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Visit ottomanhistorypodcast.com for hundreds more archived episodes.https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/search/label/OHP%20Episodesnoreply@blogger.com (Chris Gratien)Blogger1231600en-usnoAll Rights ReservedHistory,Ottoman,Empire,Middle,East,Islam,Mediterranean,Culture,Arabic,Turkey,Syria,Palestine,Egypt,Russia,ArmenianRSS feed for the Ottoman History Podcast blog (http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com)a site for sore eyes of discerning Ottomaniacsottomanhistorypodcast.comchrisgratien@gmail.comottomanhistorypodcast.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-3322986979705781612Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:59:42 +00002026-08-28T16:59:43.026+03:00Abbey StockstillArtAshley DimmigExhibitionsFirearmsHistoryMahmud IMusa AzimliMuseumsOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireThe Visual Past <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://uww.academia.edu/AshleyDimmig" target="_blank"> with Ashley Dimmig </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.arch.virginia.edu/people/abbey-stockstill" target="_blank">hosted by Abbey Stockstill </a><a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/musa-kazim-azimli" target="_blank">and Musa Kazım Azimli</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The jewel-encrusted musket of Mahmud I is one of the most popular pieces at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. In this episode, curator Ashley Dimmig joins us to discuss her experience curating Islamic art and the manifold mysteries of the ornate 18th-century gun once owned by an Ottoman Sultan. These mysteries include practical questions about its design and the contents of its secret compartments as well as more conceptual puzzles about past provenance and effective presentation of Ottoman artifacts to international audience in an American city. In addition to discussing the fascinating history of the gun, Dr. Dimmig reflects on the exciting challenge of curating connections that allow every museum visitor to find an entry point into an exhibit.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/dimmig.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/dimmig.html01540 Jefferson Park Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA38.031748600000007 -78.5050279.7215147638211619 -113.661277 66.341982436178853 -43.348777nowith Ashley Dimmig hosted by Abbey Stockstill and Musa Kazım Azimli | The jewel-encrusted musket of Mahmud I is one of the most popular pieces at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. In this episode, curator Ashley Dimmig joins us to discuss her experience curating Islamic art and the manifold mysteries of the ornate 18th-century gun once owned by an Ottoman Sultan. These mysteries include practical questions about its design and the contents of its secret compartments as well as more conceptual puzzles about past provenance and effective presentation of Ottoman artifacts to international audience in an American city. In addition to discussing the fascinating history of the gun, Dr. Dimmig reflects on the exciting challenge of curating connections that allow every museum visitor to find an entry point into an exhibit.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Ashley Dimmig hosted by Abbey Stockstill and Musa Kazım Azimli | The jewel-encrusted musket of Mahmud I is one of the most popular pieces at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. In this episode, curator Ashley Dimmig joins us to discuss her experience curating Islamic art and the manifold mysteries of the ornate 18th-century gun once owned by an Ottoman Sultan. These mysteries include practical questions about its design and the contents of its secret compartments as well as more conceptual puzzles about past provenance and effective presentation of Ottoman artifacts to international audience in an American city. In addition to discussing the fascinating history of the gun, Dr. Dimmig reflects on the exciting challenge of curating connections that allow every museum visitor to find an entry point into an exhibit.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2177619757114602526Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:22:00 +00002026-08-22T21:26:58.129+03:00Chris GratienCommittee of Union and ProgressDiplomacyHistoryMilitary HistoryMustafa AksakalOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePoliticsSıla ÖnderWarWWI <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RdH1AAK/mustafa-aksakal" target="_blank"> with Mustafa Aksakal </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a><a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/sila-onder" target="_blank"> and Sıla Önder</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The First World War brought an end to six centuries of Ottoman imperial rule and in many ways, made the Middle East region as it is known today. In this episode recorded live at the University of Virginia Institute for the Arts and Humanities, we are joined by Mustafa Aksakal, author of two books about the Ottoman Empire&#39;s involvement in WWI. In his new book <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691262499/the-war-that-made-the-middle-east?srsltid=AfmBOooQ8qgoHc9ItyOXPa17dPe6uP13h0NvIcQmcANmr01nDxIGbBcG" target="_blank"><i>The War That Made the Middle East</i></a>, Prof. Aksakal takes a fresh look at the fateful decisions of the empire&#39;s last days, as well as how the First World War transformed Ottoman society and politics with devastating consequences for the people who lived it and lasting implications for the future Middle East region.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/08/aksakal.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/08/aksakal.html0nowith Mustafa Aksakal hosted by Chris Gratien and Sıla Önder | The First World War brought an end to six centuries of Ottoman imperial rule and in many ways, made the Middle East region as it is known today. In this episode recorded live at the University of Virginia Institute for the Arts and Humanities, we are joined by Mustafa Aksakal, author of two books about the Ottoman Empire&#39;s involvement in WWI. In his new book The War That Made the Middle East, Prof. Aksakal takes a fresh look at the fateful decisions of the empire&#39;s last days, as well as how the First World War transformed Ottoman society and politics with devastating consequences for the people who lived it and lasting implications for the future Middle East region.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Mustafa Aksakal hosted by Chris Gratien and Sıla Önder | The First World War brought an end to six centuries of Ottoman imperial rule and in many ways, made the Middle East region as it is known today. In this episode recorded live at the University of Virginia Institute for the Arts and Humanities, we are joined by Mustafa Aksakal, author of two books about the Ottoman Empire&#39;s involvement in WWI. In his new book The War That Made the Middle East, Prof. Aksakal takes a fresh look at the fateful decisions of the empire&#39;s last days, as well as how the First World War transformed Ottoman society and politics with devastating consequences for the people who lived it and lasting implications for the future Middle East region.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5144068578310259990Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:31:41 +00002026-08-14T16:41:04.640+03:00A. Tunç ŞenastrologyHistoryHistory of ScienceMaryam PattonoccultOHP EpisodesOttoman Empire <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.columbia.edu/person/tunc-a-sen/" target="_blank"> with A. Tunç Şen </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="http://mpatton.faculty.wesleyan.edu" target="_blank">hosted by Maryam Patton</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What did it mean to know the future in the early modern Ottoman Empire? And who had the authority to interpret the heavens? In this episode, A. Tunç Şen discusses his new book<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/forgotten-experts" target="_blank">Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600</a></em>. Şen takes us into the world of Ottoman court<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>munajjims</em>—astral experts whose work combined mathematical astronomy, astrological interpretation, and political counsel—and uncovers the roles they fulfilled within the Ottoman court bureaucracy. They advised rulers and officials not usually on whether something should happen, but on<i> when, </i>including the auspicious timing of military campaigns, building projects, ceremonies, and other acts of state. Their authority rested on technical skill, especially the ability to calculate planetary positions and the ascendant, as well as on a broader cosmological understanding of how the heavens shaped events on earth. Under Bayezid II, <i>munajjims</i> enjoyed unusual prestige and high salaries, reflecting the sultan’s own interest in astronomy, mathematics, and philosophical kingship. Under Süleyman, however, their standing declined, while other forms of esoteric expertise, such as geomancy and letterism, became more prominent. By following the salaries, writings, frustrations, and ambitions of Ottoman<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>munajjims</em>, Şen reconstructs a social history of scientific authority in the early modern Ottoman Empire.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/08/sen.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/08/sen.html0nowith A. Tunç Şen hosted by Maryam Patton | What did it mean to know the future in the early modern Ottoman Empire? And who had the authority to interpret the heavens? In this episode, A. Tunç Şen discusses his new book Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600. Şen takes us into the world of Ottoman court munajjims—astral experts whose work combined mathematical astronomy, astrological interpretation, and political counsel—and uncovers the roles they fulfilled within the Ottoman court bureaucracy. They advised rulers and officials not usually on whether something should happen, but on when, including the auspicious timing of military campaigns, building projects, ceremonies, and other acts of state. Their authority rested on technical skill, especially the ability to calculate planetary positions and the ascendant, as well as on a broader cosmological understanding of how the heavens shaped events on earth. Under Bayezid II, munajjims enjoyed unusual prestige and high salaries, reflecting the sultan’s own interest in astronomy, mathematics, and philosophical kingship. Under Süleyman, however, their standing declined, while other forms of esoteric expertise, such as geomancy and letterism, became more prominent. By following the salaries, writings, frustrations, and ambitions of Ottoman munajjims, Şen reconstructs a social history of scientific authority in the early modern Ottoman Empire.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith A. Tunç Şen hosted by Maryam Patton | What did it mean to know the future in the early modern Ottoman Empire? And who had the authority to interpret the heavens? In this episode, A. Tunç Şen discusses his new book Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600. Şen takes us into the world of Ottoman court munajjims—astral experts whose work combined mathematical astronomy, astrological interpretation, and political counsel—and uncovers the roles they fulfilled within the Ottoman court bureaucracy. They advised rulers and officials not usually on whether something should happen, but on when, including the auspicious timing of military campaigns, building projects, ceremonies, and other acts of state. Their authority rested on technical skill, especially the ability to calculate planetary positions and the ascendant, as well as on a broader cosmological understanding of how the heavens shaped events on earth. Under Bayezid II, munajjims enjoyed unusual prestige and high salaries, reflecting the sultan’s own interest in astronomy, mathematics, and philosophical kingship. Under Süleyman, however, their standing declined, while other forms of esoteric expertise, such as geomancy and letterism, became more prominent. By following the salaries, writings, frustrations, and ambitions of Ottoman munajjims, Şen reconstructs a social history of scientific authority in the early modern Ottoman Empire.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5709948120623791258Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:42:54 +00002026-08-03T20:03:46.282+03:00BodyFootballGenderHistoryMasculinityMurat YıldızOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSam DolbeeSport <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.skidmore.edu/history/faculty/yildiz.php" target="_blank"> with Murat Yıldız </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/samuel-dolbee/">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In the late Ottoman capital, imperial politics became a field of collaboration and competition between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities, especially in the years following the 1908 constitutional revolution. And as our guest Murat Yıldız argues in <a href="https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477332863/" target="_blank">a new book</a>, the world of sports also emerged as an arena of political contestation, as gymnasts, footballers, weightlifters, boxers, coaches, teachers, journalists, and fans pursued a civic project that blended athletics, aesthetics, morality, and community. Sport did not erase the communal boundaries that existed off the field, but it often transcended them, as middle and upper class men participated in a shared culture that equated the physical development of the body with the moral development of the person. In this conversation, we explore the Ottoman world of sports at the end of empire, as the growth of a multiethnic civil society facilitated to the proliferation of sports club and writing about athletics, gender, and the body in the Ottoman public press.         </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/07/sports.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/07/sports.html0nowith Murat Yıldız hosted by Sam Dolbee | In the late Ottoman capital, imperial politics became a field of collaboration and competition between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities, especially in the years following the 1908 constitutional revolution. And as our guest Murat Yıldız argues in a new book, the world of sports also emerged as an arena of political contestation, as gymnasts, footballers, weightlifters, boxers, coaches, teachers, journalists, and fans pursued a civic project that blended athletics, aesthetics, morality, and community. Sport did not erase the communal boundaries that existed off the field, but it often transcended them, as middle and upper class men participated in a shared culture that equated the physical development of the body with the moral development of the person. In this conversation, we explore the Ottoman world of sports at the end of empire, as the growth of a multiethnic civil society facilitated to the proliferation of sports club and writing about athletics, gender, and the body in the Ottoman public press.          « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Murat Yıldız hosted by Sam Dolbee | In the late Ottoman capital, imperial politics became a field of collaboration and competition between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities, especially in the years following the 1908 constitutional revolution. And as our guest Murat Yıldız argues in a new book, the world of sports also emerged as an arena of political contestation, as gymnasts, footballers, weightlifters, boxers, coaches, teachers, journalists, and fans pursued a civic project that blended athletics, aesthetics, morality, and community. Sport did not erase the communal boundaries that existed off the field, but it often transcended them, as middle and upper class men participated in a shared culture that equated the physical development of the body with the moral development of the person. In this conversation, we explore the Ottoman world of sports at the end of empire, as the growth of a multiethnic civil society facilitated to the proliferation of sports club and writing about athletics, gender, and the body in the Ottoman public press.          « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2720328291268894790Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:44:07 +00002026-08-22T16:19:52.192+03:00Chris GratienDeportationDOAPEmily Pope-ObedaGenderGreeceGreeksHistoryIzmirLawMigrationMusicOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePanayotis LeagueSam DolbeeUnited States <div class="hidden_synopsis"> Lafky entered the United States as a teenager on false pretenses, when her cousin presented her to immigration authorities as his legal wife. A decade later, when her real marriage devolved into a messy divorce, her husband used her prior illicit entry against her, reporting Lafky to immigration authorities and triggering a legal battle that lasted for years. Lafky&#39;s deportation file revealed that it was not her first ordeal. A survivor of the Greco-Turkish War, she, like many Ottoman-born Greeks, she had already lived many lives on a journey that brought her from the shores of Asia Minor to Athens and the United States. In this episode, we explore the stories, sounds, and sentiments of the Ottoman Greek diaspora in the wake of the Great Catastrophe and the Exchange of Populations through the extraordinary life of a single mother in New York City and her battle with the American deportation state. <br> <br> <i>This episode is part of our investigative series <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/doa.html" target="_blank">Deporting Ottoman Americans</a>.</i>    </div> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4dpTscUcJZ7b91qvEnUgNn-fqJYgu6DRCJHoUuJcIuwg-pr2qW8fNkgk7nFxUxK3jNdmiCtqfQYnS90CH-w6YVYIvX4t8fMBfTUi1BAPMFboWJ1r9ga52zIWzMyuRai9H-xHdRT4AZ-qCRfQsM5tPMY9t2nDqouxvihMUpVO_tAdKyRc4cYVhwmPLsY8/s1600/Lafky%27s%20passport%20photo.jpeg" style="display: none;"> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/06/doap4.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/06/doap4.html0Charlottesville, VA, USA38.0301826 -78.47693539.7199487638211579 -113.6331853 66.340416436178856 -43.320685299999994noLafky entered the United States as a teenager on false pretenses, when her cousin presented her to immigration authorities as his legal wife. A decade later, when her real marriage devolved into a messy divorce, her husband used her prior illicit entry against her, reporting Lafky to immigration authorities and triggering a legal battle that lasted for years. Lafky&#39;s deportation file revealed that it was not her first ordeal. A survivor of the Greco-Turkish War, she, like many Ottoman-born Greeks, she had already lived many lives on a journey that brought her from the shores of Asia Minor to Athens and the United States. In this episode, we explore the stories, sounds, and sentiments of the Ottoman Greek diaspora in the wake of the Great Catastrophe and the Exchange of Populations through the extraordinary life of a single mother in New York City and her battle with the American deportation state. This episode is part of our investigative series Deporting Ottoman Americans.    « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastLafky entered the United States as a teenager on false pretenses, when her cousin presented her to immigration authorities as his legal wife. A decade later, when her real marriage devolved into a messy divorce, her husband used her prior illicit entry against her, reporting Lafky to immigration authorities and triggering a legal battle that lasted for years. Lafky&#39;s deportation file revealed that it was not her first ordeal. A survivor of the Greco-Turkish War, she, like many Ottoman-born Greeks, she had already lived many lives on a journey that brought her from the shores of Asia Minor to Athens and the United States. In this episode, we explore the stories, sounds, and sentiments of the Ottoman Greek diaspora in the wake of the Great Catastrophe and the Exchange of Populations through the extraordinary life of a single mother in New York City and her battle with the American deportation state. This episode is part of our investigative series Deporting Ottoman Americans.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6198210175452317594Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:35:30 +00002026-06-13T21:24:48.362+03:00AnimalsExhibitionsHistoryIstanbulMine YıldırımOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireTurkeyUrban HistoryÖnder Akgül <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.khas.edu.tr/en/academic-staff/2247/" target="_blank"> with Mine Yıldırım </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://mena.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/visiting-affiliated-faculty/%C3%B6nder-eren-akg%C3%BCl.html" target="_blank">hosted by Önder Eren Akgül</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What does canine life reveal about the human worlds of modern Istanbul? In this special collaboration with <a href="https://keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/research-and-work/keyman-podcast/" target="_blank">Keyman Podcast</a> at Northwestern University, we sit down with Mine Yıldırım, curator of the exhibition &quot;Between Care and Violence: The Dogs of Istanbul,&quot; to discuss the intersecting histories of cruelty and compassion towards animals in Turkey&#39;s largest city from the late Ottoman period to the present.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/dogs.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/dogs.html0Kurtuluş, 19 Mayıs, 34377 Şişli/İstanbul, Türkiye41.0522622 28.97812412.742028363821156 -6.1781259999999989 69.36249603617884 64.134374000000008nowith Mine Yıldırım hosted by Önder Eren Akgül | What does canine life reveal about the human worlds of modern Istanbul? In this special collaboration with Keyman Podcast at Northwestern University, we sit down with Mine Yıldırım, curator of the exhibition &quot;Between Care and Violence: The Dogs of Istanbul,&quot; to discuss the intersecting histories of cruelty and compassion towards animals in Turkey&#39;s largest city from the late Ottoman period to the present.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Mine Yıldırım hosted by Önder Eren Akgül | What does canine life reveal about the human worlds of modern Istanbul? In this special collaboration with Keyman Podcast at Northwestern University, we sit down with Mine Yıldırım, curator of the exhibition &quot;Between Care and Violence: The Dogs of Istanbul,&quot; to discuss the intersecting histories of cruelty and compassion towards animals in Turkey&#39;s largest city from the late Ottoman period to the present.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1218317759547542319Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:16:30 +00002026-08-22T16:20:40.452+03:00Ayşehan Jülide EtemChris GratienDiplomacyFilmHistoryKemalismMedia StudiesOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRaceSıla ÖnderTurkeyUnited States <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://mediastudies.as.virginia.edu/people/julide-etem" target="_blank"> with Ayşehan Jülide Etem </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a><a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/sila-onder" target="_blank"> and Sıla Önder</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | During the Cold War period, Turkish cinema flourished, as American films entered local theaters, television sets, and the studios of Yeşilçam. Yet as Jülide Etem argues in her new book, <i><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/film-diplomacy/9780231566216/" target="_blank">Film Diplomacy</a></i>, the cinematic story of Turkey-US relations begins not with entertaining Hollywood movies that circled the globe but rather educational film productions that simultaneously furthered the interests of American overseas power and Turkish domestic policy. In this episode, we explore how film became a ubiquitous technology and tool of the nation-state in Turkey through informational movies, educational material designed for the classroom, and place-based documentaries that performed the dual role of promoting tourism and cultivating knowledge of the country&#39;s different provinces among its citizens. As Etem explains, these ambivalent co-productions shaped an image of Turkey&#39;s inclusion in the international order, making film an arena in which visions of Turkey could be used to reify notions of American supremacy, as the Turkish national elite claimed their own place among the white Euro-American civilizations that became as models for values like development and progress in the modern world.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/etem.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/etem.html01540 Jefferson Park Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA38.031748600000007 -78.5050279.7215147638211619 -113.661277 66.341982436178853 -43.348777nowith Ayşehan Jülide Etem hosted by Chris Gratien and Sıla Önder | During the Cold War period, Turkish cinema flourished, as American films entered local theaters, television sets, and the studios of Yeşilçam. Yet as Jülide Etem argues in her new book, Film Diplomacy, the cinematic story of Turkey-US relations begins not with entertaining Hollywood movies that circled the globe but rather educational film productions that simultaneously furthered the interests of American overseas power and Turkish domestic policy. In this episode, we explore how film became a ubiquitous technology and tool of the nation-state in Turkey through informational movies, educational material designed for the classroom, and place-based documentaries that performed the dual role of promoting tourism and cultivating knowledge of the country&#39;s different provinces among its citizens. As Etem explains, these ambivalent co-productions shaped an image of Turkey&#39;s inclusion in the international order, making film an arena in which visions of Turkey could be used to reify notions of American supremacy, as the Turkish national elite claimed their own place among the white Euro-American civilizations that became as models for values like development and progress in the modern world.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Ayşehan Jülide Etem hosted by Chris Gratien and Sıla Önder | During the Cold War period, Turkish cinema flourished, as American films entered local theaters, television sets, and the studios of Yeşilçam. Yet as Jülide Etem argues in her new book, Film Diplomacy, the cinematic story of Turkey-US relations begins not with entertaining Hollywood movies that circled the globe but rather educational film productions that simultaneously furthered the interests of American overseas power and Turkish domestic policy. In this episode, we explore how film became a ubiquitous technology and tool of the nation-state in Turkey through informational movies, educational material designed for the classroom, and place-based documentaries that performed the dual role of promoting tourism and cultivating knowledge of the country&#39;s different provinces among its citizens. As Etem explains, these ambivalent co-productions shaped an image of Turkey&#39;s inclusion in the international order, making film an arena in which visions of Turkey could be used to reify notions of American supremacy, as the Turkish national elite claimed their own place among the white Euro-American civilizations that became as models for values like development and progress in the modern world.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7007448440240422793Sat, 23 May 2026 13:05:43 +00002026-05-23T16:05:43.263+03:00CairoEgyptGenizahHistoryJane HathawayJewish HistoryManuscriptsMaryam PattonOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSocial HistorySources in Translation <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/hathaway.24" target="_blank"> with Jane Hathaway </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="http://mpatton.faculty.wesleyan.edu" target="_blank">hosted by Maryam Patton</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What can a single, discarded scrap of paper reveal about life in Ottoman-era Cairo? In this episode, Jane Hathaway discusses her open-access book <a href="https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0502">Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah</a>. A genizah is a storeroom or repository where Jewish communities preserved worn-out texts and papers, especially those containing the name of God. Long famous for its medieval Jewish materials, the Cairo Genizah also preserves a rich and still understudied corpus of later Arabic- and Ottoman Turkish-script documents. The conversation explores some of this archive’s unexpected Ottoman afterlife, from Sharia court summaries and commercial records to petition letters, Sufi poetry, and an <em>ilm-i hal</em> primer on Islamic practice. The book, which presents the documents fully transcribed and translated with a scholarly commentary, sheds light on Jewish merchants and bankers, Ottoman officials, port customs in Damietta and Alexandria, sugar supplies bound for Istanbul, and the dense networks linking Cairo to the wider empire, and much more. The conversation also invites us to reflect on archives themselves: how documents survive, how scholars decipher them, and how collaborative reading can open new windows onto Ottoman and Jewish history.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/hathaway.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/hathaway.html0Columbus, OH, USA39.9625112 -83.003221811.652277363821156 -118.1594718 68.272745036178847 -47.846971800000006nowith Jane Hathaway hosted by Maryam Patton | What can a single, discarded scrap of paper reveal about life in Ottoman-era Cairo? In this episode, Jane Hathaway discusses her open-access book Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah. A genizah is a storeroom or repository where Jewish communities preserved worn-out texts and papers, especially those containing the name of God. Long famous for its medieval Jewish materials, the Cairo Genizah also preserves a rich and still understudied corpus of later Arabic- and Ottoman Turkish-script documents. The conversation explores some of this archive’s unexpected Ottoman afterlife, from Sharia court summaries and commercial records to petition letters, Sufi poetry, and an ilm-i hal primer on Islamic practice. The book, which presents the documents fully transcribed and translated with a scholarly commentary, sheds light on Jewish merchants and bankers, Ottoman officials, port customs in Damietta and Alexandria, sugar supplies bound for Istanbul, and the dense networks linking Cairo to the wider empire, and much more. The conversation also invites us to reflect on archives themselves: how documents survive, how scholars decipher them, and how collaborative reading can open new windows onto Ottoman and Jewish history.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Jane Hathaway hosted by Maryam Patton | What can a single, discarded scrap of paper reveal about life in Ottoman-era Cairo? In this episode, Jane Hathaway discusses her open-access book Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah. A genizah is a storeroom or repository where Jewish communities preserved worn-out texts and papers, especially those containing the name of God. Long famous for its medieval Jewish materials, the Cairo Genizah also preserves a rich and still understudied corpus of later Arabic- and Ottoman Turkish-script documents. The conversation explores some of this archive’s unexpected Ottoman afterlife, from Sharia court summaries and commercial records to petition letters, Sufi poetry, and an ilm-i hal primer on Islamic practice. The book, which presents the documents fully transcribed and translated with a scholarly commentary, sheds light on Jewish merchants and bankers, Ottoman officials, port customs in Damietta and Alexandria, sugar supplies bound for Istanbul, and the dense networks linking Cairo to the wider empire, and much more. The conversation also invites us to reflect on archives themselves: how documents survive, how scholars decipher them, and how collaborative reading can open new windows onto Ottoman and Jewish history.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7556576044575364143Sat, 16 May 2026 22:03:22 +00002026-05-17T01:03:22.003+03:00Armenian GenocideCan GümüşHistoryOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRepublican TurkeyTürkçeÜmit Kurt <br> <div class="guest_name"> Ümit Kurt</div> <div class="host_name"> Sunucu: Can Gümüş</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Bu bölümde Ümit Kurt’un Aras Yayıncılık’tan çıkan kitabı Kanun ve Nizam Dairesinde: Soykırım Teknokratı Mustafa Reşat Mimaroğlu’nun İzinde Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Devlet Mekanizması temelinde 1915’in idari ve bürokratik boyutuna odaklanıyoruz. Mustafa Reşat Mimaroğlu örneğinde olduğu gibi “kanun ve nizam dairesinde” hareket eden bürokratlara odaklandığımız sohbetimizde, kolektif şiddet olaylarını olağanüstü kırılma anları olarak okumaktan ziyade bürokratik faillik biçimlerinin görünür hâle geldiği bir tarihsel bağlam içinde değerlendiriyoruz. Osmanlı’nın son döneminden Cumhuriyet’in ilk yıllarına orta-üst ölçekli bir bürokratın merkezî kararlarla saha arasındaki rolü nasıl şekillenmiştir? Devlet hizmeti, görev bilinci ve düzen söylemi bu dönemde nasıl bir anlam kazanmıştır? Faillik, yalnızca doğrudan eylemle değil, idari kararlar ve rutin pratikler üzerinden nasıl kurulmuştır? Podcast, bu sorular ekseninde 1915’i bürokrasi, faillik ve devlet işleyişi ekseninde yeniden düşünmeye davet ediyor. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/umitkurt.