Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law

Language, Power, and Law in the Ottoman Empire

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:19:00 +0000

Episode 441

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In this episode, historian Heather Ferguson takes us behind the scenes of early modern Ottoman state-making with a discussion of her recent book The Proper Order of Things. We discuss how the architecture of Topkapı palace, the emergence of new bureaucratic practices, and the administration of space from Hungary to Lebanon projected early modern discourses of “order” that were crucial to imperial legitimacy, governance, and dissent. Heather also offers rare insights into the challenges, vulnerabilities, and victories of transforming a dissertation into a prize-winning book manuscript.

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Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Evlilik ve Boşanma

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 23:16:00 +0000

Bölüm 437

Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik

Sunucu Can Gümüş

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Osmanlı'da çiftler nasıl evlenir, nasıl boşanırdı? Bu podcast'te Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik ile İstanbul Bab, Davud Paşa ve Ahi Çelebi mahkemelerinin 1755-1840 yıllarındaki kayıtlarını inceleyerek tamamladığı doktora araştırması odağında, Osmanlı İstanbul'unda evlilik ve boşanma davaları üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Elbirlik'in araştırması, kadınların evlilik, boşanma ve mülkiyetle ilişkili konularda mahkemeleri aktif olarak kullandıklarını gösterirken, Osmanlı ailesinde ve toplumunda kadının rolüne dair yaygın kanıları da yeniden değerlendiriyor.

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Islamic Law and Arab Diaspora in Southeast Asia

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:28:00 +0000

Episode 430

with Nurfadzilah Yahaya

hosted by Chris Gratien

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During the 19th century, Southeast Asia came under British and Dutch colonial rule. Yet despite the imposition of foreign institutions and legal codes, Islamic law remained an important part of daily life. In fact, as our guest Fadzilah Yahaya argues, Islamic law in the region underwent significant transformation as a result of British and Dutch policies. But rather than merely a top-down transformation, Yahaya highlights the role of the small and largely mercantile Arab diaspora as a major factor in European policy towards Islamic law in Southeast Asia. In our conversation, we discuss Islamic law and the Arab diaspora in Southeast Asia during the colonial period as well as some of the more unusual court cases arising from this period and the implications of this history for Southeast Asia today.

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Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 00:51:00 +0000

Episode 345

with Will Hanley

hosted by Taylor M. Moore

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In this episode, Will Hanley transports us to the gritty, stranger-filled streets of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, as we discuss his book, Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria. We explore how nationality—an abstract tool in the pages of international legal codes—became a new social and legal category that tangibly impacted the lives of natives and newcomers to Alexandria at the turn of the twentieth century. We consider how nationality brought together the previously impersonal, stranger networks using an array of paper technologies, vocabularies, and legal practices that forged bonds of affiliations between the individuals and groups that inhabited the city. Finally, we discuss how Egyptians and non-European foreigners, such as Algerians, Tunisians, and Maltese, benefited or were disenfranchised from a legal hierarchy that privileged white, male Europeans.

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Religious Sentiment and Political Liberties in Colonial South Asia

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:25:00 +0000

with Julie Stephens

hosted by Chris Gratien and Tyler Conklin

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During the 1920s, a publisher in Lahore published a satire on the domestic life of the Prophet Muhammad during a period of religious polemics and communal tension between Muslims and Hindus under British rule. The inflammatory text soon became a legal matter, first when the publisher was brought to trial and acquitted for "attempts to promote feelings of enmity or hatred between different classes" and again when he was murdered a few years later in retaliation for the publication. In this episode, Julie Stephens explores how this case highlights debates over the meaning of religious and political liberties, secularism, and legal transformation during British colonial rule in South Asia. In doing so, she challenges the binary juxtaposition between secular reason and religious sentiment, instead pointing to their mutual entanglement in histories of law and empire.

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Gendered Politics of Conversion in Early Modern Aleppo

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 20:16:00 +0000

with Elyse Semerdjian

hosted by Chris Gratien

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The changing of one's religion may be viewed today as a matter of personal spirituality or identity, but as the historiography of the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere increasingly shows, conversion was often a public act with political, socioeconomic, and gendered components. In this episode, Elyse Semerdjian returns to the podcast to discuss her research on conversion in early modern Aleppo and how women sometimes utilized the act of conversion (or non-conversion) and the legal structures of the Ottoman Empire to gain the upper hand in familial and economic matters.

