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The Spread of Turkish Language and the Black Sea Dialects with Bernt Brendemoen

November 16, 2012, 1:16 am
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79.    Pontic Greek and Trabzon Turkish

Dialects are formed by complex historical processes that involve cultural exchange, migration, and organic transformation. Thus, the study of dialects can provide information about the history of a particular language as well as the communities that have historically spoken that given language. In this episode, Bernt Brendemoen discusses the emergence of the Turkish dialect of the Black Sea region, its relationship with early Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish as well as Pontic Greek, and what it can tell us about the evolution of the modern Turkish language.


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Bernt Brendemoen is a Professor of Turkology at the University of Oslo in Norway (see faculty page)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "The Spread of Turkish Language and the Black Sea Dialects," Bernt Brendemoen and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 79 (November 16, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/11/history-turkish-language-dialects-turkic-greek-influence.html

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Brendemoen, Bernt (1999). Greek and Turkish Language Encounters in Anatolia, In Bernt Brendemoen; Elizabeth Lanza & Else Ryen (ed.),  Language Encounters across time and space. Studies in language contact.  Novus, Oslo.  ISBN 82-7099-308-5.  s 353 - 378

Brendemoen, Bernt (2006). Aspects of Greek-Turkish language contact in Trabzon, In Hendrik Boeschoten & Lars Johanson (ed.),  Turkic Languages in Contact.  Harrassowitz Verlag.  ISBN 3-447-05212-0.  Kapittel.  s 63 - 73

Brendemoen, Bernt (2003). A note on vowel rounding in the Trabzon dialects, In  Studies in Turkish linguistics. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference in Turkish Linguistics.  Bogazici University Press.  ISBN 975-518-210-1.  Artikkel.  s 313 - 320

Brendemoen, Bernt (2005). Some remarks on the phonological status of Greek loanwords in Anatolian Turkish dialects, In  Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion. Case studies from Iranian, Samitic and Turkic.  Routledge Mental Health.  ISBN 0-415-30804-6.  Part 3: Turkic Languages.  s 335 - 345

Brendemoen, Bernt (1998). Some Remarks on the -mIs past in the Eastern Black Sea Coast Dialects. In: Turkic Languages (Wiesbaden) 1/2, 1997, 161-183.. Turkic languages.  ISSN 1431-4983.  1(2), s 161- 183

Brendemoen, Bernt (2006). Ottoman or Iranian? An example of Turkic-Iranian language contact in East Anatolian dialects, In Lars Johanson & Christiane Bulut (ed.),  Turkic-Iranian Contact Areas. Historical and Linguistic Aspects.  Harrassowitz Verlag.  ISBN 3-447-05276-7.  Kapittel.  s 226 - 238

Brendemoen, Bernt (1998). The Turkish Language Reform, In Lars Johanson & Eva A. Csato (ed.),  The Turkic Languages.  Routledge Mental Health.  ISBN 0-415-08200-5.  s 242 - 247

Brendemoen, Bernt (1998). Turkish Dialects, In Lars Johanson & Eva A. Csato (ed.),  The Turkic Languages.  Routledge Mental Health.  ISBN 0-415-08200-5.  s 236 - 241

Music: Ben Seni Sevduğumi (Maçkalı Hasan Tunç and Kazım Koyuncu Versions)
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How Did the Turkey Get Its Name?

November 20, 2012, 10:26 am
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80.     How Did the Turkey Get Its Name?

Why does a familiar bird and favorite Thanksgiving day meal have the same name as the country of Turkey? What is the name for the turkey in other languages? Is there any link between the spread of turkeys into the Anglophone world and the Ottoman Empire? In this episode, we answer these questions and discuss more broadly the historical context within which the turkey and other foods such as potatoes and corn became part of global diets.


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Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Turkey: a Bird and a Country," Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 80 (November 20, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/11/turkey-bird-history-thanksgiving-america.html

Select Bibliography

List of names for the Turkey in other languages

Smith, Andrew F. The Turkey: An American Story. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1972.

Hobhouse, Henry. Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind. [Washington, D.C.]: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.

Music: Golden Horn Ensemble - Karcigar Köçekçeler
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Lost and Found: Art, Diplomacy, and the Journey of an Ottoman Painting

November 24, 2012, 5:09 am
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81.   The Art of Diplomacy.

Osman Hamdi Bey is recognized today as the foremost artist of the late-Ottoman period. Yet, in his time, it was his unique access to the ancient past as the head of Istanbul's archaeology museum that drew the interest of his Western contemporaries. In this episode, Emily Neumeier retraces the story of a rare Osman Hamdi Bey painting (At the Mosque Door, 1890 - click for high res image) that turned up in the Penn archaeology museum and explains what it tells us about art, artifacts, and diplomacy during the late-Ottoman era.


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Emily Neumeier is a PhD student of Ottoman art history at the University of Pennsylvania
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Lost and Found: Art, Diplomacy, and the Journey of a Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Painting," Emily Neumeier and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 81 (November 24, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/11/art-history-osman-hamdi-bey-archaeology.html

Enjoy these images associated with the podcast:

1. Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910)
2. Unknown Photographer, Osman Hamdi Bey 
in his Atelier, circa 1900.
3. Pascal Sébah, Peasant Clothing from Bursa Region,
from Ethnographic Photograph Collection
at Vienna Exposition, 1873 (Library of Congress)
4. Osman Hamdi Bey, The Tortoise Trainer,
Pera Museum (click for high-res)
5. Osman Hamdi Bey, Dervish in the Children’s Tomb
(Çocuklar Türbesinde Derviş
or Şehzadeler Türbesinde Derviş), 1908
Oil on canvas, 124 x 93 cm,
Mimar Sinan Resim ve Heykel Muzesi
6. Osman Hamdi Bey, Mihrap or Genesis
7. Osman Hamdi Bey,
At the Mosque Door, 1891,
Oil on canvas, 203 x 123.5 cm,
University of Pennsylvania Museum of
 Archaeology and Anthropology.
(click for high-res)
8. At the Mosque Door at the Chicago Columbian Exposition
in HH Bancroft, The Book of the Fair (1893), p. 905.
9. Osman Hamdi Bey, Excavations at Nippur, 1903
Oil on canvas, 190.7 x 143.8 cm
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
(click for high-res)
10. Jean Léone Gérôme, The Snake Charmer (1870),  Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Link to the Osman Hamdi Bey and the Americans exhibition at Pera Gallery

Link to the SALT Galata exhibition Scramble for the Past

Select Bibliography:


Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands. On-line exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: 
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 
www.ottomanlands.com.

Eldem, Edhem. 2010. Osman Hamdi Bey Sözlüǧü. Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm
BakanlıǧıYayınları.

