Disliking others : loathing, hostility, and distrust in pre-modern Ottoman lands / edited by Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Cipa, Helga Anetshofer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karateke, Hakan T., editor.

Çıpa, H. Erdem, 1971- editor.

Anetshofer, Helga, editor.

Series:

Ottoman and Turkish studies

Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toleration--Turkey--History.

Toleration.

Religious tolerance--Turkey--History.

Religious tolerance.

Discrimination--Turkey--History.

Discrimination.

History.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.

Summary:

Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called "Pax Ottomanica." This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of Ottoman tolerance that has long dominated the discussions. The articles carefully strive to contextualize the many issues that sound like ethnic slurs, racial stereotyping, religious discrimination, misogyny and elitism to modern ears. The goal of the volume is not to prove that Ottoman society was a persecuting one, or that dislike or distrust was its defining characteristic, but to investigate the axes of tension, blemishes, and fractures in the everyday practice of coexistence in a dynamic, multi-religious, multi-confessional and multi-ethnic empire in which difference was the norm rather than the exception. Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Changing perceptions about Christian-born ottomans: anti-ḳul sentiments in Ottoman historiography / H. Erdem ÇIpa

Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500-1730: the eastern alternative / Jane Hathaway

Dispelling the darkness of the halberdier's treatise: a comparative look at black Africans in Ottoman letters in the early modern period / Baki Tezcan

The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman eyes, ca. 1550-1700 / Bilha Moor

An Ottoman anti-Judaism / Hakan T. Karateke

Evliyā ÇElebī's perception of Jews / Hakan T. Karateke

Ambiguous subjects and uneasy neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans' attitudes toward the Ottoman state, 'Turks,' and Vlachs / Vjeran Kursar

'Those violating the good, old customs of our land': forms and functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian principalities, 16th-18th centuries / Konrad Petrovszky

Representing the margins: the many faces of the 'Gypsy' in early modern Ottoman discourse / Faika ÇElik

Gendered infidels in fiction: a case study on Sābit's Hikāye-i ḫvāce fesād / Ipek Hüner-Cora

'The greatest of tribulations': constructions of femininity in sixteenth-century Ottoman physiognomy / Emin Lelić

Defining and defaming the other in early seventeenth-century Ottoman invective / Michael Sheridan

'Are you from Çorum?': derogatory attitudes toward the "unruly mob" of the provinces as reflected in a proverbial saying / Helga Anetshofer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781618118806

1618118803

9781618118813

1618118811

OCLC:

1049574261