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Capitalism and the Courts in 19th Century Egypt

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:14:00 +0000

with Omar Cheta

hosted by Zoe Griffith

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The Capitulations are regarded as one of the most obvious and humiliating signs of European dominance over Ottoman markets and diplomatic relations in the 19th century, granting European merchants and their Ottoman protégés extensive extraterritorial privileges within the empire. In this podcast, Professor Omar Cheta probes the limits of the Capitulations in the Ottoman province of Egypt, where the power of the local Khedives intersected and overlapped with the sovereignty of the sultan and the capitulatory authority of the British consulate. Commercial disputes involving European merchants and their protected agents on Ottoman-Egyptian soil reveal the ambiguous and negotiable nature of jurisdiction and legal identities in the mid-19th century. These ambiguous boundaries provided spaces for merchants and officials to contest the terms of extraterritorial privileges. The creation of new legal forums such as the mixed Merchants' Courts gave rise to new norms and procedures, while reliance on Shari'a traditions continued to appear in unexpected places.

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The Ottoman Tanzimat in Practice

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:26:00 +0000

with Cengiz Kırlı

hosted by Chris Gratien

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Within Anglophone historiography, the Tanzimat period is conventionally represented as an era of centralizing reforms emanating from the imperial center that represent a trend often labeled as "modernization" or "Westernization." Less attention has been given to what these administrative changes meant in practice and how they were carried out in the different provinces of the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, Cengiz Kırlı discusses his work on various facets of the Tanzimat and its implementation, offering a preview of his new Turkish-language monograph on the "invention of corruption" in the Ottoman Empire and examining the interplay of local and imperial power during an the early Tanzimat period in the Balkans. (This podcast refers to visuals available below)

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Late Hanafi Law in the Ottoman Empire

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:54:00 +0000

with Samy Ayoub

hosted by Hadi Hosainy and Christopher Rose

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Much of the scholarship on the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which had its roots in the sociopolitical context of the 8th century Iraq, focuses on the early centuries of that school's development. Meanwhile, recent scholarship on the later periods emphasizes the transformations within the Hanafi jurisprudence in the early modern and modern periods, particularly as a result of the increasing role of the Ottoman state in the process of lawmaking. Dr. Samy Ayoub presents a different approach on Ottoman Hanafi jurists, who maintained the integrity of the legal discourse while recognizing the needs of the times. In this episode, Dr. Ayoub shares some of his reseach on the question of continuity and change under the self-desctibed “late-Hanafis” from the 16th century until the making of mecelle, the first attempt at codifying Islamic law, during the late 19th century.

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British-Ottoman Diplomacy and the Making of Maritime Law

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:20:00 +0000

with Michael Talbot & Güneş Işıksel

hosted by Arianne Urus and Sam Dolbee

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This podcast explores murky boundaries in two senses. The first has to do with Anglo-Ottoman commerce and diplomacy in the early modern period. Like the more well-known case of the the British East India Company in South Asia, British diplomatic representation in Constantinople was also controlled by a corporate entity. Known as the Levant Company, the institution ensured that from the late 16th to the early 19th century there was little distinction between merchants and statesmen when it came to British diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire. The blurred lines gave way to what might be called a “cycle of necessity,” in which British diplomats gave gifts to secure commercial privileges for British merchants who would then fund the diplomats to provide gifts again. Yet the cycle did not always proceed smoothly, and discrepancies between translations of agreements often played a key role in hitches, in the process raising basic yet profound questions about what treaty-making meant. The second part of the podcast considers Ottoman maritime space and legal order more broadly. With respect to this theme, murkiness makes another appearance, this time as it related to the ability to possess or control the sea. What did it mean to draw a line across the waves, to differentiate between su and derya? Particularly in an age of imprecise mapmaking technologies, these efforts at delineation often were accompanied by a good deal of ambiguity, pointing to the complexity - if not always plurality - of legal cultures and claims to sovereignty that existed in the Ottoman maritime space and, indeed, that extended even ashore the well-protected domains as well.