---. 2004.  “An Ottoman Archaeologist Caught Between Two Worlds: Osman
Hamdi Bey (1842-1910).”In Archaeology Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck, 1878-1920, edited by David Shankland, vol. 1, 121-49. Istanbul: Isis.

Makdisi, Ussama. 2002. “Ottoman Orientalism.” The American Historical Art Review 107
(3): 768-96.

Osman Hamdi Bey & Amerikalılar: Arkeoloji, Diplomasi, Sanat = Osman Hamdi Bey & the 
Americans: Archaeology, Diplomacy, Art. Edited by Renata Holod and Robert
Ousterhout. Exhibition Catalogue. Istanbul : Pera Müzesi, 2011.

Shaw, Wendy. 1996. Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the 
Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire. Berkeley: University of
California Press.

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Zanzibar: Imperial Visions and Ottoman Connections with Jeffery Dyer

December 1, 2012, 1:35 am
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82.     A Different Kind of Empire

Zanzibar, Street scene
Matson Photo Service, 1936
Zanzibar and the Swahili coast of East Africa sat at the interface of the Ottoman world, the Indian Ocean, and the rich mainland. When Portuguese sailors began to enter the Indian Ocean trade networks during the sixteenth century, the region also came within the sphere of European maritime empires. However,  before Zanzibar entered into any lasting a colonial relationship with a European power (the British at the end of the nineteenth century), a dynasty based in Muscat (modern-day Oman) that had its own imperial visions controlled the island. In this podcast, Jeffrey Dyer reconstructs the historical context of early nineteenth-century Zanzibar, the role of the Busaidi sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar among global empires, and connections to late-Ottoman dabbling in imperial influence.


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Jeffery Dyer is a PhD candidate at Boston College studying Ottoman global history
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Zanzibar: Imperial Visions and Ottoman Connections," Jeffery Dyer and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 82 (December 1, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/11/zanzibar-swahili-coast-africa-imperialism.html.

Zanzibar motor road bordered by clove trees and stately palms,1936
Maston Photo Service (LOC - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010003156/PP/)

Drying cloves at Zanzibar, c. 1890-1923 - Carpenter Collection (LOC - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001705556/)
Zanzibar, Bags of cloves, 1936 - Matson Photo Service (LOC - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010003176/PP/)
Zanzibar fruit market, 1936 - Matson Photo Service (LOC - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010003166/PP/)

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Benett, Norman Robert. A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar. London: Methuen & Co., 1978

Burton, Richard Francis.  Zanzibar: City, Island, Coast.  London: Tinsley, 1872.

Kavas, Ahmed. "Dogu Afrika Sahlinde Osmanli Hakimiyeti: Kuzey Somali'de Zeyla Iskelesinin Konumu (1265-1334/1849-1916)" Islam Arastirmalari Dergisi 5 (Istanbul, 2001) 109-134.

Kumar, Ravinder.  “The Dismemberment of Oman and British Policy Towards the Persian Gulf.” Islamic Culture. Vol. 36 (1962): 8-19.

Toledano, Ehud R. The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression, 1840-1890. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1982.  

Uğur, Hatice. Osmanlı Afrika'sında Bir Sultanlık Zengibar. Küre Yayınları 2005.


Episode Music: Master Musicians of Tanzania - Lukunzi

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Hello Anatolia: Interview with Filmmaker Valantis Stamelos

December 9, 2012, 6:12 am
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Smyrna c.1900 (Lazaretto - LOC)
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/89715616/
After centuries of living side by side with other communities in the Ottoman Empire, most of the Greeks and Orthodox Christians of Anatolia were exiled to Greece and elsewhere in the aftermath of World War I, the Greek occupation of Western Anatolia, the Turkish War of Independence, and the population exchanges that followed. Since then, reconciliation between Greece and Turkey has been hampered not only by an unwillingness of many to come to terms with this past but also an inability to imagine a different future. In this episode, we talk with Valantis Stamelos, a Greek-American filmmaker whose documentary entitled "Hello Anatolia" tells the story of his journey of return to establish new roots in Izmir, Turkey as well as get in touch with the old roots of the city's Greek community. 


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Valantis Stamelos is a filmmaker based in Izmir, Turkey (see Crescent Street Films website)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Check out the trailer for "Hello Anatolia":

 

Episode music from Hello Anatolia soundtrack by Yannis Saoulis
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Palestinianism and Zionism in the Ottoman Empire // Louis Fishman

December 16, 2012, 2:58 pm
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84.    Ottoman Brothers and Rivals

Map of late-Ottoman Jerusalem
While it is common knowledge that Zionist settlement in Palestine began during the Ottoman era, conventional historiography has under-emphasized the extent to which the issue of Palestine was a question that initially emerged in an Ottoman political and social context. In this podcast, Dr. Louis Fishman restores this Ottoman context and explores debates between Jewish and Palestinian Ottoman subjects during the Second Constitutional Era.



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Louis Fishman is an Assistant Professor of History at CUNY-Brooklyn College (see faculty page)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Emrah Safa Gürkan is a recent Ph.D. from the department of history at Georgetown University currently teaching at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Palestinianism and Zionism during the late-Ottoman period," Louis Fishman, Chris Gratien, and Emrah Safa Gürkan, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 84 (December 16, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/12/palestine-zionism-settlement-nationalism.html.

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Louis Fishman. "The Haram al-Sharif Incident: Palestinian Notables versus the Ottoman Administration," Journal of Palestine Studies, 135, Vol. XXXXIV, Number 3, Spring 2005.

Louis Fishman. "The Emergence of a “Jewish” Question in Istanbul 1908-1914: Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the 1911 Ottoman Parliament Debate on Zionism," in Ben-Bassat, Yuval and Eyal Ginio (eds.), Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011).

Recommend readings from other authors:

Ben-Bassat, Yuval and Eyal Ginio (eds.), Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011).

Campos, Michelle. Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine (Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2011)

Jacobson, Avigail. From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem Between Ottoman and British Rule (Space, Place, and Society) (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. 2011)

Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)

Tamari, Salim. Mountains Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture (Berkeley, University of California Press. 2009)

Music: Reem Kelani

Last Ottoman Nebi Musa Celebration, 1917
Anti-Zionist Demonstrations, 1920
British personnel conducting searches following Nebi Musa riots, 1920

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Christmas and Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire During WWI

December 20, 2012, 10:53 am
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85.     History and the Holidays

Christmas Day in Ottoman Bethlehem
American Colony, c1900-1920 (LOC)
World War I disrupted all aspects of life in Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Within the context of a brutal war, soldiers sought to protect the culturally-symbolic holiday of Christmas from these disruptions through events such as the Christmas Truce of 1914. In the Ottoman Empire, charity organizations and foreign governments worked with the Ottoman state to secure Christmas meals and privileges to contact their families for prisoners being kept in Anatolia. However, all-out war also brought conflict, violence, and politics to the Christmas season. In this podcast, we examine a few Christmas cases from the WWI period based on research in the Ottoman archives.


