Crafting History - Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar

This volume is a tribute to Cemal Kafadar from his students, colleagues and friends.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yayciölu
Cemal Kafadar, A Çelebi for Our Times
Ahmet Karamustafa  
Cemal Kafadar¿s Teaching and Scholarship, 1981-2021
Part One: Texts
1. Narrating Ottoman Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Perspectives from Some Byzantine and Ottoman Histories.
Aslihan Aki¿ik-Karakullukçu and Dimitri Kastritsis

2. Ni¿anc¿ Mehmed Päa and His History of the Ottoman House
Himmet Täkömür and Hüseyin Yilmaz
3. Book-Picking in a Conquered Citadel
Serpil Bäci and Zeynep Yürekli
4. A Sufi Mirror: Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi¿s (d. 1530) Advice for the Ottoman Ruler
Timothy J. Fitzgerald
 5. La Jetée and the Illustrated Ottoman History: An Inquiry into Word, Image, and Audience
Emine Fetvaci
6. How Did Evliya Çelebi Write His Travel Account?
Hakan T. Karateke
7. Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620-1840
Hülya Canbakal, Meredith Quinn, and Derin Terziölu
8. Blending Piety and Philology: A Seventeenth-Century Mecmua as the Mirror of Istanbul¿s Persianate Urban Milieu
Aslihan Gürbüzel and Ekin Tüalp Atiyas
9. An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik and Selim S. Kuru 
Part Two: Lives
10. Uç beys, Dervishes, and Yürüks: The Cultural Politics of the Turahanölu of Thessaly
Theoharis Stavrides
11. A Short Account of Long Entanglements: ¿eyh Bedreddin, `Abdurrahman al-Bistami, and his Durrat taj al-rasäil
Cornell Fleischer
12. A Tale of Two Boils: Selim I, Melek A¿med Pasha, and Changing Perceptions of Medical Practice and Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
H. Erdem Çipa and Jane Hathaway
13. In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman Egypt
Aleksandar Shopov
14. The Eunuch, a Complete Statesman: Functional Historiography in the face of Social and Political Precarity
Jocelyne Dakhlia
15. Reorientation in Worldviews: Milescu and Cantemir
¿senbike Togan
16. The Hamidian Visual Archive, 1878-1909: A User¿s Manual
Ahmet Ersoy and Deniz Türker  
Part Three: Places
17. Ottoman Montology: Hazardous Resourcefulness and Uneasy Symbiosis in a Mountain Empire
Ali Yayciölu
18. Ottoman Mountains: Mobility in a Forbidding Environment
Molly Greene
19. A Code(x) of His Own: Deacon Mikay¿l, Armeno-Turkish and Creative Conventions of ¿Collecting¿ in Seventeenth-Century Kaffa
Rachel Goshgarian  
20. On Self and Empire: A Seventeenth-Century First-Person Narrative from the Mughal Domains
Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
21. Cabinetmaking for the Sultan: Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in the Life Narratives of German-Speaking Journeymen
Richard Wittmann
22. Conjuring Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through the Journalistic Writings of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1805-1887) and Basiretçi Ali (1845?¿1910)
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi and Asli Niyaziölu
23. Re¿at Ekrem Koçu and ¿stanbul Ansiklopedisi: Writing on Place
Shirine Hamadeh and Çi¿dem Kafesçiölu
Part Four: Processes
24. Early Modern Reflections on Bayezid II¿s Reign
¿klil Selçuk and Cihan Yüksel 
25. The Ottoman Fleet at the Battle of Mississippi: What Videogames Can Teach Us about History
Giancarlo Casale and Nicolas Trépanier
26. Continuity and Change in the Ottoman Early Modern Era: An Analysis of Adet-i kadime and Hâdis
Özer Ergenç
27. Between Soldier and Civilian: Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and Aleppo
Charles Wilkins and Eunjeong Yi
28. Confessionalization and Religious Nonconformity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Cases of Kizilbash/Alevi and the Sabbatean Communities
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump and Cengiz ¿i¿man
29. De-ayanization: A Black Hole in Ottoman History
H. ¿ükrü Ilicak
30. Bitter Triumph of ¿the Declined¿ Dynasty? Notions of Universal Monarchy, Caliphate, and World Religions in Comparisons between Sultan Abdulhamid and Emperor Meiji
Cemil Aydin
Notes on Contributors

About the author

Rachel Goshgarian is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College. She completed her Ph.D. under Cemal Kafadar’s supervision at Harvard University in 2008. Her first monograph, The City in Late Medieval Anatolia: Inter-faith Interactions and Urbanism in the Middle East, will be published in 2023.

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi is Associate Professor of Middle East and World History at Northeastern University, Boston. She completed her Ph.D. under Cemal Kafadar’s supervision at Harvard University in 2003. She is a social and intellectual historian of the nahda and the late Ottoman period, and the author of The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914 (2010).

Ali Yaycıoğlu is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. He studied under Cemal Kafadar at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2008. He is the author of Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (2016).

Summary

It would not be an overstatement to say that Cemal Kafadar has transformed the field of Ottoman history. As a result of his pathbreaking books and articles, the field is experiencing a turn within itself as well as recasting its relationship with world history. This volume acts as a tribute to Kafadar and the important interdisciplinary work he has both done and inspired in the field. In line with the intellectual pluralism that Kafadar has cultivated over his career, readers will find a number of articles engaging with a wide range of questions, approaches, perspectives, and sources across Ottoman history. Kafadar's students and friends, individually or in pairs, researched and crafted contributions to this volume with a variety of conceptual premises, theoretical approaches, and interpretive tools to celebrate his thirty years of teaching, research, and mentorship, in addition to the overwhelming generosity of his intellectual and personal engagement.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rachel Goshgarian (Editor), Ilham Khuri-Makdisi (Editor), Ali Yaycioğlu (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2023
• EAN: 9781644698464
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-846-4
• No. of pages: 662
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Series: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Society & social sciences, Ottoman Empire, Literature: history and criticism, Society and Social Sciences, Literature - history & criticism