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Illicit Sex in Ottoman and French Algeria

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:07:00 +0000

with Aurelie Perrier
hosted by Sam Dolbee
This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history

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The association of Algeria with sex figured prominently in the artwork and literature that was critiqued so famously by Edward Said in Orientalism. In this episode, Dr. Aurelie Perrier discusses the practical backdrop of this argument beyond the level of discourse by exploring illicit sex in 19th century Algeria under both Ottoman and French rule. Beginning with the fluid boundaries of Ottoman-administered sex work, she describes the transformations that accompanied French colonialism beginning in 1830. Contextualizing the sex trade in both eras with flows of labor migration, Perrier also illuminates the spatial dynamics of the French approach to prostitution, namely the birth of red-light districts and brothels. At once centralizing and segregating sex work, this new politics of space was intimately connected to the boundaries of race and class that were the premise of colonialism in the first place. Yet it appears in many cases these boundaries were transgressed, undermining the credibility of the colonial state. Moreover, even as the state claimed unprecedented control over the intimate lives of its citizens/subjects, people still managed to use the system for their own purposes, or evade it altogether. Still, the undeniable encroachment of the state left an indelible mark on Algeria's history with distinctly gendered implications.

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Yeni Çağ Osmanlı Hukuk Sistemi'nde Kadın Mülkiyet Hakları

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 23:31:00 +0000

Hadi Hosainy ile 17. yüzyıl İstanbulu'nda kadın mülkiyet hakları üzerine konuştuğumuz bu podcastımızda kadınların hukuki yollara başvurarak nasıl kendilerini koruduklarına ve Osmanlı toplumunun şeri hukukun kadını dezavantajlı bir konuma iten kurallarının nasıl arkasından dolandığına değindik. Toplumsal cinsiyetin hukukun işleyişine etkilerini tartıştık.

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Law and Order in Late Ottoman Egypt

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:52:00 +0000

with Khaled Fahmy
hosted by Susanna Ferguson
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How have the immense transformations of the nineteenth century impacted Egyptian state and society? Our guest Dr. Khaled Fahmy has devoted much of his work to the study of that very question in the realms of military, medicine, and in this episode, law, which is the subject of his forthcoming book. In this episode, we explore the emergence to of new legal institutions under Mehmed Ali's government in Egypt and ask Dr. Fahmy what this meant for Egypt and how it fits into the broader changes afoot in the Ottoman world.

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Saharan Jews in French Algeria

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:31:00 +0000

with Sarah Stein

hosted by Alma Heckman

Crosslisted from tajine

The 1870 Crémieux Decree extended French citizenship to most, but not all, of Algeria's Jewish population. The Jews of the M'zab Valley were excluded from this legislation. As Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein explains in this episode, this was due to a complex web of historical confluences including the chronology of conquest, shifting military and administrative structures for French Algerian rule, and perceptions of Jewish, Arab and Berber indigeneity. This story, while anchored in the local, participates in wider discussions of international Jewish philanthropies, decolonization, citizenship, belonging and marginality amid rapidly shifting global conditions.

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Osmanlı Toplumunda Çocukluk

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:39:00 +0000

Yahya Araz This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history

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Osmanlı'da çocukluk algısının olup olmadığı son dönem tarih yazıcılığında sıkça sorulan sorular arasındadır. Bu bölümde Yahya Araz bize çocukların sadece küçük insanlar olmanın ötesinde Osmanlı'da çocukluk tanımının çerçevesini oluşturan toplumsal, hukuki ve biyolojik etmenleri anlatıyor.

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Kocalarını Zehirleyen Osmanlı Kadınları

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:36:00 +0000

Ebru Aykut

Tanzimat’in ilanıyla beraber gündelik hayatın pek çok alanına nüfuz etmeyi hedefleyen yasal uygulamalar eczane ve attar dükkanlarının tozlu raflarına kadar ulaşmayı başarmıştı. Bu bölümde Ebru Aykut, Tanzimat sonrası Osmanlısı'nda zehir satışını düzenleyen uygulamalarla kocalarıyla hesaplaşmayı zehir yoluyla seçen kadınların kesişen hikayelerini anlatıyor.

	Geç Osmanlı dönemi taşrasında suç ve cezalandırma pratiklerinin sosyal-hukuki tarihi üzerine çalışmalarını sürdüren Dr. Ebru Aykut, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesidir. (academia.edu)
	Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (academia.edu)

Episode No. 164
Release date: 13 July 2014
Location: Koç RCAC, Istanbul
Editing and Production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Ebru Aykut

Citation: "Kocalarını Zehirleyen Osmanlı Kadınları," Ebru Aykut, Emrah Safa Gürkan, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 164 (13 July 2014) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/07/poison-murder-women-ottoman-empire.html.

SEÇME KAYNAKÇA

Aykut, Ebru. Alternative Claims on Justice and Law: Rural Arson and Poison Murder in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire, Ph.d diss. (Boğaziçi University Atatürk Institute, 2011).

