Taste in Morocco, 1856-1960."
CREDITS
Episode No. 242 (tajine No. 11) Release Date: 27 April 2016 Recording Location: Princeton University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Turnalar Turnalar - Darulelhan Heyeti Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music Images and bibliography courtesy of Isabella Alexander
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/migrants-refugees-morocco.html
E241 | During World War I, the Lazarist college at Antoura, in the mountains of Mt. Lebanon north of Beirut, was taken over by Cemal Pasha to be used as an orphanage for Armenian and Kurdish orphans. Turkish feminist Halide Edip recounts in her memoirs that the time she spent as director of the orphanage during the war was among the happiest periods of her life. In this episode, Professor Selim Deringil discusses his new project, a film about the Antoura orphanage and its orphans during the war, painting a very different picture from that which emerges from Edip's memoirs. The film, entitled "After This Day," is produced and directed by Nigol Bezjian. View a trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS_qoAHeRrI
Selim Deringil is Professor of History in the Humanities Department at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Ottoman History, including The Well Protected Domains (1998) and Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire (2012).
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
Matthew Ghazarian is a Ph.D. student in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of sectarianism, humanitarianism, and political economy in central and eastern Anatolia between 1856 and 1893.
CREDITS
Episode No. 241 Release Date: 21 April 2016 Recording Location: Beirut Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Turnalar Turnalar - Darulelhan Heyeti; Murat Kenarinda - Agyazar Efendi; Bozlak and Halay - Yozgatli Hafiz Suleyman Bey
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/antoura.html
E240 | What is a caliphate? Who can be caliph? What is the history of the idea? How can we interpret and use it today? In this podcast we discuss with Prof Hugh Kennedy his forthcoming book The Caliphate (Pelican Books) and the long-term historical context to the idea of caliphate. Tracing the history from the choosing of the first caliph Abu Bakr in the immediate aftermath of the Prophet Muhammad’s death in 632, the Orthodox (Rashidun) caliphs (632-661), the Umayyads (661-750), the Abbasids (750-1258) and the use of the idea of caliphate by the Ottomans down to the emergence of another Abu Bakr as “caliph” of the IS in 2014.
Hugh Kennedy is Professor of Arabic at SOAS, London. He has been studying the history of the caliphate for almost fifty years and has written numerous books including “The Courts of the Caliphs” (2004) and “The Great Arab Conquests” (2007).
Taylan Güngör is a doctoral candidate at SOAS in London. His interests are in Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean trading circles and his research is on trade in Istanbul after 1453.
CREDITS
Episode No. 240 Release Date: 15 April 2016 Recording Location: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Audio Editing by Taylan Güngör Recorded at SOAS Radio studios. SOAS Radio is an outlet for creative media and talent housed by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Run by alumni, current students and staff at the School, including volunteers from like-minded communities, SOAS Radio is dedicated to varied and original programming on world music, culture and current affairs. Special thanks to Lâmekân Ensemble for intro and outro music
For an extensive bibliography: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/caliphate.html
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Were Ottoman courts just? Boğaç Ergene discusses this basic question in this podcast by forging a new path beyond the earlier views of the justice system as inherently fickle and capricious—immortalized in Weber’s concept of kadijustiz—and the idealistic views of Ottoman courts as a site of equal and fair treatment for all. Drawing on the results of research for his forthcoming publication with Metin Coşgel entitled The Economics of Ottoman Justice, Ergene argues for employing the quantitative methods of “law and economics” scholars, demonstrating that entrenched power holders in early modern Ottoman society were always able to use the Ottoman court system to produce outcomes favorable to themselves.
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E238 | The First World War and the fall of the Ottoman Empire are defining moments in the political history of the modern Middle East. This narrative is usually told through the lenses of the breakup of empire, the successes and failures of national movements, and the colonial involvement of British and French Mandates in the region. In this episode, Keith Watenpaugh offers a different approach to this story through a critical look at the role of American humanitarian organizations such as Near East Relief admist the war and its aftermath, which is the subject of his new monograph entitled Bread From Stones (UC Press, 2015). In the podcast, we discuss how the massive displacement of the First World War, the Armenian genocide, and the need to care for refugees in the postwar Middle East contributed to the evolution of aid and charity organizations and the creation of what scholars see as modern humanitarian structures and ideologies. Prof. Watenpaugh describes how Americans came to see their unique humanitarian relationship with Armenians and other communities in the Middle East, and we discuss how the historical study of humanitarianism as an ideology in its own right changes not only the historiography of the region but also the way we think about present-day humanitarian crises.
Keith David Watenpaugh is Professor and Director of the University of California, Davis Human Rights Studies Program. A UCLA-trained historian, he is author of Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism (California, 2015) and Being Modern in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006) and articles in the American Historical Review, Social History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Human Rights, Humanity, Chronicle of Higher Education, Ayrıntı Dergi, Jadaliyya & Huffington Post.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 238 Release Date: 8 April 2016 Recording Location: Middle East Studies Association 2016 Meeting in Denver, CO Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Murat Kenarinda - Agyazar Efendi Images via Library of Congress
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/humanitarianism-middle-east.html
E237 | Bonus Episode In comparison with the historiography of other world regions, class has often been an ignored aspect of the history of the late Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East. This has been especially true with regard to the middle class. But as our guest Keith Watenpaugh has argued in Being Modern in the Middle East, the middle class emerged as a discrete segment of late Ottoman society represented by businessmen, professionals, educators, and writers who engaged robustly with ideas concerning modernity and nationalism and contributed greatly to the making of post-Ottoman societies. In this interview, Prof. Watenpaugh reflects on his research regarding Ottoman and post-Ottoman Aleppo and the historiography of modernity and class in the Middle East roughly a decade after Being Modern's publication, and we explore possible directions for further inquiry.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/04/middle-class-middle-east.html
Keith David Watenpaugh is Professor and Director of the University of California, Davis Human Rights Studies Program. A UCLA-trained historian, he is author of Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism (California, 2015) and Being Modern in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006) and articles in the American Historical Review, Social History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Human Rights, Humanity, Chronicle of Higher Education, Ayrıntı Dergi, Jadaliyya & Huffington Post.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 237 Release Date: 8 April 2016 Recording Location: Aynalıçeşme, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Image via Library of Congress
E236 | Non-Muslim communities of the Middle East were intimately involved in the rise of constitutional politics that occurred in both the Ottoman Empire and Iran during the early 20th century. But to what extent were their interests represented in the emerging parliaments of revolutionary constitutional governments? In this episode, Saghar Sadeghian discusses her research on the representation of non-Muslim communities of Iran such as Jews, Armenians, Zoroastrians, and Baha'is during the early years of constitutionalism from 1906 to 1911.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/non-muslims-iran.html
Saghar Sadeghian is the Henry Hart Rice Family Foundation Fellow and Lecturer at the MacMillan Center. Her research focuses on the ideas of nationality, constitution, and modern institutions in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is specifically interested in minority groups in the Middle East and the question of gender, race, religion and ethnicity.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 236 Release Date: 7 April 2016 Recording Location: Yale University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Seyfettin Sucu - Eğin Türküsü (digitized by Chris Gratien); Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Image via Iran Review Bibliography courtesy of Saghar Sadeghian
Bibliography and more at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/non-muslims-iran.html
E235 | The linguistic landscape of Mandate Palestine was highly complex. Arabic and other languages of the former Ottoman Empire were joined by the wide array of tongues spoken by Jewish immigrants as well as English, the language of Palestine's new British governors. As our guest Liora Halperin demonstrates in her book Babel in Zion (Yale University Press), this linguistic diversity appeared to be an existential threat to those within the Zionist movement who hoped to see Jewish community of Mandate Palestine united by a newly-revived Hebrew language. Yet linguistic pluralism was not seen as a threat by all, and other camps championed other agendas through language politics. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Halperin's research concerning language politics and the legacy of Mandate Palestine's period of linguistic pluralism.
Liora R. Halperin is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies and the Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from UCLA in 2011 and her B.A from Harvard. Her research focuses on Jewish cultural history, Jewish-Arab relations in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine, language ideology and policy, and the politics surrounding nation formation in Palestine in the years leading up to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Erin Hutchinson is a PhD candidate in History at Harvard University focusing on the social and cultural history of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin. Her dissertation project explores how intellectuals of rural origins, especially those from Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Armenia, sought to transform cultural understandings of the nation in the second half of the twentieth century.
Polina Ivanova is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University and a 2016-18 Tyler Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her interests include history of the medieval Mediterranean, Anatolia and Iran, as well as archaeology and material culture studies.
CREDITS
Episode No. 235 Release Date: 3 April 2016 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpts from archive.org uploaded by fidika: Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Images and bibliography courtesy of Liora Halperin
Images and bibliography at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/language-palestine.html
E234 | Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü'nden tarihçi Burak Onaran ile yemeğin ve mutfağın siyasi ve toplumsal tarihini konuşuyoruz. Son dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda kamu diplomasisi açısından Osmanlı mutfağını nasıl okuyabiliriz? Osmanlı mutfağından Türk mutfağına geçiş, mutfağın ve yemeğin ulusallaşması süreci nasıl gerçekleşmiştir? Cumhuriyet'in kuruluşundan 1970'lere Türkiye'deki mutfak kültüründe nasıl bir değişim yaşanmıştır? Bu podcastte, bu soruların yanıtlarını arıyoruz.
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Burak Onaran Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü öğretim üyesidir. Doktorasını 2009 yılında EHESS-Paris’te (Ecole des hautes études en science sociales), Tarih Bölümünde tamamladı. XIX. yüzyıl Osmanlı ve Erken Cumhuriyet dönemi siyasal ve toplumsal tarihinin yanı sıra, mutfak kültürünün olitik veçheleri ve historiyografi çalışma konuları arasındadır.
Ufuk Adak University of Cincinnati'den Tarih doktorası aldı. Doktora tezi, son dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda doğu Akdeniz liman kentlerindeki sosyal ve politik dönüşümü suç, ceza, sosyal kontrol ve hapishaneler üzerinden ele almaktadır. Adak, Berlin'de Zentrum Moderner Orient'te (ZMO) doktora sonrası araştırmalarda bulunmuştur.
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Bölüm No. 234 Yayın Tarihi: 25 Mart 2016 Kayıt Yeri: Istanbul Ses Editörü: Onur Engin (Koç Üniversitesi ve Dr. Nina Ergin'in danışmanlığı'nda asistanlık desteği ile hazırlanmıştır.) Müzik (archive.org): Muzeyyen Senar - Bu aksam gun batarken gel Görseller ve kaynakça: Burak Onaran'ın müsadesiyle: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/yemegin-politik-tarihi.html
E233 | At the heart of medieval political economies were a variety of practices, structures, and activities that revolved around the production and distribution of food. In this episode, Nicolas Trépanier discusses his research for Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia, which examines life in the early Ottoman Empire through the lens of food and drink. We discuss diverse subjects from agrarian labor and temporality to religion and commerce in order to understand how people lived through what and how they ate.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/food-medieval-anatolia.html
PARTICIPANTS
Nicolas Trépanier is Associate Professor of History at the University of Mississippi and the author of Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History (University of Texas Press, 2014). His current research focuses on landscape and perceptions of place in the late medieval Anatolian countryside.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.
Polina Ivanova is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University and a 2016-18 Tyler Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her interests include history of the medieval Mediterranean, Anatolia and Iran, as well as archaeology and material culture studies.
CREDITS
Episode No. 233 Release Date: 22 March 2016 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Image and bibliography courtesy of Nicolas Trépanier
Bibliography at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/food-medieval-anatolia.html
E232 | Starting in the fifteenth century, medical doctors from the Italian peninsula began accompanying Venetian consular missions to cities in the Mamluk and Ottoman empires. These doctors treated not only Venetian consular officials, but also local artisans and rulers. In this podcast, Valentina Pugliano discusses the experiences of these travelling doctors both in the Italian peninsula and in the Middle East. We explore their interactions with the local population and their effect on the medical ecology of the Middle East as well as the sources we use to write such histories. Together, the experiences of these doctors point to the connected histories of medicine and science in the early modern Mediterranean.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/venetian-doctors-in-ottoman-empire.html
Valentina Pugliano is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and JRF at Cambridge University. Her research explores the participation of artisans in fashioning natural history in early modern Italy and histories of Venetian medicine and science in the eastern Mediterranean.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.
CREDITS
Episode No. 232 Release Date: 18 March 2016 Recording Location: San Francisco, CA Editing by Onur Engin (funded by a paid assistantship at Koç University under the supervision of Nina Ergin) Production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts via imingigong on archive.org: Scarlatti Domenico-(Keyboard)Piano Sonata K.116 (L.452) in C minor (Allegro), Andras Schiff (Piano); Scarlatti Domenico-(Keyboard)Piano Sonata K.105 (L.204) in G major (Allego), John Browning (Piano). Image "Jan van Grevenbroeck (1731-1807), Venetian doctor during the time of the plague" via Wikipedia
E231 | During the late Ottoman period, the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut became a leading center of higher education in the Eastern Mediterranean and for the Arab world in particular. With the establishment of British and French Mandates in the Middle East following the First World War, the Syrian Protestant College--now known as the American University of Beirut--became an educational hub not only for the Arab elite and middle class but also for local teachers and bureaucrats that would serve in the colonial mandate governments. In this episode, Hilary Falb Kalisman shares her research on the history of scholarship students from the British Mandates and their life at AUB during the interwar period, highlighting dimensions of class, nation, and transnationalism that emerged out of the educational experience and tracing the impacts of their education as they returned to serve in mandate and post-mandate independent governments of Iraq, Palestine, and Transjordan.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/AUB-british-mandate.html
Hilary Falb Kalisman is currently a visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She completed her PhD at the University of California-Berkeley in May 2015. Her research focuses on education in the Middle East during the Mandate period.
Huma Gupta is a Ph.D. student at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at MIT. Her dissertation research focuses on the structural relationships between urban planning, architecture, state formation and migration in modern Iraq. She is also interested in the sonic and visual past and continues to think of ways to integrate sensory histories into her research.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.
CREDITS
Episode No. 231 Release Date: 15 March 2016 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Editing and production by Chris Gratien Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and outro music Sound excerpts for archive.org: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Images via Library of Congress and Before Their Diaspora Bibliography courtesy of Hilary Falb Kalisman
E230 | In this episode, Ellen Fleischmann and Christine Lindner discuss the history of women and gender and the American Protestant Mission in Lebanon. How did American missionary women experience and transform the American Protestant project in the Levant in the 19th and 20th centuries? How did American missionaries, both women and men, interact with women from Beirut and Mt. Lebanon, both those who converted and those who did not? And how did these heterogeneous interactions produce new experiences of womanhood, family, power, and authority in the Levant? Drs. Fleischmann and Lindner reflect on these questions based on their considerable research in Lebanon and elsewhere, and also share their thoughts about sources and strategies for tracing women's history and missionary history in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Levant.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/women-missionaries-lebanon.html
Ellen Fleischmann is Professor of History and Humanities Chair at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. She is the author of The Nation and Its 'New' Women: the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948 (2003) as well as numerous articles.
Christine Lindner served as the inaugural director of the Preserving Protestant Heritage in the Middle East project at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 2009 and has published a number of articles on the history of Protestantism in Ottoman Syria.
Susanna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Gender and Childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon, 1865-1939."