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Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Christmas and Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire During World War I," Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 85 (December 20, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/12/christmas-prisoners-of-world-war-europe-us.html.


~ To read the archival documents associated with this episode, see our article in Tozsuz Evrak ~


Music: Fairuz - Kenna Nzayyen Sajra Sgheeri and Talj Talj
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Indian POWs in the Ottoman Empire during World War I // Vedica Kant

December 28, 2012, 12:27 am
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86.      Social History of War

During World War I, over 600,000 troops from South Asia were part of the British army's invasion of Ottoman Iraq. Thousands were taken prisoner in this campaign and became part of a larger story that is the tragedy of the First World War, witnessing and sharing the plight of deported Armenians as they marched across Anatolia. In this podcast, Vedica Kant talks about the experience of Indian POWs in the Ottoman Empire as well as that of Ottoman soldiers captured by the British army and brought to India and Burma, with additional commentary by Robert Upton regarding military recruitment in British India and the complex relationship between imperialism, war, and nationalism for Indian intellectuals of the period.


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Vedica Kant is a graduate of Oxford University's Middle Eastern Studies program
Robert Upton is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Oxford University
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Indian Soldiers and POWs in the Middle East during World War I," Vedica Kant, Robert Upton, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 86 (December 21, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/12/world-war-indian-soldiers-prisoners.html.

The audio clip at the beginning of the podcast is a rare recording of the voice of a Punjabi POW in Germany during World War I named Mal Singh. In the recording, which was made in December of 1916, Mal Singh expresses his desire to return home after having been imprisoned by the German army. To hear the entire recording, click here. (Source: Amin Mughal Links)

Select Bibliography


Santanu Das (ed.), Race, Empire and First World War Writing (New York: Cambridge. University Press, 2011)

David Omissi, Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldier's Letters, 1914-18 (Palgrave, 1999)

Cemalettin Taşkıran, Ana Ben Ölemedim: I. Dünya Savaşında Türk Esirlerleri (İş Bankası Yayınları, 2011)

S. D. Pradhan, ‘Indian Army and the First World War’ in DeWitt C. Ellinwood and S. D. Pradhan, India and World War I (New Delhi, Manohar, 1978).

Briton Cooper Busch, Britain, India, and the Arabs (University of. California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1971)

India's Contribution to the Great War (Calcutta, Government of India, 1923)

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Indian Troops Manning Lewis Gun on Mesopotamian Front, 1918
Source: Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive
Indian military engineers in Mesopotamia, World War I
Source: Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive
Moslem Indian Guard at the Mosque of Omar [Dome of the Rock], 1917
Source: Library of Congress
Indian cavalry passing through Haifa following the city's capture, 1918
Source: Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive
Indian Troops, World War I
Source: Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive
Indian Soldiers in France, c1914-15
Source: Library of Congress
Indian Troops at Gas Mask Drill, World War I
Source: Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive

Wounded Indian Soldier on Western Front, World War I
Source: Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive

Indian soldiers at Rufiji, German East Africa, 1916
Source: Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive
Ottoman Prisoners of War in Bellary, India, 1916
Soruce: 7/24 Magazin
Ottoman Prisoners of War in Burma, World War I
Source: Vedica Kant
Letter from Ottoman prisoner of war in Burma to wife in Istanbul, 1916
Source: K-Haber


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2012: Year in Review

January 1, 2013, 1:04 pm
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with Selim Kuru and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
Ottoman Summer School in Cünda, Turkey, July 2012
Emrah Safa Gürkan and I started Ottoman History Podcast in the Spring of 2011, but 2012 was the beginning of a new trajectory for us. We upgraded our equipment and production value, and we expanded our audience  through our Facebook group and other outlets using historical photographs and additional materials. Our episodes, which by the end of the 2012 numbered more than 80, featured the contributions of over 40 scholars and researchers from eleven countries and more than twenty institutions. 

We also added more people to the team. Elçin Arabacı joined up to help with our images collection, and with the initiative of Sam Dolbee, we also launched the Tozsuz Evrak document blog, where we have posted dozens of short articles showcasing interesting archival documents and primary sources. Zachary Foster expanded our operations through remote submissions of episodes from Princeton. 

with Vedica Kant
Beit Majed, Istanbul, December 2012
In our first year of podcasting, our guests were largely limited to scholars studying and teaching at Georgetown University, and thus, our scope was limited to the expertise of those scholars. In 2012, one of our goals was to expand our coverage of Ottoman history through diversifying our ranks and exploring new  and developing areas of inquiry.

Environmental history has emerged as an exciting new area for researchers working on the Ottoman Empire and Middle East, and we dealt with environment and ecology in a number of episodes. Alan Mikhail, whose work entitled Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt earned the 2011 Roger Owen Book Award at MESA, came on the podcast to discuss the ways in which Ottoman provinces such as Egypt were linked to the imperial center through ecology and food networks. Timur Hammond led a round-table discussion on major debates and themes in the emerging field of Middle East environmental history with Sam Dolbee, Elizabeth Williams, and yours truly. Graham Pitts came on to talk about agriculture in the twentieth-century Middle East in a comparative perspective, touching on the cases of Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, and Syria. Sam Dolbee talked about rural development and ecology at AUB under the French Mandate.

Nora Barakat's episode on late Ottoman Transjordan also touched on agrarian transformations in the Middle East, focusing on nomads and changing patterns of settlement in the region through the interface of tribal communities and evolving Ottoman legal structures.

On the other side of the social history spectrum, many of our guests dealt with issues of cultural history and literature. Aslı Niyazioğlu's podcast that examined the role of dreams in Ottoman literature and politics and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano's episode on ritual slaughter of horses in early Ottoman sources stressed the importance of reading literature in its sociopolitical context and highlighted the ways in which literature can be better used as a source for Ottoman history. The same was true for Selim Kuru's discussion of sex, love, and worship in Ottoman classical texts, which was one of our most popular episodes of the year. Didem Havlioğlu likewise sought to highlight the presence of women literati among Ottoman intellectuals.

Hydrocephalus Treatment
Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu, Cirahiyyetü'l-Haniyye
By this same token, art was an important concern of ours that brought new media to the podcast format.  Using Islamic calligraphic art as a window onto larger cultural and historiographical issues, Irvin Cemil Schick challenged scholarship focused on a perceived lack of figural art in Muslim societies. Emily Neumeier used a painting of mysterious origins to explore the life and times of Osman Hamdi Bey, a famous Ottoman painter and antiquarian. Elçin Arabacı's dicussion of an early Ottoman illustrated surgery manual easily provided the most interesting (and graphic) images of the year. Mehmet Uğur Ekinci offered an overview of Ottoman classical music and its historical transformations using sample recordings of different compositions in one of our most well-received "historiographical mixtapes." 