Aykut, Ebru. “Osmanlı’da Zehir Satışının Denetimi ve Kocasını Zehirleyen Kadınlar,” Toplumsal Tarih, no. 194 (Şubat 2010): 58-64.

Aykut, Ebru. "Osmanlı Mahkemelerinde Şüpheli Zehirlenme Vakaları, Adli Tıp Pratikleri ve Tıbbi Deliller," Tarih ve Toplum Yeni Yaklaşımlar, no. 17 (Bahar 2014): 7-36.

Bodó, Bela. “The Poisoning Women of Tiszazug,” Journal of Family History 21, no. 1 (January 2002): 40-59.

Imber, Colin. “Why You Should Poison Your Husband: A Note on Liability in Hanafî Law in the Ottoman Period,” Islamic Law and Society 1, no. 2 (1994): 206-216.

Robb, George. “Circe in Crinoline: Domestic Poisoning in Victorian England,” Journal of Family History 22, no. 2 (April 1997): 176-190.

Rubin, Avi. Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Shapiro, Ann-Louis. Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996).

Müzik: Ayla Dikmen - Zehir Gibi Aşkın Var, Müslüm Gürses - Kadehinde Zehir Olsa, Samira Tawfiq - Ballah Tsabbou Halgahwe

Inside Ottoman Prisons

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 21:14:00 +0000

with Kent Schull

hosted by Chris Gratien

This episode is part of our series on Islamic law

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While humans have devised no shortage of ways to punish each other throughout history, the rise of the prison and incarceration as a method for dealing with crime is primarily a nineteenth century phenomenon. In this episode, Kent Schull discusses his recent book about the development of the Ottoman prison system and explores the lives of Ottoman prisoners.

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Kent Schull is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York, Binghamton. (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)

Episode No. 158
Release date: 7 June 2014
Location: German Orient Institut, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Kent Schull

Erzurum: the prison and prisoners
(Source: Keghuni, No. 1-10, 1903,
2nd year, Venice, St Lazzaro) from
houshamadyan.org

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Schull, Kent F. Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity. 2014.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

Adams, Bruce F. The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917 (DeKalb, Ill: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996).

Ignatieff, Michael. A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978).

Maksudyan, Nazan, ‘Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages (ıslahhanes) and Reform in the Late Ottoman Urban Space’, IJMES 43 (2011), pp. 493-511.

Peters, Rudolph. Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Yıldız, Gültekin. Mapusane: Osmanlı Hapishanelerinin Kuruluș Serüveni, 1839-1908 (İstanbul: Kitabevi, 2012).

Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Galata and the Capitulations

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:20:00 +0000

with Fariba Zarinebaf

hosted by Nir Shafir and Zoe Griffith

The capitulations, a series of bilateral agreements with European states and merchants, are sometimes held up as symbols of early Ottoman concessions to European powers and the beginnings of Ottoman economic decline. This misreading, which is in part the product of a misinterpretation of the word "capitulation" itself, impedes a proper understanding of Ottoman Empire and the legal context of the early modern Mediterranean. In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf offers a different look at the capitulations or ahdnames within the broader context of law and diplomacy in Ottoman Galata and other port cities.

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	Fariba Zarinebaf is an Associate Professor of History at University of California-Riverside. (see faculty page)
	Nir Shafir is a doctoral candidate at UCLA studying Ottoman intellectual history. (see academia.edu)
	Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early modern Mediterranean. (see academia.edu)

Episode No. 144
Release date: 8 February 2014
Editing and production by Chris Gratien

Citation: "Galata, Ottoman Ports, and the Capitulations," Fariba Zarinebaf, Nir Shafir, and Zoe Griffith, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 144 (8 Feburary 2014) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/02/ottoman-empire-capitulations.html.

Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early modern Mediterranean - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html#sthash.qU9EtwKA.dpuf

Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early modern Mediterranean - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html#sthash.qU9EtwKA.dpuf

Race, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:57:00 +0000

This episode is part of our series on Islamic law

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Notions of racial difference played an important role in the Atlantic slave trade and have left a long legacy well after the slave trade was abolished during the nineteenth century. Yet centuries earlier, an Islamic scholar from Timbuktu had formulated an argument against the enslavement of individuals based on race or skin color. In this episode, Chris Gratien discusses the life and writings of Ahmad Baba in Timbuktu and Marrakesh as a captive scholar of Sultan Ahmad al-Mansour. (cross-listed with tajine)

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Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)

Graham Cornwell is a doctoral student at Georgetown University studying the history of taste and imperialism in North Africa.