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/umitkurt.html0Istanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye41.0082376 28.978358914.781880322597679 -6.1778911 67.234594877402316 64.1346089noÜmit Kurt Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde Ümit Kurt’un Aras Yayıncılık’tan çıkan kitabı Kanun ve Nizam Dairesinde: Soykırım Teknokratı Mustafa Reşat Mimaroğlu’nun İzinde Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Devlet Mekanizması temelinde 1915’in idari ve bürokratik boyutuna odaklanıyoruz. Mustafa Reşat Mimaroğlu örneğinde olduğu gibi “kanun ve nizam dairesinde” hareket eden bürokratlara odaklandığımız sohbetimizde, kolektif şiddet olaylarını olağanüstü kırılma anları olarak okumaktan ziyade bürokratik faillik biçimlerinin görünür hâle geldiği bir tarihsel bağlam içinde değerlendiriyoruz. Osmanlı’nın son döneminden Cumhuriyet’in ilk yıllarına orta-üst ölçekli bir bürokratın merkezî kararlarla saha arasındaki rolü nasıl şekillenmiştir? Devlet hizmeti, görev bilinci ve düzen söylemi bu dönemde nasıl bir anlam kazanmıştır? Faillik, yalnızca doğrudan eylemle değil, idari kararlar ve rutin pratikler üzerinden nasıl kurulmuştır? Podcast, bu sorular ekseninde 1915’i bürokrasi, faillik ve devlet işleyişi ekseninde yeniden düşünmeye davet ediyor. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastÜmit Kurt Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde Ümit Kurt’un Aras Yayıncılık’tan çıkan kitabı Kanun ve Nizam Dairesinde: Soykırım Teknokratı Mustafa Reşat Mimaroğlu’nun İzinde Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Devlet Mekanizması temelinde 1915’in idari ve bürokratik boyutuna odaklanıyoruz. Mustafa Reşat Mimaroğlu örneğinde olduğu gibi “kanun ve nizam dairesinde” hareket eden bürokratlara odaklandığımız sohbetimizde, kolektif şiddet olaylarını olağanüstü kırılma anları olarak okumaktan ziyade bürokratik faillik biçimlerinin görünür hâle geldiği bir tarihsel bağlam içinde değerlendiriyoruz. Osmanlı’nın son döneminden Cumhuriyet’in ilk yıllarına orta-üst ölçekli bir bürokratın merkezî kararlarla saha arasındaki rolü nasıl şekillenmiştir? Devlet hizmeti, görev bilinci ve düzen söylemi bu dönemde nasıl bir anlam kazanmıştır? Faillik, yalnızca doğrudan eylemle değil, idari kararlar ve rutin pratikler üzerinden nasıl kurulmuştır? Podcast, bu sorular ekseninde 1915’i bürokrasi, faillik ve devlet işleyişi ekseninde yeniden düşünmeye davet ediyor. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-3748132763500935171Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:44:00 +00002026-08-22T16:20:03.735+03:00Abbey StockstillArchitectureChris GratienEnvironmentHistoryIslamMedievalMoroccoMosqueMountainsOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireThe Making of the Islamic World <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.arch.virginia.edu/people/abbey-stockstill" target="_blank"> with Abbey Stockstill </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What is Islamic architecture? In this follow-up to our ten-part seires on The Making of the Islamic World, we explore that question with Prof. Abbey Stockstill, author of <i>Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib</i>. Our conversation centers on the imperial city of Marrakesh, which was shaped by two successive dynasties — the Almoravids and the Almohads — with two competing visions of Muslim religious and political life that left an indelible imprint on the Maghreb region from the Sahara to al-Andalus. As Prof. Stockstill explains, understanding the architectural legacy of these dynasties extends far beyond the confines of monumental features of mosques and minarets. Natural landscapes and agricultural spaces played an equally vital role in the built environment of medieval Morocco, which in turn influenced the development of architecture in what is now southern Spain during the last centuries of Islamic rule.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/04/architecture-and-environment-in.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/04/architecture-and-environment-in.html0Charlottesville, VA, USA38.0335529 -78.50797729.7233190638211511 -113.6642272 66.343786736178842 -43.3517272nowith Abbey Stockstill hosted by Chris Gratien | What is Islamic architecture? In this follow-up to our ten-part seires on The Making of the Islamic World, we explore that question with Prof. Abbey Stockstill, author of Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib. Our conversation centers on the imperial city of Marrakesh, which was shaped by two successive dynasties — the Almoravids and the Almohads — with two competing visions of Muslim religious and political life that left an indelible imprint on the Maghreb region from the Sahara to al-Andalus. As Prof. Stockstill explains, understanding the architectural legacy of these dynasties extends far beyond the confines of monumental features of mosques and minarets. Natural landscapes and agricultural spaces played an equally vital role in the built environment of medieval Morocco, which in turn influenced the development of architecture in what is now southern Spain during the last centuries of Islamic rule.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Abbey Stockstill hosted by Chris Gratien | What is Islamic architecture? In this follow-up to our ten-part seires on The Making of the Islamic World, we explore that question with Prof. Abbey Stockstill, author of Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib. Our conversation centers on the imperial city of Marrakesh, which was shaped by two successive dynasties — the Almoravids and the Almohads — with two competing visions of Muslim religious and political life that left an indelible imprint on the Maghreb region from the Sahara to al-Andalus. As Prof. Stockstill explains, understanding the architectural legacy of these dynasties extends far beyond the confines of monumental features of mosques and minarets. Natural landscapes and agricultural spaces played an equally vital role in the built environment of medieval Morocco, which in turn influenced the development of architecture in what is now southern Spain during the last centuries of Islamic rule.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4612622240741636855Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:10:00 +00002026-04-15T16:10:31.337+03:00Can GümüşCapitalismEconomyGörkem AkgözHistoryIndustrializationIstanbulLaborOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRepublican TurkeyTürkçe <br> <div class="guest_name"> Görkem Akgöz</div> <div class="host_name"> Sunucu: Can Gümüş</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Bu bölümde Dr. Görkem Akgöz’ün 2025 Hagley Prize in Business History ödülünü alan “In the Shadow of War and Empire Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey” başlıklı kitabı üzerine konuşuyoruz. Akgöz’ün “Türk Manchester”ı olarak bilinen Bakırköy Bez Fabrikası’nı Osmanlı döneminde kuruluşundan itibaren odağa alan araştırması devletçiliği yalnızca bir kalkınma modeli değil, emek ve sınıf ilişkilerini yeniden kuran bir siyasal proje olarak düşünmeye davet ediyor. Erken Cumhuriyet Türkiye’sinde fabrika işçisi olmanın ne anlama geldiğini tartıştığımız bu sohbette, dilekçeler ve talepler üzerinden şekillenen aktif emek siyasetinin, devletin idealize ettiği düzen ile fabrikanın gerçekliği arasındaki gerilimleri nasıl açığa çıkardığını ele alıyoruz. Bu bağlamda, nostaljik anlatıların ötesine geçip erken Cumhuriyet sanayileşmesini disiplin, kontrol ve müzakere ekseninde sorgularken, Osmanlı ve Türkiye sanayi kapitalizminin gelişimi hakkında yeni sorular soruyoruz. Bölümün sonunda ise Akgöz’ün arşiv ve yazıyla kurduğu ilişkinin tarihsel düşünme ve anlatımını nasıl dönüştürdüğüne değiniyoruz. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/04/gorkemakgoz.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/04/gorkemakgoz.html0Feriköy, Şişli/İstanbul, Türkiye41.04901 28.979790212.738776163821157 -6.1764598 69.359243836178848 64.1360402noGörkem Akgöz Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde Dr. Görkem Akgöz’ün 2025 Hagley Prize in Business History ödülünü alan “In the Shadow of War and Empire Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey” başlıklı kitabı üzerine konuşuyoruz. Akgöz’ün “Türk Manchester”ı olarak bilinen Bakırköy Bez Fabrikası’nı Osmanlı döneminde kuruluşundan itibaren odağa alan araştırması devletçiliği yalnızca bir kalkınma modeli değil, emek ve sınıf ilişkilerini yeniden kuran bir siyasal proje olarak düşünmeye davet ediyor. Erken Cumhuriyet Türkiye’sinde fabrika işçisi olmanın ne anlama geldiğini tartıştığımız bu sohbette, dilekçeler ve talepler üzerinden şekillenen aktif emek siyasetinin, devletin idealize ettiği düzen ile fabrikanın gerçekliği arasındaki gerilimleri nasıl açığa çıkardığını ele alıyoruz. Bu bağlamda, nostaljik anlatıların ötesine geçip erken Cumhuriyet sanayileşmesini disiplin, kontrol ve müzakere ekseninde sorgularken, Osmanlı ve Türkiye sanayi kapitalizminin gelişimi hakkında yeni sorular soruyoruz. Bölümün sonunda ise Akgöz’ün arşiv ve yazıyla kurduğu ilişkinin tarihsel düşünme ve anlatımını nasıl dönüştürdüğüne değiniyoruz. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastGörkem Akgöz Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde Dr. Görkem Akgöz’ün 2025 Hagley Prize in Business History ödülünü alan “In the Shadow of War and Empire Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey” başlıklı kitabı üzerine konuşuyoruz. Akgöz’ün “Türk Manchester”ı olarak bilinen Bakırköy Bez Fabrikası’nı Osmanlı döneminde kuruluşundan itibaren odağa alan araştırması devletçiliği yalnızca bir kalkınma modeli değil, emek ve sınıf ilişkilerini yeniden kuran bir siyasal proje olarak düşünmeye davet ediyor. Erken Cumhuriyet Türkiye’sinde fabrika işçisi olmanın ne anlama geldiğini tartıştığımız bu sohbette, dilekçeler ve talepler üzerinden şekillenen aktif emek siyasetinin, devletin idealize ettiği düzen ile fabrikanın gerçekliği arasındaki gerilimleri nasıl açığa çıkardığını ele alıyoruz. Bu bağlamda, nostaljik anlatıların ötesine geçip erken Cumhuriyet sanayileşmesini disiplin, kontrol ve müzakere ekseninde sorgularken, Osmanlı ve Türkiye sanayi kapitalizminin gelişimi hakkında yeni sorular soruyoruz. Bölümün sonunda ise Akgöz’ün arşiv ve yazıyla kurduğu ilişkinin tarihsel düşünme ve anlatımını nasıl dönüştürdüğüne değiniyoruz. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5864144861064225287Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:32:00 +00002026-08-22T16:20:11.859+03:00Barış ÜnlüChris GratienHistoryKurdsKübra SağırNationalismOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSociology <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/baris-unlu" target="_blank"> with Barış Ünlü </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a><a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/kubra-sagir" target="_blank"> and Kubra Sagir</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What does it mean to be Turkish? In this episode, we examine that question with sociologist Barış Ünlü. In <a href="https://tupress.temple.edu/books/the-turkishness-contract" target="_blank"><i>The Turkishness Contract</i></a>, Ünlü studies the historical process by which Turkishness developed through a contractual relationship between the state and its citizens. In our conversation, we explore the late Ottoman roots of this process, as well as how the experiences of non-Turkish religious and ethnolinguistic groups shed light onto the often unspoken and unconscious behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that govern Turkishness. We also discuss the book&#39;s <a href="https://www.dipnotkitap.com/kitap/turkluk-sozlesmesi/246" target="_blank">wide reception in Turkish</a> and how in its new English translation, Ünlü connects the Turkish experience to global perspectives on race and belonging in the modern world.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/turkishness-contract.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/turkishness-contract.html0Charlottesville, VA, USA38.0335529 -78.50797729.7233190638211511 -113.6642272 66.343786736178842 -43.3517272nowith Barış Ünlü hosted by Chris Gratien and Kubra Sagir | What does it mean to be Turkish? In this episode, we examine that question with sociologist Barış Ünlü. In The Turkishness Contract, Ünlü studies the historical process by which Turkishness developed through a contractual relationship between the state and its citizens. In our conversation, we explore the late Ottoman roots of this process, as well as how the experiences of non-Turkish religious and ethnolinguistic groups shed light onto the often unspoken and unconscious behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that govern Turkishness. We also discuss the book&#39;s wide reception in Turkish and how in its new English translation, Ünlü connects the Turkish experience to global perspectives on race and belonging in the modern world.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Barış Ünlü hosted by Chris Gratien and Kubra Sagir | What does it mean to be Turkish? In this episode, we examine that question with sociologist Barış Ünlü. In The Turkishness Contract, Ünlü studies the historical process by which Turkishness developed through a contractual relationship between the state and its citizens. In our conversation, we explore the late Ottoman roots of this process, as well as how the experiences of non-Turkish religious and ethnolinguistic groups shed light onto the often unspoken and unconscious behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that govern Turkishness. We also discuss the book&#39;s wide reception in Turkish and how in its new English translation, Ünlü connects the Turkish experience to global perspectives on race and belonging in the modern world.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1878201565115320562Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:17:00 +00002026-08-22T16:20:20.151+03:00Chris GratienDiplomacyElizabeth VaronHistoryIstanbulMilitary HistoryOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireReconstructionUnited StatesUS Civil War <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/elizabeth-r-varon" target="_blank"> with Elizabeth Varon </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | After the US Civil War, some leaders of the defeated Confederacy followed unusual trajectories, perhaps none more so than James Longstreet, who joined the Republican party to become a proponent of Southern Reconstruction and for a brief period, the Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, we talk to Elizabeth Varon, author of a new biography of Longstreet, about the rebel-turned-diplomat&#39;s brief tenure in the Ottoman capital during the early years of Sultan Abdul Hamid II&#39;s reign, and we discuss what Longstreet&#39;s experiences reveal about America on the world stage in the shadow of the Civil War and Reconstruction. We also discuss Prof. Varon&#39;s personal connection to post-Ottoman Istanbul, as well as her new research about Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, who followed in Longstreet&#39;s footsteps some years later on a humanitarian mission to the Ottoman Armenians in Anatolia.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/longstreet.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/longstreet.html0Charlottesville, VA, USA38.0335529 -78.50797729.7233190638211511 -113.6642272 66.343786736178842 -43.3517272nowith Elizabeth Varon hosted by Chris Gratien | After the US Civil War, some leaders of the defeated Confederacy followed unusual trajectories, perhaps none more so than James Longstreet, who joined the Republican party to become a proponent of Southern Reconstruction and for a brief period, the Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, we talk to Elizabeth Varon, author of a new biography of Longstreet, about the rebel-turned-diplomat&#39;s brief tenure in the Ottoman capital during the early years of Sultan Abdul Hamid II&#39;s reign, and we discuss what Longstreet&#39;s experiences reveal about America on the world stage in the shadow of the Civil War and Reconstruction. We also discuss Prof. Varon&#39;s personal connection to post-Ottoman Istanbul, as well as her new research about Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, who followed in Longstreet&#39;s footsteps some years later on a humanitarian mission to the Ottoman Armenians in Anatolia.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Elizabeth Varon hosted by Chris Gratien | After the US Civil War, some leaders of the defeated Confederacy followed unusual trajectories, perhaps none more so than James Longstreet, who joined the Republican party to become a proponent of Southern Reconstruction and for a brief period, the Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, we talk to Elizabeth Varon, author of a new biography of Longstreet, about the rebel-turned-diplomat&#39;s brief tenure in the Ottoman capital during the early years of Sultan Abdul Hamid II&#39;s reign, and we discuss what Longstreet&#39;s experiences reveal about America on the world stage in the shadow of the Civil War and Reconstruction. We also discuss Prof. Varon&#39;s personal connection to post-Ottoman Istanbul, as well as her new research about Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, who followed in Longstreet&#39;s footsteps some years later on a humanitarian mission to the Ottoman Armenians in Anatolia.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2568025723137068182Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:47:00 +00002026-02-11T17:47:29.742+03:00British EmpireColonialismEsmat ElhalabyHistoryIntellectual HistoryNationalismOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePalestinePoliticsSouth AsiaSusanna FergusonTransnational <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://esmatelhalaby.com/" target="_blank"> with Esmat Elhalaby </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.smith.edu/people/susanna-ferguson" target="_blank">hosted by Susanna Ferguson</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | How did Palestine become central to anti-imperial movements and thought in the global south? In this episode, Esmat Elhalaby asks how Arabs and South Asians contended with the “parting gifts of empire” in the long twentieth century, often by turning to Palestine. He talks about how Arab writers in conversation with India reinvented Orientalism as a critique of empire and reinterpreted the political possibilities and limitations of Islam as a political force. We close with a discussion of Esmat’s new work on the intellectual history of Gaza, the importance of talking about “bad Palestinians,” and what it means to write history at a time of genocide.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/02/elhalaby.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/02/elhalaby.html0Toronto, ON, Canada43.6548253 -79.38844715.344591463821153 -114.544697 71.965059136178837 -44.232197nowith Esmat Elhalaby hosted by Susanna Ferguson | How did Palestine become central to anti-imperial movements and thought in the global south? In this episode, Esmat Elhalaby asks how Arabs and South Asians contended with the “parting gifts of empire” in the long twentieth century, often by turning to Palestine. He talks about how Arab writers in conversation with India reinvented Orientalism as a critique of empire and reinterpreted the political possibilities and limitations of Islam as a political force. We close with a discussion of Esmat’s new work on the intellectual history of Gaza, the importance of talking about “bad Palestinians,” and what it means to write history at a time of genocide.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Esmat Elhalaby hosted by Susanna Ferguson | How did Palestine become central to anti-imperial movements and thought in the global south? In this episode, Esmat Elhalaby asks how Arabs and South Asians contended with the “parting gifts of empire” in the long twentieth century, often by turning to Palestine. He talks about how Arab writers in conversation with India reinvented Orientalism as a critique of empire and reinterpreted the political possibilities and limitations of Islam as a political force. We close with a discussion of Esmat’s new work on the intellectual history of Gaza, the importance of talking about “bad Palestinians,” and what it means to write history at a time of genocide.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5703162238399577590Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:20:00 +00002026-01-23T19:13:22.553+03:00AnthropologyBrittany WhiteChris GratienHistoryKenyaKinshipLawMigrationOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRefugeesSomaliaSophia Balakian <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://integrative.gmu.edu/people/sbalakia" target="_blank"> with Sophia Balakian </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/brittany-white" target="_blank">hosted by Brittany White</a><a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank"> and Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The word &quot;refugee&quot; might conjure images of families devastated by war fleeing their homeland. But what happens when those who seek asylum abroad do not conform to that image? As Sophia Balakian argues in her new book <a href="https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/unsettled-families" target="_blank"><i>Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship</i></a>, the question is one that shapes the case of every refugee seeking a new home abroad in the United States. The Somali and Congolese migrants in her study face an intense vetting process that includes DNA testing to confirm that a refugee family forms a biological unit, creating numerous reasons by which people who have survived war and displacement may be judged &quot;fraudulent&quot; families. In this episode, Balakian is back on the podcast to share an anthropologist&#39;s perspective on the history of migration and the politics of kinship in refugee resettlement.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/01/balakian.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/01/balakian.html0Charlottesville, VA, USA38.0335529 -78.50797729.7233190638211511 -113.6642272 66.343786736178842 -43.3517272nowith Sophia Balakian hosted by Brittany White and Chris Gratien | The word &quot;refugee&quot; might conjure images of families devastated by war fleeing their homeland. But what happens when those who seek asylum abroad do not conform to that image? As Sophia Balakian argues in her new book Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship, the question is one that shapes the case of every refugee seeking a new home abroad in the United States. The Somali and Congolese migrants in her study face an intense vetting process that includes DNA testing to confirm that a refugee family forms a biological unit, creating numerous reasons by which people who have survived war and displacement may be judged &quot;fraudulent&quot; families. In this episode, Balakian is back on the podcast to share an anthropologist&#39;s perspective on the history of migration and the politics of kinship in refugee resettlement.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Sophia Balakian hosted by Brittany White and Chris Gratien | The word &quot;refugee&quot; might conjure images of families devastated by war fleeing their homeland. But what happens when those who seek asylum abroad do not conform to that image? As Sophia Balakian argues in her new book Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship, the question is one that shapes the case of every refugee seeking a new home abroad in the United States. The Somali and Congolese migrants in her study face an intense vetting process that includes DNA testing to confirm that a refugee family forms a biological unit, creating numerous reasons by which people who have survived war and displacement may be judged &quot;fraudulent&quot; families. In this episode, Balakian is back on the podcast to share an anthropologist&#39;s perspective on the history of migration and the politics of kinship in refugee resettlement.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-9019509465950407534Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:08:00 +00002026-01-22T18:24:57.762+03:00Andras RiedlmayerCairoChris GratienEgyptGenderGwen CollaçoHistoryKitty LordMichael TalbotOHP EpisodesOHP VaultOttoman EmpirePaul DrummondPostcardsShireen HamzaTheater <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://library.brown.edu/create/libnews/gwendolyn-collaco/" target="_blank"> featuring Gwendolyn Collaço </a></div><br> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/AndrasRiedlmayer" target="_blank">with Andras Riedlmayer </a>and <a href="https://pleasuresofpasttimes.com/history/" target="_blank">Paul Drummond</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | While killing time at the Booksellers&#39; Row in Westminster, historian and curator Gwendolyn Collaço stumbled on a collection of postcards from early 20th-century Egypt, some featuring the British burlesque artist Miss Kitty Lord. When she realized that the postcards were a set belonging to a single person — none other than Kitty Lord herself — the chance discovery became a research quest that culminated in an exhibition at Harvard Fine Arts Library, presenting a visual time capsule of Belle Époque Cairo that mapped the social and romantic life of a fascinating and little-known figure. In this episode from the Ottoman History Podcast vault, Collaço discusses what she uncovered about Kitty Lord through collaborations with the historian and bibliographer András Riedlmayer and memorobilia shop owner Paul Drummond, who appear in the podcast to share their side of the story.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/01/kitty-lord.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/01/kitty-lord.html0Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA42.3744368 -71.118248814.064202963821153 -106.2744988 70.684670636178851 -35.9619988nofeaturing Gwendolyn Collaço with Andras Riedlmayer and Paul Drummond | While killing time at the Booksellers&#39; Row in Westminster, historian and curator Gwendolyn Collaço stumbled on a collection of postcards from early 20th-century Egypt, some featuring the British burlesque artist Miss Kitty Lord. When she realized that the postcards were a set belonging to a single person — none other than Kitty Lord herself — the chance discovery became a research quest that culminated in an exhibition at Harvard Fine Arts Library, presenting a visual time capsule of Belle Époque Cairo that mapped the social and romantic life of a fascinating and little-known figure. In this episode from the Ottoman History Podcast vault, Collaço discusses what she uncovered about Kitty Lord through collaborations with the historian and bibliographer András Riedlmayer and memorobilia shop owner Paul Drummond, who appear in the podcast to share their side of the story.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastfeaturing Gwendolyn Collaço with Andras Riedlmayer and Paul Drummond | While killing time at the Booksellers&#39; Row in Westminster, historian and curator Gwendolyn Collaço stumbled on a collection of postcards from early 20th-century Egypt, some featuring the British burlesque artist Miss Kitty Lord. When she realized that the postcards were a set belonging to a single person — none other than Kitty Lord herself — the chance discovery became a research quest that culminated in an exhibition at Harvard Fine Arts Library, presenting a visual time capsule of Belle Époque Cairo that mapped the social and romantic life of a fascinating and little-known figure. In this episode from the Ottoman History Podcast vault, Collaço discusses what she uncovered about Kitty Lord through collaborations with the historian and bibliographer András Riedlmayer and memorobilia shop owner Paul Drummond, who appear in the podcast to share their side of the story.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5717544779929397059Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:50:00 +00002025-12-25T19:50:47.072+03:00Arab ProvincesBaghdadCan GümüşConstitutionalismEmine ŞahinHistoryIraqOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireTürkçeWWI <br> <div class="guest_name"> Emine Şahin</div> <div class="host_name"> Sunucu: Can Gümüş</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Bağdat, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu için coğrafi uzaklığına rağmen merkezî idarenin vazgeçilmez vilayetlerinden biriydi. Tanzimat’tan itibaren bu önem, yalnızca askerî güvenlik veya sınır politikalarıyla sınırlı kalmadı; idarî modernleşme, ekonomik düzenlemeler ve toplumsal kontrol mekanizmalarının uygulandığı başlıca laboratuvarlardan biri haline geldi. II. Meşrutiyet’in ilanı ise bu denemeleri daha iddialı, daha sert ve daha merkezî bir siyasi programa dönüştürdü. Bu bölümde, Dr. Emine Şahin’le birlikte 1908–1917 arasında Bağdat’ta Osmanlı idaresinin dönüşümünü inceliyoruz. Merkezileşme politikalarının sahada nasıl uygulandığını, hangi aktörler aracılığıyla yürütüldüğünü ve yerel toplum tarafından nasıl karşılandığını tartışıyoruz. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/12/sahin.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/12/sahin.html0Istanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye41.0082376 28.978358912.698003763821156 -6.1778911 69.318471436178839 64.1346089noEmine Şahin Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bağdat, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu için coğrafi uzaklığına rağmen merkezî idarenin vazgeçilmez vilayetlerinden biriydi. Tanzimat’tan itibaren bu önem, yalnızca askerî güvenlik veya sınır politikalarıyla sınırlı kalmadı; idarî modernleşme, ekonomik düzenlemeler ve toplumsal kontrol mekanizmalarının uygulandığı başlıca laboratuvarlardan biri haline geldi. II. Meşrutiyet’in ilanı ise bu denemeleri daha iddialı, daha sert ve daha merkezî bir siyasi programa dönüştürdü. Bu bölümde, Dr. Emine Şahin’le birlikte 1908–1917 arasında Bağdat’ta Osmanlı idaresinin dönüşümünü inceliyoruz. Merkezileşme politikalarının sahada nasıl uygulandığını, hangi aktörler aracılığıyla yürütüldüğünü ve yerel toplum tarafından nasıl karşılandığını tartışıyoruz. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEmine Şahin Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bağdat, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu için coğrafi uzaklığına rağmen merkezî idarenin vazgeçilmez vilayetlerinden biriydi. Tanzimat’tan itibaren bu önem, yalnızca askerî güvenlik veya sınır politikalarıyla sınırlı kalmadı; idarî modernleşme, ekonomik düzenlemeler ve toplumsal kontrol mekanizmalarının uygulandığı başlıca laboratuvarlardan biri haline geldi. II. Meşrutiyet’in ilanı ise bu denemeleri daha iddialı, daha sert ve daha merkezî bir siyasi programa dönüştürdü. Bu bölümde, Dr. Emine Şahin’le birlikte 1908–1917 arasında Bağdat’ta Osmanlı idaresinin dönüşümünü inceliyoruz. Merkezileşme politikalarının sahada nasıl uygulandığını, hangi aktörler aracılığıyla yürütüldüğünü ve yerel toplum tarafından nasıl karşılandığını tartışıyoruz. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8122973522505955969Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:48:00 +00002025-12-06T23:03:18.784+03:0017th centuryBooksEducationHistoryIslamMaryam PattonNir ShafirOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePampletsReligionSTS SeriesSufism <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/shafir.html" target="_blank"> with Nir Shafir </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="http://mpatton.faculty.wesleyan.edu" target="_blank">hosted by Maryam Patton</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The seventeenth century has often been characterized as a period of disorder and religious polemics in the Ottoman Empire. In this podcast, Nir Shafir takes us inside his award-winning new book, which argues that the polemics of the early modern Ottoman world were fueled in part by changes in communication, namely the rise of short pamphlets that circulated easily in handwritten copies. Pamphlets created a new arena largely independent from the institutional centers of knowledge production where people debated everyday questions of the time about what it meant to be Muslim. In exploring the world of Ottoman pamphlets, Shafir also offers a new introduction to the nature of Ottoman education, book production, and reading practices prior to the rise of print and modern state institutions.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/12/shafir.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/12/shafir.html0nowith Nir Shafir hosted by Maryam Patton | The seventeenth century has often been characterized as a period of disorder and religious polemics in the Ottoman Empire. In this podcast, Nir Shafir takes us inside his award-winning new book, which argues that the polemics of the early modern Ottoman world were fueled in part by changes in communication, namely the rise of short pamphlets that circulated easily in handwritten copies. Pamphlets created a new arena largely independent from the institutional centers of knowledge production where people debated everyday questions of the time about what it meant to be Muslim. In exploring the world of Ottoman pamphlets, Shafir also offers a new introduction to the nature of Ottoman education, book production, and reading practices prior to the rise of print and modern state institutions.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Nir Shafir hosted by Maryam Patton | The seventeenth century has often been characterized as a period of disorder and religious polemics in the Ottoman Empire. In this podcast, Nir Shafir takes us inside his award-winning new book, which argues that the polemics of the early modern Ottoman world were fueled in part by changes in communication, namely the rise of short pamphlets that circulated easily in handwritten copies. Pamphlets created a new arena largely independent from the institutional centers of knowledge production where people debated everyday questions of the time about what it meant to be Muslim. In exploring the world of Ottoman pamphlets, Shafir also offers a new introduction to the nature of Ottoman education, book production, and reading practices prior to the rise of print and modern state institutions.