Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500–1730: The Eastern Alternative

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Author Bios viii
5. Introduction xi
6. Changing Perceptions about Christian-Born Ottomans: Anti-k . ul Sentiments in Ottoman Historiography 1
7. Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500–1730: The Eastern Alternative 22
8. Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier’s Treatise: A Comparative Look at Black Africans in Ottoman Letters in the Early Modern Period 43
9. The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550–1700 75
10. An Ottoman Anti-Judaism 107
11. Evliyā Çelebī’s Perception of Jews 128
12. Ambiguous Subjects and Uneasy Neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans’ Attitudes toward the Ottoman State, “Turks,” and Vlachs 148
13. “Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land”: Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th–18th Centuries 187
14. The Many Faces of the “Gypsy” in Early Modern Ottoman Discourse 215
15. Gendered Infidels in Fiction: A Case Study on S - ābit’s Ḥikāye-i Ḫvāce Fesād 244
16. “The Greatest of Tribulations”: Constructions of Femininity in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Physiognomy 264
17. Defining and Defaming the Other in Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Invective 296
18. “Are You From Çorum?”: Derogatory Attitudes Toward the “Unruly Mob” of the Provinces as Reflected in a Proverbial Saying 321
19. Index 334