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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
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Suraiya Faroqhi |
ISBN: | 9781780764818 1780764812 |
OCLC Number: | 826659580 |
Description: | xxii, 296 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Elite Travellers -- 1 What an Ottoman ambassador might find out in Vienna 3 -- 2 Material culture in Latinate Europe: as reported by eighteenth-century Ottoman ambassadors 26 -- 3 'Seeking refuge in the Sultan's shadow': asylum seekers on Ottoman territory 44 -- 4 Evliya Çelebi's tales of Cairo's guildsmen 64 -- 5 Ottoman travellers in Venice 75 -- Ordinary People and their Products on the Move -- 6 Keepsakes and trade goods from seventeenth-century Mecca 89 -- 7 Entering and leaving the Empire's industrious core: Bursa and its textiles 99 -- 8 'Just passing through': travellers and sojourners in mid-sixteenth-century Üsküdar 117 -- 9 Mostly fugitives: the trials and tribulations of slaves in sixteenth-century Üsküdar 129 -- 10 The adventures of Tunisian fez-sellers in eighteenth-century Istanbul 143 -- 11 Controlling borders and workmen, all in one fell swoop: from Istanbul to Hotin in 1716 156 -- Staying Put -- 12 Selling sweetmeats: Istanbul in the mid-eighteenth century 175 -- 13 Where to make and sell cheap textiles in eighteenth-century Istanbul: a buyer's guide 186 -- 14 In quest of their daily bread: artisans of Istanbul under Selim III (r. 1789-1807) 197. |
Series Title: | Library of Ottoman studies, 44. |
Responsibility: | Suraiya Faroqhi. |
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A series of windows through which we catch glimpses of people on the move (for many different reasons) in the early-modern Ottoman Empire. Faroqhi brings to this subject both her wide-ranging interest - from slaves and artisans to ambassadors - and her almost unrivalled mastery of Ottoman primary sources, both published and unpublished. The result is not a quantitative or systematic study of mobility but a rich and varied panorama, with many telling anecdotes. Professor Erik Zurcher, Leiden University "Suraiya Faroqhi has produced a mesmerizing study of a bustling empire on the move: ambassadors, wandering scholars and dervishes, renegade mercenaries, nomads, pilgrims, merchants, refugees, asylum seekers - and the great travel seventeenth-century travel fanatic Evliya Celebi. She has found space to chronicle the Turkish experience of such exotic places as Venice and Vienna and to survey such arcane trades as those of the firework manufacturers, scorpion catchers, donkey barbers and fez sellers. Her work, which is based on an unusually wide range of primary sources is also an important contribution to the study of international relations, as well as a guide to recent and impressive researches by Turkish historians in a dynamic and evolving field of study." Robert Irwin, author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion Read more...