Episode No. 141
Release date: 18 January 2014
Location: Georgetown University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


A page of Mi`raj al-Su`ud (Source: LOC)

Gratien, Chris. "Race, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic." The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3 (May 2013).

Baba, Ahmad ibn Ahmad, John O. Hunwick, and Fatima Harrak. Mi`raj al-Su`ud : Ajwibat Ahmad Baba Hawla Al-Istirqaq. [al-Rabat]: al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyah, Jami`at Muhammad al-Khamis, Ma`had al-Dirasat al-Afriqiyah bi-al-Rabat, 2000.

Hunwick, John O. "A New Source for the Biography of Ahmad Baba Al-Tinbukti (1556-1627)." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 27, no. 3 (1964).

Lovejoy, Paul. "The Context of Enslavement in West Africa." In Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives : Blacks in Colonial Latin America, edited by Jane Landers and Barry Robinson, 9-38. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Mouline, Nabil. Le Califat Imaginaire D'ahmad Al-Mansur: Pouvoir Et Diplomatie Au Maroc Au Xvie Siècle. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2009.

Zouber, Mahmoud A. Ahmad Baba De Tombouctou (1556-1627) : Sa Vie Et Son Oeuvre. Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1977.

Mulberry Fields Forever

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:41:00 +0000

with Zoe Griffith

hosted by Chris Gratien and Kalliopi Amygdalou

Inheritance and the transfer of property across generations connects the history of families to a broader analysis of political economy, particularly in societies where wealth and capital are deeply rooted in the earth. In this episode, Zoe Griffith provides a framework for the study of family history through the lens of the mulberry tree and its produce in a study of Ottoman court records from Tripoli (modern-day Lebanon).

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	Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early modern Mediterranean (see academia.edu)
	Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)
	Kalliopi Amygdalou is a doctoral candidate in the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College in London working on the relationship between national historiographies and the built environment in Greece and Turkey (see academia.edu)

Episode No. 130
Release date: 18 November 2013
Location: Kurtuluş, Istanbul
Editing and Production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Zoe Griffith

Citation: "Mulberry Fields Forever: Family, Property, and Inheritance in Ottoman Lebanon," Zoe Griffith, Chris Gratien, and Kalliopi Amygdalou, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 130 (November 18, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abu Husayn, Abdul Rahim. Provincial Leaderships in Syria, 1575-1650. Beirut: American University in Beirut, 1985.

Cuno, Kenneth. The Pasha’s Peasants: land, society and economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Doumani, Beshara. “Introduction.” In Beshara Doumani, ed. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 1-19.

--- “Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860.” In Beshara Doumani, Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 173-200.

Ergene, Boğaç. Local Court, Provincial Society, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: legal practice and dispute resolution in Çankırı and Kastamonu (1652-1744). Leiden: Brill, 2003.

Fay, Mary Ann. “Women and Waqf: toward a reconsideration of women’s place in the Mamluk household.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 29 (1997): 33-51.

Ferguson, Heather. “Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham.” In Beshara Doumani, ed. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 229-244.

‘Imad, ‘Abd al-Ghani. Mujtama’ Trablus fi zaman al-tahawwulat al-‘uthmaniya. Tripoli, Lebanon: Dar al-Insha’ lil’Sihafah wa’l-Tiba’ah wa’l-Nashr, 2002.

Imber, Colin. “The Status of Orchards and Fruit Trees in Ottoman Law.” Tarih Enstitüsü Dergisi, 12 (1981-82): 763-774.

Mundy, Martha and Richard Saumarez-Smith. Governing Property, Making the Modern State: law, administration, and production in Ottoman Syria. London: I.B. Taurus, 2007.

Tezcan, Baki. The Second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformations in the early modern world. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Music: Wadi al-Safi - Ya al-Tut al-Shami

Osmanlı'da Mahremiyetin Sınırları

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 05:30:00 +0000

Fikret Yılmaz

Emrah Safa Gürkan'ın sunuculuğuyla

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Osmanlı'da kamusal alan ile özel yaşam arasındaki sınır nasıl çizilmiştir? Herkesin birbirinin muhbiri olduğu bir toplumda iktidar, toplum ve birey arasındaki ilişki nasıl düzenlenmiştir? Bu sorulara yanıt aradığımız bu podcastımızda Fikret Yılmaz ile erken modern Osmanlı toplumunda mahremiyetin sınırları üzerine konuştuk. Ayrıca, Osmanlı toplum tarihçiliğinin sıkıntılarına dikkat çekerek, kavramsal çalışmaların gerekliliğine dikkat çektik.