In fact, in 2012 we were able to introduce a number of historiographical mixtapes that explored history through music and music through history, including an episode on music in Lebanon, a musical biography of the enigmatic and controversial singer Asmahan, and an assortment of folk songs (türkü) that cast light onto aspects of Ottoman and modern Turkish history featuring the contribution of Elçin Arabacı.

In addition to introducing these emerging topics in the study of Ottoman history, we also explored new approaches to familiar issues. Kahraman Şakul outlined what he referred to as a new military history, an approach that expands the purvey of military history beyond the battles and the strategy to include many social history topics related to warfare. Vedica Kant's discussion of the experience of Indian and Ottoman prisoners of war during World War I provided a ready example of this new approach.

Einar Wigen and Timur Hammond
Swedish Institute, Istanbul, October 2012
Likewise, Emrah Safa Gürkan's comments on the role of factions in the imperial capital provided an important critique to the longstanding model of a rational and monolithic Ottoman state, and Nicholas Danforth weighed new and old ways of periodizing the history of modern Turkey. In a podcast on conceptual history, Einar Wigen even went so far as to discuss whether or not the Ottomans ever conceived of their state as an "empire" in the way we refer to it today.

As many of these new themes in Ottoman history have been influenced by trends in the historiography of other world regions, it is not surprising that global perspectives played an important role in many of our episodes. Our round-table with Michael Polczynski, Elena Abbott, and Soha El Achi that discussed slavery in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea centered on the differences in slavery as practiced in different regions of the world and the continuities and parallels that linked these differing practices. Andrew Arsan's episode on Ottoman migration to the Americas and other parts of the world and Jeffery Dyer's contribution on Zanzibar looked at the often overlooked presence of large numbers of Ottoman citizens in emerging imperial spheres of the nineteenth century. Madeleine Elfenbein's talk on Evliya Çelebi and Michael Polczynski's discussion of an Ottoman Armenian traveler from Poland highlighted the broader trend to emphasize the inclusion of the Middle East in the story of early modern explorations and travel.

The discussion of commodities was also an important subset of this global discussion, but we did not feature any podcasts on familiar commodities such as sugar or cotton. Instead we examined lesser-studied trade items such as drugs in the Eastern Mediterranean with Zachary Foster and talked about taste in Graham Cornnwell's episode on the spread of tea in Morocco and my half-serious contribution on the rise and fall of the Ottoman among European furniture styles. 

Emrah Safa Gürkan and Louis Fishman
Kurtuluş, Istanbul, December 2012
Just as in 2011, Palestine was an important part of the conversation as well. Louis Fishman discussed the emergence of "Palestinianism" and Zionism within the context of Ottoman political pluralism following the 1908 constitutional reforms, and Zachary Foster explored the long history of the name "Palestine" under Ottoman rule.  

The legacy of Anatolia's Greek inhabitants received treatment in a number of episodes. The influence of Greek language in the Trabzon region was an important part of Bernt Brendemoen's podcast on the early spread of Turkish in Anatolia and the Black Sea dialects. Ayça Baydar explored the self-identification of Karamanlis--the Orthodox Christian inhabitants of Western and Central Anatolia--during the empire's final decades, and Valantis Stamelos, a Greek-American who has made a new home in his ancestral Izmir, introduced his film about reconciliation that explores his move to Izmir and the life of the Greek community in Turkey today.

2012 was a big year for the Ottoman History Podcast in other ways, too. With the initiative and collaboration of Aslı Niyazioğlu, Emrah and I conducted a podcasting workshop sponsored by the KOLT center at Koç University that helped an undergraduate class of history students develop podcast projects as a fun and interactive way of expanding their outlets for creative and academic output. On the personal side, I moved to Istanbul and began my dissertation research on the social environmental history of Ottoman Çukurova, and Emrah finished his dissertation on spy networks and information in the early modern Mediterranean. Even more momentous than these changes was the birth of Emrah and his wife Elif's beautiful daughter Zeynep, who, if she is anything like her father, may well be talking enough to do a podcast of her own by the end of next year.

This was just a brief summary of what we did in 2012. Look forward to many new additions as well as more of the same in 2013. For more, visit this link, which provides a complete listing of our episodes thus far. You can subscribe to the Ottoman History Podcast using our podcast feed or through our page in podcast listings such as iTunes.


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Diplomat bir Şehzade'nin portresi: II. Selim // Güneş Işıksel

January 3, 2013, 10:59 pm
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87.    A Prince and a Diplomat


Genelde hükümdar merkezli bir siyasi tarih anlayışı geliştiren Osmanlı tarihyazımı ironik bir şekilde bu hükümdarlar üzerine kapsamlı biyografiler üretememiştir. Bu podcastimizde Collège de France ve Sorbonne Üniversitesi’nden Dr. Güneş Işıksel ile II. Selim’in şehzadelik dönemine odaklanarak üzerine pek fazla bilgimizin olmadığı bir alan olan Osmanlı diplomasisini inceledik. Modern Osmanlı Devleti’nin oluşumu ve egemenlik anlayışı gibi kavramlar çerçevesinde bir şehzadenin diplomatik etkinliğini ele alarak, gereğinden fazla payitaht merkezli bir Osmanlı siyasi tarihinin de eleştirisini yapmaya çalıştık. 

Even though Ottoman historiography was generally centered on Sultans and their reigns, ironically, it did not produce biographies of these rulers. In this episode, Güneş Işıksel explores Selim II's period as a prince and his role in diplomacy during the reign of his father Suleiman the Magnificent (note: this episode is in Turkish). 



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Yeniçağ Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Diplomasi Tarihi üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Güneş Işıksel Collège de France ve Paris-Sorbonne Üniversitesi'nde (Paris IV) doktora sonrası çalışmalarını yürütmektedir. (see academia.edu)
Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde ders vermektedir. (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Diplomat bir Şehzade'nin portresi: II. Selim," Güneş Işıksel, Emrah Safa Gürkan, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 87 (January 4, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/01/sultan-selim-ii-biography-prince-diplomat.html

Select Bibliography


Prince Selim II with wine cup
Aga Khan Museum
Güneş Işıksel, "A letter of Shahzade Selîm to Charles IX of France on  “Nassi Affair”", Cuadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, VII (2007): 245-254.
Güneş Işıksel, "La politique étrangère ottomane dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle : le cas du règne de Selîm II (1566-1574)" (Doktora Tezi, EHESS, 2012).

İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı, "İran Şahı’na İltica Etmiş Olan Şehzade Bayezid`in Teslimi için Sultan Süleymân ve Oğlu Selim Tarafından Şah’a Gönderilen Altınlar ve Kıymetli Hediyeler", Belleten, XXIV/93 (1960): 103-110.

Gilles Veinstein, "Une lettre de Selim II au roi de Pologne Sigismond-Auguste sur la campagne d’Astrakhan de 1569", Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, LXXXII (1992): 397-420.

Gilles Veinstein, "Autour de la lettre de Selim II aux andalous et des origines de la guerre de Chypre", in Encarnación Sanchez, García Pablo Martín Asuero, Michele Bernardini (éd.), España y el Oriente islámico entre los siglos XV y XVI. Imperio Otomano, Persia y Asia central (Istanbul, Isis, 2007): 271-281.

Bülent Arı, "Early Ottoman diplomacy: ad hoc period" in A. Nuri Yurdusev (éd.), Ottoman diplomacy: conventional or unconventional? (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2004): 36-65.

Metin Kunt, “A prince goes forth (perchance to return)” in Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World: A Volume of Essays in Honour of Norman Itzkowitz, eds. B. Tezcan and Karl K. Barbir (Wisconsin: Wisconsin University Press, 2007), pp. 63-71

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Malaria: Global Themes and Ottoman Connections // Chris Gratien & Sam Dolbee

January 13, 2013, 6:39 am
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This three-part series provides an introduction to the historical study of malaria with special emphasis on the place of the Ottoman Empire and Middle East in the story of human interaction with the disease.

Part One:

Malaria is a disease that has been with human society since our earliest days. It has shaped our relationship with our environment throughout time, thereby changing the course of history. In our three part series on malaria, we look at malaria on the global stage and in the Ottoman Empire in particular, as well as more recent scientific approaches to malaria during the last century. This first episode examines malaria in the long durée and its various interactions with human society.


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Malaria was present in much of the Ottoman Empire throughout its six centuries of existence; yet, the relationship between humans and the disease environment was anything but unchanging. In this second part of our three part series on the history of malaria, we discuss the role of the disease in Ottoman history, make some observations about changes in settlement and disease, and explore early attempts to control malaria through state interventions and the use of science and medicine.


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Part Three:

The discovery of the malaria parasite and the mosquito as its vector changed human understandings of the disease and gave rise to scientific and medical approaches that mixed new and old practices. The twentieth century saw a great push to eliminate malaria from many parts of the world, and while these programs had successes, they also led to unintended consequences. In this third and final part of our three part series on the history of malaria, we discuss new approaches to malaria that arose both in colonial settings and within the framework of new nation states, touching on the cases of Turkey, India, Algeria, Israel/Palestine, Italy, the US and others.



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Sam Dolbee is a PhD candidate in the department of Middle East Studies at New York University
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Malaria: Global Themes and Ottoman Connections," Chris Gratien and Sam Dolbee, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 88 (January 13, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/01/malaria-disease-treatment-world.html.


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I. Selim imgesi ve 17. yüzyılda Osmanlı şehirlilerinin tarih algısı / Tülün Değirmenci

January 19, 2013, 12:01 am
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Günümüzde tarihin nasıl algılandığı, yeniden üretildiği, sembolize ve politize edildiği tartışılırken, geçmiş toplumların kendi geçmişlerini nasıl algıladıkları sıklıkla gözden kaçmaktadır. Bu podcastımızda Yard. Doç. Dr. Tülün Değirmenci resimli el yazmalarındaki I. Selim (1512-1520) imgesi üzerinden 17. yüzyıl Osmanlı şehirlilerinin tarih algısını  inceliyor. Siyaset, popüler algı ve tarihyazımı arasındaki ilişkiyi gözler önüne sermekle kalmıyor, ikonografi, kitap üretimi ve okuma kültürü gibi Osmanlı entellektüel tarihinin önemli mevzularını da mercek altına alıyor.

In spite of lively debate regarding how history is reconstructed today, historians have paid less attention to how past societies perceived their own past. In this episode, based on a seventeenth-century illustrated manuscript, Tülün Değirmenci explores how 17th century Ottoman city-dwellers perceived the controversial figure of Sultan Selim I (note: this episode is in Turkish).


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Osmanlı Sanat Tarihi, Resimli Kitaplar ve Okuma Kültürü üzerine eserler veren Yard. Doç. Dr. Tülün Değirmenci Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümü'nde ders vermekte ve Koç Üniversitesi Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi'nde Senior Fellow olarak araştırma yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu).
Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde ders vermektedir. (see academia.edu)

Citation: "I. Selim imgesi ve 17. yüzyılda Osmanlı şehirlilerinin tarih algısı," Tülün Değirmenci, Emrah Safa Gürkan, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 89 (January 19, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/01/sultan-selim-image-art.html.

SEÇME KAYNAKÇA


Selahattin Tansel, Yavuz Sultan Selim, Ankara: Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Yay. 1969.

 Feridun M. Emecen, Yavuz Sultan Selim, İstanbul: Yitik Hazine Yayınları, 2010

 Şehabeddin Tekindağ, “Selim-Nâmeler,” İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih Enstitüsü Dergisi, 1 (Ekim 1970),…

Ahmet Uğur, “Selim-Nâmeler,” Ankara Üniversitesi İlâhiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, XXII, (1978): 367-379

Tülün Değirmenci, “Bir kitabı kaç kişi okur? Osmanlı’da Okurlar ve Okuma Biçimleri Üzerine Bazı Gözlemler,” Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar, 13 (Aralık 2011): 7-43.

Tülün Değirmenci, “Şah İsmail’in Gözdesi Tâclı Hanım’ın Tasviri,” Toplumsal Tarih, 211 (Temmuz 2011): 42-45.

Bağcı, Serpil, Filiz Çağman, Günsel Renda ve Zeren Tanındı. Osmanlı Resim Sanatı, (İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, 2006).

Images


Bayezid II fighting his son Selim at Uğraşdere (Selīm-nāme, TSMK, H. 1597-8, f. 44a)
Selim I fighting his brother Ahmed (Selīm-nāme, TSMK, H. 1597-8, f. 83b)
Bayezid II's Funeral (Selīm-nāme, TSMK, H. 1597-8, f. 62a)
Battle of Chaldiran (Selīm-nāme, TSMK, H. 1597-8)
Selim I on his deathbed (Selīm-nāme, TSMK, H. 1597-8, f. 267a)

Music: Golden Horn Ensemble - Tanbur Taksimi
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Producing Pera: A Levantine Family and the Remaking of Istanbul

January 24, 2013, 2:23 pm
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During the nineteenth century, the urban space of Istanbul was transformed by actors consciously involved in reshaping the face of Ottoman and high society in this European capital. In this episode, Nilay Özlü explores the culture and architecture of the Pera neighborhood during these formative years through the story of three generations of the Vallaury family, Levantine Istanbulites who rose to prominence in the fields of cuisine, cafe culture, and finally architecture through the figure of Alexander Vallaury.