CREDITS
Episode No. 230 Release Date: 12 March 2016 Recording Location: American University in Beirut, Lebanon Audio editing by Onur Engin (funded by a paid assistantship at Koç University under the supervision of Nina Ergin) Production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts from archive.org: Recep Birgit - Olmaz ilac sine-i sad-pareme; Filiz Şatıroğlu - Safvet-i askim bilip ey gul-tenim Image courtesy of Christine Lindner, The Playground-Beirut Seminary for Girls,” The Church at Home and Abroad 18:12 (December 1894), 493.
with Akram Khaterhosted by Graham Pitts. Scholars have long neglected the Middle East’s Christian communities in general and Christian women in particular. In this episode, Akram Khater draws attention to the biography of Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi (1720-1798) to explore the religious and political upheavals of 18th-century Aleppo and Mount Lebanon. Hindiyya’s story speaks to the dynamic history of the Maronite Church, the fraught encounter between Arab and European Christianities, and the role of faith as a historical force. For half a century, she held as much sway over the Maronite Church as any other cleric. The extent of her influence won her powerful enemies in Lebanon and the Vatican. Hindiyya weathered one inquisition but was eventually convicted of heresy and confined to a solitary cell for the final decade of her life. The story of her ascent and demise illuminates gendered aspects of piety and politics in the Christian Middle East.Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | Soundcloud
Scholars have long neglected the Middle East’s Christian communities in general and Christian women in particular. In this episode, Akram Khater draws attention to the biography of Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi (1720-1798) to explore the religious and political upheavals of 18th-century Aleppo and Mount Lebanon. Hindiyya’s story speaks to the dynamic history of the Maronite Church, the fraught encounter between Arab and European Christianities, and the role of faith as a historical force. For half a century, she held as much sway over the Maronite Church as any other cleric. The extent of her influence won her powerful enemies in Lebanon and the Vatican. Hindiyya weathered one inquisition but was eventually convicted of heresy and confined to a solitary cell for the final decade of her life. The story of her ascent and demise illuminates gendered aspects of piety and politics in the Christian Middle East.
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E228 | The conventional story of the 1908 Revolution in the Ottoman Empire is that of the Young Turks and a multi-confessional alliance of political parties usurping the authoritarian rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The learned class of Muslim notables, the ulema, are usually portrayed as apprehensive bystanders threatened with marginalization by the restoration of the Ottoman constitution. But as our guest Yakoob Ahmed explains, ulema engagement with the revolution and the parliamentary elections that followed was robust. In this episode, we explore that engagement through a discussion of the writings and activities of the Ottoman ulema during the transformative period of 1908-1912.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/ulema-1908-revolution.html
Yakoob Ahmed is a final year Ph.D. student at SOAS. His thesis, in which he is writing and revising narratives of the ulema’s role in the late Ottoman Empire, is titled the ‘The Role of the Ottoman Sunni Ulema in the Parliamentary Elections of 1908–1912’. Yakoob has previously been a research fellow at Istanbul Şehir University in Istanbul and has a interest in nineteenth and twentieth century Islamic intellectual thought.
Taylan Güngör is a doctoral candidate at SOAS in London. His interests are in Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean trading circles and his research is on trade in Istanbul after 1453.
CREDITS
Episode No. 228 Release Date: 4 March 2016 Recording Location: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Audio Editing by Taylan Güngör Recorded at SOAS Radio studios. SOAS Radio is an outlet for creative media and talent housed by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Run by alumni, current students and staff at the School, including volunteers from like-minded communities, SOAS Radio is dedicated to varied and original programming on world music, culture and current affairs. Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and outro music Image "Member of Turkish Parliament in chamber" via Library of Congress
E227 | During the late eighteenth century, a series of volcanic eruptions at a site called Laki in Iceland created climatic effects that spanned the entire globe. In this episode, Alan Mikhail shares his research on the impacts of these eruptions on the agrarian economy of Ottoman Egypt through an explanation of the localized climatic and environmental effects of Laki on the Nile River. We discuss how climatic events shape or accelerate historical processes and explore how climate history can serve as a means of thinking about unseen connections between different world regions.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/02/ottoman-iceland.html
Alan Mikhail is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) and Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) and editor of Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
CREDITS
Episode No. 227 Release Date: 29 February 2016 Recording Location: Yale University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Kara Güneş - Istanbul; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Turnalar Turnalar - Darulelhan Heyeti Image "Lava fjelds in Iceland" via Library of Congress Map courtesy of Alan Mikhail and Stacey Maples Bibliography courtesy of Alan Mikhail
See Alan Mikhail. "Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History". Environmental History. 20, no. 2 (2015): 262-284.
E226 | Events such as earthquakes, floods, and epidemics provide vivid illustrations of the natural world's impact on human society, but the outcomes of natural disasters also offer a window onto aspects of social and political life in past societies. In this episode, Yaron Ayalon discusses his research on natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and what such events tell us about Ottoman state and society during the early modern period.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/02/natural-disasters-ottoman-empire.html
Yaron Ayalon is Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University. He is a social and environmental historian of the Ottoman Empire, the early modern Middle East, and Sephardic Jewry. Ayalon has published numerous articles on Ottoman and Jewish history. He received his BA in education and Middle East history from Tel Aviv University in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton in 2009.
For Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes, see http://www.cambridge.org/bm/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/natural-disasters-ottoman-empire-plague-famine-and-other-misfortunes?format=HB
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 226 Release Date: 25 February 2016 Recording Location: Middle East Studies Association 2016 Meeting in Denver, CO Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Image "1556 Istanbul Earthquake by Herman Gall" via Wikipedia Bibliography courtesy of Yaron Ayalon
E225 | As research on the early modern period increasingly shows, bubonic plague played a formative role in the making of state policies and medical practice, and concern over plague created new connections between different regions of the Mediterranean. In this episode, Edna Bonhomme joins us again to talk about her research on plague in North Africa, its relationship with the issue of the global slave trade, and the ways in which experimenting with plague became a practice among Europeans residing in 18th-century Egypt.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/02/plague-in-egypt.html
Edna Bonhomme is a doctoral candidate in History of Science at Princeton University. Her dissertation focuses on the history of the bubonic plague in Cairo and Tunis during the outbreaks in the 1780s and 1790s. She graduated from Reed College in 2006 with a degree in Biology and from Columbia University with a master's in public health. Prior to pursuing history, she was a research assistant at the Oregon Health and Sciences University. In addition to academic work, she occasionally writes for Socialist Worker and Red Wedge Magazine.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 225 Release Date: 20 February 2016 Recording Location: Manhattan, NY Editing and production by Chris Gratien Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and outro music Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep. Additional thanks to Susanna Ferguson Image via Library of Congress Bibliography courtesy of Edna Bonhomme
E224 | Ondokuzuncu yüzyılda Osmanlı merkezi yönetimi vergi gelirlerini nasıl ve hangi koşullarda arttırabilmişti? Bu vergi artışının toplumsal ve siyasal bedeli ne olmuştu? Bu podcastimizde, Prof. Dr. Nadir Özbek ile son dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda vergi siyaseti ve toplumsal adaleti konuşuyoruz.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/02/osmanlda-vergi.html
Prof. Dr. Nadir Özbek, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü'nde öğretim üyesidir.
University of Cincinnati Tarih bölümünden doktorasını alan Ufuk Adak, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun son dönemindeki ceza politikaları ve hapishaneler üzerine uzmanlaşmıştır.
Zoe Griffith, Brown Üniversitesi'nde erken modern Akdeniz tarihi üzerine doktorasını yapmaktadır.
YAPIM VE YAYIN
Bölüm No. 224 Yayın Tarihi: 10 Şubat 2016 Kayıt Yeri: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Ses Editörü: Onur Engin (Koç Üniversitesi ve Dr. Nina Ergin'in danışmanlığı'nda asistanlık desteği ile hazırlanmıştır.) Müzik (archive.org): Müzeyyen Senar - Fikrimin İnce Gülü Bibiliyografya Nadir Özbek müsadesiyle Resim kaynağı: Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi
E223 | We often speak of physical and abstract worlds as if they were self-evident. But the concept of "the world" has been forged and continually remade through imagination and debate. In this podcast, Ayesha Ramachandran discusses the historical context of the world's ascendance as a meaningful concept and offers a preview of her new book entitled Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/01/worldmakers.html
Ayesha Ramachandran is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, where she focuses on the literature and culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, primarily on Europe’s relations with an expanding world. She previously taught at Stony Brook University and is a former Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
CREDITS
Episode No. 223 Release Date: 30 January 2016 Recording Location: Yale University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts from Lâmekân Ensemble - Karcığar Köçekçeler; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer Image via Wikipedia Reading list courtesy of Ayesha Ramachandran
This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise. http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/blog-page_18.html
with Emine Fetvacı
hosted by Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir
Emine Fetvacı discusses her research for Picturing History at the Ottoman Court (Indiana University Press) with Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir.Download the episodePodcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud
In the second half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman court became particularly invested in writing its own history. This initiative primarily took the form of official chronicles, and the court historian (şehnameci), a new position established in the 1550s, set to work producing manuscripts accompanied by lavish illustrations. However, the paintings in these texts should not be understood merely as passive descriptions of historical events. Rather, these images served as complex conveyors of meaning in their own right, designed by teams of artists to satisfy the aspirations of their patrons, which included not only the sultan but also other members of the court. In this episode, Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir speak with Emine Fetvacı about these illustrated histories, the subject of her 2013 volume Picturing History at the Ottoman Court.
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E221 | Where did the Ottomans fit within the geographical understandings of Christian kingdoms in early modern Europe? How did Europeans reconcile the notion of "the Turk" as other with the reality of an Ottoman presence in the Balkans and Eastern Europe? What was the relationship between the maps and representations of Ottoman space in Europe and the self-mapping carried out by the Ottomans in maps and miniatures? These are some of the major questions addressed by our guest Palmira Brummett in her new book Mapping the Ottomans, which uses maps to study early modern space and time, travel, the flow of information, claims to sovereignty, and cross-cultural encounters between the Ottomans neighboring Christian polities.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/01/maps-ottoman-empire-europe.html
Palmira Brummett is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Tennessee and Visiting Professor of History at Brown University. Her work assesses the rhetorics of cross-cultural interaction in the Ottoman and Mediterranean worlds.
CREDITS
Episode No. 221 Release Date: 23 January 2016 Recording Location: Providence, RI Editing and production by Chris Gratien Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Karaköy Balık Pazarı (recorded by Chris Gratien) Image of Seutter Map of Ottoman Empire, 1730 (via Wikipedia) Additional thanks to Emily Neumeier
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aksan, Virginia H., and Daniel Goffman. The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Brummett, Palmira Johnson. Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/mapping-ottomans-sovereignty-territory-and-identity-early-modern-mediterranean
Dankoff, Robert. An Ottoman Mentality The World of Evliya Çelebi. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Emiralioğlu, M. Pinar. Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. 2014.
Fetvacı, Emine. Picturing History at the Ottoman Court. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013.
Goodrich, Thomas D. Atlas-i Hümayun: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Maritime Atlas Discovered in 1984. Wiesbaden: [s.n.], 1987.
______. The Ottoman Turks and the New World: A Study of Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi and Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Americana. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1990.
Hagen, Gottfried, Baki Tezcan, and Thomas D. Goodrich. Other places: Ottomans traveling, seeing, writing, drawing the world : essays in honor of Thomas D. Goodrich. 2012.
Pinto, Karen C. Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016.
Ramachandran, Ayesha. The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015.
Smith, Charlotte Colding. Images of Islam, 1453-1600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe. 2014.
E220 | Hundreds of cartographic images of the world and its regions exist scattered throughout collections of medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts. The sheer number of these extant maps tells us that from the thirteenth century onward, when these map-manuscripts began to proliferate, visually depicting the world became a major preoccupation of medieval Muslim scholars. However, these cartographers did not strive for mimesis, that is, representation or imitation of the real world. These schematic, geometric, and often symmetrical images of the world are iconographic representations—‘carto-ideographs’—of how medieval Muslim cartographic artists and their patrons perceived their world and chose to represent and disseminate this perception. In this podcast, we sit down with Karen Pinto to discuss the maps found in the cartographically illustrated Kitāb al-Masālik wa-al-Mamālik (Book of Routes and Realms) tradition, which is the first known geographic atlas of maps, its influence on Ottoman cartography, and how basic versions of these carto-ideographs were transported back to villages and far-flung areas of the Islamic empire.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/01/islamic-cartography.html
Karen Pinto is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Boise State University. She specializes in the history of Islamic cartography and its intersections between Ottoman, European, and other world cartographic traditions
CREDITS
Episode No. 220 Release Date: 12 January 2016 Recording Location: Brown University Editing by Onur Engin (funded by a paid assistantship at Koç University under the supervision of Nina Ergin) Music and sound samples: Bekir Sıdkı - Lerzan ediyor ruhumu cesmindeki efsun; BBC Sound Effects Vol.46 - Istanbul; Selma Sağbaş - Cok surmedi gecti tarab-i sevk-i baharim Images courtesy of Leiden University Library
SELECT PUBLICATIONS OF KAREN PINTO
Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration (in press, The University of Chicago Press, 2016)
“Passion and conflict: Medieval Islamic views of the West" in Mapping Medieval Geographies, ed. Keith Lilley, (Cambridge University Press, 2014), 201-224.
“Searchin’ his eyes, lookin’ for traces: Piri Reis’ World Map of 1513 & Its Islamic Iconographic Connections (A Reading Through Bağdat 334 and Proust),” Journal of Ottoman Studies, 39:1, 2012, 63-94.
"The Maps Are The Message: Mehmet II’s Patronage of an ‘Ottoman Cluster,’" Imago Mundi, 63:2, 2011, 155-179.
E219 | Just as the Ottoman Empire is often known for the discourse of Pan-Islam during the 19th century, the Russian Empire is similarly known for its prominent role as the foremost Christian rival of the Ottomans. Yet the long and deep relationship between the Russian Empire and Islam has received comparatively little historical scrutiny. In this podcast, Eileen Kane discusses her recent book entitled Russian Hajj (Cornell University Press), which considers the role of the Russian administrators as rulers over Muslim subjects. We explore how the Russia's relationship with its millions of Muslim subjects transformed during the 19th century and how the Russian Empire became increasingly involved in Muslim matters such as the hajj pilgrimage as it sought to expand its imperial reach.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/01/russian-hajj.html
Eileen Kane is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Global Islamic Studies program at Connecticut College. Her research focuses on the historical relationship between Russia and the Middle East.
CREDITS
Episode No. 219 Release Date: 7 January 2016 Recording Location: Connecticut College Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpts from archive.org uploaded by fidika: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Nazmiye - Rizeli Sadik Field recordings of Istanbul by Chris Gratien Image via Library of Congress Bibliography courtesy of Eileen Kane
E218 | On August 27, 2015, our dear friend and colleague Vangelis Kechriotis passed away in Istanbul. Vangelis is deeply missed and fondly remembered. He was a historian, a public intellectual, a dedicated teacher, and passionate activist who endeavored to write the history of non-Muslim communities in the Ottoman Empire and to make Istanbul, his adopted home, a place for all of its residents. Never limiting himself to just one community or to an academic audience, Vangelis continuously wrote and spoke in Turkish, Greek, and English in venues from academic journals to television shows to street protests. His concern was the past and present of democracy in Turkey and Greece, and, indeed, throughout the world.
To commemorate his life, we collected the memories and thoughts of his friends and colleagues as written texts and audio recordings in the weeks following his death. We also recorded an extended audio interview with some of these colleagues and friends in Istanbul discussing his life, ideals, and accomplishments. What follows are written and oral testimonies in Turkish, English, and Greek of his friendship, activism, and scholarship.
We have divided them in two parts. The podcast, interspersed with the aural remembrances, can be accessed through the streaming link. The second part is a PDF document containing written memorials of Vangelis. We are releasing them now, at the end of 2015, as a small tribute to his life. In addition to this, our readers and listeners can find a selected bibliography of Vangelis’s writings and a link to the podcast we recorded with Vangelis about his research two months before his passing. We thank all the people who have contributed to this endeavor.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/vangelis.html
CREDITS
Podcast Panel
Lorans Tanatar Baruh, Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Bülent Bilmez, Polina Ivanova, Paolo Girardelli, Mehmet Kentel, Nilay Özlü, Nir Shafir, Zeynep Türkyılmaz
Contributors
Şeyma Afacan, Evrim Akbulut, Antonis Anastasopoulos, Feray Coşkun, Buket Coşkuner, Ferdan Ergut, Özge Ertem, Molly Greene, Dimitris Kamouzis, Yusuf Z Karabıçak, Erdem Karaca, Elias Kolovos, Elektra Kostopoulou, Nevra Necipoğlu, Christoph Neumann, Hazal Özdemir, Oya Pancaroğlu, Onur Şar, Amy Singer, Melike Şümertaş, Ece Turnator, Ayla Jean Yackley
Episode No. 218 Release Date: 30 December 2015 Recording Location: Koç RCAC Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpts from archive.org uploaded by fidika: Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Field recordings of Istanbul by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Polina Ivanova Images courtesy of Özge Ertem, Nevra Necipoğlu, Onur Şar, Lorans Tanatar Baruh, Melike Şümertaş and Buket Coşkuner
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com
with Molly Greenehosted by Chris Gratien
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Nearly two centuries ago, Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire. Yet for centuries before, and for many Greeks even a century after, the story of Greek history was deeply intertwined with that of the Ottoman state, its institutions, and its other subjects. In this episode, we sit down with Molly Greene to discuss her new work on the history of Greeks from the beginning of the Ottoman period into the 18th century, which is a contribution to the The Edinburgh History of the Greeks series. We explore how recent research is changing the picture of the Greek experience of Ottoman rule and the complex relations between state and society throughout the transformation of the imperial structure, and we reflect on the ways in which the history of Ottoman Greeks enriches our understanding of the empire as a whole.