Where did the boundary between the public and private spheres lie in the Ottoman Empire? How was the relationship between government, society and individual configured in a society where everyone spied on their neighbors? In search of answers to these questions, this episode of Ottoman History Podcast explores the boundaries of privacy in early modern Ottoman society with Dr. Fikret Yılmaz, drawing attention to the lacuna in historiography on Ottoman society and the need for conceptual studies. (podcast is in Turkish)

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	Erken modern Osmanlı toplum tarihi üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Fikret Yılmaz Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu)
	Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu)

Episode No. 129
Release date: 9 November 2013
Location: Kuzguncuk, Üsküdar
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Fikret Yılmaz

Citation: "Osmanlı'da Mahremiyetin Sınırları," Fikret Yılmaz, Emrah Safa Gürkan, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 129 (November 9, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/11/private-public-sphere-ottoman-empire.html.

SEÇME KAYNAKÇA

Fikret Yılmaz, "Zina ve Fuhuş Arasında Kalanlar: Fahişe Subaşıya Karşı,” Toplumsal Tarih 220 (April 2012): 22-31.

Fikret Yılmaz, “Boş Vaktiniz Var Mı? veya 16. yüzyılda Anadolu’da şarap, eğlence ve suç,” Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar 1 (Bahar 2005): 11-49.

Fikret Yılmaz, “16. yüzyılda tarımsal yapılarda değişim, Akdeniz mutfağı ve yağ kullanımı,” Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar 10 (Bahar 2010): 23-42.

Fikret Yılmaz, “XVI. Yüzyıl Osmanlı toplumunda mahremiyetin sınırlarına dair,” Toplum ve Bilim 83 (Kış 1999-2000): 92-110.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: Village occitain de 1294 à 1324 (Paris: Gallimard, 1975).

"Kadı"nın Günlüğü

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:00:00 +0000

Selim Karahasanoğlu

Sadreddinzade günlüğünden
örnek sayfalar
Kaynak: BOA, KK 7500, 158-159

Osmanlı tarihyazımında cevabı aranan önemli bir soru da Osmanlı kültüründe günlük, anı, hatırat gibi ben anlatılarının bulunup bulunmadığıdır. Bu bölümümüzde Selim Karahasanoğlu ile son çalışması Sadreddinzade Telhisi Mustafa Efendi ceridesi hakkında konuştuk. 18. yüzyılın önde gelen ulema ailelerinden birine mensup bu Osmanlı kadısının 24 yıl boyunca düzenli olarak tuttuğu bu günlüğün tarihsel kaynak olarak değerine ve Avrupa'daki diğer örneklerle arasındaki fark ve benzerliklere değindik. Ayrıca, yazma kütüphanelerinde karşılaşılan kurumsal zorlukların nasıl Osmanlı kültür tarihi araştırmalarının önünü tıkadığının altını çizerek, bir kaç eser üzerinden genellemeler yapmanın zorluğundan bahsettik.

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18. yüzyıl Osmanlı tarihi üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Selim Karahasanoğlu İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see his page)

Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu)

SEÇME KAYNAKÇA

Selim Karahasanoğlu

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Pastoral Nomads and Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Jordan

noreply@blogger.com (Ottoman History Podcast) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:54:00 +0000

with Nora Barakat

Groups variously labeled as nomadic and tribal formed an integral part of Ottoman society, but because their communities exercised a wide degree of autonomy, they are often represented as somehow separate or "other" to urban and settled populations. However, the social history of these communities reveals that tribes and their members were involved in the continual transformation of Ottoman society not just as a force of resistance or hapless victims of state policies but also as participants. In this podcast, Nora Barakat deals with the social history of such communities, which appear in the court records of Salt (in modern Jordan) as "tent-dwellers," and their place in the complex legal sphere of the Tanzimat era during which both shar`ia law courts as well as new nizamiye courts served as forums for legal action.

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Nora Barakat is a PhD candidate at UC-Berkeley studying the legal and social history of Ottoman Syria

Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Pastoral Nomads and Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Jordan." Nora Barakat and Chris Gratien. Ottoman History Podcast, No. 61 (July 24, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/07/pastoral-nomads-and-legal-pluralism-in.html.

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