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Crafting History
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Rachel Goshgarian is associate professor of history at Lafayette College. She is the coeditor of Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 (2018).Khuri-Makdisi Ilham :
lham Khuri-Makdisi is associate professor of history at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 (2010).Yaycioğlu Ali :
Ali Yaycıoğlu is associate professor of history at Stanford University and the author Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (2016).
Rachel Goshgarian is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College. She completed her Ph.D. under Cemal Kafadar’s supervision at Harvard University in 2008. Her first monograph, The City in Late Medieval Anatolia: Inter-faith Interactions and Urbanism in the Middle East, will be published in 2023.
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi is Associate Professor of Middle East and World History at Northeastern University, Boston. She completed her Ph.D. under Cemal Kafadar’s supervision at Harvard University in 2003. She is a social and intellectual historian of the nahda and the late Ottoman period, and the author of The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914 (2010).
Ali Yaycıoğlu is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. He studied under Cemal Kafadar at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2008. He is the author of Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (2016).
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Introduction
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Cemal Kafadar: A Çelebi for Our Times
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1 Narrating Ottoman Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Perspectives from Some Byzantine and Ottoman Histories
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2 Nişancı Mehmed Paşa and His History of the Ottoman House
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3 Book-Picking in a Conquered Citadel
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4 A Sufi Mirror: Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) Advice for the Ottoman Ruler
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5 La Jetée and the Illustrated Ottoman History: An Inquiry into Word, Image, and Audience
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6 How Did Evliya Çelebi Write His Travel Account?
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7 Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620–1840
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8 Blending Piety and Philology: A Seventeenth-Century Mecmu‘a as the Mirror of Istanbul’s Persianate Urban Milieu
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9 An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
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10 Uç Beys, Dervishes, and Yürüks: The Cultural Politics of the Turahanoğlu of Thessaly
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11 A Short Account of Long Entanglements: Şeyh Bedreddin, ‘Abdurrahman al-Bistami, and his Durrat taj al-rasa’il
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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
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13 In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman Egypt
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14 The Eunuch, a Complete Statesman: Functional Historiography in the Face of Social and Political Precarity
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15 Reorientation in Worldviews: Milescu and Cantemir
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16 The Hamidian Visual Archive, 1878–1909: A User’s Manual
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17 Ottoman Montology: Hazardous Resourcefulness and Uneasy Symbiosis in a Mountain Empire
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18 Ottoman Mountains: Mobility in a Forbidding Environment
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19 A Code(x) of His Own: Deacon Mikayēl, Armeno- Turkish, and Creative Conventions of “Collecting” in Seventeenth-Century Kaffa
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20 On Self and Empire: A Seventeenth-Century First-Person Narrative from the Mughal Domains
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21 Cabinetmaking for the Sultan: Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in the Life Narratives of German-Speaking Journeymen
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22 Conjuring Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through the Journalistic Writings of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1805–87) and Basiretçi Ali (1845?–1910)
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23 Reşat Ekrem Koçu and İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Writing on Place
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24 Early Modern Reflections on Bayezid II’s Reign
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25 The Ottoman Fleet at the Battle of Mississippi: What Videogames Can Teach Us About History
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26 Continuity and Change in the Ottoman Early Modern Era: An Analysis of ‘Adet-i Kadime and Hâdis
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27 Between Soldier and Civilian: Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and Aleppo
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28 Confessionalization and Religious Nonconformity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Cases of Kizilbash/Alevi and the Sabbatean Communities
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29 De-a‘yanization: A Black Hole in Ottoman History
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30 Bitter Triumph of “the Declined” Dynasty? Notions of Universal Monarchy, Caliphate, and World Religions in Comparisons between Sultan Abdulhamid and Emperor Meiji
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Notes on Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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