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E217 | Nearly two centuries ago, Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire. Yet for centuries before, and for many Greeks even a century after, the story of Greek history was deeply intertwined with that of the Ottoman state, its institutions, and its other subjects. In this episode, we sit down with Molly Greene to discuss her new work on the history of Greeks from the beginning of the Ottoman period into the 18th century, which is a contribution to the The Edinburgh History of the Greeks series. We explore how recent research is changing the picture of the Greek experience of Ottoman rule and the complex relations between state and society throughout the transformation of the imperial structure, and we reflect on the ways in which the history of Ottoman Greeks enriches our understanding of the empire as a whole.
Molly Greene is a Professor of History at Princeton University with a joint appointment at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. Her work focuses on the history of the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/greeks-in-ottoman-empire-molly-greene.html
CREDITS
Episode No. 217 Release date: 18 December 2015 Recording Location: Manhattan, NY Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpts (from archive.org): Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Rizeli Sadik - Erkek Kadin Oyun Havasi Image via Prints at the Map House: https://printsatthemaphouse.files.wordpress.com/
SELECT READING LIST
Curta, Florin. The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, C. 500 to 1050 The Early Middle Ages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Greene, Molly. The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire. 2015.
Gallant, Thomas W. The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913: The Long Nineteenth Century. 2015.
Barkey, Karen. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Braude, Benjamin. Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire. 2013.
Doumanis, Nicholas. Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and Its Destruction in Late Ottoman Anatolia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Doxiadis, Evdoxios. The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State (1750-1850). Cambridge, Mass: Dept. of Classics, Harvard University, 2011.
Faroqhi, Suraiya, Vera Costantini, and Markus Koller. Living in the Ottoman ecumenical community: essays in honour of Suraiya Faroqhi. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
Kolovous, Elias. Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, the Greek Lands: Towards a Social and Economic History. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2010.
Papademetriou, Tom. Render Unto the Sultan: Power, Authority, and the Greek Orthodox Church in the Early Ottoman Centuries. 2015.
Tezcan, Baki. The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
E216 | Osmanlı edebiyatında ‘halk’ edebiyatı ve ‘divan’ edebiyatı kategorileri homojen midir? Onsekizinci yüzyıl elyazmaları ve bu elyazmalarındaki okuma/okuyucu notları bize neler anlatıyor? Bu podcastte, Elif Sezer ile Osmanlı edebiyatını, yazılı ve sözlü kültür tartışmaları, elyazmaları ve Fîrûzşah hikayesi üzerinden konuşuyoruz.
Elif Sezer, İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde doktora öğrencisi. Osmanlı Erken Modern kültür tarihi çalışmalarını özellikle kitap, okuma tarihi ve okuma pratikleri üzerine yoğunlaşarak devam ettirmektedir.
YAPIM VE YAYIN
Bölüm No. 216 Yayın Tarihi: 10 December 2015 Kayıt Yeri: Koç RCAC Ses Editörü: Onur Engin (Koç Üniversitesi ve Dr. Nina Ergin'in danışmanlığı'nda asistanlık desteği ile hazırlanmıştır.) Müzik (archive.org): Guler Basu Sen - Yuce dagdan esen ruzgar sevgiliye selam gotur Bibiliyografya ve resim: Elif Sezer'in müsadesiyle (resim: Hikâye-i Fîrûzşâh, Milli Kütüphane, 06 Mil Yz A 1285/1)
SEÇME KAYNAKÇA
Tülün Değirmenci. “Bir Kitabı Kaç Kişi Okur? Osmanlı’da Okurlar ve Okuma Biçimleri Üzerine Bazı Gözlemler.” Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar, volume 13, 2011, 7-43.
Walter J. Ong. Sözlü ve Yazılı Kültür: Sözün Teknolojikleşmesi. İstanbul: Metis, 2014.
Nelly Hanna. In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
İsmail Erünsal, Osmanlılarda Kütüphaneler ve Kütüphanecilik. İstanbul: Timaş Yayınları, 2015.
William L. Hanaway, Jr, Love and War: Adventures from the Firuz Shah Nama of Sheikh Bighami, trans. New York: Persian Heritage Series No. 19, 1974.
Mustafa Nihat Özön. Türkçede Roman. İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi, 1993.
Öztürk, Zehra. “Osmanlı Döneminde Kıraat Meclislerinde Okunan Halk Kitapları.” Türkiyat Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi 5/9, 2007.
Reşad Ekrem Koçu. Yeniçeriler. İstanbul: Nurgök Matbaası, 1996.
E215 | Note: This podcast refers to visuals available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/tanzimat.html
Within Anglophone historiography, the Tanzimat period is conventionally represented as an era of centralizing reforms emanating from the imperial center that represent a trend often labeled as "modernization" or "Westernization." Less attention has been given to what these administrative changes meant in practice and how they were carried out in the different provinces of the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, Cengiz Kırlı discusses his work on various facets of the Tanzimat and its implementation, offering a preview of his new Turkish-language monograph on the "invention of corruption" in the Ottoman Empire and examining the interplay of local and imperial power during an the early Tanzimat period in the Balkans.
Cengiz Kırlı is an associate professor at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University. His research mainly focuses on mid-nineteenth century Ottoman social history.
CREDITS
Episode No. 215 Release date: 5 December 2015 Location: Boğaziçi University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpt Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Additional sound excerpt Boş Araba (recorded by Chris Gratien) Images courtesy of Cengiz Kırlı Additional thanks to Seçil Yılmaz
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kuehn, Thomas. Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1849-1919. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
Kırlı, Cengiz. Yolsuzluğun icadı: 1840 Ceza kanunu, iktidar, ve bürokrasi. İstanbul: Verita, 2015.
______. “Coffeehouses: Public Opinion in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire,” in Public Islam and the Common Good, Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman, eds (Brill, 2004), 75-96.
Köksal, Yonca. Local Intermediaries and Ottoman State Centralization: A Comparison of the Tanzimat Reforms in the Provinces of Ankara and Edirne, 1839-1878. 2002.
Inalcik, Halil. “Application of the Tanzimat and Its Social Effects”, ArchivumOttomanicum 5 (1973), p. 97-127.
İslamoğlu, Huri. "Property as a Contested Domain: A Reevaluation of the Ottoman Land Code of 1858." In New Perspectives on Property and Land, edited by Roger Owen and Martin P. Bunton, 3-61. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Maʻoz, Moshe. Ottoman Reform in Syria and Palestine, 1840-1861; The Impact of the Tanzimat on Politics and Society. Oxford: Clarendon P., 1968.
Masters, Bruce. "The 1850 Events in Aleppo: An Aftershock of Syria's Incorporation into the Capitalist World System." International Journal of Middle East Studies 22, no. 1 (1990): 3-20.
Mundy, Martha, and Richard Saumarez Smith. Governing Property, Making the Modern State Law Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
Petrov, Milen V. 2004. "Everyday Forms of Compliance: Subaltern Commentaries on Ottoman Reform, 1864-1868". Comparative Studies in Society and History : an International Quarterly.
E214 | The city of Istanbul underwent vast transformations over nearly five centuries of Ottoman rule, but it nonetheless retained its place at the center of Ottoman urban life. In this episode, Kate Fleet and Ebru Boyar discuss some of the transformations and continuities that shaped the urban history of Istanbul between 1453 and 1923. Natural disasters, shifting gender relations and practices of health and hygiene, and the presence of the Sultan and his court not only marked Istanbul's urban fabric but also transformed the lives of its people; the way these changes were experienced depended in part on class, gender and occupation.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/social-history-istanbul.html
Dr. Ebru Boyar is Associate Professor of International Relations at Middle East Technical University. She is the author of A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul, with Kate Fleet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), along with many other works on Ottoman social and diplomatic history.
Dr. Kate Fleet is Director of the Skilleter Centre for Ottoman Studies at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Newnham College. She is the co-author of A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul, with Ebru Boyar, along with many other works.
CREDITS
Episode No. 214 Release date: 1 December 2015 Location: Koç RCAC, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Music sample from archive.org: Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Image via Library of Congress Additional thanks to Buket Coşkuner
E213 | The urban history of the Ottoman Empire usually deals with subjects pertaining to the imperial capital of Istanbul. But Istanbul was only one of many important urban spaces in the empire. For example, the nearby city of Edirne, which was a significant city throughout the Ottoman period and preceded Istanbul as capital, has received considerably less attention despite its physical and symbolic centrality. In this episode, Amy Singer shares some of her research on the urban, architectural, and socioeconomic history of Edirne across centuries of historical transformation.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/edirne.html
Amy Singer is professor of Ottoman history at Tel Aviv University. In addition to the city of Edirne, her research currently focuses on the possibilities of creating a trans-Ottoman digital platform for research cooperation and publication.
CREDITS
Episode No. 213 Release date: 25 November 2015 Location: Koç RCAC, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Music samples: Sari Zeybek - Hanende Ibrahim Efendi (fidika on archive.org); Murat Kenarinda - Agyazar Efendi (fidika on archive.org); Muhacir Ibrahim - Tabakçı Roman (vinyl recording by Chris Gratien); Akbil Fever (Chris Gratien); Muhacir Ibarhim - Çöl Kızı (vinyl recording by Chris Gratien) Bibliography courtesy of Amy Singer Image via turkishpostalhistory.com
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Barkan, Ö.L. “Edirne Askerî Kassamı’na âit Tereke Defterleri.” Belgeler 3 (1966), 1-479.
Cinici, Behruz. “The Urban Arrangement of the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne.” Environmental Design 5, no. 5–6 (1987), 86–87.
Edirne: Serhattaki Payıtaht. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 1998.
Gökbilgin, M. Tayyib. XV. ve XVI. asırlarda Edirne ve Paşa Livâsı: Vakıflar, Mülkler, Mukataalar. 2007. Istanbul: Üçler Basımevi; İşaret Yayınları, 1952.
Inalcik, Halil. “The Conquest of Edirne (1361).” Archivum Ottomanicum 3 (1971), 185–210.
Kazancıgil, Ratip. Edirne Mahalleleri Tarihçesi, 1529–1990. Istanbul: Türk Kütüphaneciler Derneği Edirne Şubesi Yayınları, 1992.
Kuran, Aptullah. “The Mosque of Yıldırım in Edirne.” Belleten 28 (1964), 428–38.
Müderrisoğlu, Fatih. “Edirne II. Bayezid Külliyesi.” Vakıflar Dergisi 22 (1991), 151–98.
Necipoğlu, Gülru. The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. Photographs and drawings by Arben N. Arapi and Reha Günay. London: Reaktion Press, 2005.
Ousterhout, Robert, and Charalambos Bakirtzis. The Byzantine Monuments of the Evros/Meriç River Valley, 320 pp. Thessaloniki: European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments, 2007.
Özendes, Engin. Osmanlı’nın İkinci Başkenti Edirne: Geçmişten Fotoğraflar. Istanbul: T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı/Yem Yayın, 1999.
Şakir-Taş, Aziz Nazmi. Adrianopol’den Edirne’ye (Edirne ve Civarında Osmanlı Kültür Bilim Muhitinin Oluşumu, XIV-XVI yüzyıl). Istanbul: Boğaziçi Universitesi Yayınevi, 2009.
Tunca, Ayhan. Edirne’de Tarih Kültür İnanç Turu’nda. Istanbul: İnkilap Kitavevi, 2010.
Wasti, Syed Tanvır. “The 1912–13 Balkan Wars and the Siege of Edirne.” Middle Eastern Studies 40, no. 4 (2004), 59–78.
Zachariadou, Elizabeth A. “The Conquest of Adrianople by the Turks.” Studi Veneziani XII (1970), 211–17.
_____. “The Sultanic Residence and the Capital: Didymoteichon and Adrianople.” In The Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, the Greek Lands: Toward a Social and Economic History, 357–61. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2007.
E212 | Much of the scholarship on the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which had its roots in the sociopolitical context of the 8th century Iraq, focuses on the early centuries of that school's development. Meanwhile, recent scholarship on the later periods emphasizes the transformations within the Hanafi jurisprudence in the early modern and modern periods, particularly as a result of the increasing role of the Ottoman state in the process of lawmaking. Dr. Samy Ayoub presents a different approach on Ottoman Hanafi jurists, who maintained the integrity of the legal discourse while recognizing the needs of the times. In this episode, Dr. Ayoub shares some of his reseach on the question of continuity and change under the self-desctibed “late-Hanafis” from the 16th century until the making of mecelle, the first attempt at codifying Islamic law, during the late 19th century.
Samy Ayoub earned his Ph.D. in Islamic law from the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. He earned a B.A. in Islamic jurisprudence from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, in 2006, where he received systematic instruction in Ḥanafī jurisprudence. He also received an MSc. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK, in 2008. Dr. Ayoub’s research interests cover the history of the early modern Ottoman Empire, contemporary Arab legal regimes, Muslim ethics, and the Arab renaissance (nahḍa).
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/hanafi-law.html
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Episode No. 212 Release date: 22 November 2015 Location: The University of Texas at Austin Produced in collaboration with Christopher Rose at 15 Minute History. Recording credits to Michael Heidenreich (HIGH-den-ryke), Jacob Weiss, and the audio services team in Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin. Sound samples courtesy of Chris Gratien Image from Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004668145/ Bibliography courtesy of Samy Ayoub at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/hanafi-law.html
with Nina Ergin
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When employing textual sources for history, it is easy to lose track of the fact that experiences of the past were immersed in rich sensory environments in which "the word" was only a small component of daily life. How can we restore the sights, sounds, and sensations of the Ottoman past? In this episode, Nina Ergin presents some of her research involving the sonic history of the Ottoman Empire, exploring topics such as architecture, gender, and politics through different sources that offer clues about Ottoman soundscapes.
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E210 | The subject of health in the modern period is often discussed as a transition from traditional to scientific medicine and what Foucault has called "the birth of the clinic." Such perspectives view medicine and healing through the lens of changing methods, forms of knowledge, and authority. In this podcast, our guest Sylvia Wing Önder offers a slightly different approach to the subject in a discussion of her monograph "We Have No Microbes Here (Carolina Academic Press, 2007)," looking at continuities in the centrality of households and women in making decisions about medical care within a Black Sea village.
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Dr. Sylvia Wing Önder has been teaching Turkish Language and Culture at Georgetown University since 1998. Students in her anthropology classes are encouraged to interrogate the power of national, biomedical, military, and educational discourse across cultures by examining constructed and constraining categorizations of citizenship, youth, gender, religiosity, consumer embeddedness, health, and disability.
Episode No. 210 Release date: 16 October 2015 Location: Şişli, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpts from archive.org: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Giresun Karsilamasi (Altini Bozdurayim) - Bicoglu Osman Image: A traditional Black Sea bone-setter with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren (Photo credit: Sylvia Wing Önder)
E209 | Moroccan folk literature has drawn the attention of researchers for over a century, beginning with the earliest French colonial ethnographers' exhaustive studies of Moroccan dialects through recordings of poems, folktales, and proverbs. The influence of these stories can also be found in the work of some of Morocco's most internationally acclaimed authors such as Mohammed Mrabet. On this podcast, Yelins Mahtat recounts a folktale from the region of Oulmès in the present-day province of Khemisset. Afterwards, Yelins takes us into the process of collecting and translating Amazigh folktales from the foothills of the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. His research records folktales from storytellers in his family and from the villages near where he grew up. We discuss the politics of authorship and performance as well as the utility of folktales for understanding social and cultural dynamics of the Middle Atlas.
