Disliking Others : Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands / Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Çıpa, Helga Anetshofer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anetshofer, Helga, Editor.

Karateke, Hakan T., Editor.

Çıpa, H. Erdem, Editor.

Series:

Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toleration--Turkey--History.

Toleration.

Religious tolerance--Turkey--History.

Religious tolerance.

Discrimination--Turkey--History.

Discrimination.

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

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Author Bios

Introduction

Changing Perceptions about Christian-Born Ottomans: Anti-k . ul Sentiments in Ottoman Historiography / Çıpa, H. Erdem

Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500-1730: The Eastern Alternative / Hathaway, Jane

Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier's Treatise: A Comparative Look at Black Africans in Ottoman Letters in the Early Modern Period / Tezcan, Baki

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

An Ottoman Anti-Judaism / Karateke, Hakan T.

Evliyā Çelebī's Perception of Jews / Karateke, Hakan T.

Ambiguous Subjects and Uneasy Neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans' Attitudes toward the Ottoman State, "Turks," and Vlachs / Kursar, Vjeran

"Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land": Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th-18th Centuries / Petrovszky, Konrad

The Many Faces of the "Gypsy" in Early Modern Ottoman Discourse / Çelik, Faika Ç

Gendered Infidels in Fiction: A Case Study on S - ābit's Ḥikāye-i Ḫvāce Fesād / Hüner-Cora, İpek

"The Greatest of Tribulations": Constructions of Femininity in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Physiognomy / Lelić, Emin

Defining and Defaming the Other in Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Invective / Sheridan, Michael D.

"Are You From Çorum?": Derogatory Attitudes Toward the "Unruly Mob" of the Provinces as Reflected in a Proverbial Saying / Anetshofer, Helga

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-61811-881-1

OCLC:

1135590720