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-511395260122126528Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:21:00 +00002025-11-19T07:23:31.901+03:00Fahad BisharaFantasyFictionHistoryIndian OceanKD ThompsonLiana SaifMahmood KooriaOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRebecca HankinsSamantha PellegrinoShannon ChakrabortyShireen Hamza <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://shireenhamza.com/" target="_blank"> produced by Shireen Hamza</a></div><br> <div class="host_name"> and featuring <br>Fahad Bishara, KD Thompson, Liana Saif, <br>Mahmood Kooria, Rebecca Hankins, and Samantha Pellegrino</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What could historians have to say about a fantasy novel? The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, published in 2023, follows an aging mother and captain on magical adventures across the twelfth-century Indian Ocean world with her crew. It has been read widely, hitting bestseller lists in the US and being translated into eight languages. In this episode, a group of historians discusses the novel with its author, Shannon Chakraborty. Our conversation covers gender and geography, language and literature, piety and piracy, and of course, magic.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/chakraborty.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/chakraborty.html0noproduced by Shireen Hamza and featuring Fahad Bishara, KD Thompson, Liana Saif, Mahmood Kooria, Rebecca Hankins, and Samantha Pellegrino | What could historians have to say about a fantasy novel? The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, published in 2023, follows an aging mother and captain on magical adventures across the twelfth-century Indian Ocean world with her crew. It has been read widely, hitting bestseller lists in the US and being translated into eight languages. In this episode, a group of historians discusses the novel with its author, Shannon Chakraborty. Our conversation covers gender and geography, language and literature, piety and piracy, and of course, magic.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastproduced by Shireen Hamza and featuring Fahad Bishara, KD Thompson, Liana Saif, Mahmood Kooria, Rebecca Hankins, and Samantha Pellegrino | What could historians have to say about a fantasy novel? The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, published in 2023, follows an aging mother and captain on magical adventures across the twelfth-century Indian Ocean world with her crew. It has been read widely, hitting bestseller lists in the US and being translated into eight languages. In this episode, a group of historians discusses the novel with its author, Shannon Chakraborty. Our conversation covers gender and geography, language and literature, piety and piracy, and of course, magic.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2670698495170378803Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:45:00 +00002025-11-10T23:36:30.919+03:00Can GümüşElectricityEmine ÖztanerHistoryIstanbulMeltem KocamanNurçin İleriOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSTS SeriesTürkçe <br> <div class="guest_name"> Nurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman</div> <div class="host_name"> Sunucu: Can Gümüş</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Bu bölümde, Nurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman ile elektriğin Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e uzanan süreçte gündelik yaşamı ve toplumsal ilişkileri nasıl dönüştürdüğünü tartışıyoruz. İstanbul’un ilk aydınlatma girişimlerinden sanayi tesislerine, tramvay hatlarından ev içi teknolojilere uzanan örneklerle, teknolojik yeniliklerin yalnızca kent altyapılarını değil, aynı zamanda kentlilerin yaşam tahayyüllerini de nasıl şekillendirdiğini inceliyoruz. İleri’nin derlediği Bir Cereyan Hasıl Oldu: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e İstanbul’da Elektrikli Yaşam (Tarih Vakfı, 2024) başlıklı kitabı temel alan sohbetimizde, elektriğin, bir teknik yenilik olmanın ötesinde, modernleşme, emek, toplumsal cinsiyet ve kamusal alan gibi kesişen temalar etrafında yeni bir toplumsal düzenin ve kültürel dönüşümün parçası hâline gelişini konuşuyoruz. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/cereyan.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/cereyan.html0Hüseyinağa, Meşrutiyet Cd. No:8, 34435 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Türkiye41.0339043 28.97718514.807547022597682 -6.1790650000000014 67.260261577402332 64.133434999999992noNurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde, Nurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman ile elektriğin Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e uzanan süreçte gündelik yaşamı ve toplumsal ilişkileri nasıl dönüştürdüğünü tartışıyoruz. İstanbul’un ilk aydınlatma girişimlerinden sanayi tesislerine, tramvay hatlarından ev içi teknolojilere uzanan örneklerle, teknolojik yeniliklerin yalnızca kent altyapılarını değil, aynı zamanda kentlilerin yaşam tahayyüllerini de nasıl şekillendirdiğini inceliyoruz. İleri’nin derlediği Bir Cereyan Hasıl Oldu: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e İstanbul’da Elektrikli Yaşam (Tarih Vakfı, 2024) başlıklı kitabı temel alan sohbetimizde, elektriğin, bir teknik yenilik olmanın ötesinde, modernleşme, emek, toplumsal cinsiyet ve kamusal alan gibi kesişen temalar etrafında yeni bir toplumsal düzenin ve kültürel dönüşümün parçası hâline gelişini konuşuyoruz. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastNurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde, Nurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman ile elektriğin Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e uzanan süreçte gündelik yaşamı ve toplumsal ilişkileri nasıl dönüştürdüğünü tartışıyoruz. İstanbul’un ilk aydınlatma girişimlerinden sanayi tesislerine, tramvay hatlarından ev içi teknolojilere uzanan örneklerle, teknolojik yeniliklerin yalnızca kent altyapılarını değil, aynı zamanda kentlilerin yaşam tahayyüllerini de nasıl şekillendirdiğini inceliyoruz. İleri’nin derlediği Bir Cereyan Hasıl Oldu: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e İstanbul’da Elektrikli Yaşam (Tarih Vakfı, 2024) başlıklı kitabı temel alan sohbetimizde, elektriğin, bir teknik yenilik olmanın ötesinde, modernleşme, emek, toplumsal cinsiyet ve kamusal alan gibi kesişen temalar etrafında yeni bir toplumsal düzenin ve kültürel dönüşümün parçası hâline gelişini konuşuyoruz. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6680514034707376491Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:02:00 +00002026-01-22T18:24:41.408+03:00Chris GratienGender SeriesHistoryInternational RelationsIranOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePerin GürelRaceShahTurkeyUnited States <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://americanstudies.nd.edu/faculty/perin-gurel/" target="_blank"> with Perin Gürel </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Comparisons are everywhere in American discussions of Middle East politics. As our guest, Perin Gürel, argues in a new book, this cultural impulse has political roots in the Cold War period. In this episode, we explore the origins of comparitivism through the lens of America&#39;s evolving relationship with Turkey and Iran over the course of the 20th century, focusing on how gender and race shaped the terms of the assymetrical relations between the US and other countries in the region. We discuss the &quot;daddy issues&quot; reflected in comparisons between the founding figures of the Republic of Turkey and Iran&#39;s monarchy, the changing image of Iran&#39;s empress on the global stage, and the ambivalent claims to whiteness and anti-imperialism that took shape in both countries. Throughout the conversation, we return to a critique of comparison as a placeholder for knowledge and a political instrument wielded with varying degrees of success to further American foreign policy goals, and we reflect on how this American project has shaped how all of us conceptualize the region&#39;s major social and political questions today.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/gurel.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/gurel.html0Charlottesville, VA, USA38.0335529 -78.50797729.7233190638211511 -113.6642272 66.343786736178842 -43.3517272nowith Perin Gürel hosted by Chris Gratien | Comparisons are everywhere in American discussions of Middle East politics. As our guest, Perin Gürel, argues in a new book, this cultural impulse has political roots in the Cold War period. In this episode, we explore the origins of comparitivism through the lens of America&#39;s evolving relationship with Turkey and Iran over the course of the 20th century, focusing on how gender and race shaped the terms of the assymetrical relations between the US and other countries in the region. We discuss the &quot;daddy issues&quot; reflected in comparisons between the founding figures of the Republic of Turkey and Iran&#39;s monarchy, the changing image of Iran&#39;s empress on the global stage, and the ambivalent claims to whiteness and anti-imperialism that took shape in both countries. Throughout the conversation, we return to a critique of comparison as a placeholder for knowledge and a political instrument wielded with varying degrees of success to further American foreign policy goals, and we reflect on how this American project has shaped how all of us conceptualize the region&#39;s major social and political questions today.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Perin Gürel hosted by Chris Gratien | Comparisons are everywhere in American discussions of Middle East politics. As our guest, Perin Gürel, argues in a new book, this cultural impulse has political roots in the Cold War period. In this episode, we explore the origins of comparitivism through the lens of America&#39;s evolving relationship with Turkey and Iran over the course of the 20th century, focusing on how gender and race shaped the terms of the assymetrical relations between the US and other countries in the region. We discuss the &quot;daddy issues&quot; reflected in comparisons between the founding figures of the Republic of Turkey and Iran&#39;s monarchy, the changing image of Iran&#39;s empress on the global stage, and the ambivalent claims to whiteness and anti-imperialism that took shape in both countries. Throughout the conversation, we return to a critique of comparison as a placeholder for knowledge and a political instrument wielded with varying degrees of success to further American foreign policy goals, and we reflect on how this American project has shaped how all of us conceptualize the region&#39;s major social and political questions today.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-139168179078967504Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:59:00 +00002025-10-24T19:59:41.119+03:00Early Modern EuropeGreeksHistoryLanguageMartin CrusiusMaryam PattonOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireProtestantismRichard Calis <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.uu.nl/staff/RACalis1" target="_blank"> with Richard Calis </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="http://mpatton.faculty.wesleyan.edu" target="_blank">hosted by Maryam Patton</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled a remarkable ethnographic and scholarly account of Greek life under Ottoman rule in his seminal <i>Turcograecia</i>. Though he never left his home in Tübingen, Crusius spent decades corresponding with a far-flung network of intermediaries, including the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Istanbul. He annotated books and manuscripts, and even interviewed Greek Orthodox alms-seekers who passed through Germany. In this episode, Richard Calis explores how Crusius’s fascination with the so-called Ottoman Greeks sheds light on broader early modern debates about cultural and religious difference and how Greek identity became entangled with orientalist perceptions of the Ottoman world. The Ottoman Turks, both omnipresent and strangely absent in Crusius’s research, emerge in unexpected places, including in his dreams.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/calis.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/calis.html0Amsterdam, Netherlands52.3675734 4.904138924.057339563821152 -30.2521111 80.677807236178836 40.0603889nowith Richard Calis hosted by Maryam Patton | In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled a remarkable ethnographic and scholarly account of Greek life under Ottoman rule in his seminal Turcograecia. Though he never left his home in Tübingen, Crusius spent decades corresponding with a far-flung network of intermediaries, including the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Istanbul. He annotated books and manuscripts, and even interviewed Greek Orthodox alms-seekers who passed through Germany. In this episode, Richard Calis explores how Crusius’s fascination with the so-called Ottoman Greeks sheds light on broader early modern debates about cultural and religious difference and how Greek identity became entangled with orientalist perceptions of the Ottoman world. The Ottoman Turks, both omnipresent and strangely absent in Crusius’s research, emerge in unexpected places, including in his dreams.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Richard Calis hosted by Maryam Patton | In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled a remarkable ethnographic and scholarly account of Greek life under Ottoman rule in his seminal Turcograecia. Though he never left his home in Tübingen, Crusius spent decades corresponding with a far-flung network of intermediaries, including the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Istanbul. He annotated books and manuscripts, and even interviewed Greek Orthodox alms-seekers who passed through Germany. In this episode, Richard Calis explores how Crusius’s fascination with the so-called Ottoman Greeks sheds light on broader early modern debates about cultural and religious difference and how Greek identity became entangled with orientalist perceptions of the Ottoman world. The Ottoman Turks, both omnipresent and strangely absent in Crusius’s research, emerge in unexpected places, including in his dreams.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6825470626905307378Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:43:00 +00002024-12-31T00:43:43.794+03:00CreteGreeceHistoryOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireProtestsRefugeesSam DolbeeUğur Peçeviolence <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.cas.lehigh.edu/faculty-staff/ugur-zekeriya-pece#research" target="_blank"> with Uğur Z. Peçe </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/samuel-dolbee/">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In the 1890s, Ottoman Crete descended into communal violence between its Christian and Muslim inhabitants, abetted by foreign powers and Ottoman officials alike. In this episode, Uğur Z. Peçe explains how this conflict--which he calls a civil war--came about, what it meant in people&#39;s intimately connected everyday lives, and how it shaped the end of the Ottoman Empire. In particular, Cretan refugees resettled elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire became a key part of various protest movements including boycotts. Uğur speaks with us about these topics while traveling through present-day Crete, considering, among other things, the unexpected connections between the Eastern Black Sea and Crete, the island&#39;s distinctive landscape, and snails.        </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/12/pece.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/12/pece.html0Crete, Greece35.240117 24.80926916.9298831638211524 -10.346980899999998 63.550350836178843 59.9655191nowith Uğur Z. Peçe hosted by Sam Dolbee | In the 1890s, Ottoman Crete descended into communal violence between its Christian and Muslim inhabitants, abetted by foreign powers and Ottoman officials alike. In this episode, Uğur Z. Peçe explains how this conflict--which he calls a civil war--came about, what it meant in people&#39;s intimately connected everyday lives, and how it shaped the end of the Ottoman Empire. In particular, Cretan refugees resettled elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire became a key part of various protest movements including boycotts. Uğur speaks with us about these topics while traveling through present-day Crete, considering, among other things, the unexpected connections between the Eastern Black Sea and Crete, the island&#39;s distinctive landscape, and snails.         « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Uğur Z. Peçe hosted by Sam Dolbee | In the 1890s, Ottoman Crete descended into communal violence between its Christian and Muslim inhabitants, abetted by foreign powers and Ottoman officials alike. In this episode, Uğur Z. Peçe explains how this conflict--which he calls a civil war--came about, what it meant in people&#39;s intimately connected everyday lives, and how it shaped the end of the Ottoman Empire. In particular, Cretan refugees resettled elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire became a key part of various protest movements including boycotts. Uğur speaks with us about these topics while traveling through present-day Crete, considering, among other things, the unexpected connections between the Eastern Black Sea and Crete, the island&#39;s distinctive landscape, and snails.         « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5547029332916032790Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +00002024-10-03T02:55:49.449+03:00ArabicChildrenChris GratienEgyptGender SeriesHistoryIntellectual HistoryLebanonOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePressSusanna Ferguson <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.smith.edu/people/susanna-ferguson" target="_blank"> with Susanna Ferguson </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Chris Gratien</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What does the history of modern Arab political thought look like from the perspective of women authors? In this podcast, we sit down with longtime Ottoman History Podcast contributor Susanna Ferguson to explore this question, which animates her new book <i>Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought</i>. Previous scholarship has focused on the role of women in discussing the roles of women, but as Prof. Ferguson argues, women writers of the 19th and 20th century can also be studied as producers of social theory and commentators on the important matters of their era. In our conversation, we use the lens of public discourse about child-rearing or <i>tarbiyah</i> as a window onto ideas about a wide range of topics, including morality, labor, and democratic governance. In doing so, we consider the importance of seeing the Arab world as a source of portable ideas about modern society, as opposed to a merely passive recipient of Western modernity.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/sferg.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/sferg.html0Osmanbey, Halaskargazi, 34371 Şişli/İstanbul, Türkiye41.0513474 28.987588412.741113563821152 -6.1686616 69.361581236178836 64.143838399999993nowith Susanna Ferguson hosted by Chris Gratien | What does the history of modern Arab political thought look like from the perspective of women authors? In this podcast, we sit down with longtime Ottoman History Podcast contributor Susanna Ferguson to explore this question, which animates her new book Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought. Previous scholarship has focused on the role of women in discussing the roles of women, but as Prof. Ferguson argues, women writers of the 19th and 20th century can also be studied as producers of social theory and commentators on the important matters of their era. In our conversation, we use the lens of public discourse about child-rearing or tarbiyah as a window onto ideas about a wide range of topics, including morality, labor, and democratic governance. In doing so, we consider the importance of seeing the Arab world as a source of portable ideas about modern society, as opposed to a merely passive recipient of Western modernity.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Susanna Ferguson hosted by Chris Gratien | What does the history of modern Arab political thought look like from the perspective of women authors? In this podcast, we sit down with longtime Ottoman History Podcast contributor Susanna Ferguson to explore this question, which animates her new book Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought. Previous scholarship has focused on the role of women in discussing the roles of women, but as Prof. Ferguson argues, women writers of the 19th and 20th century can also be studied as producers of social theory and commentators on the important matters of their era. In our conversation, we use the lens of public discourse about child-rearing or tarbiyah as a window onto ideas about a wide range of topics, including morality, labor, and democratic governance. In doing so, we consider the importance of seeing the Arab world as a source of portable ideas about modern society, as opposed to a merely passive recipient of Western modernity.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4478333486325780611Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:55:00 +00002024-09-16T18:02:20.734+03:0019th CenturyAmerican Protestant MissionHistoryLebanonMatthew GhazarianNahdaOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePeter HillProtestantismReligionScienceSectarianismSecularismSyriaTanzimat <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/h/peter-hill/" target="_blank"> with Peter Hill </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Matthew Ghazarian</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Across the 19th century Arab East, or Mashriq, there were two simultaneous but seemingly contradictory trends afoot. On the one hand, new ways of understanding religion, science, and community, often associated with the intellectual &#39;revival&#39; of the Arab Nahda, ushered in new forms of thought and more fluid subjectivities. On the other hand, movements emerged to reinscribe, intensify, and uphold stricter communal boundaries between religious groups. How did these two trends coexist? The life and thought of Mikha&#39;il Mishaqa (1800-1888) offer some answers. Mishaqa was a doctor, merchant, moneylender, and writer who was raised in Greek Catholicism, lost his faith, regained it, and then converted to Protestantism. Through his many-sided life, his voluminous writings, and his obstinate commitment to &#39;reason&#39;, Mishaqa offers an example of how a single life could integrate these seemingly contradictory trends of 19th century Arab East.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/peter-hill.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/peter-hill.html0İstanbul, Türkiye41.0082376 28.978358912.698003763821156 -6.1778911 69.318471436178839 64.1346089nowith Peter Hill hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | Across the 19th century Arab East, or Mashriq, there were two simultaneous but seemingly contradictory trends afoot. On the one hand, new ways of understanding religion, science, and community, often associated with the intellectual &#39;revival&#39; of the Arab Nahda, ushered in new forms of thought and more fluid subjectivities. On the other hand, movements emerged to reinscribe, intensify, and uphold stricter communal boundaries between religious groups. How did these two trends coexist? The life and thought of Mikha&#39;il Mishaqa (1800-1888) offer some answers. Mishaqa was a doctor, merchant, moneylender, and writer who was raised in Greek Catholicism, lost his faith, regained it, and then converted to Protestantism. Through his many-sided life, his voluminous writings, and his obstinate commitment to &#39;reason&#39;, Mishaqa offers an example of how a single life could integrate these seemingly contradictory trends of 19th century Arab East.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Peter Hill hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | Across the 19th century Arab East, or Mashriq, there were two simultaneous but seemingly contradictory trends afoot. On the one hand, new ways of understanding religion, science, and community, often associated with the intellectual &#39;revival&#39; of the Arab Nahda, ushered in new forms of thought and more fluid subjectivities. On the other hand, movements emerged to reinscribe, intensify, and uphold stricter communal boundaries between religious groups. How did these two trends coexist? The life and thought of Mikha&#39;il Mishaqa (1800-1888) offer some answers. Mishaqa was a doctor, merchant, moneylender, and writer who was raised in Greek Catholicism, lost his faith, regained it, and then converted to Protestantism. Through his many-sided life, his voluminous writings, and his obstinate commitment to &#39;reason&#39;, Mishaqa offers an example of how a single life could integrate these seemingly contradictory trends of 19th century Arab East.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2416524350010271870Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:12:00 +00002024-09-09T16:57:15.957+03:00AnarchistsArmeniansHistoryMigrationOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSam Dolbeeviolenceİlkay Yılmaz <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/institut/mitglieder/Wissenschaftliche_Mitarbeiterinnen_und_Mitarbeiter/Yilmaz.html" target="_blank">with İlkay Yılmaz</a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/samuel-dolbee/">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Passports are objects at once momentous and mundane. How did they come about in the late Ottoman Empire? In this episode, İlkay Yılmaz discusses the history of this technology, and how the state effort to manage information about identity and control people&#39;s movement emerged alongside international police efforts to control anarchist and revolutionary subjects between different empires in the late nineteenth century. With this new technology, the ability to control people&#39;s movement also became contingent on the photograph and connected to late Ottoman politics of migration and ethnicity. She also discusses how these state efforts to limit people&#39;s movement through the technology of the passport have echoes in the present, even in her own life.        </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/yilmaz.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/yilmaz.html0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004nowith İlkay Yılmaz hosted by Sam Dolbee | Passports are objects at once momentous and mundane. How did they come about in the late Ottoman Empire? In this episode, İlkay Yılmaz discusses the history of this technology, and how the state effort to manage information about identity and control people&#39;s movement emerged alongside international police efforts to control anarchist and revolutionary subjects between different empires in the late nineteenth century. With this new technology, the ability to control people&#39;s movement also became contingent on the photograph and connected to late Ottoman politics of migration and ethnicity. She also discusses how these state efforts to limit people&#39;s movement through the technology of the passport have echoes in the present, even in her own life.         « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith İlkay Yılmaz hosted by Sam Dolbee | Passports are objects at once momentous and mundane. How did they come about in the late Ottoman Empire? In this episode, İlkay Yılmaz discusses the history of this technology, and how the state effort to manage information about identity and control people&#39;s movement emerged alongside international police efforts to control anarchist and revolutionary subjects between different empires in the late nineteenth century. With this new technology, the ability to control people&#39;s movement also became contingent on the photograph and connected to late Ottoman politics of migration and ethnicity. She also discusses how these state efforts to limit people&#39;s movement through the technology of the passport have echoes in the present, even in her own life.         « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4353677882700660784Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:20:00 +00002026-01-22T18:25:15.230+03:00AnatoliaCan GümüşCaucasusChris GratienHistoryMigrationMuhacirOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRefugeesRussian EmpireVladimir Hamed-Troyansky <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.global.ucsb.edu/people/vladimir-hamed-troyansky" target="_blank"> with Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a><a href="https://boun.academia.edu/YeterCanG%C3%BCm%C3%BC%C5%9F" target="_blank"> &amp; Can Gümüş</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | During the late 19th and early 20th century, tens of millions of migrants crossed the seas, settling in the Americas and beyond in a mass migration event that reshaped politics and economies throughout the world. In this episode, we focus on one of the most ignored groups within the history of those momentous events: North Caucasian Muslims. As our guest, Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, explains, North Caucasian refugees fleeing Russian expansion became a large segment of the Ottoman migrant (muhacir) population and in turn, became a major new demographic component, constituting about 5% of the empire&#39;s citizens by WWI. Under the Muhacirin Commission created to facilitate their movements, they settled in remote provinces, from the edges of the Syrian desert to the plateaus of Central Anatolia, founding what would become major cities like Amman (modern-day Jordan) and constructing new diasporic identities in the process. As we discuss, these migrations not only changed the millions of people who became Ottoman refugees during the empire&#39;s last decade and their communities back home. They changed the nature of the Ottoman state itself.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/08/hamed-troyansky.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/08/hamed-troyansky.html0Osmanbey, Halaskargazi, 34371 Şişli/İstanbul, Türkiye41.0513474 28.987588412.741113563821152 -6.1686616 69.361581236178836 64.143838399999993nowith Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky hosted by Chris Gratien &amp; Can Gümüş | During the late 19th and early 20th century, tens of millions of migrants crossed the seas, settling in the Americas and beyond in a mass migration event that reshaped politics and economies throughout the world. In this episode, we focus on one of the most ignored groups within the history of those momentous events: North Caucasian Muslims. As our guest, Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, explains, North Caucasian refugees fleeing Russian expansion became a large segment of the Ottoman migrant (muhacir) population and in turn, became a major new demographic component, constituting about 5% of the empire&#39;s citizens by WWI. Under the Muhacirin Commission created to facilitate their movements, they settled in remote provinces, from the edges of the Syrian desert to the plateaus of Central Anatolia, founding what would become major cities like Amman (modern-day Jordan) and constructing new diasporic identities in the process. As we discuss, these migrations not only changed the millions of people who became Ottoman refugees during the empire&#39;s last decade and their communities back home. They changed the nature of the Ottoman state itself.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky hosted by Chris Gratien &amp; Can Gümüş | During the late 19th and early 20th century, tens of millions of migrants crossed the seas, settling in the Americas and beyond in a mass migration event that reshaped politics and economies throughout the world. In this episode, we focus on one of the most ignored groups within the history of those momentous events: North Caucasian Muslims. As our guest, Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, explains, North Caucasian refugees fleeing Russian expansion became a large segment of the Ottoman migrant (muhacir) population and in turn, became a major new demographic component, constituting about 5% of the empire&#39;s citizens by WWI. Under the Muhacirin Commission created to facilitate their movements, they settled in remote provinces, from the edges of the Syrian desert to the plateaus of Central Anatolia, founding what would become major cities like Amman (modern-day Jordan) and constructing new diasporic identities in the process. As we discuss, these migrations not only changed the millions of people who became Ottoman refugees during the empire&#39;s last decade and their communities back home. They changed the nature of the Ottoman state itself.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-686845628946872291Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:14:00 +00002024-04-11T15:14:13.533+03:00Ali KulezBrazilHistoryIslamOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRaceSam DolbeeSlavery <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.alikulez.com/research" target="_blank"> with Ali Kulez </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In 1866, a series of unexpected events led to an Ottoman imam by the name of Abd al-Rahman al-Baghdadi ending up in Rio de Janeiro. In this episode, Ali Kulez explains how he got there, and what happened when al-Baghdadi became close with enslaved and free Afro-Brazilian Muslims, and attempted to teach them his vision of Islamic orthodoxy. In addition to exploring themes of Islam and race in Brazil, Kulez also traces how the translation of al-Baghdadi&#39;s travel narrative can offer a window onto the history of South-South relations into the present. In closing, he discusses the challenge of evaluating past solidarities and differentiating them from those we might want to see.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/04/kulez.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/04/kulez.html0Dikilitaş, Barış Sk. 4 A, 34349 Beşiktaş/İstanbul, Türkiye41.0532358 29.005897240.949679311808467 28.8685680984375 41.156792288191539 29.1432263015625nowith Ali Kulez hosted by Sam Dolbee | In 1866, a series of unexpected events led to an Ottoman imam by the name of Abd al-Rahman al-Baghdadi ending up in Rio de Janeiro. In this episode, Ali Kulez explains how he got there, and what happened when al-Baghdadi became close with enslaved and free Afro-Brazilian Muslims, and attempted to teach them his vision of Islamic orthodoxy. In addition to exploring themes of Islam and race in Brazil, Kulez also traces how the translation of al-Baghdadi&#39;s travel narrative can offer a window onto the history of South-South relations into the present. In closing, he discusses the challenge of evaluating past solidarities and differentiating them from those we might want to see.