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Nilay Özlü is a PhD student in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University focusing on urban and architectural history (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Producing Pera: A Levantine Family and the Remaking of Istanbul," Nilay Özlü and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 90 (January 25, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/01/pera-istanbul-architecture.html.

Select Bibliography

Kayaalp, N. (2008), Pera'nın Yersiz Yurtsuz Kahamanları, Unpuplished Thesis, Istanbul: YTÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü.

Akın, N. (2002), 19. Yüzyılda Galata ve Pera, Literatür Yayınları.

Bozdoğan, S. (2007), "Reading Ottoman Architecture through modernist lenses: Nationalist Historiography and the "New Architecture" in the Early Republic", Muqarnas 24.

Çelik, Z., (1993), The Remaking of Istanbul Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Pres, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.

Eldem, E. (2006) "Levanten Kelimesi Üzerine", in A. Yumul, ed., Avrupalı mı Levanten mi, Istanbul: Bağlam.

Eldem, E., (2000a), Bankalar Caddesi Osmanlı'dan Günümüze Voyvoda Caddesi, Osmanlı Bankası Bankacılık ve Finans Tarihi Arastırma ve Belge Merkezi,  Istanbul.

Mardin, Ş., (2007), Türk Modernlesmesi Makaleler 4,  İletisim Yayınları,  Istanbul.

Ortaylı, İ., (2002),  İmparatorluğun En Uzun Yüzyılı,  İletisim Yayınları,  Istanbul.

Images

View of Pera and Galata, c1870-1910, Guillaume Berggren (LOC)
Pera (Istiklal) Street, Istanbul (SALT Araştırma)
Letter from François Vallauri to Ali Paşa (BOA)
Galata Steps, Sébqh & Joaillier
Pera (Istiklal) and Sahne Streets Intersection, François Vallauri's cafe was on the (left) corner
Formerly Cafe Lebon, operated by François Vallauri's son in law Edward Lebon, interior was designed by Vallauri's
son architect Alexander Vallaury. (Photo: Nilay Özlü)

Students and Teachers of Ottoman School of Fine Arts, Alexander Vallaury taught architecture there.
He is seated in the front and wearing a bowler hat.
Ottoman Archaeology Museum, founded by Osman Hamdi Bey and Designed by Alexander Vallaury
Sébah & Joaillier (LOC)
Plans for the Ottoman Imperial Bank, designed by Alexander Vallaury (SALT Araştırma)
View of Galata from the Golden Horn. The Ottoman Imperial Bank looms above.
Abdullah Freres c. 1880-1893 (LOC)
Ballroom of Pera Palace (Palas) Hotel in Istanbul (Yapı Dergisi)

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Translating Pamuk // Bernt Brendemoen

January 31, 2013, 2:02 pm
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from Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence, Istanbul
Source: Hürriyet Daily News
Orhan Pamuk is easily the most well-known Turkish novelist outside of Turkey, and his works have been translated into dozens of languages. In this episode, linguist Bernt Brendemoen, who has translated a number of Pamuk's works into Norweigian, shares some of his experiences from working with the author and other translators and some thoughts on the message of Pamuk's literature and new museum based on the novel Museum of Innocence (Masumiyet Müzesi).


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Bernt Brendemoen is a Professor of Turkology at the University of Oslo in Norway (see faculty page)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Translating Pamuk," Bernt Brendemoen and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 91 (February 1, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/12/orhan-pamuk-translation-museum-of-innocence.html.

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Geography, Knowledge, and Mapping Ottoman History / Nick Danforth & Timur Hammond

February 7, 2013, 11:23 am
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Detail of Istanbul Tourist Map, 1940s
Maps are as useful as they are problematic. They not only represent spaces in a particular way but also shape the way people interact with those spaces. In this episode, Timur Hammond discusses trends in scholarly approaches to cartography over the past decades as Nick Danforth and Chris Gratien unveil their new website the Afternoon Map, a collection of provocative and useful maps related to Ottoman and modern Turkish history.


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Nicholas Danforth is a PhD candidate studying the history of modern Turkey at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Timur Hammond is a PhD candidate in the Geography department at UCLA studying the social and cultural geography of modern Turkey
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Citation: "Geography and Mapping Ottoman/Turkish History," Nicholas Danforth, Timur Hammond, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 92 (February 8, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/02/maps-ottoman-empire-turkey-middle-east.html

Maps mentioned in this episode include:

Intikam
Marmara Canal
Plans for Soviet Invasion
What the Greeks Destroyed
Cihannuma Map of Bosphorus
Ottoman Map of North America
Tourist Map of Beirut
Illustrated Economy of Turkey

Select Bibliography

Casey, Edward S. Representing Place: Landscape Paintings and Maps. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Cosgrove, Denis. Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 2008.
–––, ed. Mappings. London: Reaktion Books, 1999.
Harley, J.B.. The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Harley, J.B. and David Woodward, eds. The History of Cartography, 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Karamustafa, Ahmet T. “Introduction to Ottoman Cartography” and “Military, Administrative, and Scholarly Maps and Plans,” The History of Cartography, eds. Harley and Woodward, vol. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

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Tedirgin Anadolu // Taylan Akyıldırım

February 14, 2013, 3:45 pm
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Ottoman Sipahis
Germany, 16th Century

Osmanlı tarihçileri uzun bir zamandır 17. yüzyılın krizlerle dolu ilk yarısında klasik Osmanlı kurumlarının geçirdiği büyük dönüşümlere odaklanmaktadır. Bu podcastımızda Taylan Akyıldırım le Anadolu’yu tamamen etkisi altına alıp önemli siyasi, iktisadi ve toplumsal etkiler yaratan Celali İsyanları üzerine konuştuk. Küçük Buz Çağı, Fiyat Devrimi, Osmanlı gerilemesi, Askeri Devrim gibi paradigmalar çerçevesinde bu isyanların nedenleri ve sonuçları üzerinde durmaya çalıştık.

Ottoman historians have long focused on the radical transformation of classical Ottoman institutions during the first half of the seventeenth century. In this podcast, Taylan Akyıldırım discusses the political, economic and social effects of the Celali Revolts that dominated the entire Anatolian countryside. He tries to underline the reasons for and consequences of these revolts within the frameworks of paradigms such as the Little Ice Age, the Price Revolution, Ottoman Decline and the Military Revolution. Note: the podcast is in Turkish.