Yelins Mahtat is a doctoral candidate in linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Graham H. Cornwell is a PhD Candidate in History at Georgetown University. His dissertation is entitled "Sweetening the Pot: A History of Tea and Taste in Morocco, 1856-1960.
Episode No. 209 (tajine No. 10) Release date: 13 November 2015 Recording location: Nederlands Instituut in Marokko, Rabat Editing and production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Yelins Mahtat Musical excerpts from freemusicarchive.org: Brahim Fribgane live Live at WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Brahim_Fribgane/ Image via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middle_Atlas.jpg
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Akouaou, Ahmed. "Poésie orale berbère: statut, formes et fonctions." Revue de l'Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée 44.1 (1987): 69-78.
Merolla, D. "Intersections: Amazigh (Berber) Literary Space." (2014): 26.
Roux, Arsène. "Enigmes et proverbes en berbère-tachelhit." Etudes et documents berbères 12 (1995): 183-197.
Savignac, Pierre. Contes berbères de Kabylie. Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1978. Stroomer, Harry. Tashelhiyt Berber Folktales from Tazerwalt (South Morocco): A Linguistic Reanalysis of Hans Stumme's Tazerwelt Texts with an English Translation. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2002.
E208 | Osmanlı tarihinde, tıpkı dünya tarihinde olduğu gibi, büyük toplumsal dönüşümlere, devrimlere, savaşlara ve barışlara dair anlatılara erkeklerin eylemleri, sesleri ve kalemleri egemen olurken, kadınlar ve çocuklar sıklıkla bu anlatıların ya dışında bırakıldı yada yardımcı öğesi olageldi. Sosyal ve feminist tarih yazımının en önemli katkısı kadın anlatılarını merkez alarak ve görünür kılarak Osmanlı toplumunda toplumsal cinsiyet rolleri, vatandaşlık hakları ve emek ilişkilerini yeni bir tarih anlayışı ve Osmanlı tarihi anlatısı sunmak oldu. Zeynep Kutluata ile bu bölümde Osmanlı’nın savaşlara ve göçlere karışmış ‘’en uzun yüzyılı’’nda kadınların gerek savaş alanlarında gerekse cephe gerisinde aldıkları aktif siyasi ve toplumsal rolleri vatandaşlık ve toplumsal cinsiyet tartışmaları ekseninde ele aldık.
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Zeynep Kutluata doktorasını Sabancı Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde tamamlamıştır. “Ottoman Women and the State during World War I” başlıklı tez çalışmasında kadınların yazdıkları arzuhaller üzerine yoğunlaşmakta ve bu arzuhaller aracılığıyla savaş döneminde devlet ve kadınlar arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektedir.
Bölüm No. 208 Yayın Tarihi: 6 November 2015 Kayıt Yeri: Feriköy, Istanbul Müzik (archive.org): Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Abdullah Yuce - Bu Ne Sevgi Ah Bu Ne Izdirap Bibiliyografya: Zeynep Kutluata'nın müsadesiyle Resim kaynağı GoogleBooks https://books.google.com/books?id=3vNTAAAAcAAJ&dq=Tableau%20historique%2C%20politique%20et%20pittoresque%20de%20la%20Turquie%20et%20de%20la%20Russie&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q=fatima&f=false
SEÇME KAYNAKÇA
Akın, Yiğit. "War, Women, and the State: The Politics of Sacrifice in the Ottoman Empire During the First World War". Journal of Women's History. 26, no. 3 (2014): 12-35.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine, 1865-1908, London-New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Dombrowski, Nicole Ann (ed.). Women and War in the Twentieth Century : Enlisted with or without Consent. New York: Garland.1999.
Mazlımyan, Kohar. “Türk Kadını Savaş Yıllarında Ne Yaptı,” Hay Gin, year: 1, no: 14, 16 May 1920, trans. Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, in Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar, no: 2, February 2007.
Kutluata, Zeynep “Geç Osmanlı Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi’nde Savaş ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet: Kara Fatma(lar)”, Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar, 2006-2007 Seçkisi, İstanbul: BGST Yayınları, 149- 68.
Lex Heerma van Voss (ed.) Petitions in Social History, NY: The Presss Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 2001.
Sarıyıldız, Gülden. Sokak Yazıcıları: Osmanlılarda Arzuhaller ve Arzuhalciler, Istanbul: Derlem Yayınları, 2010.
Zaeske, Susan. Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity, The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
E207 | The 1925 Syrian Revolt was catalyzed by contestation over authority between local notables and the French mandate government, but it soon spread throughout the mandate as a form of anti-French protest. In this episode, Reem Bailony explores the ways in which the Great Syrian Revolt was also a transnational affair, sharing her research on the activities of the Greater Syrian diaspora in the Americas, Europe, and beyond over the course of 1925-27.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/transnationalism-and-1925-syrian-revolt.html
Reem Bailony earned her Ph.D. in History from UCLA. Her dissertation entitled, “Transnational Rebellion: The Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927,” examines the long-distance nationalism of Syrian-Lebanese migrant communities in relationship to the anti-French rebellion of 1925. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges.
Episode No. 207 Release date: 4 November 2015 Recording Location: Northampton, MA Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpts form archive.org: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Muzaffer Akgun - Ha Bu Diyar Bibliography and image courtesy of Reem Bailony
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al-Atrash, Sultan Pasha. Al-mudhakkirat al-kamilah lil-za‘im sultan basha al-atrash: al-qa‘id al-‘am lil-thawra al-suriyah al-kubra, 1925-1927, 1998.
al-Bi‘ayni, Hasan. Sultan Basha Al-Atrash Wa-Al-Thawrah Al-Suriyah Al-Kubra. London: Muʼassasat al-Turath al-Durzi, 2008.
Anderson, Benedict. “Long-Distance Nationalism.” The Spectre of Comparisons. London: Verso, 1998: 58-74.
Arsan, Andrew. "‘This Age is the Age of Associations’: Committees, Petitions, and the Roots of Interwar Middle Eastern Internationalism." Journal of Global History 7.02 (2012): 166-188.
Arsan, Andrew, John Karam, and Akram Khater. "On Forgotten Shores: Migration in Middle East Studies and the Middle East in Migration Studies." Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 1.1 (2013).
Bawardi, Hani. The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014).
Fahrenthold, Stacy. "Transnational Modes and Media: The Syrian Press in the Mahjar and Emigrant Activism during World War I." Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 1.1 (2013).
Glick Schiller, Nina Linda Basch, and Cristina Szanton Blanc. “Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 645: 1. July 1992: 1-24.
Gualtieri, Sarah. Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora. Berkeley: University of California, 2009.
Khater, Akram Fouad. “Becoming ‘Syrian’ in America: A Global Geography of Ethnicity and Nation.” Diaspora 14:2/3 (2005): 299-331.
Khoury, Philip S. Syria and the French Mandate: the Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1987.
Nuwayhid,‘Ajaj. Sittun ʻaman Maʻa Al-Qafilah Al-ʻarabiyah: Mudhakkirat ʻajaj Nuwayhid. Beirut: Dar al-Istiqlal, 1993.
Pedersen, Susan. "Samoa on the World Stage: Petitions and Peoples before the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40, no. 2 (2012).
Provence, Michael. The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism. Austin: University of Texas, 2005.
Waldinger, Roger D. and David Fitzgerald. "Transnationalism in Question." American Journal of Sociology 109.5 (2004): 1177-95.
E206 | In this episode, Sherene Seikaly discusses the intersection of politics and economics under the British Mandate in Palestine through the lens of Palestinian capitalists, who are the subject of her new book entitled Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press).
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/capitalism-palestine.html
Sherene Seikaly is Assistant Professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of the Arab Studies Journal, and co-founder and editor of Jadaliyya e-zine. Seikaly's Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and the body.
Episode No. 206 Release date: 30 October 2015 Location: Georgetown University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Graham Pitts Musical excerpts from archive.org: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Bozlak and Halay - Yozgatli Hafiz Suleyman Bey; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla Sherene Seikaly's Men of Capital on Stanford University Press website: http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=20592
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Toufoul Abou-Hodeib,"Taste and Class in Late Ottoman Beirut," International Journal of Middle East Studies 43.03 (2011): 475-492.
Charles W. Anderson, From Petition to Confrontation: The Palestinian National Movement and the Rise of Mass Politics, 1929-1939, Diss. New York University, 2013.
Ghassan Kanafani, Thawrat 1936-1939 fi Filastin [The 1936-1939 Revolt in Palestine], 1972.
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914, University of California Press, 2010.
Weldon C. Matthews, Confronting an Empire, Constructing a Nation: Arab Nationalities and Popular Politics in Mandate Palestine, London: I. B. Tauris, 2006.
Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine, Stanford University Press, 2016.
_____. “Bodies and Needs: Lesson from Palestine,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2014); 784-786.
_____. "Gender and the People in Revolutionary Times" Jadaliyya (June, 2013).
E205 | In the 1920s and 1930s, politicians, intellectuals, and members of the public joined a lively debate about the issue of female suicide in Turkey. While we cannot know whether the rates of female suicide were actually skyrocketing during this period, the fact that so many public figures began to treat this issue as a central concern tells us a lot about the relationship between the modernizing state of Early Republican Turkey and the women whom it governed. In this episode, Nazan Maksudyan explores what might have provoked this debate, what it might say about the state and its relationship to women, gender, and the female body, and how women themselves might have used suicide as a means of asserting their agency.
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Nazan Maksudyan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University. Her work examines the social, cultural, and economic history of children and youth during the late Ottoman period.
Episode No. 205 Release date: 25 October 2015 Recording location: Kemerburgaz University Editing by Onur Engin, generously funded by a paid assistantship at Koç University under the supervision of Associate Professor Nina Ergin Bibliography courtesy of Nazan Maksudyan Image courtesy of Nicholas Danforth
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A. Holly Shissler. "If You Ask Me': Sabiha Sertel's Advice Column, Gender Equity, and Social Engineering in the Early Turkish Republic," Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3 (2007): 1-30.
A. Holly Shissler. "Beauty Is Nothing to be Ashamed of: Beauty Contests as Tools of Women’s Liberation in Early Republican Turkey," Comparative Studies of South-Asia, Africa and the Middle-East 24 (2004): 107–122.
Ruth A. Miller. The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate, 2007.
Pelin Başçı. "Love, Marriage, and Motherhood: Changing Expectations of Women in Late Ottoman Istanbul," Turkish Studies, 4 (2003): 145-177.
Nazan Maksudyan. “Control over Life, Control over Body: Female Suicide in Early Republican Turkey.” Women’s History Review (Spring 2014): 1.
Nazan Maksudyan. "'This time women as well got involved in politics!': Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political Agency." In Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History, Nazan Maksudyan (ed.) New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. pp. 107-135.
Ayça Alemdaroğlu. "Politics of the Body and Eugenic Discourse in Early Republican Turkey," Body & Society 11 (2005): 61-76.
Nurullah Şenol. "Arşiv Belgeleri Işığında Osmanlı Toplumunda İntihar," Toplumsal Tarih 110 (2003): 52-56.
Nurullah Ulutaş. Türk Romanında İntihar (1872-1960). Ph.D. dissertation, Uludağ University, 2006.
Zafer Toprak. "Dr. Cemal Zeki’nin ‘Delişmen, Çılgın Kızlar’ı – Cumhuriyette Genç Kız ve Kadın İntiharları," Toplumsal Tarih 87 (2001) : 25-29.
E204 | In the decades following the Armenian genocide, communities of the diaspora began to document the life of Ottoman Armenians in the towns and villages of Anatolia and publish their material in memory books aimed at preserving and transmitting Armenian histories for posterity. Largely composed in Armenian and languages of the diaspora, these books have circulated in small circles for decades as tiny fragments of a treasured but fading past. In recent years, digital technologies have created a new venue for piecing back together these fragments and sharing the history of Ottoman Armenians in a public forum. In this episode, we speak to historian Vahé Tachjian about the houshamadyan project, which since 2011 has served as a virtual space for the reconstruction and exploration of Ottoman Armenian life.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/reconstructing-ottoman-armenian-life.html
Vahé Tachjian earned his Ph.D. in History and Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has published widely on the history of the French Mandates in the Middle East and Armenians in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is also project director of houshamadyan, a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life.
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Episode No. 204 Release Date: 17 October 2015 Location: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ Editing and production by Chris Gratien Special thanks to Nora Lessersohn for Hovannes Cherishian's recording of "Kun yeghir balas" Additional music from Maro Nalbandian
E203 | The history of the modern world is one of overlapping displacements that have severed ties not only between people and their ancestral homes but also their histories. The writing of village history among displaced communities such as Ashkenazi Jews and Ottoman Armenians has emerged as a means of preserving that history for future generations in the diaspora. In this episode, Rochelle Davis discusses her work on the village history genre among Palestinians, its place within Palestinian historical memory, and the ways in which these sources can enrich our understanding of the past.
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Rochelle Davis is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her primary research work is on refugees in the Arab World, initially Palestinian refugees (Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (Stanford University Press, 2011)) and more recently Iraqi and Syrian refugees. A second research project examines the US military’s conceptions of culture in the 21st century wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Release date: 14 October 2015 Location: Georgetown University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Copyright free musical excerpts Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep Image via Library of Congress
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Davis, Rochelle. Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat. Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Doumani, Beshara. Rediscovering Palestine Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1995.
Shryock, Andrew. Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Slyomovics, Susan. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Swedenburg, Ted. Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Tamārī, Salīm. Mountain against the Sea Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009.
_____. Year of the Locust A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
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Bath houses or hamams were mainstays of the Ottoman city. But as semi-public spaces where people could mix and implicitly transgressed certain boundaries regarding nudity, they were also spaces that produced anxiety and calls for regulation. In this episode, Elyse Semerdjian discusses how in a certain time and place of eighteenth century Aleppo, the issue of Muslim and Christian women bathing together aroused the concern of Ottoman state and society.
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E201 | The production of motion pictures began in the 1890s, and before long, films were being screened throughout the world, including in Ottoman cities. How did Ottoman audiences receive the advent of film? What was the role of the state in promoting or limiting the spread of motion pictures? What were the contents of the earliest films shown and produced in the Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen offers an introduction to the emergence of cinema in the Ottoman Empire and discusses the results of her research on the subject at the Ottoman archives in Istanbul.
Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry at University College London researching the history of cinema in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/09/cinema-ottoman-empire-turkey.html
Episode No. 201 Release date: 23 September 2015 Location: Feriköy, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Music and sound excerpts: Mısır Çarşısı (Chris Gratien); Rüçhan Çamay & Dün Bügün ve Yarın - Televizyon; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer Bibliography courtesy of Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen Image by Ressam Salih (1943)
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For the film collection of the Turkish Armed Forces, see this article in Sabah: http://www.sabah.com.tr/medya/2015/06/17/tsknin-ilk-kez-yayinladigi-tarihi-goruntuler
Savaş Arslan. Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen. "Denetimden Sansüre Osmanlı’da Sinema." Toplumsal Tarih, no. 255, (March 2015): 72-79.
Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen. “1903 Sinematograf İmtiyazı.” Toplumsal Tarih, no. 229 (January 2013): 26-32.
Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen. “Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives: Inventory of Written Archival Sources for Ottoman Cinema History.” Tarih, Issue 3, Boğaziçi University Department of History (2013): 17–48.
Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen. “Mürebbiye/The Governess.” In Directory of World Cinema: Turkey, edited by Eylem Atakav, 61-63. (Bristol: Intellect, 2013).
Nezih Erdoğan. “The Spectator in the Making: Modernity and Cinema in Istanbul, 1896-1928.” In Orienting Istanbul Cultural Capital of Europe, edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and İpek Türeli, 129-143. (London: Routledge, 2010).
Dilek Kaya-Mutlu. “Ayastefanos’taki Rus Abidesi: Kim Yıktı? Kim Çekti? Kim ‘Yazdı?’” Seyir, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 12-21.
Hamid Naficy. A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2011.
Mustafa Özen. “Travelling Cinema in Istanbul.” In Travelling Cinema in Europe: Sources and Perspectives, edited by Martin Loiperdinger, 47-53. (Kintop Schriften, 2008).
Saadet Özen. "'Balkanların İlk Sinemacıları' mı? Manaki Biraderler." Toplumsal Tarih, no. 219 (March 2012): 60-67.
