The Ottoman world : a cultural history reader, 1450-1700 /
"The Ottoman lands, which comprised a geography extending from modern Hungary to the Arabian peninsula, were home to a vast population with a rich variety of cultures. The Ottoman World is the first primary source reader designed to reflect a wide and diverse set of voices across Ottoman societ...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- 1 Letters of an Insecure Scholar, 1553
- 2 Adversities at Sea: From Basra to Gujarat, 1554
- 3 Memoirs of an Ottoman Captive in Malta, 1597-98
- 4 The Excommunication of a Greek Orthodox Priest, ca. 1642
- 5 Dream Letters of a Sufi Woman in Skopje, 1640s
- 6 Diary of a Sufi Sheikh in Plague-Ridden Istanbul, 1661
- 7 Ramblings of an Eccentric Sufi Exiled on Limnos, ca. Early 1680s
- 8 Adventures of an Ottoman Officer in Captivity, 1690-99
- 9 The Trial of a Heretic, 1527
- 10 The Life and Works of Two Mediocre Poets
- 11 The Extraordinary Life Story of a Scholar
- 12 On Servants and Slaves
- 13 Children and Youth
- 14 Women at Courts of Law
- 15 Prostitutes and Pimps
- 16 On Nocturnal Activities
- 17 Impostors, Frauds, and Spies
- 18 The Madmen of Istanbul
- 19 Fetvas on Non-Muslims
- 20 Conversion Among Ottoman Jews
- 21 Marriage and Divorce Among Ottoman Jews
- 22 News from Istanbul at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
- 23 Propagating the Faith in Constantinople
- 24 An Armenian Chronicle of Crimea
- 25 On Revenants and Ghosts
- 26 Miracles of an Anatolian Sufi Saint
- 27 A Dispute Concerning Sufi Tombs, 1619
- 28 Preserving Public Health
- 29 Traditional Medicine for Everyday Ailments
- 30 Snake Medicine and Snake Charming in Cairo
- 31 On Smoking Tobacco
- 32 Divining Past, Present, and Future in the Sand
- 33 Reading Character by Appearance
- 34 Religious Guidance for Hunters
- 35 Cultivating the Land
- 36 Wonders of Art and Nature
- 37 On the Natural Advantages of Edirne
- 38 The Legend of the Construction of Constantinople
- 39 On the Construction of the Pyramids, ca. 1545
- 40 An Ode to Istanbul
- 41 Passion and Murder on the Bosphorus
- 42 Stories of Guilt and Repentance
- 43 The Wiles of Women
- 44 Social Criticism and Invective in Poetry
- 45 Shrewd Witticisms by a Master Poet
- 46 Subversive Jokes Featuring a Folk Hero
- INDEX