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Konya ve Larende yöresinde Celali İsyanları'nın etkileri üzerine doktorasını hazırlayan Taylan Akyıldırım Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde doktora çalışmalarında bulunmaktadır
Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde ders vermektedir (see academia.edu)
Yakınçağ Orta Doğu Tarihi çalışan Chris Gratien Georgetown Üniversitesi'nde doktora yapmaktadır (academia.edu)

SEÇME KAYNAKÇA

Akdağ, Mustafa,  Türk Halkının Dirlik ve Düzenlik Kavgası Celâlî İsyanları, YKY, İstanbul 2009
Barkan, Ömer Lütfi, “Tarihi Demografi Araştırmaları ve Osmanlı Tarihi”, Türkiyat Mecmuası 10 (1951-53), s.1-27

Cipolla, Carlo M., The Economic History of World Population, Penguin Books, Baltimore 1970

Cook, Michael, Population Pressure in Rural Anatolia,1450-1600, London: Oxford University Press, 1972

Faroqhi, Suraiya, “Krizler ve Değişim,1590-1699”, Halil İnalcık-Donald Quataert (ed.), Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi, cilt 2, s. 543-759

Goldstone, Jack, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, University of California Press, Berkeley 1991

Griswold, William, Anadolu’da Büyük İsyan 1591-1611, çev. Ülkün Tansel, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul 2000

İnalcık, Halil, “Military and Fiscal Transformation in the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1700”, Archivum Ottomanicum 6 (1980), s.283-337

İslamoğlu-İnan, Huri, State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire: Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Development in Ottoman Anatolia during the Sixteenth Century, Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1994

Kuniholm, Peter, “Archeological Evidence and Non-Evidence for Climatic Change”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A330, s.645-655

McGowan, Bruce, Economic Life in Ottoman Europe: Taxation, Trade, and Struggle for Land, 1600-1800, Cambridge University Press, 1981

Özel, Oktay, “Population Changes in Ottoman Anatolia during the 16th and 17th
Centuries: the Demographic Crisis‟ Reconsidered,”  International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 36 (2004), s. 183-205

Özel, Oktay, “Banditry, State and Economy: On the Financial Impact of the Celâli
Movement in Ottoman Anatolia” Halil İnalcık and Oktay Özel (ed.), IXth Congress of Economic and Social History of Turkey, Dubrovnik, 20-23 August 2001 (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 2005), s. 65-74.

Özel, Oktay, “The Reign of Violence: The Celâlis (c.1550-1700)”, in Christine Woodhead (ed.), The Ottoman World, London and New York: Routledge

Özel, Oktay, “17. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Demografi ve İskan Tarihi İçin Önemli Bir Kaynak: 'Mufassal' Avârız Defterleri,” XII. Türk Tarih Kongresi, Ankara, 12-16 Eylül 1994, Kongreye Sunulan Bildiriler, III , TTK Basımevi, Ankara 1999), s. 735-744.

Parker, Geoffrey, Europe in Crises, 1598-1648, London: Fontana History of Europe, 1990
Tezcan, Baki, The Second Ottoman Empire Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World,  Cambridge University Press, 2010

Todorova, Maria, “Was There a Demographic Crisis in the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century?” Etudes Balkaniques 2 (1988),  s.55-63
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Salonica in the Age of Ports / Sotiris Dimitriadis

February 23, 2013, 7:41 am
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Salonica, 1913
Albert Kahn Collection
Following the First World War, Eastern Mediterranean port cities lost much of their cosmopolitan character with the rise of nationalism. Given the violent and disruptive nature of this change, it is natural that these multicultural spaces are remembered with a great deal of nostalgia. However, the cosmopolitan nature of the port was also the product of a certain historical context in which Mediterranean ports became important spaces of contact, conflict, and social change. In this episode, Sotiris Dimitriadis reconstructs this historical context and explains the ways in which the urban space of Salonica (in modern-day Greece) was refashioned as part of the economic and social transformation of the Ottoman Empire during the Tanzimat period.


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Sotiris Dimitriadis is a PhD candidate at SOAS in London focusing on urban space in the nineteeth-century Mediterranean
Nir Shafir is a PhD candidate at UCLA focusing on history of science and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Select Bibliography


Salonique 1850-1918: La ‘Ville des Juifs’ et le Reveil des Balkans, ed. Gilles Venstein (Paris: Autrement, 1992)

Alexandra Yerolympos, Urban Transformations in the Balkans (1820-1920) (Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 1996)

Meropi Anastassiadou, Salonique: Une Ville Ottomane à l'Âge des Réformes (Leiden: Brill, 1997)

Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews (London: Harper Collins, 2004)

Çağlar Keyder, Y. Eyüp Özveren, and Donald Quataert, “Port Cities in the Ottoman Empire: Some Theoretical and Historical Perspectives” in Review, a Journal of Fernand Braudel Center, XVI, 4 (Fall 1993), pp. 519-558

Jens Hanssen, Fin de Siecle Beirut: the making of an Ottoman provincial capital (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003)

Malte Fuhrmann and Vangelis Kechriotis, "The late Ottoman port-cities and their inhabitants: subjectivity, urbanity, and conflicting orders" in Mediterranean Historical Review, 24,2 (December 2009), 71-78

Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Ottoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880 (Minneapolis and London: University of Minessota Press, 2012)


Images

All images provided by Sotiris Dimitriadis. To learn more about these pictures, click here to view our album on Facebook.

Villa Allatinin (Source: Municipality of Thessaloniki, Digitalisation of Cultural Documents)

Jewish Cemetery of Salonica (Source: Municipality of Thessaloniki, Digitalisation of Cultural Documents)


Map of Salonica Train Station (Source: Ottoman Archives)

The "Konak," Government House in Ottoman Salonica

Sultan Mehmed Reşad V at Aya Sofia in Salonica

Le Progress de Salonique, July 25, 1908




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Ottoman Qur'an Printing / Brett Wilson

March 3, 2013, 4:53 am
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Printing in Ottoman Turkish first emerged during the eighteenth century. Yet, even when print had arrived in full force by the middle of the nineteenth century, it remained forbidden to print the text most sought after by Ottoman readers: the Qur'an. In this episode, Brett Wilson discusses the rise of print and Qur'an printing in the Ottoman Empire as well as the emergence of Turkish translations of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman and early Republican eras.


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Brett Wilson in an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College (see academia.edu)
Nir Shafir is a PhD candidate at UCLA focusing on history of science and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
The audio clip preceding this episode is a recording of a Turkish version of the Fatiha composed by Hamdi Döndüren and read by Ahmet Deniz
Select Bibliography

Page of Qur'an copied by
Kadıasker Mustafa İzzet Efendi,
a proofreader of first Ottoman printed
Qur'an (1837)
George N. Atiyeh, The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East (Albany: State University of New York Press; Library of Congress, 1995).