Saadet Özen. “Rethinking the Young Turk Revolution: Manaki Brothers’ Still and Moving Images.” MA thes., (Boğaziçi University, 2010).
Emrah Özen. “Geçmişe Bakmak: Sinema Tarihi Çalışmaları Üzerine Eleştirel Bir İnceleme.” Kebikeç, Sinema ve Tarih, no 27 (2009): 131-155.
Ali Özuyar. Babıali’de Sinema. (İstanbul: İzdüşüm Yayınları, 2004).
E200 | "Sectarianism" is a a slippery term, now used to describe everything from Saudi Arabian foreign policy to the daily functioning of Lebanese politics to the rhetoric of the Islamic State. In this episode, historian Ussama Makdisi takes on the history of both the term "sectarian" and the kinds of communal political divides it is often used to describe in the late Ottoman Empire and the 20th century Middle East, reflecting on his former work and offering a preview of his forthcoming scholarship.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/09/rethinking-sectarianism-in-middle-east.html
Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. He is the author of Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs, 2010), Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008), and the Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press, 2000). (see faculty page)
Episode No. 200 Release Date: 13 September 2015 Location: Yeniköy, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpts from archive.org: Turnalar Turnalar - Darulelhan Heyeti; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi Image via US Library of Congress Bibliography courtesy of Susanna Ferguson
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.
Campos, Michelle. Ottoman Brothers: Muslim, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Der Matossian, Bedross. Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire. 2014.
Greene, Molly. A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Makdisi, Ussama. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.
_____. The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History and Violence in Ottoman Lebanon. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.
Masters, Bruce Alan. Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: The Roots of Sectarianism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
White, Benjamin T. The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
E199 | Within the historiography, major shifts and developments in schools of thought and legal interpretation have dominated the narrative of how Islamic law has spread and transformed across time. However, as our guest Guy Burak argues in his new monograph, The Second Formation of Islamic Law, structural changes in the relationship between state, society, and law are also an important part of this story. In this episode, Dr. Burak explains how law transformed under post-Mongol Islamicate empires such as the Ottomans through changes in the ways these states claimed legal authority.
Guy Burak is the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian at NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.
For "The Second Formation of Islamic Law", see: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/second-formation-islamic-law-hanafi-school-early-modern-ottoman-empire?format=HB
Release date: 4 September 2015 Location: RCAC, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Guy Burak Music excerpts via archive.org and Free Music Archive: Murat Kenarinda (Egin Havasi) - Agyazar Efendi; Karaköy Balık Pazarı (Chris Gratien); Muzaffer Akgun - Ha Bu Diyar; Podington Bear
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Guy Burak, The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Richard C. Repp, The Müfti of Istanbul: A Study in the Development of the Ottoman Learned Hierarchy (London: Ithaca Press, 1986).
Abdurrahman Atcil, “The Formation of the Ottoman Learned Class and Legal Scholarship (1300–1600)” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2010).
Colin Imber, Ebuʾs-Suʿud: The Islamic Legal Tradition (Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1997 ) ;
Rudolph Peters, “What Does It Mean to Be an Official Madhhab? Hanafism and the
Ottoman Empire,” in The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress, ed. Peri Baerman , Rudolph Peters , and Frank E. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005), 147–58
Snjezana Buzov, “The Lawgiver and His Lawmakers: The Role of Legal Discourse in the Change of Ottoman Imperial Culture” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2005);
Haim Gerber, State, Society, and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective ( Albany : State University of New York , 1994 ) .
Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez-Smith, Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration, and Production in Ottoman Syria (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007), esp. chs. 2-3.
Judith E. Tucker, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
E198 | The Treaty of Berlin in 1878 brought an Austro-Hungarian occupation to many parts of the Balkans such as Bosnia that had lived under Ottoman rule for centuries. While this was certainly a historical rupture, as Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular emphasizes, this period also witnessed some important continuities with the Ottoman past. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Amzi-Erdoğdular's ongoing book project regarding those continuities and examine the lives of Ottoman Muslims of Bosnia between two empires.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/bosnia-ottoman-empire-austria.html
Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular is a Lecturer in Ottoman Language at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Afterlife of Empire, which explores Ottoman continuities in Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Release date: 28 August 2015 Location: Columbia University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Musical excerpt of "Bülbülüm Altın Kafeste" courtesy of Ahmet Erdoğdular and Makam New York Bibliography and images courtesy of Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular
Susanna Ferguson is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University, where she focuses on the history of women and gender in the Arab world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E197 | This podcast explores murky boundaries in two senses. The first has to do with Anglo-Ottoman commerce and diplomacy in the early modern period. Like the more well-known case of the the British East India Company in South Asia, British diplomatic representation in Constantinople was also controlled by a corporate entity. Known as the Levant Company, the institution ensured that from the late 16th to the early 19th century there was little distinction between merchants and statesmen when it came to British diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire. The blurred lines gave way to what might be called a “cycle of necessity,” in which British diplomats gave gifts to secure commercial privileges for British merchants who would then fund the diplomats to provide gifts again. Yet the cycle did not always proceed smoothly, and discrepancies between translations of agreements often played a key role in hitches, in the process raising basic yet profound questions about what treaty-making meant. The second part of the podcast considers Ottoman maritime space and legal order more broadly. With respect to this theme, murkiness makes another appearance, this time as it related to the ability to possess or control the sea. What did it mean to draw a line across the waves, to differentiate between su and derya? Particularly in an age of imprecise mapmaking technologies, these efforts at delineation often were accompanied by a good deal of ambiguity, pointing to the complexity - if not always plurality - of legal cultures and claims to sovereignty that existed in the Ottoman maritime space and, indeed, that extended even ashore the Well-Protected Domains as well.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/british-ottoman-diplomacy-and-making-of.html
Dr. Michael Talbot completed his PhD at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher with the Mediterranean Reconfigurations project at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Episode No. 197 Release Date: 22 August 2015 Location: Paris, France Editing and production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Michael Talbot Image via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O916899/a-british-official-probably-the-watercolour-anonymous-greek-artist/
E196 | During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, scientists and physicians the world over began to think of sex as something that could be studied and understood through rational methods. In places like Germany, these sexologists were associated with progressive political movements that combated stigmatization of homosexuality and contraception and broke taboos regarding issues such as impotence and masturbation. In this episode, Liat Kozma examines how sexology traveled and transformed in Middle Eastern contexts through the writings of Egyptian doctors and Jewish exiles.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/women-gender-and-sex-in-history.html
Liat Kozma is a senior lecturer at the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies, the Hebrew University. She is currently working on a book manuscript on regulated prostitution in the interwar Middle East and North Africa.
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
Susanna Ferguson is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University, where she focuses on the history of women and gender in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Release date: 19 August 2015 Location: Okmeydanı, Istanbul Editing and production by Chris Gratien Bibliography and images courtesy of Liat Kozma Additional thanks to Seçil Yılmaz
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY courtesy of Liat Kozma
Liat Kozma, " 'We, the Sexologists . . .': Arabic Medical Writing on Sexuality, 1879–1943," Journal of the History of Sexuality 22:3 (2013), 426-445.
Liat Kozma, "sexology in the Yishuv: The rise and decline of sexual consultation in Tel Aviv, 1930–39", International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (May 2010), 231-249.
Liat Kozma, "Translating Sexology, Writing the Nation: Sexual Discourse and Practice in Hebrew and in Arabic in the 1930s," In Heike Bauer, Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World. London: Temple University Press, 2015.
Further Reading
On Ottoman sexual discourses, see Dror Ze'evi, Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 (especially chapter 1).
On sexual discourses in the 20th century Egypt, see Wilson Chacko Jacob, Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011 (especially chapter 6).
On scientification of the human body in early twentieth century Egypt, consult also Hanan Kholoussy, "Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt," Gender & History 22 (2010), 677-691; Hibba Abugideiri, Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt. London: Ashgate, 2010, chapter 7 (titled "Egyptian doctors and domestic medicine"); and Oumnia El Shakry, The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
On sexuality in early Zionist ideology, see Daniel Boyarin, Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997; John M. Efron, Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-De-Siècle Europe. New Haven, Con.: Yale University Press, 1994.
On concept of "sexual reform" disseminated in different European contexts (including the UK, the Netherlands and Spain) in the interwar period through the German-inspired World League for Sexual Reform, see a theme issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 12, issue 1 (January 2003).
Heike Bauer's forthcoming Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World. London: Temple University Press, 2015 – will cover more such contexts of influence, including China, Japan, Russia and Peru.
E195 | Visit http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/ottoman-empire-photography-edhem-eldem.html for images associated with the podcast.
Photography came to the Ottoman Empire almost immediately after its invention in 1839. Some of the major figures and studios involved in Ottoman photography have been identified, and certain stylistic aspects of images produced in and of the Ottoman Empire such as orientalism are well established. Yet there is comparatively little extant work regarding the reception, impact, and circulation of images during the late Ottoman period. In this episode, Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir sit down with Edhem Eldem to discuss the ways in which restoring contexts of viewing, circulation, and publication of images offers a different story of late Ottoman photography using examples from the Camera Ottomana photography exhibition at Koç RCAC in Istanbul, curated by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, and Bahattin Öztuncay.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/ottoman-empire-photography-edhem-eldem.html
Edhem Eldem is a professor in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University.
Emily Neumeier is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania researching art and architecture in the Ottoman world.
Nir Shafir is a doctoral candidate at UCLA focusing on the history of knowledge and science in the early modern Middle East. He also runs the website HAZİNE, which profiles different archives, libraries, and museums that house sources on the Islamic world.
Episode No. 195 Release Date: 11 August 2015 Location: Boğaziçi University Editing and production by Chris Gratien Bibliography and images courtesy of Edhem Eldem and Emily Neumeier Musical excerpts from archive.org: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi / Kemany Minas - Eghin Havasi (1925) / Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla
The Camera Ottomana exhibit, curated by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, and Bahattin Öztuncay, is on display at Koç RCAC / ANAMED in Beyoğlu, Istanbul until 19 August 2015.
FURTHER READING
Camera Ottomana exhibit website Camera Ottomana exhibit catalog, by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, Bahattin Öztuncay, Frances Terpak & Peter Louis Bonfitto (Koç University Press, 2015)
Eldem, Edhem. "Powerful Images: The Dissemination and Impact of Photography in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914" in Camera Ottomana, ed. Zeynep Çelik and Edhem Eldem. Koç University Press, 2015.
Baleva, Martina. “Revolution in the Darkroom: Nineteenth-Century Portrait Photography as a Visual Discourse of Authenticity.” Hungarian Historical Review 3, no. 2 (2014): 363–390.
Gavin, Carney E. S., ed. “Imperial Self-Portrait: The Ottoman Empire as Revealed in the Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s Photographic Albums Presented as Gifts to the Library of Congress (1893) and the British Museum (1894).” Special issue. Journal of Turkish Studies; Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları 12 (1988).
Marsoobian, Armen T. Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia. London: I. B. Tauris, 2015.
Özendes, Engin. From Sébah & Joaillier to Foto Sabah: Orientalism in Photography. Istanbul: YKY, 2004.
Öztuncay, Bahattin, The Photographers of Constantinople: Pioneers, Studios, and Artists from 19th Century Istanbul. Istanbul: Aygaz, 2003.
E194 | At the turn of the twentieth century, Turkish-speaking Greek intellectuals of Cappadocian origin found themselves between mutually opposed Turkish and Greek nationalist ideologies. Their unique cultural background and their belief in the promises of the Young Turk Revolution allowed them to develop an alternative brand of Greek identity, one that combined cultural Hellenism with political loyalty to the Ottoman State. But their hopes never came true, and as such, they have been written out of history and forgotten. In this episode, we talk to Vangelis Kechriotis about his latest research on Cappadocian Christians and other issues relating to late Ottoman Greek identity, exploring the fascinating careers and difficult political choices of those caught between competing nationalist discourses.
Vangelis Kechriotis is an Assistant Professor of History at Boğaziçi University. He specializes in history of non-Muslims in the late Ottoman Empire, particularly the Greek Orthodox. His PhD dissertation completed at the University of Leiden examined the history of the Greek community of Izmir. His latest work focuses on the history of complex cultural and political identities of Cappadocian Greeks.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/07/ottomanism-with-greek-face-vangelis.html
Editing and Production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Polina Ivanova Musical excerpts from archive.org: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem & Sari Recep / Nazmiye by Rizeli Sadik
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Balta, Evangelia. Beyond the Language Frontier: Studies on the Karamanlis and the Karamanlidika Printing. Istanbul: Isis Press, 2010.
Benlisoy, Foti and Stefo Benlisoy. “Reading the Identity of “Karamanli” Through the Pages of Anatoli.” In Cries and Whispers in Karamanlidika Books: proceedings of the first International Conference on Karamanlidika Studies (Nicosia, 11th-13th September 2008), edited by Evangelia Balta and Matthias Kappler, 93-108. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.
Braude, Benjamin and Bernard Lewis, eds. Christians and Jews in in the Ottoman Empire: the Functioning of a Plural Society. New York: Holmes and Meier: 1982.
Kechriotis, Vangelis. “Ottomanism with a Greek Face: Karamanlı Greek Orthodox Diaspora at the End of the Ottoman Empire.” In Mediterranean Diasporas: Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century, edited by Maurizio Isabella and Konstantina Zanou, 189-204. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Kechriotis, Vangelis. “Atina’da Kapadokyalı, İzmir’de Atinalı, İstanbul’da Mebus: Pavlos Karolidis’in Farklı Kişilik ve Aidiyetleri,” Toplumsal Tarih, no. 257 (May 2015), 28-35.
Kechriotis, Vangelis. “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun son döneminde Karamanlı Rum Ortodoks diasporası İzmir mebusu Emmanouil Emmanouilidis,” Toplumsal Tarih, no. 251 (November 2014), 38-43.
Kechriotis, Vangelis. “On the margins of national historiography: The Greek Ittihatçı Emmanouil Emmanouilidis – opportunist or Ottoman patriot?” In Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Amy Singer, Christoph K. Neumann, and S. Aksin Somel, 124-142. London: Routledge, 2011.
Kechriotis, Vangelis. “Educating the Nation: Migration and Acculturation on the Two Shores of the Aegean at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” In Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day, edited by Meltem Toksöz and Biray Kulluoğlu. 139-156. London: I.B. Tauris (2010).
E193 | From Baghdad to Cairo to Edirne, hospitals were major and integral components of medieval and early modern Islamic cities. But what role did they play in these cities and their societies? Were they sites for the development of medical knowledge? In this podcast, Professor Ahmed Ragab examines the history and significance of hospitals in Mamluk Egypt and Syria. He argues that we must view these medieval hospitals as charitable institutions that provided needed services and drugs to the urban poor, rather than the early progenitors of our modern medical institutions. Over the course of the interview we explore how these hospitals functioned as charitable institutions, what type of medical theories and treatments they employed, why medieval rulers regarded them as so important, and why their importance decreased after the sixteenth century.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/07/islamic-hospitals-in-medieval-egypt-and.html
Ahmed Ragab is Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School. His book, The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity is available from Cambridge University Press as of September 2015.
Release date: 26 July 2015 Location: Harvard University Editing and Production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Ahmed Ragab
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ragab, Ahmed. The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion and Charity. Newark: Cambridge University Press, 2015. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/religion/islam/medieval-islamic-hospital-medicine-religion-and-charity?format=HB
Dols, Michael W. "The Origins of the Islamic Hospital: Myth and Reality." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 61, (1987): 367-390
Horden, Peregrine. "The Earliest Hospitals in Byzantium, Western Europe and Islam." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35, no. 3 (2005): 361-89.
Pormann, Peter E. "Islamic Hospitals in the Time of Al-Muqtadir." In Abbasid Studies Ii: Occasional Papers of the School of Abbasid Studies, Leuven, 28 June-1 July 2004, edited by John A. Nawas, 337-81. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2010.
Pormann, Peter E. "Medical Methodology and Hospital Practice: The Case of Fourth-/Tenth-Century Baghdad." In In the Age of Al-Farabi: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth-Tenth Century, edited by Peter Adamson, 95-118. London: Warburg Institute, 2008.
Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri. Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
E192 | Bathhouses or hamams are a well-known feature of the Ottoman city typically associated with leisure. However, as our guest Nina Ergin explains, the history of hamams also provides a window onto many socioeconomic and political issues in the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, we discuss her research regarding the hamams of Istanbul during the mid-eighteenth century, what they tell us about the political economy and demographic makeup of the Ottoman capital, and how mapping hamams onto the landscape of Ottoman Istanbul can raise new questions about the social history of the city.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/urban-space-in-ottoman-world.html
Nina Ergin is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University, specializing in the history of Ottoman architecture. Her work particularly revolves around monuments that have a strong social dimension, such as hamams, soup kitchens and hospitals, as well as around the sensory dimensions of the Ottoman built environment.
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. His doctoral research examines the ecological transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey from the mid-19th century onward.
Episode No. 192 Release date: 5 July 2015 Location: Feriköy, Istanbul Editing and Production by Chris Gratien Images courtesy of Nina Ergin Musical excerpt from Debo Band - Ambassel at freemusicarchive.org
Bibliography:
Nina Ergin with contributions by Yasemin Özarslan, “Mapping Istanbul’s Hamams of 1752 and Their Employees,” Bread from the Lion’s Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities, ed. Suraiya Faroqhi (New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2015), 108-135.
Nina Ergin, “The Albanian Tellâk Connection: Labor Migration to the Hamams of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul, Based on the 1752 İstanbul Hamâmları Defteri,” Turcica 43 (2011 [2012]): 229-254.
Nina Ergin, “Bathing Business in Istanbul: A Case Study of the Çemberlitaş Hamamı in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History and Imagination (Louvain: Peeters, 2011), 142-167.
Nina Ergin, “Continuity and Change in Turkish Bathing Culture in Istanbul: The Life Story of the Çemberlitaş Hamam,” Turkish Studies 6 (2005): 93-112.
with Lale Canhosted by Chris Gratien
Within nationalist understandings of Turkish identity, connections between Central Asia and the people of modern Turkey are often conceived of in terms of ancient genealogy of Turkic peoples. But as our guest in this episode of Ottoman History Podcast Lale Can illustrates, much more recent bonds forged not by ethnic but rather spiritual affinity during the Ottoman period point to enduring connections between Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire maintained through migration and pilgrimage. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Can's work on Central Asians moving in the Ottoman Empire and the transformation of travel and pilgrimage during the late nineteenth century century.
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E190 | For more than a century, waves of Armenian migrants have come to the United States variously seeking economic opportunity or fleeing political violence and persecution. In this episode, Susanna Ferguson sits down with David Gutman to discuss his research on the origins of Armenian migration to the United States and elsewhere during the late Ottoman period, and they explore how shifts in migration patterns reflected the broader political shifts in the empire during its last decades.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/03/ottoman-armenian-migration-united-states.html
David Gutman is an Assistant Professor at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. He completed his PhD at Binghamton University with a dissertation titled, "Sojourners, Smugglers, and the State: Transhemispheric Migration Flows and the Politics of Mobility in Eastern Anatolia, 1888-1908." His teaching interests include the history of the modern Middle East, global history, social and political movements, and migration. His research interests revolve around the politics of migration and migration control, the intersection of mobility and citizenship, social and political history of Ottoman peripheries, and Ottoman Armenians in the last decades of empire.
Susanna Ferguson is a PhD student in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University, where she focuses on the history of women and gender in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (see Academia.edu).
Bibliography
Akçam, Taner and Ümit Kurt. Kanunların Ruhu: Emval-i Metruke Kanunlarında Soykırımın İzini Sürmek. (Istanbul, 2012).
Der Matossian, Bedross. Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014.
Gutman, David. “Agents of Mobility: Migrant Smuggling Networks, Transhemispheric Migration, and Time-Space Compression in Ottoman Anatolia, 1888-1908.” Interdisciplines, 1 (2012), pp. 48-84.
Gutman, David. “Armenian Migration to North America, State Power, and Local Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Vol 34, No. 1 (forthcoming, Spring 2014).
Khater, Akram Fouad. Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920. (Berkeley, 2001).
Mirak, Robert. Torn Between Two Lands: Armenians in America 1890 to World War I (Cambridge, 1983).
E189 | Countries, much like companies, must seek to present a certain image to the outside world in order to achieve certain political and economic goals. As our guest in this episode, Aslı Iğsız, demonstrates, this self-presentation can take the form of full-fledged marketing campaigns. In this episode, we explore the marketing policies and strategies adopted in Turkey and the broader Middle East during the past two decades and reflect on how they various match, contradict, and intersect with politics in practice.
Aslı Iğsız is Assistant Professor of Culture and Representation in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
Nicholas Danforth is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the history of modern Turkey
Music: Seyyan Hanım - Mazi Debo Band - Ambassel (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Debo_Band/Live_on_WFMUs_Transpacific_Sound_Paradise_with_Bob_Weisberg_12122009/)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aronczyk, Melissa. Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Brown, Wendy. Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Iğsız, Aslı. “Palimpsests of Multiculturalism and ‘Museumization of Culture’: The Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Museum as an Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Project.” Comparative Studies in South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies. (Forthcoming August 2015)
Iğsız, Aslı. “From Alliance of Civilizations to Branding the Nation: Turkish Studies, Image Wars, and Politics of Comparison in an Age of Neoliberalism.” Turkish Studies. Special Issue, “Turkish Studies from an Interdisciplinary Perspective." 15:4 (December 2014), 689-704.
Iğsız, Aslı. “Brand Turkey and the Gezi Protests: Authoritarianism in Flux, Law, and Neoliberalism,” in The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey: #Occupy Gezi. Ed. Umut Özkırımlı. (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan). 2014. [revised version of two previously published Jadaliyya pieces: “Brand Turkey and the Gezi Protests: Authoritarianism, Law, and Neoliberalism” Part One and Two. Jadaliyya. 12-13 July 2013].
E188 | The association of Algeria with sex figured prominently in the artwork and literature that was critiqued so famously by Edward Said in Orientalism. In this episode, Dr. Aurelie Perrier discusses the practical backdrop of this argument beyond the level of discourse by exploring illicit sex in 19th century Algeria under both Ottoman and French rule. Beginning with the fluid boundaries of Ottoman-administered sex work, she describes the transformations that accompanied French colonialism beginning in 1830. Contextualizing the sex trade in both eras with flows of labor migration, Perrier also illuminates the spatial dynamics of the French approach to prostitution, namely the birth of red-light districts and brothels. At once centralizing and segregating sex work, this new politics of space was intimately connected to the boundaries of race and class that were the premise of colonialism in the first place. Yet it appears in many cases these boundaries were transgressed, undermining the credibility of the colonial state. Moreover, even as the state claimed unprecedented control over the intimate lives of its citizens/subjects, people still managed to use the system for their own purposes, or evade it altogether. Still, the undeniable encroachment of the state left an indelible mark on Algeria's history with distinctly gendered implications.
Aurelie Perrier is a recent PhD graduate in Middle East history from Georgetown University. Her dissertation examined the politics of gender in nineteenth and early twentieth-century colonial Algeria. Her broader research interests center on private life, the management of sexuality and the production of sentiment in colonial settings as well as on the construction of imperial masculinity.
Sam Dolbee is a doctoral candidate in the department of Middle East Studies at New York University.
Episode Music: Mustafa Hürerses - Mukaddes Günah Debo Band - Ambassel - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Debo_Band/Live_on_WFMUs_Transpacific_Sound_Paradise_with_Bob_Weisberg_12122009/ Selma Devrim - Sen
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Germaine Aziz, Les chambres closes: histoire d'une prostituée juive d'Algérie, edited by Christelle Taraud (Paris, Nouveau Monde: 2007) Christelle Taraud, La prostitution coloniale au Maghreb: Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1830-1962 (Paris, Payot: 2003) Ferhati Berkahoum, " la danseuse prostituee dite "Ouled Nail," entre mythe et realité (1830-1962). Des rapports sociaux et des pratiques concrètes," CLIO. Histoire, femmes et societés 17 (2003) Bruce W. Dunne, "French Regulation of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Algeria, Arab Studies Journal 2, no.1 (Spring 1994): 24-30.
More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com
E187 | The songs and melodies of the Turkey's Alevi communities derive from a long history of song-making in Anatolia that is embedded in local geographies and indelibly tied to notions of worship and belonging. So what happens when, through migration and media, that music enters an entirely new context? In this episode, we sit down with ethnomusicologist and musician Ozan Aksoy to discuss to his research on Kurdish Alevi music in diasporic contexts and hear him perform some of his favorite selections live in the OHP studio.
Ozan Aksoy holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from CUNY, Graduate Center, where he currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Middle East and Middle Eastern Center. He is also currently an instructor at New York University’s SPS-McGhee Division.
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
Ceren Erdem is a curator based in New York and Istanbul. She received has an M.A. in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University an MFA from Sabanci University, Istanbul. She has curated online projects and publications, and onsite exhibitions in New York, Istanbul, and Seoul.
For more: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/03/music-kurdish-alevi-migration.html
E186 | Students of Ottoman history might tend to think of the Medieval Period in Anatolia as a precursor to the Ottoman, in other words, reading the region's medieval past through the teleological lens of the Ottoman rise. However, recent scholarship on Medieval Anatolia, especially the Seljuk and Mongol periods, has moved towards a different approach that argues for the study of this complex geography and period in its own right. In this episode, Sara Nur Yıldız makes the argument for Medieval Anatolia and explores new developments in the political, social, and cultural history of the field.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/03/medieval-anatolia-seljuk-mongol-ottoman.html
Sara Nur Yıldız (PhD, University of Chicago, 2006) is an affiliated researcher at the Orient-Institut Istanbul and Research Fellow at St Andrews University on the project ‘Islamisation of Anatolia, c. 1100-1500’ https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk. A historian of medieval Anatolia, she is currently working on the intellectual and religious history of medieval Islamic Anatolia, spanning the Seljuk and early Ottoman periods, with a focus on textual production and circulation, the transfer of Islamic knowledge and learning, manuscript culture, vernacularization and medical texts.
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
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Beihammer, Alexander D. “Defection across the Border of Islam and Christianity: Apostasy and Cross-Cultural Interactions in Byzantine-Seljuk Relations.” Speculum 86 (2011): 597-651.
Blessing, Patricia. Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest. Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240-1330. Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
Goshgarian, Rachel. “Opening and Closing: Associations based on futuwwa in late medieval Anatolian cities.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 30, no. 1 (2013): 36-52.
Korobeinikov, Dimitri. Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pancaroğlu, Oya. “Devotion, Hospitality and Architecture in Medieval Anatolia.” Studia Islamica 108 (2013): 48-81.
Peacock, A.C.S. and Sara Nur Yıldız, eds. The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013; paperback version, 2015.
Peacock, A.C.S., Bruno De Nicola, and Sara Nur Yıldız, eds. Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia. Aldershot, Hampshire, England, and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015.
Peacock, Andrew C. S. “Sinop: A Frontier City in Seljuq and Mongol Anatolia.” Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 16 (2010): 103-124.
Peacock, A.C.S. “Court and Nomadic Life in Saljuq Anatolia.” In David Durand-Guédy, ed. Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013, 191-222.
Peacock, A.C.S. “The Seljuk Sultanate of Rūm and the Turkmen of the Byzantine frontier, 1206-1279.” Al-Masaq 26, no. 3 (2014): 267-287.
Redford, Scott. Legends of Authority. The 1215 Seljuk Inscriptions of the Sinop Citadel, Turkey. Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2014.
Trepanier, Nicholas. Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014.
Yalman, Suzan. “ ‘Ala al-Din Kayqubad Illuminated: A Rum Seljuq Sultan as Cosmic Ruler.” Muqarnas 29, no. 1 (2012): 151-186.
Yıldız, Sara Nur. “Manuel Komnenos Maurozomes and His Descendants at the Seljuk Court: The Formation of a Christian Seljuk-Komnenian Elite.” In Stefen Leder, ed. Crossroads between Latin Europe and the Near East: Corollaries of the Frankish Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean (12th to 14th Centuries). Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2011, 55-77.
Yıldız, Sara Nur. “From Cairo to Ayasuluk: Hacı Paşa and the transmission of Islamic learning to western Anatolia in the late 14th century.” Journal of Islamic Studies 25, no. 3. (2014): 263-297.
E185 | Pan-Turkism rose to prominence as a political ideology during the early twentieth century, heavily influenced by Muslim intellectuals that traveled between the Russian and Ottoman spheres. For many of these figures such as Yusuf Akçura, Ismail Gasprinski, and Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Pan-Turkism became the political movement that defined their legacies. However, as James Meyer explains in his new monograph entitled "Turks Across Empires", these intellectuals engaged with numerous other issues of the period well before becoming the Pan-Turkists they are remembered as today. In this episode, Nir Shafir and Ella Fratantuono talk to James Meyer about this research and explore what the history of the Pan-Turkists tells us about the broader sociopolitical connections between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
James H. Meyer is an assistant professor of Islamic World History at Montana State University. He works on a range of topics relating to Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, and the Muslim communities of Russia.
PUBLICATIONS OF JAMES MEYER
Turks Across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands (Oxford University Press, 2014).
"Speaking Sharia to the State: Muslim Protesters, Tsarist officials, and the Islamic Discourses of Late Imperial Russia." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 14,3 (Summer 2013), 485-505.
“The Economics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Money, Power, and Muslim Communities in Late Imperial Russia.” Book chapter appearing in Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts (Routledge, 2011).
“Immigration, Return, and the Politics of Citizenship: Russian Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1914,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 39:1, February 2007, 15-32.
For more: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/02/turks-across-empires.html
E184 | Hadi Hosainy ile 17. yüzyıl İstanbulu'nda kadın mülkiyet hakları üzerine konuştuğumuz bu podcastımızda kadınların hukuki yollara başvurarak nasıl kendilerini koruduklarına ve Osmanlı toplumunun şeri hukukun kadını dezavantajlı bir konuma iten kurallarının nasıl arkasından dolandığına değindik. Toplumsal cinsiyetin hukukun işleyişine etkilerini tartıştık.
Hadi Hosainy University of Texas at Austin'de doktora çalışmalarına devam etmektedir.
Yeni Çağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine yoğunlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/02/islamic-law-women-property-ottoman-empire.html
E183 | The story of the twelfth-century scholar Umaya b. Abd al-Aziz Abu al-Salt al-Dani al-Ishbili starts in al-Andalus but moves eastward, to Fatimid Cairo and Zirid Tunisia. His movement across the Mediterranean illustrates a west-east transmission of knowledge and intellectual culture. A prolific scholar trained in diverse fields, Abu al-Salt's story traces scholarly links between multiple medieval Islamic states. Professor Sumaiya Hamdani joins Graham Cornwell to discuss her work on Abu al-Salt and the historiography of intellectual culture in the medieval Mediterranean.
More at: http://tajine.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/01/fatimid-egypt-tunisia-andalus.html
Sumaiya Hamdani is Associate Professor of World History at George Mason University, and founder of the GMU Islamic Studies program. She is also the author of Between Revolution and State: The Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy, published in 2006.
Graham H. Cornwell is a PhD Candidate in History at Georgetown University. His dissertation is entitled "Sweetening the Pot: A History of Tea and Taste in Morocco, 1856-1960.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sumaiya Hamdani. "Worlds apart? An Andalusi in Fatimid Egypt." Journal of North African Studies 19.1 (2014): 56-67.
Hamdani, Sumaiya. Between Revolution and State: The Path to Fatimid Statehood : Qadi Al-Nuʻman and the Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi. The Legacy of Muslim Spain, Volume 1. Brill: 2000.
Yaacov Lev. State and Society in Fatimid Egypt, Volume 1. Brill: 1991.
Amin Maalouf. Leo Africanus. New Amsterdam Books: 1998.
Stephen O' Shea. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. Walker: 2007.
E182 | In this episode, Beth Baron discusses the historical context of the Muslim Brotherhood's rise during the interwar period and how the organization's activities and goals were shaped by the actions of European missionaries in Egypt.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/01/history-muslim-brotherhood-egypt.html
Beth Baron is Professor of History at City University of New York (CUNY), the Graduate Center and direct of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC). She has written extensively on the gender, the press, nationalism, and politics in modern Egypt.
