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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Ottoman world
    sub title: a cultural history reader, 1450-1700
  name:
    name part: Karateke, Hakan T.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Anetshofer, Helga
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: 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. This is a primary source reader designed to reflect a wide and diverse set of voices across Ottoman society and bring them into the classroom. Written in many languages, not only Ottoman Turkish, but also Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Italian and Persian, these texts span the extent of the early modern Ottoman empire, from the 1450s to 1700. Instructors are supplied with narratives conveying the lived experiences of individuals through texts that highlight human variety and accelerate a trend away from the "state-centric" approach to Ottoman history. In addition, samples from court registers, legends, biographical accounts, hagiographies, short stories, witty anecdotes, jokes and lampoons provide us with exciting glimpses into popular mindsets in Ottoman society.
  table of contents: Letters of an insecure scholar, 1553 -- Adversities at sea : from Basra to Gujarat, 1554 -- Memoirs of an Ottoman captive in Malta, 1597-98 -- The excommunication of a Greek Orthodox priest, ca. 1642 -- Dream letters of a Sufi woman in Skopje, 1640s -- Diary of a Sufi sheikh in plague-ridden Istanbul, 1661 -- Ramblings of an eccentric Sufi exiled on Limnos, ca. early 1680s -- Adventures of an Ottoman officer in captivity, 1690-99 -- The trial of a heretic, 1527 -- The life and works of two mediocre poets -- The extraordinary life story of a scholar -- On servants and slaves -- Children and youth -- Women at courts of law -- Prostitutes and pimps -- On nocturnal activities -- Impostors, frauds, and spies -- The madman of Istanbul -- Fetvas on non-Muslims -- Conversion among Ottoman Jews -- Marriage and divorce among Ottoman Jews -- News from Istanbul at the turn of the seventeenth century -- Propagating the faith in Constantinople -- An Armenian chronicle of Crimea -- On revenants and ghosts -- Miracles of an Anatolian Sufi saint -- A dispute concerning Sufi tombs, 1619 -- Preserving public health -- Traditional medicine for everyday ailments -- Snake medicine and snake charming in Cairo -- On smoking tobacco -- Diving past, present, and future in the sand -- Reading character by appearance -- Religious guidance for hunters -- Cultivating the land -- Wonders of art and nature -- On the natural advantages of Edirne -- The legend of the construction of Constantinople -- On the construction of the pyramids, ca. 1545 -- An ode to Istanbul -- Passion and murder on the Bosphorus -- Stories of guilt and repentance -- The wiles of women -- Social criticism and invective in poetry -- Shrewd witticisms by a master poet -- Subversive jokes featuring a folk hero.
  note: edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Helga Anetshofer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-tu---
  subject:
    geographic: Turkey
    topic: History
    temporal: Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    geographic: Turkey
    topic: History
    temporal: Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
    genre: Early works to 1800
  classification: DR485 .O885 2021
  classification: 956/.015
  identifier: 9780520303430
  identifier: 0520303431
  identifier: 9780520303454
  identifier: 0520303458
  identifier: 9780520972711
  identifier: 2021004318
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210128
    record change date: 20220105171040.0
    record identifier: in00004361000