Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands
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Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called Pax Ottomanica. This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of Ottoman tolerance that has long dominated the discussions. The articles carefully strive to contextualize the many issues that sound like ethnic slurs, racial stereotyping, religious discrimination, misogyny and elitism to modern ears. The goal of the volume is not to prove that Ottoman society was a persecuting one, or that dislike or distrust was its defining characteristic, but to investigate the axes of tension, blemishes, and fractures in the everyday practice of coexistence in a dynamic, multi-religious, multi-confessional and multi-ethnic empire in which difference was the norm rather than the exception.
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Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
Publication Date: 27 Sep 2018
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781618118806
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Hakan T. Karateke (PhD Bamberg University) is Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Evliya Çelebis Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne (2013) and an article titled The Rosy History of Jews in the Ottoman Empire: A Critical Approach to Jewish Historiography.H. Erdem Çpa (PhD Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Ottoman history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Making of Selim: Succession Legitimacy and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World (2017) and co-editor with E. Fetvac of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past Fashioning the Future (2013).Helga Anetshofer (PhD Vienna University) is Lecturer for Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago. Her publications include her recent articles Folk Etymologies and Stories of Toponyms from Danishmendid Territory in Evliya Çelebis Seyahatname (2015) and The Hero Dons a Talismanic Shirt for Battle: Magic Objects Aiding the Warrior in a Turkish Epic Romance (2018).