The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem - From African Slave to Power-Broker

List of contents

1. Introduction to the Chief Harem Eunuch; 2. The African Connection; 3. Arrangement in black and white: eunuchs in the Ottoman Palace; 4. The creation of the office of Chief Harem Eunuch and the career of Habeshi Mehmed Agha; 5. The crisis years of the seventeenth century; 6. Yusuf Agha and the Köprülü reforms; 7. A new paradigm: El-Hajj Beshir Agha and his successors; 8. Exile and the Kingdom: the Chief Harem Eunuch and Egypt; 9. The Chief Harem Eunuch and Ottoman religious and intellectual life; 10. Reformed out of existence: the dénouement of the Chief Harem Eunuch; 11. Memorializing the Chief Harem Eunuch; 12. Conclusion.

About the author

Jane Hathaway is Professor of History at Ohio State University and one of the world's leading authorities on the Ottoman Empire and on eunuchs in Islamic societies. She is the author of five books, including The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule (2008), which won the Turkish Studies Association's M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize. She also authored the article 'Eunuchs' for the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, a seminal reference work. Her research has been funded by prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Hathaway, Hathaway Jane
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2020
• EAN: 9781107519206
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51920-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 507 g
• Illustrations: 27 b/w illus. 6 maps 6 tables, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, English, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Africa, Middle East, Arabic, Turkey, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Middle Eastern history, turkish, African History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, C 1600 To C 1700, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 1700 To C 1800, African history: pre-colonial period