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
Susanna Ferguson is a PhD student in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University, where she focuses on the history of women and gender in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Select Publications of Beth Baron:
The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood. Stanford University Press, 2014.
Egypt As a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
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The legal and social environments surrounding slavery and manumission during the early modern period varied from place to place and profession to profession. In this episode, Nur Sobers-Khan presents her exciting research on the lives of a particular population of slaves in Ottoman Galata during the late sixteenth century, how they were classified and documented under Ottoman law, and the terms by which they were able to achieve their freedom.
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E180 | How have the immense transformations of the nineteenth century impacted Egyptian state and society? Our guest Dr. Khaled Fahmy has devoted much of his work to the study of that very question in the realms of military, medicine, and in this episode, law, which is the subject of his forthcoming book. In this episode, we explore the emergence to of new legal institutions under Mehmed Ali's government in Egypt and ask Dr. Fahmy what this meant for Egypt and how it fits into the broader changes afoot in the Ottoman world.
Khaled Fahmy is Professor of History at the American University of Cairo and 2014-2015 Carnegie Centennial Fellow at Columbia University. He is the author of All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern Egypt (AUC Press, 2010). His new book, tentatively entitled A Sense of History: Law and Medicine in Modern Egypt, is forthcoming from the University of California Press.
Susanna Ferguson is a PhD student in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University, where she focuses on the history of women and gender in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/11/law-crime-ottoman-egypt-fahmy.html
E179 | Hristiyan, Müslüman, Yahudi gibi kesin hatlarla birbirinden ayrılmış kimliklerin hüküm sürdüğü çağımızın aksine Osmanlı toplumunda özellikle devlet gücünün erişmediği yerlerde bu kimlikler arasında geçişkenlik çok fazlaydı. Bu bölümümüzde Dr. Zeynep Türkyılmaz ile Osmanlı toplumunda gizli hırıstiyanlar olarak adlandırabileceğimiz iki din arasında sıkışmış, çift kimlikli cemaatleri mercek altına alacağız. Kökleri 17. yüzyıla dayanan ve Islahat Fermanı'nın verdiği güvencelerle birer birer ortaya çıkan bu cemaatlere merkezi devletin nasıl bir tepki verdiğini tartışacağız.
Dr. Zeynep Türkyılmaz Dartmouth College'da öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
Yeni Çağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine yoğunlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/11/gizli-hristiyanlik.html
E177 | The 1870 Crémieux Decree extended French citizenship to most, but not all, of Algeria's Jewish population. The Jews of the M'zab Valley were excluded from this legislation. As Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein explains in this episode, this was due to a complex web of historical confluences including the chronology of conquest, shifting military and administrative structures for French Algerian rule, and perceptions of Jewish, Arab and Berber indigeneity. This story, while anchored in the local, participates in wider discussions of international Jewish philanthropies, decolonization, citizenship, belonging and marginality amid rapidly shifting global conditions.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is a professor in the Department of History and Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. In addition to Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria (University of Chicago Press, 2014), she has written a number of award-winning books and articles including Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews and a Lost World of Global Commerce (Yale University Press, 2008), winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. She is the co-editor of Sephardi Lives: a Documentary History, 1700-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2014), a primary source reader of over 150 documents translated from fifteen different languages into English along with Professor Julia Phillips Cohen of Vanderbilt University.
Alma Rachel Heckman is a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA's history department. Her dissertation is entitled "Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1945-1975" and concerns Jewish engagement in Morocco's national liberation movement, intertwined with global political developments and migrations.
More at: http://tajine.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/10/jews-saharan-french-algeria.html
E176 | Osmanlı'da çocukluk algısının olup olmadığı son dönem tarih yazıcılığında sıkça sorulan sorular arasındadır. Bu bölümde Yahya Araz bize çocukların sadece küçük insanlar olmanın ötesinde Osmanlı'da çocukluk tanımının çerçevesini oluşturan toplumsal, hukuki ve biyoljik etmenleri anlatıyor.
Dr. Yahya Araz Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
Kalliopi Amygdalou, doktora derecesini University College London'a bağlı Barlett School of Architecture'dan aldı. Araştırmaları, Yunanistan ve Türkiye'de ulusal tarih yazımı, mimari ve kentsel çevre ilişkisine odaklanmaktadır.
Erken modern Osmanlı dünyasında mekân, birey ve görüntü ilişkisi üzerine çalışan Dr. Serkan Şavk, İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi Sinema ve Dijital Medya Bölümü'nde görev yapmaktadır.
Daha fazlası: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/10/osmanlda-cocukluk-evlilik.html
E174 | The late 19th century was a time of intellectual and cultural flourishing for the Armenian community in Constantinople, as a new generation of Armenian thinkers traveled to Europe to study, debated new ideas in the press, and settled on a new vernacular for their literary endeavors. Zabel Yessayan was one of the most important female figures of this generation, publishing articles on subjects including educational reform, art and aesthetics, and the question of women. In this podcast, Jennifer Manoukian discusses her new translation of Yessayan's memoir, The Gardens of Silihdar, and explores questions of women, gender, and politics in Yessayan's work.
Jennifer Manoukian is a translator of Western Armenian literature. She has an MA in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies from Columbia University. The Gardens of Silihdar by Zabel Yessayan, was released by AIWA Press in 2014.
Susanna Ferguson is a PhD student in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University, where she focuses on the history of women and gender in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/09/zabel-yessayan.html
E173 | Ondokuzuncu yüzyılda gelişen üretim teknolojisiyle, sigaraya yönelik rağbet tütün üretiminde büyük bir artışa yol açtı. Osmanlı’nın son döneminde gerek yerel gerekse uluslararası pazarların taleplerini arza dönüştürme çabası sonucunda 1880’lerden itibaren Osmanlı’da tütün üretimi daha önceki onyıllara oranla üç kat artış gösterdi. Hiç şüphesiz üretimdeki bu ani artış, tütünün coğrafi ve iklimsel olarak en iyi kalitede yetiştiriebildiği İskeçe, Kavala ve Samsun gibi tarımsal bölgelerle ile fabrika üretiminin gerçekleştirildiği İstanbul’da tütün üretiminde çalışan yerel ve mevsimlik işçi sayısında büyük bir artışı beraberinde getirdi. Tütün üretimindeki artışın en önemli unsurlarından ve üretimin temeli olan yerel ve mevsimlik işçilerin yaşam ve çalışma koşulları, tütün emeğinin bu dönemdeki örgütlenmesi ve emek süreci mücadelelerini Can Nacar’la konuştuk.
Dr. Can Nacar, Koç Üniversitesi'nin Tarih Bölümünde Öğretim Üyesisidir.
Seçil Yılmaz, CUNY Tarih Bölümü’nde Doktora Öğrencisi. Geç Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Cumhuriyet Dönemi’nde salgın hastalıklar, tıp ve toplumsal cinsiyet temaları çerçevesinde frenginin sosyal tarihi üzerine doktora araştırmasına devam etmektedir.
Fazlası: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/09/osmanlda-tutun-iscileri.html
E171 | Soğutma teknolojisinden önce dahi, kar ve buz gerek Osmanlı sarayı tarafından, gerekse halk tarafından oldukça kullanılan bir meta idi. Bu podcastımızda Burcu Kurt ile sanayileşmenin bu iki metanın üretim ve tüketimini nasıl etkilediğini Osmanlı devleti, toplumu ve ekonomisi açısından ele aldık.
Before the advent of refrigeration technology, snow and ice were frequently used as sources of cool by the Ottoman palace and people. In this podcast, Burcu Kurt explains how the production and consumption of these two products was affected by the industrialization.
Dr. Burcu Kurt İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/08/osmanli-buzlas.html
E169 | The movements of celestial bodies had long been of tremendous importance within the social and religious spheres throughout the Muslim world. As new understandings of space and time began to emerge during the nineteenth century, longstanding astronomical practices in places such as Egypt witnessed a profound transformation. In this episode, Daniel Stolz discusses the importance of astronomy in nineteenth-century Egypt and the overlapping scientific traditions they practiced.
Daniel Stolz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Science in Human Culture and Department of History at Northwestern University. His research examines the history of science, technology, and Islam since the eighteenth century.
Nir Shafir is a doctoral candidate at UCLA studying Ottoman intellectual history.
For more: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/08/history-astronomy-egypt-islam.html
E167 | Bu podcastımızda Prof. Dr. Cem Behar ile 2003 yılında İngilizce olarak bastığı ve geçtiğimiz aylarda genişletilmiş bir Türkçe baskısını da yayınladığı kitabının konusu olan Kasap İlyas Mahallesi hakkında konuştuk. Modernleşmeye kurban verdiğimiz bu suriçi İstanbul mahallesinin son beş yüzyıldaki hikayesinin anlatıldığı podcastımızda, yerel kimlik, aidiyet, göç, şehre entegrasyon gibi çeşitli konulara değindik.
Müzik: Yeni Türkü - Yedikule
Prof. Dr. Cem Behar İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi İşletme Bölümü'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
Osmanlı Askeri Tarihi üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Kahraman Şakul İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesidir.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/07/bir-mahallenin-dogumu-ve-olumu-1494.html
The Wild Field E08 | Ottoman imperial space was not always tied to permanent structures. For centuries tents functioned as mobile palaces, providing domestic space and ceremonial stage settings reinforcing the power of the Padishah. Considering the material remains of fabric imperial architecture opens new avenues for exploring and understanding Ottoman visual culture and architectural history. Beyond the Empire, Ottoman tents changed hands as war booty and spolia during conflicts with neighboring polities, which resulted in a rich afterlife for many of these objects. Join Ashley Dimmig in The Wild Field in her exploration of Ottoman tents.
E164 | Tanzimat’in ilanıyla beraber gündelik hayatın pekçok alanına nüfuz etmeyi hedefleyen yasal uygulamalar eczane ve attar dükkanlarının tozlu raflarına kadar ulaşmayı başarmıştı. Bu bölümde Ebru Aykut, Tanzimat sonrası Osmanlı’sında zehir satışını düzenleyen uygulamalarla kocalarıyla hesaplaşmayı zehir yoluyla seçen kadınların kesişen hikayelerini anlatıyor.
Geç Osmanlı dönemi taşrasında suç ve cezalandırma pratiklerinin sosyal-hukuki tarihi üzerine çalışmalarını sürdüren Dr. Ebru Aykut, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesidir.
Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/07/poison-murder-women-ottoman-empire.html
E162 | With increased connections between polities on all sides of the Mediterranean during the early modern period, the importance of translators and translation grew to facilitate diplomatic and economic relations. In this episode, Claire Gilbert explores the world of diplomacy in the Western Mediterranean of the sixteenth century the role of translators in this zone of contact.
Claire Gilbert is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UCLA. Nir Shafir is a doctoral candidate at UCLA studying Ottoman intellectual history.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/03/translation-mediterranean.html
E159 | Yüzyıllar boyunca Tanrı’nın kimi zaman gizemi kimi zaman gazabı varsayılan delilik ve deliler, ondokuzuncu yüzyıl modernleşme düşüncesi ve pratikleri ile tıbbın ve psikiyatrinin temel konusu oldu. Deliliğin modern anlamda biyolojik nedenleri icat ve mekanları inşa edildi. Tanzimat’la beraber, tıbbi pratikler ve kamu sağlığı toplumsal düzenin sağlamanın temel araçlarından biri haline gelince, deliliğin ve delilerin Süleymaniye Medresesi’nde başlayan tarihi 1873’te Toptaşı Bimarhanesi’ne ve oradan da bugünkü Bakırköy Ruh ve Sinir Hastalıkları Hastahanesi’ne taşındı. Bu bölümde, Fatih Artvinli ile Osmanlı’nın son yüzyılında deliliğin Osmanlı toplumundaki anlamı ve mekanları üzerinden siyaset ve toplumla olan ilişkisini ele aldık.
Yrd. Doç. Dr. Fatih Artvinli, Acıbedem Üniversitesi Tıp Tarihi ve Etik Anabilim Dalı Öğretim Üyesisidir. Fatih Artvinli'nin yayımlanmış iki kitabı bulunmaktadır: Seraba Harcanmış Bir Ömür: Osman Bölükbaşı (Kitap Yayınevi, 2007) Delilik, Siyaset ve Toplum: Toptaşı Bimarhanesi (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2013)
Seçil Yılmaz, The Gradute Center, CUNY Tarih Bölümü’nde Doktora Öğrencisi. Geç Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi’nde salgın hastalıklar, tıp ve toplumsal cinsiyet temaları çerçevesinde frenginin sosyal tarihi üzerine doktora araştırmasına devam etmektedir.
Daha fazlası için: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/06/psychiatry-ottoman-empire-madness.html
E158 | While humans have devised no shortage of ways to punish each other throughout history, the rise of the prison and incarceration as a method for dealing with crime is primarily a nineteenth century phenomenon. In this episode, Kent Schull discusses his recent book about the development of the Ottoman prison system and explores the lives of Ottoman prisoners.
Kent Schull is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York, Binghamton. Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
Ottoman History Podcast is a weekly internet radio program edited and produced by Chris Gratien.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/06/prison-ottoman-empire-crime.html
E157 | While architectural historians are often concerned with the design, inception, and construction of buildings and objects, writing the history of architecture also includes the study of renovations, modifications, and changes in use of such spaces embedded in political and social contexts. In this episode, Heghnar Watenpaugh revisits her 2004 monograph entitled The Image of an Ottoman City in a discussion of Ottoman interventions into the historical urban geography of the empire's third largest city, Aleppo, and talks about methods of reconstructing the lived urban environment of a city in Ottoman Syria.
Heghnar Watenpaugh is an Associate Professor of Art History at University of California-Davis. Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. Emily Neumeier is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania researching art and architecture in the Ottoman world.
Ottoman History Podcast is an internet radio program edited and produced by Chris Gratien.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/05/ottoman-aleppo-syria-history.html
E155 | Osmanlı’da İşçiler (1870-1922) kitabının yazarı, İstanbul Üniversitesi, İktisat Fakültesi öğretim üyesi Kadir Yıldırım’la yaptığımız bu podcastle, geçen hafta Soma’da yitirdiğimiz madencilerimizi ve Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı verilerine göre, sadece 2002’den bu yana meydana gelen iş kazalarında sayısı 14.000 i bulan, iş kazalarında kaybettiğimiz tüm işçilerimizi anmaya devam ediyoruz. Bu podcastte Kadir Yıldırım’la Osmanlı işçi hareketi ve emek tarihi yazımının historiografik gelişimini, kaynaklarını ve temel kavramlarını masaya yatırıyoruz.
with Avner Wishnitzer
hosted by Chris Gratien
In daily life, time appears as an unavoidable fact. It marches forward uniformly, and much like money, is a fungible commodity that can be spent, wasted, and saved. However, this view often obscures the fact that our engagement with time is mitigated through socially-constructed ways of understanding, measuring, and using time. In this episode, Chris Gratien talks to Anver Wishnizter about his research in this realm of social time--what he describes as "temporal culture"--and the changes in such a temporal culture during the late Ottoman period.
Update Dr. Wishnitzer's monograph entitled Reading Clocks, Alla Turca has since been published with Chicago University Press. Follow this link to access this new publication.« Click for More »
E151 | Istanbul is full of landmarks and objects dating to the Ottoman period that give us a glimpse of the city's material culture. However, the scents and sounds that made up the urban experience of Ottoman Istanbul often elude us. In our inaugural episode of Season 4, we explore the sounds of Istanbul today and link them to city of the Ottoman past.
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. Emily Neumeier is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania researching art and architecture in the Ottoman world.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/05/sounds-history-istanbul.html
E150 | Much has been written about shifts in the concept of childhood and the structure of families, particularly for the period following industrialization. However, seldom do the voices and experiences of children find their way into historical narratives. In this podcast, Nazan Maksudyan offers some insights about how to approach the history of children and childhood and discusses the lives of Ottoman children during the empire's last decades.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/03/children-childhood-ottoman-empire-turkey.html
with Ayfer Karakaya-Stumphosted by Chris Gratien
The history of Anatolia's Alevi or Kizilbash community has long been written by outsiders who have variously portrayed them as mysterious, heretical, heterodox, or uncivilized. Alevism has been often juxtaposed with the high religion would-be orthodox Sunni practice. This historical understanding of Alevis has continued to influence the way these communities are represented in the present. In this episode, Ayfer Karakaya-Stump challenges this binary. Drawing on previously unexamined sources produced by the Ottoman Alevi community itself, she seeks a new road to understanding Alevism and the relationship of Alevi communities with the Ottoman and Safavid states, Sufi movements of the time, and the communities that surrounded them.