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Ali Kulez hosted by Sam Dolbee | In 1866, a series of unexpected events led to an Ottoman imam by the name of Abd al-Rahman al-Baghdadi ending up in Rio de Janeiro. In this episode, Ali Kulez explains how he got there, and what happened when al-Baghdadi became close with enslaved and free Afro-Brazilian Muslims, and attempted to teach them his vision of Islamic orthodoxy. In addition to exploring themes of Islam and race in Brazil, Kulez also traces how the translation of al-Baghdadi&#39;s travel narrative can offer a window onto the history of South-South relations into the present. In closing, he discusses the challenge of evaluating past solidarities and differentiating them from those we might want to see.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-961586105281683115Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:34:00 +00002026-01-22T18:25:30.931+03:00Alia MossallamAndrew SimonCairoCassettesChris GratienHistoryInfitahMusicOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePopular CultureSheikh ImamSocial MediaSound of RevolutionZiad Fahmy <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://twitter.com/simongandrew" target="_blank"> with Andrew Simon,</a> <a href="https://eume-berlin.academia.edu/AliaMossallam" target="_blank">Alia Mossallam,</a><a href="https://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/ziad-fahmy" target="_blank"> and Ziad Fahmy </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The Egyptian revolution of 2011 is one of the most spectacular examples of how social media has played a pivotal role in political movements of the 21st century. However, in this final installment of our four-part series on &quot;<a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/the-sound-of-revolution-in-modern-egypt.html" target="_blank">The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt</a>,&quot; we argue that the true beginning of Egypt&#39;s media revolution arrived with the cassette tape, which for the first time, made it possible for every Egyptian to be a producer rather than a passive consumer of popular culture. As our guest Andrew Simon explains, this veritable &quot;media of the masses&quot; was not only a means of disseminating commercial music. Western pop music and classics of the Nasserist era mingled with new underground music, religious content, home recordings, and personal voice messages on Egyptian cassettes, which circumvented and subverted state censorship. Artists like Sheikh Imam and the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm produced celebrated political satire that defined the sound of the <i>Infitah</i> era, much to the chagrin of state authorities and the commercial recording industry. In 2011, when Egyptians took to the streets to protest the Mubarak regime, Imam&#39;s songs along with a century of sound stretching back to the First World War filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, as a new generation produced new sounds of revolution. We conclude our series with reflections from Alia Mossallam and Ziad Fahmy on the sounds of the square in 2011 and what they reveal about change and continuity in Egyptian politics.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/simon.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/simon.html0nowith Andrew Simon, Alia Mossallam, and Ziad Fahmy hosted by Chris Gratien | The Egyptian revolution of 2011 is one of the most spectacular examples of how social media has played a pivotal role in political movements of the 21st century. However, in this final installment of our four-part series on &quot;The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt,&quot; we argue that the true beginning of Egypt&#39;s media revolution arrived with the cassette tape, which for the first time, made it possible for every Egyptian to be a producer rather than a passive consumer of popular culture. As our guest Andrew Simon explains, this veritable &quot;media of the masses&quot; was not only a means of disseminating commercial music. Western pop music and classics of the Nasserist era mingled with new underground music, religious content, home recordings, and personal voice messages on Egyptian cassettes, which circumvented and subverted state censorship. Artists like Sheikh Imam and the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm produced celebrated political satire that defined the sound of the Infitah era, much to the chagrin of state authorities and the commercial recording industry. In 2011, when Egyptians took to the streets to protest the Mubarak regime, Imam&#39;s songs along with a century of sound stretching back to the First World War filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, as a new generation produced new sounds of revolution. We conclude our series with reflections from Alia Mossallam and Ziad Fahmy on the sounds of the square in 2011 and what they reveal about change and continuity in Egyptian politics.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Andrew Simon, Alia Mossallam, and Ziad Fahmy hosted by Chris Gratien | The Egyptian revolution of 2011 is one of the most spectacular examples of how social media has played a pivotal role in political movements of the 21st century. However, in this final installment of our four-part series on &quot;The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt,&quot; we argue that the true beginning of Egypt&#39;s media revolution arrived with the cassette tape, which for the first time, made it possible for every Egyptian to be a producer rather than a passive consumer of popular culture. As our guest Andrew Simon explains, this veritable &quot;media of the masses&quot; was not only a means of disseminating commercial music. Western pop music and classics of the Nasserist era mingled with new underground music, religious content, home recordings, and personal voice messages on Egyptian cassettes, which circumvented and subverted state censorship. Artists like Sheikh Imam and the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm produced celebrated political satire that defined the sound of the Infitah era, much to the chagrin of state authorities and the commercial recording industry. In 2011, when Egyptians took to the streets to protest the Mubarak regime, Imam&#39;s songs along with a century of sound stretching back to the First World War filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, as a new generation produced new sounds of revolution. We conclude our series with reflections from Alia Mossallam and Ziad Fahmy on the sounds of the square in 2011 and what they reveal about change and continuity in Egyptian politics.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-635227225974411514Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:41:00 +00002026-01-22T18:25:44.131+03:00Chris GratienCommunismHistoryIsraelLeena DallashehNazarethOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePalestineUrban History <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.leenadallasheh.com/" target="_blank"> with Leena Dallasheh </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | As an Arab city inside the 1948 borders of Israel, Nazareth defies many of the general narratives of both Israeli and Palestinian histories. But as our guest Leena Dallasheh explains, that does not mean that Nazareth is necessarily an exception. In fact, its paradoxical survival is key to understanding the history of modern Palestinian politics. In this conversation, we chart the history of Nazareth&#39;s rise from provincial town to Palestinian cultural capital. We consider the reasons why Nazareth survived the Nakba, and we explore the important role of Palestinian communities in the years before and decades after the foundation of Israel.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/03/dallasheh.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/03/dallasheh.html0Haifa, Israel32.7940463 34.9895714.4838124638211525 -0.16667900000000202 61.104280136178843 70.145821nowith Leena Dallasheh hosted by Chris Gratien | As an Arab city inside the 1948 borders of Israel, Nazareth defies many of the general narratives of both Israeli and Palestinian histories. But as our guest Leena Dallasheh explains, that does not mean that Nazareth is necessarily an exception. In fact, its paradoxical survival is key to understanding the history of modern Palestinian politics. In this conversation, we chart the history of Nazareth&#39;s rise from provincial town to Palestinian cultural capital. We consider the reasons why Nazareth survived the Nakba, and we explore the important role of Palestinian communities in the years before and decades after the foundation of Israel.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Leena Dallasheh hosted by Chris Gratien | As an Arab city inside the 1948 borders of Israel, Nazareth defies many of the general narratives of both Israeli and Palestinian histories. But as our guest Leena Dallasheh explains, that does not mean that Nazareth is necessarily an exception. In fact, its paradoxical survival is key to understanding the history of modern Palestinian politics. In this conversation, we chart the history of Nazareth&#39;s rise from provincial town to Palestinian cultural capital. We consider the reasons why Nazareth survived the Nakba, and we explore the important role of Palestinian communities in the years before and decades after the foundation of Israel.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4471320874643232559Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:53:00 +00002024-02-27T00:53:13.188+03:00AntepArchivesArmenian GenocideArmeniansHistoryOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePolitical EconomyPropertySam DolbeeÜmit Kurt <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://newcastleuni.academia.edu/%C3%9CmitKurt" target="_blank"> with Ümit Kurt </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What were the economic forces that drove the violence of the Armenian genocide? In this episode, historian Ümit Kurt speaks about his research on the role of property in the history of the dispossession and deportation of Aintab’s Armenian community. Despite archival silences, he reveals the central role of legal mechanisms and local propertied elites in these processes. In closing, he discusses the legacies of the “economics of genocide” into the present day, and how his research has been received.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/02/kurt.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/02/kurt.html0nowith Ümit Kurt hosted by Sam Dolbee | What were the economic forces that drove the violence of the Armenian genocide? In this episode, historian Ümit Kurt speaks about his research on the role of property in the history of the dispossession and deportation of Aintab’s Armenian community. Despite archival silences, he reveals the central role of legal mechanisms and local propertied elites in these processes. In closing, he discusses the legacies of the “economics of genocide” into the present day, and how his research has been received.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Ümit Kurt hosted by Sam Dolbee | What were the economic forces that drove the violence of the Armenian genocide? In this episode, historian Ümit Kurt speaks about his research on the role of property in the history of the dispossession and deportation of Aintab’s Armenian community. Despite archival silences, he reveals the central role of legal mechanisms and local propertied elites in these processes. In closing, he discusses the legacies of the “economics of genocide” into the present day, and how his research has been received.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6970199218045000880Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:13:00 +00002026-01-22T18:26:02.712+03:00Alia MossallamAswan DamChris GratienEgyptHistoryNasserNubiaOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSound of RevolutionSudanTechnologyWater <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://eume-berlin.academia.edu/AliaMossallam" target="_blank"> with Alia Mossallam </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/chris-gratien" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In 1952, a coup d&#39;état led by Gamal Abdel Nasser ushered in a revolutionary period of Egyptian history in which sound played an integral role in shaping collective political consciousness. The culture of the 50s and 60s was dominated by songs by artists like Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez that still resonate within national consciousness, but as we explore in this third installment of our four-part series on &quot;<a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/the-sound-of-revolution-in-modern-egypt.html" target="_blank">The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt</a>,&quot; the period produced spectacular sound as well as conspicous silence. As our guest Alia Mossallam explains, triumphant musical celebrations of the Egyptian state&#39;s signature achievement --- the construction of the Aswan High Dam --- shaped the terms through which Egyptians have come to remember this period. At the same time, songs of workers and Nubian villagers displaced by the dam captured subaltern sentiments beneath the surface of Nasserist cultural hegemony. We conclude our conversation with a reflection on the singular importance of sources like folk songs for writing histories erased by official sources.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/mossallam.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/mossallam.html0nowith Alia Mossallam hosted by Chris Gratien | In 1952, a coup d&#39;état led by Gamal Abdel Nasser ushered in a revolutionary period of Egyptian history in which sound played an integral role in shaping collective political consciousness. The culture of the 50s and 60s was dominated by songs by artists like Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez that still resonate within national consciousness, but as we explore in this third installment of our four-part series on &quot;The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt,&quot; the period produced spectacular sound as well as conspicous silence. As our guest Alia Mossallam explains, triumphant musical celebrations of the Egyptian state&#39;s signature achievement --- the construction of the Aswan High Dam --- shaped the terms through which Egyptians have come to remember this period. At the same time, songs of workers and Nubian villagers displaced by the dam captured subaltern sentiments beneath the surface of Nasserist cultural hegemony. We conclude our conversation with a reflection on the singular importance of sources like folk songs for writing histories erased by official sources.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Alia Mossallam hosted by Chris Gratien | In 1952, a coup d&#39;état led by Gamal Abdel Nasser ushered in a revolutionary period of Egyptian history in which sound played an integral role in shaping collective political consciousness. The culture of the 50s and 60s was dominated by songs by artists like Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez that still resonate within national consciousness, but as we explore in this third installment of our four-part series on &quot;The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt,&quot; the period produced spectacular sound as well as conspicous silence. As our guest Alia Mossallam explains, triumphant musical celebrations of the Egyptian state&#39;s signature achievement --- the construction of the Aswan High Dam --- shaped the terms through which Egyptians have come to remember this period. At the same time, songs of workers and Nubian villagers displaced by the dam captured subaltern sentiments beneath the surface of Nasserist cultural hegemony. We conclude our conversation with a reflection on the singular importance of sources like folk songs for writing histories erased by official sources.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1621606571031179753Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:56:00 +00002024-01-27T05:17:27.261+03:00Brett WilsonBrittany WhiteHistoryLiteratureNovelsOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSufismTranslationUrban HistoryYakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.ceu.edu/people/brett-wilson" target="_blank"> with Brett Wilson </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/BrittanyWhite" target="_blank">hosted by Brittany White</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Set between elite households and a Sufi lodge, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu&#39;s 1922 novel <i>Nur Baba</i> was a provocative take on competing notions of religion, morality, gender, and romance in the dynamic world of late Ottoman Istanbul. In this episode, we speak to Brett Wilson, author of the first-ever English translation of Karaosmanoğlu&#39;s controversial classic. We discuss Yakup Kadri&#39;s ethnographic approach to his subject, its mixed reception, and the insights it offers about modern Turkish culture. We also discuss the joys of translation, and its importance for students of Ottoman history today. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nur-baba.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nur-baba.html0nowith Brett Wilson hosted by Brittany White | Set between elite households and a Sufi lodge, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu&#39;s 1922 novel Nur Baba was a provocative take on competing notions of religion, morality, gender, and romance in the dynamic world of late Ottoman Istanbul. In this episode, we speak to Brett Wilson, author of the first-ever English translation of Karaosmanoğlu&#39;s controversial classic. We discuss Yakup Kadri&#39;s ethnographic approach to his subject, its mixed reception, and the insights it offers about modern Turkish culture. We also discuss the joys of translation, and its importance for students of Ottoman history today. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Brett Wilson hosted by Brittany White | Set between elite households and a Sufi lodge, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu&#39;s 1922 novel Nur Baba was a provocative take on competing notions of religion, morality, gender, and romance in the dynamic world of late Ottoman Istanbul. In this episode, we speak to Brett Wilson, author of the first-ever English translation of Karaosmanoğlu&#39;s controversial classic. We discuss Yakup Kadri&#39;s ethnographic approach to his subject, its mixed reception, and the insights it offers about modern Turkish culture. We also discuss the joys of translation, and its importance for students of Ottoman history today. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6644275866063074552Mon, 08 Jan 2024 21:42:00 +00002024-01-09T00:44:57.440+03:00CitizenshipHistoryIsraelLiteratureMaha NassarMahmoud DarwishOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePalestineSusanna Fergusontransnationalism <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://menas.arizona.edu/person/maha-nassar" target="_blank"> with Maha Nassar </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Susanna Ferguson</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 1948 marks the year that Israel gained independence, and for Palestinians, an experience of mass exile known as the Nakba. The displacement of Palestinians and subsequent conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors had immense consequences. But how did the Palestinian Arabs who remained and make up roughly 20% of Israel&#39;s population today fit into a Middle East region defined by the &quot;Arab-Israeli conflict?&quot; In this podcast, we speak to Maha Nassar, whose first book <i>Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World</i> casts new light on a community historically marginalized both within Israel and within broader discussions of contemporary Arab history. We discuss how Palestinian citizens of Israel were cut off from friends, relatives, and compatriots after 1948, and how they used literature as means of forging new transnational connections during the era of Arab nationalism and decolonization. Through the insights born out of their paradoxical experiences, Arab-Israeli authors of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction would come to occupy a prominent place not only within both Arab and Israeli literature but also global political thought.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nassar.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nassar.html0Tucson, AZ, USA32.2539787 -110.97417693.9437448638211521 -146.1304269 60.564212536178843 -75.8179269nowith Maha Nassar hosted by Susanna Ferguson | 1948 marks the year that Israel gained independence, and for Palestinians, an experience of mass exile known as the Nakba. The displacement of Palestinians and subsequent conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors had immense consequences. But how did the Palestinian Arabs who remained and make up roughly 20% of Israel&#39;s population today fit into a Middle East region defined by the &quot;Arab-Israeli conflict?&quot; In this podcast, we speak to Maha Nassar, whose first book Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World casts new light on a community historically marginalized both within Israel and within broader discussions of contemporary Arab history. We discuss how Palestinian citizens of Israel were cut off from friends, relatives, and compatriots after 1948, and how they used literature as means of forging new transnational connections during the era of Arab nationalism and decolonization. Through the insights born out of their paradoxical experiences, Arab-Israeli authors of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction would come to occupy a prominent place not only within both Arab and Israeli literature but also global political thought.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Maha Nassar hosted by Susanna Ferguson | 1948 marks the year that Israel gained independence, and for Palestinians, an experience of mass exile known as the Nakba. The displacement of Palestinians and subsequent conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors had immense consequences. But how did the Palestinian Arabs who remained and make up roughly 20% of Israel&#39;s population today fit into a Middle East region defined by the &quot;Arab-Israeli conflict?&quot; In this podcast, we speak to Maha Nassar, whose first book Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World casts new light on a community historically marginalized both within Israel and within broader discussions of contemporary Arab history. We discuss how Palestinian citizens of Israel were cut off from friends, relatives, and compatriots after 1948, and how they used literature as means of forging new transnational connections during the era of Arab nationalism and decolonization. Through the insights born out of their paradoxical experiences, Arab-Israeli authors of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction would come to occupy a prominent place not only within both Arab and Israeli literature but also global political thought.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7882540667022560538Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:03:00 +00002023-12-21T00:03:45.314+03:00CairoChris GratienEgyptHistoryinterwarOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRadioSound of RevolutionSoundscapesUrban HistoryZiad Fahmy <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.columbia.edu/person/khalidi-rashid/" target="_blank"> with Ziad Fahmy </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/crg8w" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | During the interwar period, the recording industry reshaped Egyptian culture and politics through music. But as we discuss in part two of our four-part series on &quot;<a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/the-sound-of-revolution-in-modern-egypt.html" target="_blank">The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt</a>,&quot; everyday sounds of the city are no less part of Egypt&#39;s political history. As our guest Ziad Fahmy explains, writing sonic history requires listening to the sources with ears attuned to the sentiments and sensibilities of past people. Together, we listen to a early recording of Egyptian street sounds and explore the world of sound that awaits within the textual record, focusing on how class dynamics played out on the soundscape of Cairo and Alexandria. We also consider how the rise of a new medium, radio, began to reshape the sonic life of ordinary Egyptians during the interwar period, paving the way for the media revolution of the 1950s and 60s.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/fahmy.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/fahmy.html0nowith Ziad Fahmy hosted by Chris Gratien | During the interwar period, the recording industry reshaped Egyptian culture and politics through music. But as we discuss in part two of our four-part series on &quot;The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt,&quot; everyday sounds of the city are no less part of Egypt&#39;s political history. As our guest Ziad Fahmy explains, writing sonic history requires listening to the sources with ears attuned to the sentiments and sensibilities of past people. Together, we listen to a early recording of Egyptian street sounds and explore the world of sound that awaits within the textual record, focusing on how class dynamics played out on the soundscape of Cairo and Alexandria. We also consider how the rise of a new medium, radio, began to reshape the sonic life of ordinary Egyptians during the interwar period, paving the way for the media revolution of the 1950s and 60s.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Ziad Fahmy hosted by Chris Gratien | During the interwar period, the recording industry reshaped Egyptian culture and politics through music. But as we discuss in part two of our four-part series on &quot;The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt,&quot; everyday sounds of the city are no less part of Egypt&#39;s political history. As our guest Ziad Fahmy explains, writing sonic history requires listening to the sources with ears attuned to the sentiments and sensibilities of past people. Together, we listen to a early recording of Egyptian street sounds and explore the world of sound that awaits within the textual record, focusing on how class dynamics played out on the soundscape of Cairo and Alexandria. We also consider how the rise of a new medium, radio, began to reshape the sonic life of ordinary Egyptians during the interwar period, paving the way for the media revolution of the 1950s and 60s.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5436130570823955095Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:15:00 +00002023-12-13T17:44:43.459+03:0018th centuryAvner WishnitzerCultureHistoryIstanbulNightOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSam DolbeeTimeUrban History <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://telaviv.academia.edu/avnerwishnitzer" target="_blank"> with Avner Wishnitzer </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What did the nighttime mean in the early modern Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Avner Wishnitzer discusses his recent book <i><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/history/middle-east-history/night-falls-eighteenth-century-ottoman-cities-after-dark?format=HB&amp;isbn=9781108832144">As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark</a> </i>(also available in Turkish translation by Can Gümüş as <i><a href="https://www.folkitap.com/gece-cokerken">Gece Çökerken</a></i>). He explains how the night was a time for sleep, rest, devotion, sex, crime, drinking, and even revolt. He also talks about the challenges of past sensory states, the influence of the late Walter Andrews on his work, and, finally, the relationship between his work as a historian and his work as an activist.    </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html0nowith Avner Wishnitzer hosted by Sam Dolbee | What did the nighttime mean in the early modern Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Avner Wishnitzer discusses his recent book As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark (also available in Turkish translation by Can Gümüş as Gece Çökerken). He explains how the night was a time for sleep, rest, devotion, sex, crime, drinking, and even revolt. He also talks about the challenges of past sensory states, the influence of the late Walter Andrews on his work, and, finally, the relationship between his work as a historian and his work as an activist.    « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Avner Wishnitzer hosted by Sam Dolbee | What did the nighttime mean in the early modern Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Avner Wishnitzer discusses his recent book As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark (also available in Turkish translation by Can Gümüş as Gece Çökerken). He explains how the night was a time for sleep, rest, devotion, sex, crime, drinking, and even revolt. He also talks about the challenges of past sensory states, the influence of the late Walter Andrews on his work, and, finally, the relationship between his work as a historian and his work as an activist.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8624386045701627295Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:07:00 +00002023-12-04T20:22:02.553+03:0020th CenturyAlia MossallamChris GratienEgyptHistoryKyle AndersonMilitary HistoryOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePrisoners of WarSound of RevolutionWWI <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://kylejanderson.com/" target="_blank"> with Kyle Anderson &amp;</a> <a href="https://eume-berlin.academia.edu/AliaMossallam" target="_blank">Alia Mossallam </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/crg8w" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In the aftermath of the First World War, the Egyptian streets rose up against British rule during a period of global anti-imperialism, and the voices of the 1919 revolution have echoed throughout Egyptian history ever since. In this first installment of our four-part series on &quot;<a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/the-sound-of-revolution-in-modern-egypt.html" target="_blank">The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt</a>,&quot; we consider how the First World War reshaped political consciousness in Egypt, as our guests Kyle Anderson and Alia Mossallam explore the experiences of the Egyptian Labor Corps and the sonic history of WWI. We examine the adventure, hardship, exile, and abuse Egyptian workers faced serving the British war effort, as well as how the war changed the society they returned to, in the words of one famous song from the period, &quot;safe and sound.&quot; In discussing the popular songs of the war period that entered Egyptian national canon, our guests illuminate the ways in which shared songs can be modified and repurposed for new political contexts, drawing attention to the need for reconstructing the layers of context contained within some of history&#39;s earliest sound recordings. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/elc.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/elc.html0nowith Kyle Anderson &amp; Alia Mossallam hosted by Chris Gratien | In the aftermath of the First World War, the Egyptian streets rose up against British rule during a period of global anti-imperialism, and the voices of the 1919 revolution have echoed throughout Egyptian history ever since. In this first installment of our four-part series on &quot;The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt,&quot; we consider how the First World War reshaped political consciousness in Egypt, as our guests Kyle Anderson and Alia Mossallam explore the experiences of the Egyptian Labor Corps and the sonic history of WWI. We examine the adventure, hardship, exile, and abuse Egyptian workers faced serving the British war effort, as well as how the war changed the society they returned to, in the words of one famous song from the period, &quot;safe and sound.&quot; In discussing the popular songs of the war period that entered Egyptian national canon, our guests illuminate the ways in which shared songs can be modified and repurposed for new political contexts, drawing attention to the need for reconstructing the layers of context contained within some of history&#39;s earliest sound recordings. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Kyle Anderson &amp; Alia Mossallam hosted by Chris Gratien | In the aftermath of the First World War, the Egyptian streets rose up against British rule during a period of global anti-imperialism, and the voices of the 1919 revolution have echoed throughout Egyptian history ever since. In this first installment of our four-part series on &quot;The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt,&quot; we consider how the First World War reshaped political consciousness in Egypt, as our guests Kyle Anderson and Alia Mossallam explore the experiences of the Egyptian Labor Corps and the sonic history of WWI. We examine the adventure, hardship, exile, and abuse Egyptian workers faced serving the British war effort, as well as how the war changed the society they returned to, in the words of one famous song from the period, &quot;safe and sound.&quot; In discussing the popular songs of the war period that entered Egyptian national canon, our guests illuminate the ways in which shared songs can be modified and repurposed for new political contexts, drawing attention to the need for reconstructing the layers of context contained within some of history&#39;s earliest sound recordings. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8603983569526947962Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:43:00 +00002025-12-10T21:29:16.328+03:00Brittany WhiteCitizenshipHistoryInheritanceItalyJessica MarglinJewsLawNationalityOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSephardictajineTunisia <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/who-we-are/jessica-marglin" target="_blank"> with Jessica Marglin </a></div><div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/BrittanyWhite" target="_blank">hosted by Brittany White</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In 1873, Nissim Shamama died suddenly at his palazzo in Livorno. He was quietly one of the richest men in the Mediterranean. A Tunisian Jew born in the Ottoman Empire, Shamama had taken his place among the mercantile elite of a newly-unified Italy. He was a man who belonged to many places. But to whom would his vast inheritance belong? Our guest Jessica Marglin has published an award-winning book, <i>The Shamama Case</i>, that marshals an impressive array of archival sources to investigate how this question was resolved. As she demonstrates, the decade-long legal dispute over Shamama&#39;s estate was an international affair involving Tunisian officials, rabbis from throughout the Mediterranean, and some of Italy&#39;s foremost legal minds. In this conversation, we talk to Marglin about some of the highlights of the Shamama case, what it taught her about the history of citizenship and nationality in the 19th century Mediterranean, and the power of microhistory for disrupting conventional framings of the period. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/marglin.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/marglin.html0nowith Jessica Marglin hosted by Brittany White | In 1873, Nissim Shamama died suddenly at his palazzo in Livorno. He was quietly one of the richest men in the Mediterranean. A Tunisian Jew born in the Ottoman Empire, Shamama had taken his place among the mercantile elite of a newly-unified Italy. He was a man who belonged to many places. But to whom would his vast inheritance belong? Our guest Jessica Marglin has published an award-winning book, The Shamama Case, that marshals an impressive array of archival sources to investigate how this question was resolved. As she demonstrates, the decade-long legal dispute over Shamama&#39;s estate was an international affair involving Tunisian officials, rabbis from throughout the Mediterranean, and some of Italy&#39;s foremost legal minds. In this conversation, we talk to Marglin about some of the highlights of the Shamama case, what it taught her about the history of citizenship and nationality in the 19th century Mediterranean, and the power of microhistory for disrupting conventional framings of the period. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Jessica Marglin hosted by Brittany White | In 1873, Nissim Shamama died suddenly at his palazzo in Livorno. He was quietly one of the richest men in the Mediterranean. A Tunisian Jew born in the Ottoman Empire, Shamama had taken his place among the mercantile elite of a newly-unified Italy. He was a man who belonged to many places. But to whom would his vast inheritance belong? Our guest Jessica Marglin has published an award-winning book, The Shamama Case, that marshals an impressive array of archival sources to investigate how this question was resolved. As she demonstrates, the decade-long legal dispute over Shamama&#39;s estate was an international affair involving Tunisian officials, rabbis from throughout the Mediterranean, and some of Italy&#39;s foremost legal minds. In this conversation, we talk to Marglin about some of the highlights of the Shamama case, what it taught her about the history of citizenship and nationality in the 19th century Mediterranean, and the power of microhistory for disrupting conventional framings of the period. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1031368288517704023Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:01:00 +00002023-11-21T22:14:38.300+03:00gazaHistoryIsraelOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePalestineRashid KhalidiWarZeinab Azarbadegan <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.columbia.edu/person/khalidi-rashid/" target="_blank"> with Rashid Khalidi </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://oxford.academia.edu/ZeinabAzarbadegan" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In this episode, Rashid Khalidi discusses his latest book <i>The Hundred Years&#39; War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017</i>, where he defines Zionism not only as a nationalist project in conflict with the Palestinian one, but also a settler colonial project supported by the British and later the American imperialism. We begin in the late Ottoman period as Khalidi examines the familiar episodes and key turning points, which he characterizes as declaratations of war and wagings of war on Palestinians. We discuss the 1917 Balfour declaration and the communal conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine that led to the general strike and Arab revolt of 1936. The 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the creation of the State of Israel provide the backdrop for Cold War period conflicts, the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the outbreak of the First Intifada, which culminated in the Oslo Accords of 1993-95. Khalidi reflects on his experiences with the failures of Oslo, which set the stage for the rise of Hamas in Gaza and periodic sieges that have continued to the present day. We conclude with a consideration of the current war, situating the unprecedented civilian toll of both the attacks by Hamas in Israel and the subsequent Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip within Khalidi&#39;s larger narrative of more than a century of war on Palestine.   </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/khalidi.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/khalidi.html0Harlem, New York, NY, USA40.8115504 -73.946476912.501316563821156 -109.1027269 69.121784236178854 -38.790226899999993nowith Rashid Khalidi hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | In this episode, Rashid Khalidi discusses his latest book The Hundred Years&#39; War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, where he defines Zionism not only as a nationalist project in conflict with the Palestinian one, but also a settler colonial project supported by the British and later the American imperialism. We begin in the late Ottoman period as Khalidi examines the familiar episodes and key turning points, which he characterizes as declaratations of war and wagings of war on Palestinians. We discuss the 1917 Balfour declaration and the communal conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine that led to the general strike and Arab revolt of 1936. The 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the creation of the State of Israel provide the backdrop for Cold War period conflicts, the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the outbreak of the First Intifada, which culminated in the Oslo Accords of 1993-95. Khalidi reflects on his experiences with the failures of Oslo, which set the stage for the rise of Hamas in Gaza and periodic sieges that have continued to the present day. We conclude with a consideration of the current war, situating the unprecedented civilian toll of both the attacks by Hamas in Israel and the subsequent Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip within Khalidi&#39;s larger narrative of more than a century of war on Palestine.   « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Rashid Khalidi hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | In this episode, Rashid Khalidi discusses his latest book The Hundred Years&#39; War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, where he defines Zionism not only as a nationalist project in conflict with the Palestinian one, but also a settler colonial project supported by the British and later the American imperialism. We begin in the late Ottoman period as Khalidi examines the familiar episodes and key turning points, which he characterizes as declaratations of war and wagings of war on Palestinians. We discuss the 1917 Balfour declaration and the communal conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine that led to the general strike and Arab revolt of 1936. The 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the creation of the State of Israel provide the backdrop for Cold War period conflicts, the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the outbreak of the First Intifada, which culminated in the Oslo Accords of 1993-95. Khalidi reflects on his experiences with the failures of Oslo, which set the stage for the rise of Hamas in Gaza and periodic sieges that have continued to the present day. We conclude with a consideration of the current war, situating the unprecedented civilian toll of both the attacks by Hamas in Israel and the subsequent Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip within Khalidi&#39;s larger narrative of more than a century of war on Palestine.   « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5055857030912648391Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:17:00 +00002023-09-21T01:17:46.395+03:00HistoryKurdsLandMiningNilay Özok-GündoğanOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSam DolbeeTaxesTribesTurkey <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://fsu.academia.edu/Nilay%C3%96zokG%C3%BCndo%C4%9Fan" target="_blank"> with Nilay Özok-Gündoğan </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | As the Ottoman state expanded in the sixteenth century, it extended a number of privileges to elite families in Kurdistan. In this episode, Nilay Özok-Gündoğan discusses her new book The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire, which explains how these hereditary privileges—unique in the empire—developed and changed in the region of Palu between this moment and the nineteenth century, when the Ottoman state attempted to rescind such autonomy. Writing against scholarship that either ignores such families or understands them only in nationalist terms, Özok-Gündoğan attends to property, labor, and mineral extraction and how they ultimately all shaped the nature of the unprecedented violence at the end of empire. She also discusses her own journey writing this book, including her time teaching in Mardin and eventually being forced to leave Turkey.   </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/ozok.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/ozok.html0Tallahassee, FL, USA30.4381828 -84.280623499999992.1279489638211544 -119.43687349999999 58.748416636178845 -49.12437349999999nowith Nilay Özok-Gündoğan hosted by Sam Dolbee | As the Ottoman state expanded in the sixteenth century, it extended a number of privileges to elite families in Kurdistan. In this episode, Nilay Özok-Gündoğan discusses her new book The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire, which explains how these hereditary privileges—unique in the empire—developed and changed in the region of Palu between this moment and the nineteenth century, when the Ottoman state attempted to rescind such autonomy. Writing against scholarship that either ignores such families or understands them only in nationalist terms, Özok-Gündoğan attends to property, labor, and mineral extraction and how they ultimately all shaped the nature of the unprecedented violence at the end of empire. She also discusses her own journey writing this book, including her time teaching in Mardin and eventually being forced to leave Turkey.   « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Nilay Özok-Gündoğan hosted by Sam Dolbee | As the Ottoman state expanded in the sixteenth century, it extended a number of privileges to elite families in Kurdistan. In this episode, Nilay Özok-Gündoğan discusses her new book The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire, which explains how these hereditary privileges—unique in the empire—developed and changed in the region of Palu between this moment and the nineteenth century, when the Ottoman state attempted to rescind such autonomy. Writing against scholarship that either ignores such families or understands them only in nationalist terms, Özok-Gündoğan attends to property, labor, and mineral extraction and how they ultimately all shaped the nature of the unprecedented violence at the end of empire. She also discusses her own journey writing this book, including her time teaching in Mardin and eventually being forced to leave Turkey.   « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2110320692458569834Wed, 31 May 2023 12:55:00 +00002023-06-01T01:17:58.656+03:00ArmenianAssyrianChris GratienEnvironmentHistoryIraqJaziraKurdishLocustsOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePastoralismReem BailonySam DolbeeSyriaTurkeyWorld War I<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://vanderbilt.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Samuel Dolbee</a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Chris Gratien and Reem Bailony</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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 &quot;Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East.&quot; 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&#39;s history by devouring agricultural crops, Dolbee casts light onto communities of nomads and migrants often excluded from the empire&#39;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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/dolbee.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/dolbee.html0Nashville, TN, USA36.1626638 -86.78160167.8524299638211517 -121.9378516 64.472897636178843 -51.6253516noSamuel Dolbee hosted by Chris Gratien and Reem Bailony | 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 &quot;Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East.&quot; 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&#39;s history by devouring agricultural crops, Dolbee casts light onto communities of nomads and migrants often excluded from the empire&#39;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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastSamuel Dolbee hosted by Chris Gratien and Reem Bailony | 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 &quot;Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East.&quot; 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&#39;s history by devouring agricultural crops, Dolbee casts light onto communities of nomads and migrants often excluded from the empire&#39;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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-494056645061685768Sat, 20 May 2023 16:32:00 +00002023-05-30T21:53:24.314+03:00Ayşe ZarakolEarly ModernGlobal HistoryHistoryMedievalMongolsOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSafavidsSovereigntyTimuridsZeinab Azarbadegan <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-ayse-zarakol" target="_blank"> with Ayşe Zarakol </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/ZeinabAzarbadegan" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What did the international system look like before the rise of the West? What was the place of the Ottomans within it? How did the Ottomans claimed sovereignty and recognition from other states in the sixteenth century world order? In this episode Ayşe Zarakol discusses the rise and fall of Eastern world orders from the Mongol times to the mid-eighteenth century. She critically interrogates both Euro-centric and Sino-centric histories of international relations in order to emphasise the Chingisid universal claims and their evolution throughout the centuries. Considering the Ottomans within this longue duree history, Zarakol emphasises the notion of millenial sovereignty that put the Ottomans in competition with the Safavids and the Mughals and how the crisis of the seventeenth century dismantled this world order and contributed to a sense of decline. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/zarakol.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/zarakol.html0nowith Ayşe Zarakol hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What did the international system look like before the rise of the West? What was the place of the Ottomans within it? How did the Ottomans claimed sovereignty and recognition from other states in the sixteenth century world order? In this episode Ayşe Zarakol discusses the rise and fall of Eastern world orders from the Mongol times to the mid-eighteenth century. She critically interrogates both Euro-centric and Sino-centric histories of international relations in order to emphasise the Chingisid universal claims and their evolution throughout the centuries. Considering the Ottomans within this longue duree history, Zarakol emphasises the notion of millenial sovereignty that put the Ottomans in competition with the Safavids and the Mughals and how the crisis of the seventeenth century dismantled this world order and contributed to a sense of decline. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Ayşe Zarakol hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What did the international system look like before the rise of the West? What was the place of the Ottomans within it? How did the Ottomans claimed sovereignty and recognition from other states in the sixteenth century world order? In this episode Ayşe Zarakol discusses the rise and fall of Eastern world orders from the Mongol times to the mid-eighteenth century. She critically interrogates both Euro-centric and Sino-centric histories of international relations in order to emphasise the Chingisid universal claims and their evolution throughout the centuries. Considering the Ottomans within this longue duree history, Zarakol emphasises the notion of millenial sovereignty that put the Ottomans in competition with the Safavids and the Mughals and how the crisis of the seventeenth century dismantled this world order and contributed to a sense of decline. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2718861772056823695Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:31:00 +00002023-04-06T00:17:07.023+03:00Early ModernEconomyHistoryJusticeLinda DarlingOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSam DolbeeTaxes<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://arizona.academia.edu/LindaDarling" target="_blank">Linda Darling</a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In this episode, Linda Darling discusses the history of tax administration in the early modern Ottoman Empire, and how attention to it can open up a broad range of questions about technology, governance, and military power and, in the process, dispell simplistic stereotypes such as the &quot;Sick Man of Europe.&quot; In addition, she speaks more broadly about her path to Ottoman history, her studies with Halil Inalcık, and how she came to write a book about tax administration. In closing, she touches on what projects--on the cusp of retirement--she is thinking about now.</div>. <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/04/darling.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/04/darling.html0Denver, CO, USA39.7392358 -104.99025111.429001963821158 -140.146501 68.049469636178856 -69.834001noLinda Darling hosted by Sam Dolbee | In this episode, Linda Darling discusses the history of tax administration in the early modern Ottoman Empire, and how attention to it can open up a broad range of questions about technology, governance, and military power and, in the process, dispell simplistic stereotypes such as the &quot;Sick Man of Europe.&quot; In addition, she speaks more broadly about her path to Ottoman history, her studies with Halil Inalcık, and how she came to write a book about tax administration. In closing, she touches on what projects--on the cusp of retirement--she is thinking about now.. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastLinda Darling hosted by Sam Dolbee | In this episode, Linda Darling discusses the history of tax administration in the early modern Ottoman Empire, and how attention to it can open up a broad range of questions about technology, governance, and military power and, in the process, dispell simplistic stereotypes such as the &quot;Sick Man of Europe.&quot; In addition, she speaks more broadly about her path to Ottoman history, her studies with Halil Inalcık, and how she came to write a book about tax administration. In closing, she touches on what projects--on the cusp of retirement--she is thinking about now.. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7946001426250107800Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:36:00 +00002023-03-29T01:07:16.634+03:00Arab ProvincesArabsBiographyFamily HistoryHistoryMemoryMicrohistoryMostafa MinawiOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRaceThe Great WarWWIZeinab Azarbadegan <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.cornell.edu/mostafa-minawi" target="_blank"> with Mostafa Minawi </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/ZeinabAzarbadegan" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What did it mean to be Arab during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire? What did it mean to be Arab and invested in continuation of the Ottoman Empire? In this episode Mostafa Minawi answers these questions by focusing on the lives of two Arab-Ottoman Imperialists from the same family in Damascus, the al-&#39;Azm or Azamzade family. By recounting their lives, excavating their writings, and narrating how their descendants remember them, Minawi explores questions of belonging, race and ethnicity, and the emotional world of a family divided by the fracturing of an centuries-old empire. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/minawi.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/minawi.html0Denver, CO, USA39.7392358 -104.99025114.017024907372662 -140.146501 65.461446692627348 -69.834001nowith Mostafa Minawi hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What did it mean to be Arab during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire? What did it mean to be Arab and invested in continuation of the Ottoman Empire? In this episode Mostafa Minawi answers these questions by focusing on the lives of two Arab-Ottoman Imperialists from the same family in Damascus, the al-&#39;Azm or Azamzade family. By recounting their lives, excavating their writings, and narrating how their descendants remember them, Minawi explores questions of belonging, race and ethnicity, and the emotional world of a family divided by the fracturing of an centuries-old empire. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Mostafa Minawi hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What did it mean to be Arab during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire? What did it mean to be Arab and invested in continuation of the Ottoman Empire? In this episode Mostafa Minawi answers these questions by focusing on the lives of two Arab-Ottoman Imperialists from the same family in Damascus, the al-&#39;Azm or Azamzade family. By recounting their lives, excavating their writings, and narrating how their descendants remember them, Minawi explores questions of belonging, race and ethnicity, and the emotional world of a family divided by the fracturing of an centuries-old empire. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2600184954369432477Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:43:00 +00002022-11-03T21:20:43.549+03:00Art HistoryEarly ModernHistoryIslamic ArtOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePaintingPersiaThe Visual PastWendy ShawZeinab Azarbadegan <div class="guest_name"> <a href="" target="_blank"> with Wendy M. K. Shaw </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/ZeinabAzarbadegan" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/11/shaw.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/11/shaw.html0nowith 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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4429769962356856664Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:31:00 +00002022-09-22T20:06:31.665+03:00ArchitectureBalkansBicyclesBosniaCaravanseraiEarly ModernHistoryInfrastructureJesse HowellMarijana MisevicOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSam DolbeeSufism <div class="guest_name"> with Jesse Howell &amp; Marijana Mišević </div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/09/blog-post.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/09/blog-post.html0Dubrovnik, Croatia42.650660599999988 18.094423814.340426763821142 -17.0618262 70.960894436178833 53.2506738nowith Jesse Howell &amp; 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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith Jesse Howell &amp; 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6685170210592123628Wed, 04 May 2022 10:49:00 +00002022-09-23T18:59:43.364+03:0018th century19th CenturyArmeniansConstitutionalismEastern AnatoliaHistoryMatthew GhazarianNon-MuslimsOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireProvincial HistoryRichard AntaramianTanzimatTaxes <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/hist/people/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1058017" target="_blank"> with Richard Antaramian </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s successes at reform translated into trouble for its newly-isolated flock in the empire&#39;s eastern borderlands. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/05/antaramian.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/05/antaramian.html0Los Angeles, CA, USA34.0522342 -118.24368495.7420003638211554 -153.3999349 62.362468036178846 -83.0874349nowith Richard Antaramian hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s successes at reform translated into trouble for its newly-isolated flock in the empire&#39;s eastern borderlands. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Richard Antaramian hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s successes at reform translated into trouble for its newly-isolated flock in the empire&#39;s eastern borderlands. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2116099565686383857Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:47:00 +00002022-09-23T18:59:52.151+03:0019th CenturyEastern QuestionEgyptHistoryImperialismLebanonMehmed AliOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireOzan OzavciZeinab Azarbadegan <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/HOOzavci" target="_blank"> with Ozan Ozavci </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/ZeinabAzarbadegan" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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&#39;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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html0Utrecht, Netherlands52.090737399999988 5.121420123.780503563821142 -30.0348299 80.400971236178833 40.2776701nowith 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&#39;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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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&#39;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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4203364652273445597Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:00:00 +00002022-10-12T06:32:06.677+03:0017th centuryBrittany WhiteConversionHistoryIberiaIslamMayte Green-MercadoMoriscosOHP EpisodesOttoman Empire<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/mayte-green-mercado" target="_blank">Mayte Green-Mercado</a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Brittany White</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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 <i>Visions of Deliverance</i>, 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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/moriscos.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/moriscos.html0Newark, NJ, USA40.735657 -74.172366712.425423163821158 -109.3286167 69.045890836178842 -39.0161167noMayte Green-Mercado hosted 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 »Ottoman History PodcastMayte Green-Mercado hosted 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8072048137875707077Sun, 27 Mar 2022 19:52:00 +00002022-10-01T00:18:44.810+03:0016th CenturyArabicBadr al-Din al-GhazziHelen PfeiferHistoryIntellectual HistoryMamluksMaryam PattonOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSalonsSyria<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-helen-pfeifer" target="_blank"> with Helen Pfeifer </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Maryam Patton</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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, <i><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691195230/empire-of-salons" target="_blank">Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands</a></i>, 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&#39;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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/salons.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/salons.html0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004nowith 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&#39;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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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&#39;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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7869920906326306751Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +00002024-10-03T02:57:20.707+03:00AdanaChris GratienCiliciaCottonDadaloğluEnvironmental HistoryHistoryMalariaOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePastoralismSettlementSusanna FergusonTurkeyÇukurova<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/crg8w" target="_blank"> with Chris Gratien </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Susanna Ferguson</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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 <i>The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier</i>, 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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/gratien.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/gratien.html0Northampton, MA, USA42.3250896 -72.64120129999999214.014855763821153 -107.79745129999999 70.635323436178851 -37.484951299999992nowith 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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4516153191183307398Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:14:00 +00002022-10-12T06:40:39.393+03:00Carlos GrenierHistoryIslamMaryam PattonOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireReligionSufismTurkish Language<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> with Carlos Grenier </div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Maryam Patton</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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.</div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/02/grenier.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/02/grenier.html0Miami, FL, USA25.7616798 -80.1917902-2.5485540361788459 -115.3480402 54.071913636178849 -45.0355402nowith 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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2414453979209128679Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:42:00 +00002022-10-12T06:41:59.628+03:001948 WarBritish MandateHistoryIsraelLettersOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePalestineSam DolbeeShay HazkaniSocial HistoryZionism<p> </p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://history.umd.edu/directory/shay-hazkani" target="_blank"> with Shay Hazkani </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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.</div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/hazkani.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/hazkani.html0Somerville, MA, USA42.3875968 -71.099496814.077362963821152 -106.2557468 70.69783063617885 -35.9432468no  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 »Ottoman History Podcast  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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-3139137105292773737Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:25:00 +00002022-10-12T06:42:29.762+03:0017th centuryBrittany WhitecaptivityEarly Modern EuropeGiancarlo CasaleHabsburg EmpireHistoryOHP EpisodesOsman of TimisoaraOttoman EmpireRomaniaSlaveryWar<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.eui.eu/people?id=giancarlo-casale" target="_blank">with Giancarlo Casale</a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Brittany White</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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 <i>Prisoner of the Infidels</i>, 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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/casale.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/casale.html0Minneapolis, MN, USA44.977753 -93.265010816.667519163821154 -128.4212608 73.287986836178845 -58.1087608nowith Giancarlo Casale hosted 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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith Giancarlo Casale hosted 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8306776733932180902Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:40:00 +00002021-10-13T12:05:11.045+03:00Brittany WhiteCaucasusCircassiansDiasporaHistoryMemoryMigrationMuhacirOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRaceRussian EmpireŞölen Şanlı Vasquez<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DqfmioO1FrPCxjWEvt-3Zdc_5Nlg8ccGSm1dwHYjHFQ/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"> with Şölen Şanlı Vasquez </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Brittany White</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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 &quot;<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/circassianexile/home" target="_blank">The Home Within</a>,&quot; 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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/09/circassian.