Twenty-five women who shaped the Ottoman Empire / Ruth Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Ruth Austin, 1975- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Turkey--Biography.

Women.

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

Turkey.

Turkey--History--1918-1960--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 427 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map

Other Title:

25 women who shaped the Ottoman Empire

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Contents:

Introduction : a different shape

The problem of "Ottoman women"

Malhun Hatun (d. 1323) : mother of the dynasty

Mihri Hatun (1460-1515) : distinguished court poet

Zeynep Hatun (fifteenth century) : elusive touchstone of the poet biographers

A'isha al-Ba'uniyya (d. 1517) : mystic, mufti, and spiritual model

Hürrem Sultan (1502-1558) : Roxelana, the queen and the witch

Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510-1569) : heroine of the Inquisition

Nurbanu Sultan (1525-1583) : architect of an unprecedented charitable foundation / Şakire Hatun (circa the 1570s) : plaintiff and "warrior"

Elizabeth Báthory (1560-1614) : the Bloody Countess

Gülnuş Sultan (1642-1715) : the huntress who ushered in the Tulip Period

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) : errant embodiment of the European Enlightenment

Dilhayat Kalfa (1710-1780) : celebrated composer

Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825) : champion of the Greek Revolution

Esma İbret Hanım (b. 1780) : master calligrapher

Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819-1881) : Orientalist painter

Maryana Marrash (1848-1919) : muse, poet, and essayist

Fatma Aliye (1862-1936) : new woman and novelist

Zabel Yesayan (1878-1943) : genre-defining witness to the Armenian genocide

Huda Sha'arawi (1879-1947) : charismatic founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union

Celile Hikmet (1880-1956) : subversive modernist painter

One-Halide Edip (1884-1964) : the Turkish Republic's foremost feminist

Sarah Aaronsohn (1890-1917) : a spy in the Levant

Anastasia Golovina (1850-1933) and Safiye Ali (1894-1952) : medical practitioners across borders

Sabiha Sertel (1895-1968) : dissident publishing phenomenon

Sabiha Gökçen (1913-2001) : the world's first female fighter pilot

Conclusion : the lingering shadow of Osman's tree.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 14, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Miller, Ruth Austin, 1975- Twenty-five women who shaped the Ottoman Empire

ISBN:

1003165869

9781040313275

1040313272

9781003165866

Publisher Number:

40032683331

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Restricted for use by site license.