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E071 | While almost all of the well-known authors of the Ottoman period are men, women also participated in Ottoman intellectual circles as authors and artists. In this podcast, Didem Havlioğlu describes the world of early modern Ottoman intellectuals and discusses how we can study the cultural of production of women within this context. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/09/women-literati-and-ottoman-intellectual.html#sthash.DndmalTp.dpuf
E072 | Türkçe yaptığımız ilk podcastimizde Kahraman Şakul ile Yeni Askeri Tarih üzerine konuşuyoruz. Aynı zamanda genel bir literatür değerlendirmesini de içeren bu podcastimizde, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Şakul bize Osmanlı tarihyazımında görece ihmal edilmiş bir alan olan Askeri Tarihin sadece savaş ve seferlerin tarihi olmadığını belirterek, verdiği çeşitli örneklerle bu tarihin sosyal, ekonomik ve kültürel boyutlarını gözler önüne seriyor. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/09/osmanl-imparatorlugu-ve-yeni-askeri.html#sthash.b2NTtBie.dpuf
E062 | Historians have used classical Ottoman texts to explore social issues such as sexuality, with compiled manuscripts from various literary genres often forming a data-mine for historical information. However, this type of selective reading has often distorted or obscured the original meaning and context of literary works. Sometimes, texts that appear erotic or sexual in nature such as gazel could have been intended for an entirely different purpose. In this episode, Dr. Selim Kuru examines the concepts of mahbub peresti (worship of the beloved) and gulâm pâregi (pederasty) and various motifs concerning male beauty in the shehrengiz (Gibb's "city-thrillers") genre in search of a more contextualized approach these would-be erotic texts. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/08/boys-god-and-beauty-approaching-sex-and.html#sthash.kCDvzZoR.dpuf
E132 | Alchemy has traditionally been understood as a pseudoscience or protoscience that eventually gave way to modern chemistry. Less often have the writings of alchemists been studied on their own terms. Yet, given the endurance and prolific nature of the alchemical traditions and the involvement of important figures of "modern science" such as Isaac Newton in the field of alchemy, a teleological understanding of the transition from alchemy to chemistry seems inadequate for discussing how science was practiced in the past. This may be particularly true for the Ottoman context, where a longstanding tradition of alchemy becomes subsumed under a larger narrative of the triumph of Western science during the nineteenth century. In this podcast, Tuna Artun explores the world of alchemy and discusses its transformation during the Ottoman period. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/12/alchemy-ottoman-empire.html#sthash.d8GWTykK.dpuf
with Mostafa Minawi
hosted by Chris Gratien
The Ottoman Empire occupies an unusual place among the competing imperial powers of the nineteenth century. On one hand, a weak military position often forced the Ottomans to accept unfavorable economic and political arrangements while playing other empires off each other to maintain autonomy. On the other, we find expansion of state institutions throughout the Ottoman domains and an increased Ottoman presence in many parts of Asia and the Indian Ocean. Many even point to a form of Ottoman colonialism practiced in the frontiers of the empire. In this episode, Mostafa Minawi offers a glimpse at Ottoman practices in the realm of strategic imperial diplomacy within the context of the Scramble for Africa and European competition over influence in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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| | Mostafa Minawi is an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. (faculty page) | | | Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu) |
Episode No. 143
Release date: 1 February 2014
Location: Feriköy, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Citation: "The Ottoman Scramble for Africa," Mostafa Minawi and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 143 (1 February 2014) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/02/ottoman-empire-colonialism-africa.html.
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E140 | Historians have begun to explore the paradox of the identification of a would-be universal form of rational knowledge known as science with the particular historical experience of Europe. This begs the question: how have new forms of scientific knowledge been translated, received, assimilated, and engaged outside of the cultural contexts within which they were produced? In this episode, Marwa Elshakry examines the case of Arab engagement with and translation of Darwin's theory of evolution, which is the subject of her recently published book entitled Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/01/darwin-evolution-arabic-translation.html
Marwa Elshakry is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East.
E138 | Medicine is not merely a practice that takes place in hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. It also involves the movement and operation of medical practitioners in different social spaces. In this episode, Anat Mooreville discusses traveling doctors in Israel/Palestine and their role not only in combating trachoma (a severe eye disease that causes blindness) but also as ethnographers and go-betweens within the framework of a Zionist national project. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/12/trachoma-medicine-doctors-israel-palestine.html#sthash.RfG7UFFP.dpuf
E135 | The term Lubunca refers to a type of slang historically used among Istanbul’s LGBTQ communities. The term has gained currency only in the past decades, but in this podcast, Nicholas Kontovas suggest much deeper orgins in an overview of this underground jargon and its connections to the historical sociolinguistics of Turkey’s urban communities.
More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/12/istanbul-slang.html#sthash.OwJLfeAj.dpuf
Nicholas Kontovas is a graduate student in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East Lydia Harrington is a graduate student at the University of Washington
with Tuna Artunhosted by Nir ShafirThis episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.Download the series
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Alchemy has traditionally been understood as a pseudoscience or protoscience that eventually gave way to modern chemistry. Less often have the writings of alchemists been studied on their own terms. Yet, given the endurance and prolific nature of the alchemical traditions and the involvement of important figures of "modern science" such as Isaac Newton in the field of alchemy, a teleological understanding of the transition from alchemy to chemistry seems inadequate for discussing how science was practiced in the past. This may be particularly true for the Ottoman context, where a longstanding tradition of alchemy becomes subsumed under a larger narrative of the triumph of Western science during the nineteenth century. In this podcast, Tuna Artun explores the world of alchemy and discusses its transformation during the Ottoman period.
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E129 | Osmanlı'da kamusal alan ile özel yaşam arasındaki sınır nasıl çizilmiştir? Herkesin birbirinin muhbiri olduğu bir toplumda iktidar, toplum ve birey arasındaki ilişki nasıl düzenlenmiştir? Bu sorulara yanıt aradığımız bu podcastımızda Fikret Yılmaz ile erken modern Osmanlı toplumunda mahremiyetin sınırları üzerine konuştuk. Ayrıca, Osmanlı toplum tarihçiliğinin sıkıntılarına dikkat çekerek, kavramsal çalışmaların gerekliliğine dikkat çektik. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/11/private-public-sphere-ottoman-empire.html#sthash.NXV9p8Fa.dpuf
E128 | Sinemanın ilk yıllarını, kinetoscope, vitascope ya da cinématographe gibi hareketli görüntü teknolojilerinin tarihi olarak okumak yeterli olabilir mi? Bu podcastta Prof. Nezih Erdoğan ve Serkan Şavk, Osmanlı’daki sinema deneyimini seyir ve hayret gibi kavramlar üzerinden tartışıyorlar.
E123 | Erken modern Osmanlılar'ın küçük bir beylikten cihanşümül bir imparatorluğa dönüşmesi esnasında karşılaşılan zorluklar ve ihtiyaçlar Devlet-i Al-i Osman'ın yönetici elitleri arasındaki ilişkilerin ve dengelerin sürekli bir şekilde yeniden düzenlenmesini gerekli kıldı. Teorik siyaset felsefesi ile pratik günlük siyasetin arasındaki farklılıkları tartıştığımız bu podcastımızda, Günhan Börekçi ile "musahib" kavramı üzerinde durduk. Padisah'ın bu "refik" ve "nedim"lerinin dışarıdan eklemlendikleri Osmanlı siyasetinde oynadıkları etkin rolü mercek altına aldık. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/09/sultan-political-elite-ottoman-empire.html#sthash.XxdjotRg.dpuf
E120 | Osmanlı'nın erken dönemlerinden beri önemli ticaret yolları üzerinde bulunan Bursa, kimi tarihçilere göre imparatorluk sınırları içinde kapitalist ilişkilere erken giren Osmanlı şehirlerinden biridir. On dokuzuncu yüzyıla gelindiğinde Bursa'da sanayileşme yönünde değişmeye başlayan üretim ilişkileri ve imparatorluğu boydan boya sarmaya başlayan Batılılaşma etkisi Bursa'da, Osmanlı'nın ticari ilişkileri yoğun diğer pek çok kentinde olduğu gibi, tüketim alışkanlıklarının da yavaş yavaş değişmeye başlamasına yol açtı. Bu podcastimizde İsmail Yaşayanlar "Osmanlı Dönemi Bursa Otelleri" çalışmasıyla 19. yüzyıl Bursa'sında gözlemlenebildiği şekliyle, imparatorluğun kimi kentlerinde değişen ve gelişen bu yeni tüketim alışkanlıklarının "turizm" boyutuna dikkat çekiyor. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/08/bursa-hotels-otelleri.html#sthash.VfaypcuG.dpuf
E119 | While World War I was the result of a political conflict, it touched the lives of nearly every segment of Ottoman society in often tragic ways. Yet, the lived experience of Ottoman citizens on the home front is often an ignored aspect of the war's historiography. In this episode, Yiğit Akın offers a social history perspective on the conflict, focusing on basic questions like food, labor, and resources as they related to the war and giving particular attention to the experience of women and internally displaced peoples. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/08/world-war-i-ottoman-empire.html#sthash.MRS5UO0g.dpuf
E112 | Osmanlının 19. yy’da karşılaştığı en büyük sosyal ve politik meselelerden biri şüphesiz ki muhacir sorunudur. Rus devleti, eski Osmanlı toprakları olan Kafkasya ve Kırım’a yerleşmeye yönelik bir siyaseti benimseyip bölgedeyayıldıkça, yerli Müslüman nüfusa kaçmaktan başka bir çare kalmamıştı. Osmanlı, devlet nüfuzunun sınırlı olduğu seyrek nüfuslu bölgelere, yeni gelenleri yerleştirmek için yoğun çaba sarfetti. Ciddi sıkıntılara girerek, Anadolu ve Suriye boyunca sayısız muhacir yerleşimi kuruldu. Bu yerleşimlerin bir çoğu zamanın getirdiklerine dayanamadı ama Adana-Mersin bölgesinden bir örnek olan Atlılar köyünde Muhacirler kuşaklar boyunca varlıklarını sürdürebildiler. Bu bölümümüzde Mehtap Çelik, Atlılar Köyü ile ilgili yaptığı araştırmadan bahsetmektedir. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/07/circassian-immigration-ottoman-empire.html#sthash.hsuZwGg8.dpuf
E105 | Yunanistan Müslümanlarına yönelik çalışmalar genellikle Mübadele ve Batı Trakya Türkleri üzerine yoğunlaşmaktadır. Bu bölümde söz konusu çalışmalardan farklı olarak Melike Kara, Yunanistan'ın 1913 yılında itibaren bir parçası olan Girit'e ve Müslümanlarına ilişkin incelemelerde bulunuyor. Müslümanların 1913 yılından Ada'dan ayrıldıkları 1924 yılına kadar yaşamlarında meydana gelen değişimleri ortaya koyarken olayların arka planında yer alan siyasi gelişmelere de değiniyor. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/05/crete-greece-ottoman-empire.html#sthash.UGit9ubP.dpuf
with Zeynep Türkyılmazhosted by Chris Gratien and Vedica Kant
Stories of insincere conversion under duress and secret Christian communities in the Ottoman Empire give the impression that many Christians lived in hiding from a Muslim majority. However, as Zeynep Türkyılmaz argues in this podcast, the phenomenon of Crypto-Christianity is really more complex, as diversity and heterogeneity among the Ottoman Empire's rural communities gave rise to "in-between" groups that did not conform to categories of identity being formulated in the center. In this episode, we focus on the Trabzon region in order to understand how local communities sought to define their participation in a rapidly transforming society and economy of the nineteenth century.
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E102 | Following the World War I period, the founders of a new Turkish Republic sought to define and legitimize the new order as a break with the Ottoman past. In this episode, Yasemin Gencer explains the ways in which notions such as childhood were used to construct the image of a renewed Turkish society in the nationalist press during the early years of the Republican period. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/04/childhood-family-press-turkish-nationalism-republic.html#sthash.uqU18HX1.dpuf
E101 | During the nineteenth century, imperial states became increasingly concerned with the management of disease and resources. For the Ottoman Empire, the issues of disease and water converged on the hajj pilgrimage, which brought annual throngs of thirsty disease vectors to the Hijaz region. In this podcast, Michael Christopher Low examines the su meselesi or “water issue” of the Ottoman Empire during the Hamidian era and its importance for understanding the ecological transformation of Saudi Arabia over the past century. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2010/04/hajj-water-saudi-arabia.html#sthash.fgnjJS2h.dpuf
with Brett Wilsonhosted by Chris Gratien and Nir ShafirThis episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.Download the series
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Printing in Ottoman Turkish first emerged during the eighteenth century. Yet, even when print had arrived in full force by the middle of the nineteenth century, it remained forbidden to print the text most sought after by Ottoman readers: the Qur'an. In this episode, Brett Wilson discusses the rise of print and Qur'an printing in the Ottoman Empire as well as the emergence of Turkish translations of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman and early Republican eras.
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E090 | During the nineteenth century, the urban space of Istanbul was transformed by actors consciously involved in reshaping the face of Ottoman and high society in this European capital. In this episode, Nilay Özlü explores the culture and architecture of the Pera neighborhood during these formative years through the story of three generations of the Vallaury family, Levantine Istanbulites who rose to prominence in the fields of cuisine, cafe culture, and finally architecture through the figure of Alexander Vallaury. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/01/pera-istanbul-architecture.html#sthash.5be9UL8H.dpuf
with Einar Wigen
77. Whose Empire?
The entity known today as the Ottoman Empire is often taken by historians as an exemplary model of an imperial state. Yet, until the nineteenth century, Ottomans had never referred to their state as an empire in their writings or bureaucratic records and diplomatic correspondences. In this podcast, Einar Wigen explores the curious absence of the term "empire" within the Ottoman vocabulary, explains how the concept entered Ottoman Turkish, and deals with some possibly equivalent Ottoman titles and designations that may be considered imperial.
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with Alan Mikhail
70. Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
Ottoman life was deeply embedded in the countryside and rural production, and thus, issues of irrigation and ecology surrounding the production of staple food crops ranked high on the list of imperial concerns. In this episode, Alan Mikhail explains the ecological history of the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and its breadbasket in Egypt, and explores other issues related to the nascent field of Middle East environmental history.
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with Aslı Niyazioğluhosted by Chris Gratien and Nir ShafirThis episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.Download the series
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Dreams are an essential part of the human experience but are attributed different significance in various times and places. For many Ottomans, dreams were a forum for the revelation of hidden or unseen knowledge, and dream narratives as well as their interpretations found their way into many Ottoman texts. In this podcast, Aslı Niyazioğlu explains the role of dreams within Ottoman society, focusing on dream narratives in biographical dictionaries of the early modern era, and we discuss possible changes over time in the understanding of dreams in the Ottoman world.
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with Selim Kuru hosted by Chris Gratien and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history
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Historians have used classical Ottoman texts to explore social issues such as sexuality, with compiled manuscripts from various literary genres often forming a data-mine for historical information. However, this type of selective reading has often distorted or obscured the original meaning and context of literary works. Sometimes, texts that appear erotic or sexual in nature such as gazel could have been intended for an entirely different purpose. In this episode, Dr. Selim Kuru examines the concepts of mahbub peresti (worship of the beloved) and gulâm pâregi (pederasty) and various motifs concerning male beauty in the shehrengiz (Gibb's "city-thrillers") genre in search of a more contextualized approach these would-be erotic texts.
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with Emrah Safa Gürkan
hosted by Chris Gratien
Although it is not uncommon when reading about the Ottoman Empire to see it portrayed as a monolithic, rational state apparatus serving a purported state interest, factions with their own interests and agendas played a major role in Ottoman decision-making. In this episode, Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan explains the importance of disconglomerating state interests and examining factionalism when approaching politics in the Ottoman Empire.
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