12 A Tale of Two Boils: Selim I, Melek Ahmed Pasha, and Changing Perceptions of Medical Practice and Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Cemal Kafadar: A Çelebi for Our Times 23
5. Part One: TEXTS
6. 1 Narrating Ottoman Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Perspectives from Some Byzantine and Ottoman Histories 35
7. 2 Nişancı Mehmed Paşa and His History of the Ottoman House 58
8. 3 Book-Picking in a Conquered Citadel 77
9. 4 A Sufi Mirror: Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) Advice for the Ottoman Ruler 104
10. 5 La Jetée and the Illustrated Ottoman History: An Inquiry into Word, Image, and Audience 117
11. 6 How Did Evliya Çelebi Write His Travel Account? 132
12. 7 Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620–1840 142
13. 8 Blending Piety and Philology: A Seventeenth-Century Mecmu‘a as the Mirror of Istanbul’s Persianate Urban Milieu 174
14. 9 An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire 193
15. Part Two: Lives
16. 10 Uç Beys, Dervishes, and Yürüks: The Cultural Politics of the Turahanoğlu of Thessaly 219
17. 11 A Short Account of Long Entanglements: Şeyh Bedreddin, ‘Abdurrahman al-Bistami, and his Durrat taj al-rasa’il 235
18. 12 A Tale of Two Boils: Selim I, Melek Ahmed Pasha, and Changing Perceptions of Medical Practice and Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire 241
19. 13 In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman Egypt 255
20. 14 The Eunuch, a Complete Statesman: Functional Historiography in the Face of Social and Political Precarity 277
21. 15 Reorientation in Worldviews: Milescu and Cantemir 300
22. 16 The Hamidian Visual Archive, 1878–1909: A User’s Manual 319
23. Part Three: PLACES
24. 17 Ottoman Montology: Hazardous Resourcefulness and Uneasy Symbiosis in a Mountain Empire 345
25. 18 Ottoman Mountains: Mobility in a Forbidding Environment 375
26. 19 A Code(x) of His Own: Deacon Mikayēl, Armeno- Turkish, and Creative Conventions of “Collecting” in Seventeenth-Century Kaffa 392
27. 20 On Self and Empire: A Seventeenth-Century First-Person Narrative from the Mughal Domains 413
28. 21 Cabinetmaking for the Sultan: Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in the Life Narratives of German-Speaking Journeymen 450
29. 22 Conjuring Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through the Journalistic Writings of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1805–87) and Basiretçi Ali (1845?–1910) 467
30. 23 Reşat Ekrem Koçu and İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Writing on Place 485
31. Part Four: PROCESSES
32. 24 Early Modern Reflections on Bayezid II’s Reign 513
33. 25 The Ottoman Fleet at the Battle of Mississippi: What Videogames Can Teach Us About History 533
34. 26 Continuity and Change in the Ottoman Early Modern Era: An Analysis of ‘Adet-i Kadime and Hâdis 551
35. 27 Between Soldier and Civilian: Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and Aleppo 563
36. 28 Confessionalization and Religious Nonconformity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Cases of Kizilbash/Alevi and the Sabbatean Communities 588
37. 29 De-a‘yanization: A Black Hole in Ottoman History 609
38. 30 Bitter Triumph of “the Declined” Dynasty? Notions of Universal Monarchy, Caliphate, and World Religions in Comparisons between Sultan Abdulhamid and Emperor Meiji 626
39. Notes on Contributors 641
40. Acknowledgments 652