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/09/circassian.html0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.41941559.4646956638211535 -157.5756655 66.085163336178852 -87.2631655nowith 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 &quot;The Home Within,&quot; 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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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 &quot;The Home Within,&quot; 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5451500689322581309Fri, 20 Aug 2021 09:30:00 +00002022-10-12T06:43:39.648+03:00AnatoliaHistoriographyHistoryJoshua WhiteMaryam PattonMedievalNomadsOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRudi LindnerSelcuks<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/emeritus/rpl.html" target="_blank"> with Rudi Lindner </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Joshua White & Maryam Patton</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Among the most murky periods of the Ottoman dynasty&#39;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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/rudi.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/rudi.html0Ann Arbor, MI, USA42.2808256 -83.743037813.970591763821155 -118.8992878 70.591059436178853 -48.586787799999996nowith Rudi Lindner hosted by Joshua White & Maryam Patton | Among the most murky periods of the Ottoman dynasty&#39;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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith Rudi Lindner hosted by Joshua White & Maryam Patton | Among the most murky periods of the Ottoman dynasty&#39;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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-9003510876745829712Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:03:00 +00002022-10-12T06:44:36.680+03:00ArchitectureBeirutChris GratienGraham PittsHistoryLebanese Civil WarLebanonNada MoumtazOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRayya HaddadSolidereUrban History <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.rayyahaddad.net/about" target="_blank"> with Rayya Haddad </a></div><br><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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&#39;s cityscape through a walking tour with Rayya Haddad. We chart Beirut&#39;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&#39;s foremost architect of the late Ottoman and French Mandate period--from its Mediterranean revivalist origins to its redesign as a sniper&#39;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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/beirut.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/beirut.html0nowith 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&#39;s cityscape through a walking tour with Rayya Haddad. We chart Beirut&#39;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&#39;s foremost architect of the late Ottoman and French Mandate period--from its Mediterranean revivalist origins to its redesign as a sniper&#39;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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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&#39;s cityscape through a walking tour with Rayya Haddad. We chart Beirut&#39;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&#39;s foremost architect of the late Ottoman and French Mandate period--from its Mediterranean revivalist origins to its redesign as a sniper&#39;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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6889793938230417146Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:19:00 +00002022-10-12T06:44:53.890+03:00Court RecordsDiplomacyFariba ZarinebafFranceGalataHistoryMediterraneanMerchantsNir ShafirOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePort CitiesSam Dolbee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://ucriverside.academia.edu/FaribaZarinebaf" target="_blank"> with Fariba Zarinebaf </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a> and <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf discusses the history of Galata and the early modern Mediterranean more broadly. Beginning with the incorporation of Galata&#39;s Genoese community of Istanbul under Ottoman rule in 1453, Zarinebaf explains how the treaties known as the capitulations (<i>ahdname</i> 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&#39;s invasion of Egypt on the French community of Galata. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/zarinebaf.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/zarinebaf.html0Chicago, IL, USA41.8781136 -87.629798213.567879763821153 -122.7860482 70.188347436178844 -52.473548199999996nowith 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&#39;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&#39;s invasion of Egypt on the French community of Galata. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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&#39;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&#39;s invasion of Egypt on the French community of Galata. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4284518667793362383Sun, 27 Jun 2021 18:23:00 +00002022-10-12T06:45:48.950+03:00Chris GratienEnvironmental HistoryFaisal HusainHistoryIraqMesopotamiaOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePastoralismRivers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.hmc.edu/hsa/faculty-staff/ambereen-dadabhoy/" target="_blank"> with Faisal Husain </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="blank">Chris Gratien</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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&#39;s recent book <i>Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire</i>. We also reflect on what Iraq reveals about Ottoman history writ large and the empire&#39;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. </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/the-environmental-origins-of-ottoman.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/the-environmental-origins-of-ottoman.html0State College, PA, USA40.7933949 -77.860001212.483161063821157 -113.0162512 69.103628736178848 -42.7037512nowith 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&#39;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&#39;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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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&#39;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&#39;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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4954562642014873001Wed, 07 Apr 2021 19:28:00 +00002021-04-08T15:16:13.707+03:00Abdul Hamid IIDiseaseHajjHistoryIndian OceanLawMichael Christopher LowOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePilgrimageSam DolbeeSaudi Arabia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://iastate.academia.edu/MichaelChristopherLow" target="_blank"> with Michael Christopher Low</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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&#39;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&#39;s book is <a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/imperial-mecca/9780231190770">Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj</a>.  </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/04/low.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/04/low.html0Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates24.453884 54.3773438-3.8563498361788469 19.2210938 52.764117836178841 89.5335938nowith Michael Christopher Low hosted 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&#39;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&#39;s book is Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj.  « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Michael Christopher Low hosted 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&#39;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&#39;s book is Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj.  « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7339747905791816013Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:00:00 +00002021-01-22T00:03:50.742+03:00AlbaniaColonialismGender SeriesHistoryLeague of NationsNationalismNevila PahumiOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSusanna FergusonWomen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ucl.academia.edu/NevilaPahumi" target="_blank"> with Nevila Pahumi </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://smith.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">hosted by Susanna Ferguson</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | 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&#39; 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&#39; story, her leadership of the early Albanian women&#39;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. </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/pahumi.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/pahumi.html0Charlottesville, VA, USA38.0293059 -78.4766781000000159.7190720638211516 -113.63292810000002 66.339539736178835 -43.320428100000015nowith 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&#39; 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&#39; story, her leadership of the early Albanian women&#39;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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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&#39; 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&#39; story, her leadership of the early Albanian women&#39;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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-3670531380106015101Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:49:00 +00002022-02-07T22:17:30.484+03:00Chris GratienDeportationGenderHistoryLebanonMahjarMexicoMigrationOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRaceRanda TawilSyriaTrachoma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 478</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://randatawil.com/" target="_blank"> with Randa Tawil </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank"> hosted by Chris Gratien </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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.<br> </div> </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/09/zeinab.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/09/zeinab.html0Seattle, WA, USA47.6062095 -122.332070819.295975663821153 -157.4883208 75.916443336178844 -87.1758208noEpisode 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4301649466190147442Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:56:00 +00002020-08-18T18:56:29.484+03:00Alan MikhailColumbusHistoryIslamOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSafavidsSam DolbeeSelim ITrabzon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 472</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.alanmikhail.org/" target="_blank"> with Alan Mikhail </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis">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&#39;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 <i><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631492396">God&#39;s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World</a></i>. We discuss the events and developments that led to Selim&#39;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.  </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/08/alan-mikhail.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/08/alan-mikhail.html0New York, NY, USA40.7127753 -74.005972812.402541463821152 -109.1622228 69.023009136178842 -38.849722799999995noEpisode 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&#39;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&#39;s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World. We discuss the events and developments that led to Selim&#39;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 »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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&#39;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&#39;s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World. We discuss the events and developments that led to Selim&#39;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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-734506483977719422Thu, 13 Aug 2020 18:50:00 +00002020-08-18T18:29:18.804+03:00Armenian GenocideArmeniansArtArt HistoryHistoryJerusalemOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSam DolbeeSato MoughalianThe Visual Past<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 471</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://www.satomoughalian.com/" target="_blank"> with Sato Moughalian </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis">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 <i><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28630">Feast of Ashes</a></i>, her recent biography of Ohannessian. She also talks about his story&#39;s personal resonance for her as Ohannessian&#39;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&#39;s life that was long felt but seldom addressed. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/08/ohannessian.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/08/ohannessian.html0New York, NY, USA40.7127753 -74.005972812.402541463821152 -109.1622228 69.023009136178842 -38.849722799999995noEpisode 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&#39;s personal resonance for her as Ohannessian&#39;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&#39;s life that was long felt but seldom addressed.  « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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&#39;s personal resonance for her as Ohannessian&#39;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&#39;s life that was long felt but seldom addressed.  « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4972239713143955806Sun, 05 Jul 2020 17:02:00 +00002020-07-06T15:08:10.794+03:00DiplomacyEarly ModernEmily NeumeierHabsburgsHistoryIstanbulOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRobyn Dora RadwayThe Visual Past<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 465</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://people.ceu.edu/robyn-dora_radway" target="_blank"> with Robyn Dora Radway </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://temple.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">hosted by Emily Neumeier</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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&quot;), 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. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/07/radway.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/07/radway.html0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023547.154509499999996 18.394788 47.8413145 19.685682noEpisode 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&quot;), 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 »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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&quot;), 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2806562811616854588Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:06:00 +00002020-07-11T21:52:59.092+03:00AlevisArchivesBalkansChris GratienFilmHacibektaşHistoryIranian RevolutionIstanbulMaryam PattonMuhacirOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePoetrySam DolbeeTanpınarTheaterZati<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 464</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/cemal-kafadar" target="_blank"> with Cemal Kafadar </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/MaryamPatton" target="_blank">Maryam Patton</a>, <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="blank">Chris Gratien</a>, and <a href="https://yale.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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: &quot;do we do what we do to understand, or do what we do to change the world?&quot; <br> <br> We&#39;ll speak more about that question in part two of this interview, coming soon.</div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/06/kafadar-1.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/06/kafadar-1.html0Cambridge, MA, USA42.3770029 -71.1166600999999917.9520394 -112.42525409999999 66.8019664 -29.808066099999991noEpisode 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: &quot;do we do what we do to understand, or do what we do to change the world?&quot; We&#39;ll speak more about that question in part two of this interview, coming soon. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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: &quot;do we do what we do to understand, or do what we do to change the world?&quot; We&#39;ll speak more about that question in part two of this interview, coming soon. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7254230628534834037Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:55:00 +00002020-05-01T02:09:54.159+03:00HistoryHMXIslamOHP EpisodesOludamini OgunnaikePoetryShireen HamzaSufismWest Africa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 462</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/oo4qw" target="_blank"> with Oludamini Ogunnaike </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">hosted by Shireen Hamza</a> </div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 &quot;madih&quot; 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&#39;s work thus broadens our understanding of a form of embodied knowledge in Islam. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/ogunnaike.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/ogunnaike.html0Cambridge, MA, USA42.3736158 -71.1097334999999942.3266968 -71.190414499999989 42.420534800000006 -71.029052499999992noEpisode 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 &quot;madih&quot; 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&#39;s work thus broadens our understanding of a form of embodied knowledge in Islam. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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 &quot;madih&quot; 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&#39;s work thus broadens our understanding of a form of embodied knowledge in Islam. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6553286527702732543Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:36:00 +00002020-03-25T20:37:56.797+03:00AstronomyDeclineEducationHarun KüçükHistoryHistory of ScienceIntellectual HistoryOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireReligionSam DolbeeScienceSTSseriesZoe Griffith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 456</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/harun-k%C3%BC%C3%A7%C3%BCk" target="_blank"> with Harun Küçük </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://yale.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</a><a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank"> and Zoe Griffith </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What did science look like in early modern Istanbul? In this episode, Harun Küçük discusses his new book, <i>Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732 </i>(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.   </div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/science-ottoman-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/science-ottoman-empire.html055 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10010, USA40.7403959 -73.98322519999999315.218361400000003 -115.29181919999999 66.2624304 -32.674631199999993noEpisode 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.    « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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.    « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4886985716357327936Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:37:00 +00002020-03-29T20:27:36.344+03:00Chris GratienCoronavirusDiseaseEdna BonhommeHistoryLori JonesMaryam PattonNükhet VarlıkOHP EpisodesOrhan PamukOttoman EmpirePlagueSTSseriesValentina PuglianoYaron Ayalon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 455</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/history/our_people/directory/nukhet.php" target="_blank"> featuring Nükhet Varlık,</a> <a href="http://yaronayalon.com/" target="_blank">Yaron Ayalon, </a><a href="https://www.orhanpamuk.net/default.aspx" target="_blank">Orhan Pamuk, </a><a href="https://uottawa.academia.edu/LoriJones" target="_blank">Lori Jones, </a><a href="https://cambridge.academia.edu/ValentinaPugliano" target="_blank">Valentina Pugliano, </a><a href="https://mpiwg-berlin-mpg.academia.edu/EdnaBonhomme" target="_blank">and Edna Bonhomme </a></div> <br> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank"> narrated by Chris Gratien </a><a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">and Maryam Patton </a><br> <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">with contributions by Nir Shafir, </a><a href="https://yale.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee,</a> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/AhmetTuncSen" target="_blank">Tunç Şen,</a><a href="https://uni-konstanz.academia.edu/AndreasGuidi" target="_blank"> and Andreas Guidi</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The plague is caused by a bacteria called <i>Yersinia pestis</i>, 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.  </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/plague-ottoman-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/plague-ottoman-empire.html0noEpisode 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.   « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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.   « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-399770105594415524Fri, 06 Mar 2020 15:52:00 +00002020-03-07T18:00:29.602+03:00CoffeeGujaratHistoryIndian OceanNancy UmOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireSoutheast AsiaSwahili CoastTradeYemenZoe Griffith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 453</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://nancyum.com/" target="_blank"> with Nancy Um </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank"> hosted by Zoe Griffith </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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.</div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/um.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/um.html0noEpisode 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4037345731937163904Fri, 07 Feb 2020 03:03:00 +00002020-03-12T01:13:42.820+03:00Burcu KarahanConstitutionEroticaEunuchFictionFreedomGender SeriesHistoryMehmet RaufOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRevolutionSexSusanna Ferguson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 448</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://stanford.academia.edu/BurcuKarahan" target="_blank"> with Burcu Karahan </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">hosted by Suzie Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/freedom-and-desire-in-late-ottoman-erotica-burcu-karahan" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> &quot;One Thousand Kisses,&quot; &quot;Plate of Cream,&quot; &quot;Story of a Lily:&quot; 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/erotica.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/erotica.html0New Orleans, LA, USA29.951065799999991 -90.071532329.511172299999991 -90.7169793 30.390959299999992 -89.4260853noEpisode 448 with Burcu Karahan hosted by Suzie Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud &quot;One Thousand Kisses,&quot; &quot;Plate of Cream,&quot; &quot;Story of a Lily:&quot; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 448 with Burcu Karahan hosted by Suzie Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud &quot;One Thousand Kisses,&quot; &quot;Plate of Cream,&quot; &quot;Story of a Lily:&quot; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-336112725638951008Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:53:00 +00002020-03-12T01:14:13.015+03:00Chris GratienDaniel HershenzonEmrah Safa GürkanHistoryJoshua WhiteNir ShafirNorth AfricaOHP EpisodesPiracySlaverySusanna FergusontajineTaylor MooreZoe Griffith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 446</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://29mayis.academia.edu/esg" target="_blank"> featuring Emrah Safa Gürkan,</a> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/jmw4xd" target="_blank">Joshua White</a><a href="https://languages.uconn.edu/person/daniel-hershenzon/" target="_blank">, and Daniel Hershenzon </a></div> <br> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">narrated by Chris Gratien</a><br> <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">with contributions by Nir Shafir, </a><a href="https://rutgers.academia.edu/TaylorMoore" target="_blank">Taylor Moore,</a> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a>,<a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank"> and Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/pirates" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/pirates.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/pirates.html0İstanbul, Turkey41.0082376 28.97835889999998940.6247881 28.332911899999988 41.3916871 29.62380589999999noEpisode 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 Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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.  « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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 Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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.  « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6849828369627402105Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:20:00 +00002020-03-12T01:14:30.349+03:00Alp Eren TopalAnatoliaCaliphateEarly ModernHistoryHüseyin YılmazMedievalMysticismNir ShafirOHP EpisodesReligionSufism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 444</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/hyilmaz" target="_blank"> with Hüseyin Yılmaz </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">hosted by Nir Shafir</a><a href="https://uio.academia.edu/AlpErenTopal" target="_blank"> and Alp Eren Topal</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/hyilmaz" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 &quot;the mystical turn&quot; in Ottoman political thought.</div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/the-mystical-turn-in-ottoman-political.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/the-mystical-turn-in-ottoman-political.html0İstanbul, Turkey41.0082376 28.97835889999998940.6247881 28.332911899999988 41.3916871 29.62380589999999noEpisode 444 with Hüseyin Yılmaz hosted by Nir Shafir and Alp Eren Topal Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;the mystical turn&quot; in Ottoman political thought. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 444 with Hüseyin Yılmaz hosted by Nir Shafir and Alp Eren Topal Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;the mystical turn&quot; in Ottoman political thought. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6765908213704860635Sat, 04 Jan 2020 04:05:00 +00002020-03-12T01:14:38.084+03:00AfghanistanConstitutionalismFaiz AhmedHistoryHuma GuptaOHP EpisodesShireen Hamza<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 443</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/history/people/faiz-ahmed" target="_blank"> with Faiz Ahmed </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="http://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">hosted by Shireen Hamza</a><a href="https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/centers-labs-and-projects/humanities-research-fellowship-program/research-fellows/huma-gupta.html" target="_blank"> and Huma Gupta</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/afghanistan" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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. </div> <br> <itunes:category text="History"> </itunes:category> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/afghanistan-rising.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/afghanistan-rising.html0Cambridge, MA, USA42.3770029 -71.1166600999999917.9521109 -112.42525409999999 66.801894900000008 -29.808066099999991noEpisode 443 with Faiz Ahmed hosted by Shireen Hamza and Huma Gupta Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 443 with Faiz Ahmed hosted by Shireen Hamza and Huma Gupta Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-3408053480757649334Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:19:00 +00002020-01-15T00:01:38.787+03:00Early ModernHeather FergusonHistoryLanguageLawLawSeriesOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireZoe Griffith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 441</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile/heather-ferguson" target="_blank">with Heather Ferguson</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank">hosted by Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/h-ferguson" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this episode, historian Heather Ferguson takes us behind the scenes of early modern Ottoman state-making with a discussion of her recent book <i><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27958" target="_blank">The Proper Order of Things</a></i>. 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/language-power-ottoman-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/language-power-ottoman-empire.html0New Orleans, LA, USA29.951065799999991 -90.071532329.511172299999991 -90.7169793 30.390959299999992 -89.4260853noEpisode 441 with Heather Ferguson hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 441 with Heather Ferguson hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7439912332740805386Mon, 09 Dec 2019 02:47:00 +00002020-03-12T01:14:54.665+03:00Armenian GenocideChildhoodChildrenChris GratienHistoryNazan MaksudyanOHP EpisodesOrphansworkersWWI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 440</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/NazanMaksudyan" target="_blank"> with Nazan Maksudyan </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/maksudyan4" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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. </div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/nazan-4.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/nazan-4.html0Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18, 14195 Berlin, Germany52.4543245 13.29347680000000826.93229 -28.015117199999992 77.976359 54.602070800000007noEpisode 440 with Nazan Maksudyan hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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.  « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 440 with Nazan Maksudyan hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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.  « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2319195723569213968Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:53:00 +00002020-01-31T04:19:53.798+03:00Balkan WarsChris GratienCommittee of Union and ProgressHistoryMilitary HistoryOHP EpisodesRefugeesSocial HistorySusanna FergusonThe Great WarWorld War IWWIYiğit Akın<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 429</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://tulane.academia.edu/YigitAkin" target="_blank">with Yiğit Akın</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a><a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank"> and Susanna Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/how-war-changed-ottoman-society-yigit-akin" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 <i>When the War Came Home</i> and how years of war transformed the Ottoman Empire. We discuss how the experience of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars reshaped Ottoman officials&#39; 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/10/wwi.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/10/wwi.html0Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey41.0382864 28.97033039999996640.990382399999994 28.889649399999968 41.0861904 29.051011399999965noEpisode 429 with Yiğit Akın hosted by Chris Gratien and Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 429 with Yiğit Akın hosted by Chris Gratien and Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4484658834449046802Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:41:00 +00002020-01-15T00:01:39.249+03:0019th CenturyAnkaraEdirneHistoryMatthew GhazarianOHP Episodessocial networksSociologyTanzimatYonca Köksal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 427 </div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cssh.ku.edu.tr/en/people/personel-detail/?user=ykoksal" target="_blank">with Yonca Köksal </a> </div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian </a> </div> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/social-networks-in-ottoman-reform-yonca-koksal" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/09/socialnetworks.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/09/socialnetworks.html0İstanbul, Turkey41.0082376 28.97835889999998940.6247881 28.332911899999988 41.3916871 29.62380589999999noEpisode 427 with Yonca Köksal hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | 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 »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 427 with Yonca Köksal hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8664772132416419633Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:59:00 +00002020-01-15T00:01:41.126+03:00Alp Eren TopalBest of 2019 ListConceptual HistoryHistoryMedicineMetaphorOHP EpisodesPoliticsSam DolbeeStateSusanna Ferguson<div class="episode_no"> Episode 425</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://uio.academia.edu/AlpErenTopal" target="_blank">with Alp Eren Topal</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a> and <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/medical-metaphors-in-ottoman-political-thought-alp-eren-topal" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br><br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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? </div> <br> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/09/medical-metaphors.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/09/medical-metaphors.html0İstanbul, Turkey41.0082376 28.97835889999998940.6247881 28.332911899999988 41.3916871 29.62380589999999noEpisode 425 with Alp Eren Topal hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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? « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 425 with Alp Eren Topal hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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? « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-645614703821423299Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:15:00 +00002020-01-15T00:01:40.052+03:0019th Century20th CenturyBorderlandsDesertEgyptHistoryLibyaMatthew EllisOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireZoe Griffith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 423</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/faculty/ellis-matthew.html" target="_blank">with Matthew Ellis</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank">hosted by Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/ellis" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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&#39;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? </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/08/ellis.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/08/ellis.html0New York, NY, USA40.7127753 -74.005972839.9423093 -75.296866299999991 41.483241299999996 -72.7150793noEpisode 423 with Matthew Ellis hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;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? « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 423 with Matthew Ellis hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;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? « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7144561881827187983Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:45:00 +00002020-01-15T00:01:40.539+03:0019th CenturyEugenicsGenderGender SeriesGülhan BalsoyHistorymidwivesOHP EpisodesPopulationPregnancyreproductionTuba Demirci<div class="episode_no"> Episode 421</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/G%C3%BClhanBalsoy" target="_blank">with Gülhan Balsoy </a><a href="https://kemerburgaz.academia.edu/TubaDemirci" target="_blank">and Tuba Demirci</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">hosted by Suzie Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/population-and-reproduction-in-the-late-ottoman-empire" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 &quot;population&quot; 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. </div> <br> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/08/populationreproduction.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/08/populationreproduction.html0İstanbul, Turkey41.0082376 28.97835889999998940.6247881 28.332911899999988 41.3916871 29.62380589999999noEpisode 421 with Gülhan Balsoy and Tuba Demirci hosted by Suzie Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;population&quot; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 421 with Gülhan Balsoy and Tuba Demirci hosted by Suzie Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;population&quot; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2127318571821106270Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:36:00 +00002020-01-15T00:01:38.357+03:00captivityHistoryinternational lawLawOHP EpisodesransomRussian EmpireRusso-Ottoman WarWill SmileyZoe Griffith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 420</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.reed.edu/faculty-profiles/profiles/smiley-will.html" target="_blank">with Will Smiley</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank">Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/captivity-and-ransom-in-ottoman-law-will-smiley" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 &quot;prisoner of war&quot; and shedding light on a path to modern international law that lies outside of Europe. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/07/captivityandransom.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/07/captivityandransom.html0New York, NY, USA40.7127753 -74.005972839.9423093 -75.296866299999991 41.483241299999996 -72.7150793noEpisode 420 with Will Smiley hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;prisoner of war&quot; and shedding light on a path to modern international law that lies outside of Europe. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 420 with Will Smiley hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;prisoner of war&quot; and shedding light on a path to modern international law that lies outside of Europe. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2000292387389102023Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:33:00 +00002020-01-15T00:01:38.325+03:0016th CenturyElisabetta BenigniHistoryLiteratureNir ShafirOHP EpisodesOttoman CourtPoetrySooyong KimZati<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 416</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ku.academia.edu/SooyongKim" target="_blank">with Sooyong Kim</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a> and <a href="https://unito.academia.edu/ElisabettaBenigni" target="_blank">Elisabetta Benigni</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/good-poets-bad-poetry-in-the-ottoman-empire" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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&#39;s successors erased him from the canon of good poetry.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/goodpoets.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/goodpoets.html0Istanbul, Turkey41.0082376 28.97835889999998940.6247881 28.332911899999988 41.3916871 29.62380589999999noEpisode 416 with Sooyong Kim hosted by Nir Shafir and Elisabetta Benigni Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;s successors erased him from the canon of good poetry. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 416 with Sooyong Kim hosted by Nir Shafir and Elisabetta Benigni Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;s successors erased him from the canon of good poetry. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7224629513851324562Sat, 01 Jun 2019 19:39:00 +00002020-05-01T02:09:54.126+03:00ArabicArmenianAssyrianBest of 2019 ListChris GratienGreekHistoryHMXIan NagoskiMusicNew YorkOHP EpisodesOttoman DiasporaRecords<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 412</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">with Ian Nagoski</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/american-music-of-the-ottoman-diaspora-ian-nagoski" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 <a href="https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Canary Records</a> 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. </div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/ottoman-diaspora-music.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/ottoman-diaspora-music.html0Columbia Heights, Washington, DC, USA38.9287703 -77.03053899999997638.9040653 -77.070879499999975 38.953475299999994 -76.990198499999977noEpisode 412 with Ian Nagoski hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 412 with Ian Nagoski hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6247071525671702676Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:21:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.386+03:00ArmeniaArmenian GenocideArtBest of 2019 ListCultural HeritageEastern AnatoliaEmily NeumeierHeghnar WatenpaughHistoryMuseumsOHP EpisodesSeason 8The Visual Past<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 407</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ucdavis.academia.edu/HeghnarZeitlianWatenpaugh" target="_blank">with Heghnar Watenpaugh</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://upenn.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">Emily Neumeier</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/survivor-objects-and-the-lost-world-of-ottoman-armenians-heghnar-watenpaugh" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 &quot;survivor object,&quot; contributing to current discussions about the destruction of cultural heritage. We also talk about the challenges of writing history for a broader reading public.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/survivor-objects.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/survivor-objects.html0New Haven, CT, USA41.308274 -72.92788350000000741.212838999999995 -73.089245 41.403709 -72.766522000000009noEpisode 407 with Heghnar Watenpaugh hosted by Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;survivor object,&quot; contributing to current discussions about the destruction of cultural heritage. We also talk about the challenges of writing history for a broader reading public. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 407 with Heghnar Watenpaugh hosted by Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;survivor object,&quot; contributing to current discussions about the destruction of cultural heritage. We also talk about the challenges of writing history for a broader reading public. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8805019400680830293Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:13:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.388+03:00AlgeriaBest of 2019 ListCelal EsadHistoryMatthew GhazarianOHP EpisodesOrientalismOsman Hamdi BeyPaintingSeason 8The Visual PastZeinab AzarbadeganZeynep Çelik<div class="episode_no"> Episode 399</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://design.njit.edu/people/celik.php" target="_blank">with Zeynep Çelik</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/azarbadegan-zeinab/" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a> and <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/orientalism-in-the-ottoman-empire-zeynep-celik" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> How did the Ottomans react to European attitudes and depictions of their own lands? Pondering on the groundbreaking book &#39;Orientalism&#39; 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. </div> <br> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/orientalism.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/orientalism.html0Istanbul, Turkey41.0082376 28.97835889999998940.6247881 28.332911899999988 41.3916871 29.62380589999999noEpisode 399 with Zeynep Çelik hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did the Ottomans react to European attitudes and depictions of their own lands? Pondering on the groundbreaking book &#39;Orientalism&#39; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 399 with Zeynep Çelik hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did the Ottomans react to European attitudes and depictions of their own lands? Pondering on the groundbreaking book &#39;Orientalism&#39; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4863095017942037410Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:32:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.386+03:00DevelopmentEconomyHistoryMatthew GhazarianModern TurkeyMoneyOHP EpisodesSeason 8Şevket Pamuk<div class="episode_no"> Episode 398</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ata.boun.edu.tr/faculty/sevketpamuk" target="_blank">with Şevket Pamuk</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/turkish-economic-development-since-1820-sevket-pamuk" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What forces have governed Turkey&#39;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. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/economicdevelopment.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/economicdevelopment.html0Istanbul, Turkey41.0082376 28.97835889999998940.6247881 28.332911899999988 41.3916871 29.62380589999999noEpisode 398 with Şevket Pamuk hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What forces have governed Turkey&#39;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 »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 398 with Şevket Pamuk hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What forces have governed Turkey&#39;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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-447813624868175415Sat, 29 Dec 2018 18:08:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.383+03:00HistoryKurdsLocal AutonomyMatthew GhazarianMetin AtmacaOHP EpisodesSeason 8SufismTanzimat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 395</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://asbu.academia.edu/MetinAtmaca" target="_blank">with Metin Atmaca</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a> </div><br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/autonomy-and-resistance-in-ottoman-kurdistan-metin-atmaca" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/12/ottoman-kurdistan.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/12/ottoman-kurdistan.html0Anafartalar Mahallesi, Kediseven Sk. No:2, 06050 Altındağ/Ankara, Turkey39.938591258990748 32.85441229674427239.92641575899075 32.834242296744272 39.950766758990746 32.874582296744272noEpisode 395 with Metin Atmaca hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 395 with Metin Atmaca hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8005856765760843743Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:40:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.388+03:0019th Century20th CenturyDrugsHistoryIstanbulNarcoticsOHP EpisodesSeason 8Social HistoryStefano TagliaTaylan Güngör<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 391</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://cas-cz.academia.edu/StefanoTaglia" target="_blank">with Stefano Taglia</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://soas.academia.edu/TaylanGungor" target="_blank">hosted by Taylan Güngör</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/gettinghigh" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The use of stimulants, what we now refer to as recreational drugs (marijuana and hashish – <i>esrar</i> and <i>haşiş</i>), 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.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/11/gettinghigh.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/11/gettinghigh.html0Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG, UK51.52235 -0.1292590000000473126.000315500000003 -41.437853000000047 77.0443845 41.179334999999952noEpisode 391 with Stefano Taglia hosted by Taylan Güngör Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 391 with Stefano Taglia hosted by Taylan Güngör Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5151524897580845120Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:42:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.386+03:00AfghanistanChris GratienGreeceHistoryJames BaldwinJournalismMiddle EastModern TurkeyOHP EpisodesSeason 8Suzy HansenTurkey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 386</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://www.suzyhansen.com/" target="_blank">with Suzy Hansen</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/hansen" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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&#39;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 &quot;Notes on a Foreign Country,&quot; we critically examine the formation of journalistic and scholarly expertise, and we discuss reactions of readers and reviewers to Hansen&#39;s work. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/hansen.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/hansen.html0Cihangir Mahallesi, 34433 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey41.0335164 28.9856112999999641.027527400000004 28.975526299999959 41.0395054 28.99569629999996noEpisode 386 with Suzy Hansen hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;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 &quot;Notes on a Foreign Country,&quot; we critically examine the formation of journalistic and scholarly expertise, and we discuss reactions of readers and reviewers to Hansen&#39;s work. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 386 with Suzy Hansen hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;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 &quot;Notes on a Foreign Country,&quot; we critically examine the formation of journalistic and scholarly expertise, and we discuss reactions of readers and reviewers to Hansen&#39;s work. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5160178649799511874Wed, 03 Oct 2018 01:30:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.386+03:00Armenian GenocideConscriptionConstitutionHistoryOhannes KılıçdağıOHP EpisodesPoliticsSam DolbeeSeason 8The Great WarWWI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 382</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/ohannes-k%C4%B1l%C4%B1%C3%A7da%C4%9F%C4%B1" target="_blank">with Ohannes Kılıçdağı</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/brandeis.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/ottoman-armenians-and-the-politics-of-conscription-ohannes-kilicdagi" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/armenian-conscription.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/armenian-conscription.html0Cambridge, MA 02138, USA42.3770029 -71.1166600999999916.8549684 -112.42525409999999 67.8990374 -29.808066099999991noEpisode 382 with Ohannes Kılıçdağı hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 382 with Ohannes Kılıçdağı hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-651000644560828291Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:51:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.384+03:00Abdülhamid IIAhmet ErsoyANAMEDArchaeologyArchivesDeniz TürkerHistoryMatthew GhazarianOHP EpisodesPhotographySeason 8Zeinab Azarbadegan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 379</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://hist.boun.edu.tr/content/ahmet-ersoy" target="_blank">with Ahmet Ersoy </a><a href="https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/people/deniz-turker" target="_blank">& Deniz Türker</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">hosted by Matthew Ghazarian</a> <a href="https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/azarbadegan-zeinab/" target="_blank">and Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-hamidian-quest-for-tribal-origins-ahmet-ersoy-deniz-turker" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/ottoman-arcadia.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/ottoman-arcadia.html034433 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey41.0335361 28.9834283999999841.0215581 28.96325839999998 41.0455141 29.00359839999998noEpisode 379 with Ahmet Ersoy & Deniz Türker hosted by Matthew Ghazarian and Zeinab Azarbadegan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 379 with Ahmet Ersoy & Deniz Türker hosted by Matthew Ghazarian and Zeinab Azarbadegan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4115770881438677662Sun, 05 Aug 2018 07:40:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.386+03:0017th century18th centuryAfricansEarly ModernEmily Neumeiereunuch; Beşir AğaGender SeriesHistoryImperial HaremIstanbulJane HathawayOHP EpisodesSanja KadrićSeason 8Slavery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 369</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/hathaway.24" target="_blank">with Jane Hathaway</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://osu1.academia.edu/SanjaKadri%C4%87" target="_blank">Sanja Kadrić</a> and <a href="https://osu.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">Emily Neumeier</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-sultans-eunuch-jane-hathaway" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/08/sultanseunuch.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/08/sultanseunuch.html0Columbus, OH, USA39.9611755 -82.9987942000000239.571838500000005 -83.644241200000025 40.3505125 -82.353347200000016noEpisode 369 with Jane Hathaway hosted by Sanja Kadrić and Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 369 with Jane Hathaway hosted by Sanja Kadrić and Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2439702043541534530Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:05:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.385+03:00HistoryNationalismOHP EpisodesPalestineSalim TamariSam DolbeeSeason 8The Great WarWorld War IWWI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 367</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/salim-tamari" target="_blank">with Salim Tamari</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="http://brandeis.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/tamari" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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, <i>The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine</i>, 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.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/tamari.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/tamari.html0Cambridge, MA 02138, USA42.3770029 -71.1166600999999916.8549684 -112.42525409999999 67.8990374 -29.808066099999991noEpisode 367 with Salim Tamari hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 367 with Salim Tamari hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-3506698644621066438Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:05:00 +00002021-04-22T00:12:34.385+03:00HistoryIstanbullauren davisOHP EpisodesSeason 8smellspice bazaarSusanna FergusonUrban HistoryUrban Transformation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 363</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ku.academia.edu/LaurenDavis" target="_blank">with Lauren Davis</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/istanbul-and-the-ottoman-olfactory-heritage-lauren-davis" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What did Istanbul&#39;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.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/06/istanbul-and-ottoman-olfactory-heritage.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/06/istanbul-and-ottoman-olfactory-heritage.html0Tomtom Mahallesi, İstiklal Cad. Merkez Han No:181, 34433 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey41.031811 28.97659199999998240.840163499999996 28.653868499999984 41.2234585 29.299315499999981noEpisode 363 with Lauren Davis hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What did Istanbul&#39;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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 363 with Lauren Davis hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What did Istanbul&#39;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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4136395033096700169Tue, 15 May 2018 09:32:00 +00002023-03-11T01:30:34.872+03:0018th century19th CenturyAndreas GuidiHayri Gökşin ÖzkorayHistoryM'hamed OualdiOHP EpisodesSlaverySoutheast PassagetajineTunisia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 362</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/m%E2%80%99hamed-oualdi" target="_blank">with M’hamed Oualdi</a> <a href="https://ephe.academia.edu/HayriG%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin%C3%96zkoray" target="_blank">& Hayri Gökşin Özkoray</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://hu-berlin.academia.edu/AndreasGuidi" target="_blank">hosted by Andreas Guidi </a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/slavery-and-servitude-in-the-ottoman-mediterranean-mhamed-oualdi" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Our latest podcast in collaboration with <a href="http://thesoutheastpassage.com/podcast/oualdi-ozkoray-slavery-servitude-ottoman-mediterranean/" target="_blank">The Southeast Passage</a> 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?</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/05/Mediterraneanslavery.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/05/Mediterraneanslavery.html0Paris, France48.856614 2.352221900000017748.6894645 2.0294984000000178 49.0237635 2.6749454000000177noEpisode 362 with M’hamed Oualdi & Hayri Gökşin Özkoray hosted by Andreas Guidi Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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? « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 362 with M’hamed Oualdi & Hayri Gökşin Özkoray hosted by Andreas Guidi Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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? « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-438558546653563435Thu, 12 Apr 2018 02:15:00 +00002021-11-23T17:23:48.358+03:0016th CenturyChris GratienDidem HavlioğluGender SeriesHistoryLiteratureOHP EpisodesPoetryWomen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 357</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://duke.academia.edu/DidemHavlioglu" target="_blank">with Didem Havlioğlu</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/love-poems-of-an-ottoman-woman-didem-havlioglu" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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&#39;s new book entitled <a href="http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2017/mihri-hatun.html" target="_blank"><i>Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History</i> (Syracuse University Press)</a>.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/mihri-hatun.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/mihri-hatun.html01540 Jefferson Park Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA38.031748600000007 -78.50502699999998412.790654600000007 -119.81362099999998 63.272842600000004 -37.196432999999985noEpisode 357 with Didem Havlioğlu hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;s new book entitled Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press). « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 357 with Didem Havlioğlu hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;s new book entitled Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press). « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-3869319173668211047Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:33:00 +00002020-01-16T07:43:52.530+03:0016th Century17th centuryAslıhan GürbüzelDragomansHistoryIntellectual HistoryMediterraneanNatalie RothmanNir ShafirOHP EpisodesOrientalismTranslation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 354</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/people/rothman/" target="_blank">with Natalie Rothman</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a> and <a href="https://mcgill.academia.edu/Asl%C4%B1hanG%C3%BCrb%C3%BCzel" target="_blank">Aslihan Gürbüzel</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/dragomans-and-the-routes-of-orientalism-natalie-rothman" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/dragomans.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/dragomans.html0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.38318429999998243.2856095 -80.028631299999986 44.020842499999993 -78.737737299999978noEpisode 354 with Natalie Rothman hosted by Nir Shafir and Aslihan Gürbüzel Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 354 with Natalie Rothman hosted by Nir Shafir and Aslihan Gürbüzel Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6678068641151392539Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:41:00 +00002020-01-16T07:43:53.727+03:0019th Century20th CenturyAbdülhamid IIAgambenConstitutionHistoryLawlegal historyMichael TalbotNoémi Lévy-AksuOHP Episodesstate of emergencyTaylan Güngör<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 349</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://bbk.academia.edu/NoemiLevyAksu" target="_blank">with Noémi Lévy-Aksu</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://soas.academia.edu/TaylanGungor" target="_blank">Taylan Güngör</a> and <a href="https://gre.academia.edu/MichaelTalbot" target="_blank">Michael Talbot</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/states-of-emergency-in-the-late-ottoman-empire-noemi-levy-aksu" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <i>Idare-i örfiyye</i> (or <i>örfi idare</i>), 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 <i>idare-i örfiyye </i>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<i> idare-i örfiyye</i> in the Ottoman provinces during Abdülhamid II reign and the early Young Turk period.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/states-of-emergency.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/states-of-emergency.html0Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG, UK51.52235 -0.1292590000000473126.000315500000003 -41.437853000000047 77.0443845 41.179334999999952noEpisode 349 with Noémi Lévy-Aksu hosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael Talbot Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 349 with Noémi Lévy-Aksu hosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael Talbot Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-3702023342739805058Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:39:00 +00002020-07-20T19:11:47.667+03:00Best of 2017 ListBiographyGender SeriesHistoryHürrem SultanImperial HaremLeslie PeirceOHP EpisodesSeçil YılmazSusanna Ferguson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br></div> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 340</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/leslie-peirce.html" target="_blank">with Leslie Peirce</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Suzie Ferguson</a> and <a href="http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/se%C3%A7il-yilmaz" target="_blank">Seçil Yılmaz</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/roxelana" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s story can serve as a lynchpin for grasping the complexities of an age. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/12/roxelana.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/12/roxelana.html1New York, NY 10003, USA40.729513399999988 -73.99646089999998815.758714399999988 -115.30505489999999 65.700312399999987 -32.687866899999989noEpisode 340 with Leslie Peirce hosted by Suzie Ferguson and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s story can serve as a lynchpin for grasping the complexities of an age. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 340 with Leslie Peirce hosted by Suzie Ferguson and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s story can serve as a lynchpin for grasping the complexities of an age. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7556460482961501898Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:26:00 +00002020-01-16T07:43:54.034+03:00Best of 2017 ListChris GratienEarly Modern EuropeEmrah Safa GürkanHistoryMediterraneanOHP EpisodesSpainSpiesVenice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 334</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://29mayis.academia.edu/esg" target="_blank">with Emrah Safa Gürkan</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/casuslar" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 <i>Sultanın Casusları</i> (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&#39;s book, and we consider how the transformation of espionage in the Mediterranean relates to the development of early modern empires.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/spies.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/spies.html0Şahkulu Mahallesi, Şah Kulu Bostan Sk. No:5, 34421 Beyoğlu/Istanbul, Turkey41.0286693 28.97489319999999715.787558799999996 -12.333700800000003 66.2697798 70.2834872noEpisode 334 with Emrah Safa Gürkan hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;s book, and we consider how the transformation of espionage in the Mediterranean relates to the development of early modern empires. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 334 with Emrah Safa Gürkan hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;s book, and we consider how the transformation of espionage in the Mediterranean relates to the development of early modern empires. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-869347421566708932Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:37:00 +00002021-04-17T21:14:24.931+03:00Chris GratienElla FratantuonoHistoryMigrationMuhacirOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireRussian EmpireSettlementSeçil Yılmaz<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 331</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://history.uncc.edu/people/dr-ella-fratantuono" target="_blank">with Ella Fratantuono</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://georgetown.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a> and <a href="http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/se%C3%A7il-yilmaz" target="_blank">Seçil Yılmaz</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/muhacir" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 <i>muhacir</i> 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&#39;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 <i>muhacir</i> as a legal, administrative, and conceptual figure in Ottoman society.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/muhacir.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/muhacir.html0Kaptan Paşa Mahallesi, Darülaceze Cad. No:25, 34384 Okmeydani / Şişli/Şişli/İstanbul, Turkey41.0648801 28.97430099999996915.823756600000003 -12.334293000000031 66.3060036 70.282894999999968noEpisode 331 with Ella Fratantuono hosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 331 with Ella Fratantuono hosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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&#39;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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1491626645580664010Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:36:00 +00002020-01-16T07:43:51.489+03:00Burçak ÖzlüdilBurçin ÇakırDotan HalevyHistoryMehmet KentelMichael FergusonMichael TalbotMurat YıldızOHP EpisodesSeçil YılmazThe Visual PastZeinab AzarbadeganÖzde Çeliktemel-Thomen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 327</div> <br> <div class="guest_name_list"> 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</div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/visual-sources-in-late-ottoman-history" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 &quot;image as decoration.&quot; Following a conversation with the organizers of the &quot;Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History&quot; 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.</div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/columbia-visual.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/columbia-visual.html0116th St &amp; Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA40.8075355 -73.9625727000000116.506269 -115.27116670000001 65.108802 -32.65397870000001noEpisode 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 Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;image as decoration.&quot; Following a conversation with the organizers of the &quot;Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History&quot; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 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 Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;image as decoration.&quot; Following a conversation with the organizers of the &quot;Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History&quot; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-4903856544467921024Thu, 06 Jul 2017 07:53:00 +00002020-01-16T07:43:53.000+03:00Andreas GuidiBest of 2017 ListElif BecanErik-Jan ZürcherHistoryModernityMustafa Kemal AtatürkNationalismOHP Episodes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 323</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/erik-jan-zurcher#tab-1" target="_blank">with Erik-Jan Zürcher</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/en/bereiche-und-lehrstuehle-en/suedosteuropaeische-geschichte-en/personen/andreas-guidi?set_language=en" target="_blank">Andreas Guidi</a> and <a href="http://cetobac.ehess.fr/index.php?1400" target="_blank">Elif Becan</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/zurcher/" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this collaboration with <a href="http://thesoutheastpassage.com/podcast/" target="_blank">The Southeast Passage</a>, 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.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/zurcher.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/zurcher.html154 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France48.850174 2.326848700000027724.5488995 -38.981745299999972 73.1514485 43.635442700000027noEpisode 323 with Erik-Jan Zürcher hosted by Andreas Guidi and Elif Becan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 323 with Erik-Jan Zürcher hosted by Andreas Guidi and Elif Becan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8206981053384852981Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:30:00 +00002020-01-16T07:43:54.257+03:00Best of 2017 ListBruce BurnsideColumbia UniversityHistoryLittle SyriaMigrationNew YorkOHP EpisodesOttoman DiasporaOttoman DynastyRaceSam DolbeeUrban HistoryUS Civil WarZouaves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 320</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> featuring <a href="https://citybetween.com/" target="_blank">Bruce Burnside</a> & <a href="https://nyu.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/ottoman-new-york" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/ottoman-new-york.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/ottoman-new-york.html0New York, NY, USA40.7127837 -74.00594130000001839.942317700000004 -75.296834800000013 41.4832497 -72.715047800000022noEpisode 320 featuring Bruce Burnside & Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 320 featuring Bruce Burnside & Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-813028476489497335Mon, 27 Mar 2017 02:59:00 +00002020-01-16T07:43:54.194+03:00Best of 2017 ListCengiz ŞişmanCommittee of Union and ProgressConversiondönmeHistoryIslamJewsMatthew GhazarianOHP EpisodesSabbatai SeviSalonica<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 308</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://uhcl.academia.edu/CengizSisman" target="_blank">with Cengiz Şişman</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank"> Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/donme" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 <i>dönme</i> (which literally means &quot;convert&quot;). After Sevi&#39;s death, <i>dönme</i> 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 <i>dönme</i> communities, and questions of conversion and communal boundaries, which became more pressing in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/donme.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/donme.html0Koç Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations41.0319952 28.97630359999993741.0080357 28.935963099999938 41.055954699999994 29.016644099999937noEpisode 308 with Cengiz Şişman hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;convert&quot;). After Sevi&#39;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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 308 with Cengiz Şişman hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;convert&quot;). After Sevi&#39;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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-7277609635282843366Sat, 04 Mar 2017 21:27:00 +00002020-01-16T07:43:53.972+03:00AlawitesBest of 2017 ListChris GratienHistoryLawOHP EpisodesPolitical EconomyReligionRepublican Era TurkeyStefan WinterSyriaTaxes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 303</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://histoire.uqam.ca/component/savrepertoireprofesseurs/ficheProfesseur?mId=R1B0DiDpQto_" target="_blank">with Stefan Winter</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="http://georgetown.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/winter" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/alawis.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/alawis.html1100 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116, USA42.3471832 -71.077802418.493720700000004 -112.3863964 66.2006457 -29.769208399999997noEpisode 303 with Stefan Winter hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 303 with Stefan Winter hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8380748598551549454Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:36:00 +00002021-10-01T08:44:02.557+03:00Baki TezcanEarly ModernHistoriographyHistoryOHP EpisodesOttoman DeclinePoliticsSultansSusanna Ferguson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 300</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://history.ucdavis.edu/people/btezcan" target="_blank">with Baki Tezcan</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/baki-tezcan" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Did the Ottoman Empire &quot;decline&quot; 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 &quot;decline&quot; 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 &quot;Second Ottoman Empire,&quot; 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 &quot;decline thesis&quot; that has haunted Ottoman history for so long. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/rethinking-decline.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/rethinking-decline.html0Davis, CA, USA38.5449065 -121.740516738.4455705 -121.9018782 38.644242500000004 -121.5791552noEpisode 300 with Baki Tezcan hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Did the Ottoman Empire &quot;decline&quot; 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 &quot;decline&quot; 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 &quot;Second Ottoman Empire,&quot; 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 &quot;decline thesis&quot; that has haunted Ottoman history for so long. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 300 with Baki Tezcan hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Did the Ottoman Empire &quot;decline&quot; 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 &quot;decline&quot; 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 &quot;Second Ottoman Empire,&quot; 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 &quot;decline thesis&quot; that has haunted Ottoman history for so long. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5670349791579806273Fri, 10 Feb 2017 04:21:00 +00002020-08-18T23:58:29.012+03:00ArtBest of 2017 ListEmily NeumeierHistoryMassumeh FarhadMuseumsOHP EpisodesQur'anSimon RettigThe Visual Past<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 297</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/art-of-the-quran/video-farhad-rettig.php" target="_blank">with Massumeh Farhad &amp; Simon Rettig</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://upenn.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">Emily Neumeier</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/art-of-quran" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 <i>The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts</i>, 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. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/quran-art-history.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/quran-art-history.html01050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA38.8880667 -77.02723689999999115.034646200000005 -118.33583089999999 62.7414872 -35.718642899999992noEpisode 297 with Massumeh Farhad &amp; Simon Rettig hosted by Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 297 with Massumeh Farhad &amp; Simon Rettig hosted by Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8732667596990829288Sun, 18 Dec 2016 15:20:00 +00002020-04-13T20:58:04.311+03:00Gender SeriesHistoryIrvin Cemil SchickLinguisticsMatthew GhazarianOHP EpisodesSexSusanna Ferguson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 289</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/%C4%B0rvinCemilSchick" target="_blank">with İrvin Cemil Schick</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a> and <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <div class="download_text"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-ottoman-erotic-irvin-cemil-schick" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> 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 &quot;Erotic Vocabulary of Ottoman Literature.&quot;</div> <br> <div class="release_date"> Release Date: 18 December 2016</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/irvin-cemil-schick.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/irvin-cemil-schick.html2Sarıyer, İstanbul, Turkey41.1622917 29.047420341.1503382 29.0272503 41.174245199999994 29.0675903noEpisode 289 with İrvin Cemil Schick hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;Erotic Vocabulary of Ottoman Literature.&quot; Release Date: 18 December 2016 « Click for More »Ottoman History PodcastEpisode 289 with İrvin Cemil Schick hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 &quot;Erotic Vocabulary of Ottoman Literature.&quot; Release Date: 18 December 2016 « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1609190201494390789Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:53:00 +00002020-03-24T19:46:50.736+03:00Best of 2016 ListBooksChris GratienDamascusDana SajdiHistoryLevantOHP EpisodesShireen HamzaSTSseriesSyria<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/people/faculty/alphabetical/sajdi_dana.html" target="_blank">with Dana Sajdi</a></b></span><br><br><i>hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a> and <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">Shireen Hamza</a></i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <center> </center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/dana-sajdi" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 <i>ulema</i> 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 &quot;nouveau literacy&quot; 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.</div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/barber-of-damascus.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/barber-of-damascus.html1East Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA42.3683353 -71.08246129999997742.3447453 -71.122973299999984 42.3919253 -71.04194929999997nowith Dana Sajdi hosted by Chris Gratien and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | 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 &quot;nouveau literacy&quot; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Dana Sajdi hosted by Chris Gratien and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | 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 &quot;nouveau literacy&quot; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-2440678014809929577Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:34:00 +00002021-02-24T04:22:11.130+03:00Ahmed MidhatHistoryLiteratureMelih LeviNovelsOHP EpisodesTranslationZoe Griffith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://dlcl.stanford.edu/people/melih-levi" target="_blank">with Melih Levi</a></b></span><br><br><i><a href="https://brown.academia.edu/ZoeGriffith" target="_blank">hosted by Zoe Griffith</a></i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <center> </center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/translating-the-ottoman-novel-melih-levi" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 <a href="https://amherst.academia.edu/MonicaRinger" target="_blank">Monica Ringer</a> of one the first examples of the Ottoman novel, <a href="http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2016/felatum-bey.html" target="_blank">Ahmed Midhat Efendi&#39;s <i>Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi</i> (Syracuse University Press, 2016)</a>. Far from a derivative imitation of European literary themes and forms, Ahmed Midhat&#39;s novel revolves both seriously and playfully around the concepts of <i>ala franga</i> and <i>ala turca</i>, cajoling and instructing its readers on how live as authentically &quot;modern&quot; 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. </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br> </div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/translating-ottoman-novel.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/translating-ottoman-novel.html0Tomtom, 34433 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey41.0301201 28.97687949999999541.024098599999995 28.966751499999994 41.0361416 28.987007499999997nowith Melih Levi hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | SoundCloud 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&#39;s Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi (Syracuse University Press, 2016). Far from a derivative imitation of European literary themes and forms, Ahmed Midhat&#39;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 &quot;modern&quot; 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 »Ottoman History Podcastwith Melih Levi hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | SoundCloud 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&#39;s Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi (Syracuse University Press, 2016). Far from a derivative imitation of European literary themes and forms, Ahmed Midhat&#39;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 &quot;modern&quot; 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 »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1087003101867244197Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:31:00 +00002020-12-10T00:35:45.669+03:00Best of 2016 ListBoğaç ErgeneCourt RecordsEconomyHistoryJusticeKastamonuLawNir ShafirOHP Episodes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~history/?Page=faculty/ergene1.php&amp;SM=employeesubmenu.html" target="_blank">with Boğaç Ergene</a></span></b><br><br><i>hosted by <a href="https://ucla.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a></i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:6652990/sounds.rss" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="http://www.hipcast.com/podcast/Hnph2NGk" target="blank" title="Click for OHP on Hipcast">Hipcast</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/economics-and-justice-in-the-ottoman-courts-bogac-ergene" target="blank" title="May not open in Turkey | Türkiye&#39;de açılamaması mümkündür">Soundcloud</a></center> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 <i>kadijustiz</i>—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 <i>The Economics of Ottoman Justice</i>, 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. </div> <br> </div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/economics-and-justice-in-ottoman-courts.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/economics-and-justice-in-ottoman-courts.html0Cambridge, MA, USA42.3736158 -71.109733542.3266968 -71.1904145 42.420534800000006 -71.0290525nowith Boğaç Ergene hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud 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.  « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Boğaç Ergene hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud 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.  « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6119972998015064589Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:03:00 +00002020-04-02T19:41:11.380+03:00ArtEmily NeumeierEmine FetvacıHistoryManuscriptsNir ShafirOHP EpisodesOttoman CourtPaintingThe Visual Past<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">with Emine Fetvacı</span></b></div> <br> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>hosted by Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir</i></div> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="display: none;"> Emine Fetvacı discusses her research for Picturing History at the Ottoman Court (Indiana University Press) with Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir.</div> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the episode</b></center> <center> <a href="http://ottomanhistory.hipcast.com/rss/science.xml" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-science-ottoman-or/id1017658972" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/picturing-history-at-the-ottoman-court-emine-fetvaci" target="blank" title="May not open in Turkey | Türkiye&#39;de açılamaması mümkündür">Soundcloud</a></center> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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, <a href="https://upenn.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">Emily Neumeier</a> and <a href="https://ucla.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a> speak with <a href="https://bu.academia.edu/EmineFetvaci" target="_blank">Emine Fetvacı</a> about these illustrated histories, the subject of her 2013 volume <i>Picturing History at the Ottoman Court</i>. </div> <br> </div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/01/ottoman-painting.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/01/ottoman-painting.html0Brookline, MA, USA42.350452908074864 -71.10549442800342.347518908074861 -71.110536928003 42.353386908074867 -71.100451928003nowith 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 episode Podcast 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.  « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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 episode Podcast 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.  « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-8664814573169027408Fri, 18 Dec 2015 02:33:00 +00002020-04-02T01:10:57.338+03:00Chris GratienGreeksHistoryMolly GreeneOHP Episodes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">with Molly Greene</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>hosted by Chris Gratien</i></div> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Download the episode</span></b> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://ottomanhistory.hipcast.com/rss/ottomanhistorypodcast.xml" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Podcast Feed</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> | </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">iTunes</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> | </span><a href="http://www.hipcast.com/podcast/HfcH86zk" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Hipcast</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> | </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/greeks-in-the-ottoman-empire-molly-greene" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a></div> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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.</div> <br> </div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/greeks-in-ottoman-empire-molly-greene.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/greeks-in-ottoman-empire-molly-greene.html1Upper West Side, New York, NY, USA40.7870106 -73.97536760000002740.7389211 -74.056048600000025 40.835100100000005 -73.894686600000028nowith Molly Greene hosted by Chris Gratien Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Molly Greene hosted by Chris Gratien Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6952765368466841640Fri, 20 Nov 2015 02:45:00 +00002020-04-02T01:11:13.917+03:00ArchitectureChris GratienGenderHistoryMosqueNina ErginOHP EpisodesSoundscapesThe Visual PastTopkapı Palace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with Nina Ergin</span></b><br> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></b> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>hosted by Chris Gratien</i></span><br> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Download the episode</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://ottomanhistory.hipcast.com/rss/ottomanhistorypodcast.xml" target="_blank">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-ottoman-empires-sonic-past-nina-ergin" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> </span></div> <br> <span style="text-align: justify;">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 &quot;the word&quot; 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.</span><br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/ottoman-sonic-history.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/ottoman-sonic-history.html0Lala Şahin Sk., 34377 Şişli/İstanbul, Turkey41.0516298 28.97888420000003941.0486363 28.97384170000004 41.0546233 28.983926700000037nowith Nina Ergin hosted by Chris Gratien Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud 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 &quot;the word&quot; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Nina Ergin hosted by Chris Gratien Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud 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 &quot;the word&quot; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6442558594456077480Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:59:00 +00002020-07-27T23:29:54.302+03:00Central AsiaChris GratienHajjHistoryIstanbulLale CanMigrationOHP EpisodesPilgrimage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><b>with Lale Can</b></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: justify;"><br></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: justify;"><i>hosted by Chris Gratien</i></span></div> <span style="text-align: justify;"><br></span> <span style="text-align: justify;">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&#39;s work on Central Asians moving in the Ottoman Empire and the transformation of travel and pilgrimage during the late nineteenth century century.</span><br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/04/central-asia-ottoman-empire-muslim-pilgrimage-hajj.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/04/central-asia-ottoman-empire-muslim-pilgrimage-hajj.html0Brooklyn, NY, USA40.6781784 -73.944157940.4854094 -74.266881399999988 40.8709474 -73.6214344nowith Lale Can hosted 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&#39;s work on Central Asians moving in the Ottoman Empire and the transformation of travel and pilgrimage during the late nineteenth century century. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Lale Can hosted 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&#39;s work on Central Asians moving in the Ottoman Empire and the transformation of travel and pilgrimage during the late nineteenth century century. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1976642242237679789Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:45:00 +00002020-04-02T19:24:36.463+03:00Chris GratienGalataHistoryLawNir ShafirNur Sobers-KhanOHP EpisodesSlavery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://qma.academia.edu/NurSobersKhan" target="_blank">with Nur Sobers-Khan</a></span></b></div> <br> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>hosted by Chris Gratien and Nir Shafir</i></div> <br> 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.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/12/slavery-istanbul-ottoman-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/12/slavery-istanbul-ottoman-empire.html0Beyoğlu/Istanbul, Turkey41.033602488542087 28.98464516878664241.032105488542086 28.982123668786642 41.035099488542087 28.987166668786642nowith Nur Sobers-Khan hosted by Chris Gratien and Nir Shafir 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Nur Sobers-Khan hosted by Chris Gratien and Nir Shafir 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1968308954033545165Sat, 30 Nov 2013 22:30:00 +00002020-04-02T19:04:58.225+03:00AlchemyHistoryHistory of ScienceNir ShafirOHP EpisodesSTSseriesTuna Artun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b><span style="font-size: large;">with Tuna Artun</span></b></center> <center> </center> <center> <i>hosted by Nir Shafir</i></center> <center> </center> <center> This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/blog-page_18.html" target="_blank"><i>History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise</i></a>.</center> <center> <b>  </b></center> <center> <b>Download the series</b><br><a href="http://ottomanhistory.hipcast.com/rss/science.xml" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-science-ottoman-or/id1017658972" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="http://www.hipcast.com/podcast/HX4kY5mx" target="blank" title="Click for History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise on Hipcast">Hipcast</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/sets/ottoman-history-of-science" target="blank" title="May not open in Turkey | Türkiye&#39;de açılamaması mümkündür">Soundcloud</a></center> <br> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 &quot;modern science&quot; 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.<br> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/12/alchemy-ottoman-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/12/alchemy-ottoman-empire.html0Istanbul, Turkey41.00527 28.97695999999996340.621820500000005 28.331512999999962 41.3887195 29.622406999999964nowith Tuna Artun hosted by Nir Shafir This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.   Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud 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 &quot;modern science&quot; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Tuna Artun hosted by Nir Shafir This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.   Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud 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 &quot;modern science&quot; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6881054486632993542Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:56:00 +00002020-04-02T19:04:47.455+03:00Black SeaChris GratienChristiansConversionGreekHistoryIdentityIslamMinersNationalismOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePontic GreeksReligionTrabzonVedica KantZeynep Türkyılmaz<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-large;">with Zeynep Türkyılmaz</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>hosted by Chris Gratien and Vedica Kant</i></div> <br> 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&#39;s rural communities gave rise to &quot;in-between&quot; 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.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/04/religion-conversion-crypto-christians-trabzon.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/04/religion-conversion-crypto-christians-trabzon.html1Evliya Çelebi Mh., 34400 Beyoğlu/Istanbul Province, Turkey41.030913000000012 28.97313299999996241.027918500000013 28.968090499999963 41.033907500000012 28.97817549999996nowith Zeynep Türkyılmaz hosted 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&#39;s rural communities gave rise to &quot;in-between&quot; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Zeynep Türkyılmaz hosted 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&#39;s rural communities gave rise to &quot;in-between&quot; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-1708600630237124205Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:53:00 +00002020-04-02T19:04:37.977+03:00Brett WilsonChris GratienHistoryIslamLanguageNir ShafirOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePrintingQur'anReadingReligionSTSseriesTranslation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b><span style="font-size: large;">with Brett Wilson</span></b></center> <center> </center> <center> <i>hosted by Chris Gratien and Nir Shafir</i></center> <center> </center> <center> This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/blog-page_18.html" target="_blank"><i>History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise</i></a>.</center> <center> <b>  </b></center> <center> <b>Download the series</b><br><a href="http://ottomanhistory.hipcast.com/rss/science.xml" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-science-ottoman-or/id1017658972" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="http://www.hipcast.com/podcast/HX4kY5mx" target="blank" title="Click for History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise on Hipcast">Hipcast</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/sets/ottoman-history-of-science" target="blank" title="May not open in Turkey | Türkiye&#39;de açılamaması mümkündür">Soundcloud</a></center> <br> <br> 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&#39;an. In this episode, Brett Wilson discusses the rise of print and Qur&#39;an printing in the Ottoman Empire as well as the emergence of Turkish translations of the Qur&#39;an in the late Ottoman and early Republican eras.<br> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/03/quran-koran-ottoman-empire-printing-translation-turkish.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/03/quran-koran-ottoman-empire-printing-translation-turkish.html0Arnavutköy/Istanbul Province, Turkey41.2 28.73333300000001641.104422 28.571971500000014 41.295578000000006 28.894694500000018nowith Brett Wilson hosted by Chris Gratien and Nir Shafir This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.   Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud 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&#39;an. In this episode, Brett Wilson discusses the rise of print and Qur&#39;an printing in the Ottoman Empire as well as the emergence of Turkish translations of the Qur&#39;an in the late Ottoman and early Republican eras. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith Brett Wilson hosted by Chris Gratien and Nir Shafir This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.   Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud 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&#39;an. In this episode, Brett Wilson discusses the rise of print and Qur&#39;an printing in the Ottoman Empire as well as the emergence of Turkish translations of the Qur&#39;an in the late Ottoman and early Republican eras. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-6270914798089743268Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:23:00 +00002020-04-02T19:04:19.039+03:00Chris GratienConceptual HistoryEinar WigenEmpireHabsburg EmpireHistoryImperialismOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpireTimur HammondTranslation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> with Einar Wigen</center> <br> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <b>77.</b> <i>Whose Empire?</i><br> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 &quot;empire&quot; 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.</div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/11/ottoman-empire-was-history-name.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/11/ottoman-empire-was-history-name.html0Swedish Consulate, Şahkulu Mh., 34420 Beyoğlu/Istanbul, Turkey41.0289068 28.97498120000000241.0281583 28.9737207 41.0296553 28.976241700000003nowith 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 &quot;empire&quot; 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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 &quot;empire&quot; 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793063735579568706.post-5306223192357873430Thu, 03 May 2012 16:42:00 +00002020-10-18T16:58:55.375+03:00Chris GratienEmrah Safa GürkanFactionsHistoryMediterraneanOHP EpisodesOttoman EmpirePolitics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">with Emrah Safa Gürkan</span></b></div> <br></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>hosted by Chris Gratien</i></div> <br> 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.<br> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/05/deconstructing-ottoman-state-political.html#more">« Click for More »</a>https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/05/deconstructing-ottoman-state-political.html2Intercultural Center (ICC), Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007, USA38.909189 -77.0738071000000138.908417 -77.075067600000011 38.909960999999996 -77.07254660000001nowith 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. « Click for More »Ottoman History Podcastwith 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. « Click for More »History,Middle,East,Ottoman,Empire,Turkey,Islamchrisgratien@gmail.com (ottomanhistorypodcast.com)