Michael W. Albin, "Printing of the Qurʾān." Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān. General Editor: Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Georgetown University, Washington DC. Brill).

Nedret Kuran Burçoğlu. "Osman Zeki Bey and His Printing Office the Matbaa-i Osmaniye." in History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, edited by Philip Sadgrove and Colin Paul Mitchell. 35-58. New York: Middle East Studies Association of North America], 2007.

Malissa Taylor. "The Anxiety of Sanctity: Censorship and Sacred Texts." In XI To XVIII Centuries Islamic-Turkish Civilization and Europe International Symposium: Philosophy-State, Language-Literature-Art, Military, Daily Life, Image (Istanbul: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, 2006), 513-540.

M. Brett Wilson, “The First Translations of the Qur'an in Modern Turkey (1924-1938).” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 41 no. 3 (2009), 419-435.

M. Brett Wilson, “The Optional Ramadan Fast: The Debate over Qur'an v. 2:184 in the Early Turkish Republic,” in The Meaning of the Word:  Lexicology and Tafsīr. Ed. Stephen Burge (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming).
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Transportation and Public Space in Ottoman Istanbul / James Ryan

March 16, 2013, 7:16 am
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The spread of public transportation in the form of boats and trams in late Ottoman Istanbul changed the lived geography of the city and created new public spaces of interaction. In this episode, Jim Ryan discusses the debates surrounding social conduct and gender relations on the trams and how this new mode of transport fit into the larger transformations of Ottoman urban space.


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Sam Dolbee is a PhD candidate in the department of Middle East Studies at New York University
James Ryan is a PhD candidate in the department of History at University of Pennsylvania (see academia.edu)

Citation: "On the Tram: Transport and Public Space in Ottoman Istanbul," Jim Ryan, Sam Dolbee, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 97 (March 17, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/03/public-transport-rail-tram-istanbul.html.

Select Bibliography


Primary Sources

Babanzade, Ismali Hakkı, De Stamboul a Bagdad: Notes et Impressions d’un Homme d’Etat Turc Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1911

Gürsel, Nedim, The Last Tram Ruth Whitehouse trans., London: Comma Press 2011

Rasim, Ahmet, Fuhş-u Atık, Istanbul: İkdam Matbaası 1922

___________, Dünkü İstanbul Hovardalık, Istanbul: Arba Press 1987

Secondary Sources

Belenky, Masha, “Transitory Tales: Writing the Omnibus in Nineteenth-Century Paris” Dix-Neuf Vol. 16 No. 3, November 2012, pp. 283-303

Brummett, Palmira, Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908-1911 Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000

Çelik, Zeynep, Empire, Architecture and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2008

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Gülersoy, Çelik, Tramvay İstanbul’da Istanbul, Istanbul Kitapliği, 1989

Hanssen, Jens, Fin de Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital, New York, Oxford University Press 2005

Kayserlioğlu, R. Sertaç Dersaadet'ten Istanbul'a Tramvay Ikinci Bölüm Istanbul, İ.E.T.T Genel Müdürlüğü 1999

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Check out our article of the Afternoon Map by Nicholas Danforth for more information and maps about trams and transport in Istanbul

Images

“After the Lifting of the Tramway Curtain”
Türkiye Edebiyat Mecmuası Vol. 1 No. 1 September 1, 1924

Istanbul Electric Tramway Opening, 1914
R. Sertaç Kayserlioğlu /Dersaadet'ten Istanbul'a Tramvay/ 2inci Bölüm Istanbul, İ.E.T.T Genel Müdürlüğü 1999

Istanbul Tramway Map c1915-1920
R. Sertaç Kayserlioğlu /Dersaadet'ten Istanbul'a Tramvay/ 2inci Bölüm Istanbul, İ.E.T.T Genel Müdürlüğü 1999

“Mayıs Gezintisi: Asude köşe” (“A May Walk: A Serene Corner”)
reprinted in Gülersoy, Istanbul’da Tramvay p. 151

“Tombul Teyze tramvayda” (“Chubby Auntie on the tramway”)
reprinted in Gülersoy, Istanbul’da Tramvay p. 108


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19. yüzyıl Türk Edebiyatı'nda Müzik / Melda Üner

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Osmanlı toplumunun yaşamının hızla değiştiği bir dönem olan 19. yüzyılda sanat alanında da birçok yenilikler ortaya çıktı. Bu podcastın birinci bölümünde Doç. Dr. Melda Üner ile batılılaşma ve modernleşme paradigmaları çerçevesinde 19. yüzyıl Türk Edebiyatı’nda müzik ögesinin nasıl kullanıldığını konuşacağız. Dönemin bir çok edebi eseri üzerinde yoğunlaşarak Tanzimat ve Servet-i Fünûn gibi iki ayrı edebi dönemde Osmanlı aydınının batılılaşma ve modernleşme karşısındaki tavırlarını ve “Doğu” ile “Batı” arasındaki tercihlerini tartışacağız. Podcastımızın ikinci kısmında, Emrah Safa Gürkan Osmanlı edebiyatı'nda bahsi geçen klasik müzik eserlerini içeren ve Melda Üner, Murat Özkoyuncu ve Chris Gratien tarafından hazırlanan mixtape'imizi sunuyor. 

The nineteenth century not only radically transformed daily life in Ottoman society but also introduced new artistic styles. In part one of this podcast, Assoc. Prof. Melda Üner examines the element of music in nineteenth-century Turkish literature along the paradigms of westernization and modernization. Exploring a number of contemporary works, she focuses on Ottoman intellectuals’ attitudes towards westernization and modernization and demonstrates how they took sides between “East” and “West” in two different literary periods: the Tanzimat and Servet-i Fünûn. In the second part of the podcast, Emrah Safah Gürkan presents a mixtape organized by Melda Üner, Murat Özkoyuncu, and Chris Gratien displaying examples of European classical music referenced in Ottoman literature (podcast is in Turkish).

1. Bölüm   19. yüzyıl Türk Edebiyatı'nda Müzik: Melda Üner ile bir görüşme

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2. Bölüm    Osmanlı Romanlarından Klasik Batı Müziği Seçmeleri

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Tanzimat Dönemi'nden günümüze Türk Edebiyatı üzerine uzmanlaşan Doç. Dr. Melda Üner başkan yardımcılığı görevini de üstlendiği Yeditepe Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünde ders vermektedir. (bkz. academia.edu)
Yeniçağ Akdeniz Tarihi ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde ders vermektedir. (bkz. academia.edu)
Dr. Murat Özkoyuncu Andante Dergisi Yazar ve Eleştirmenidir (bkz. Andante)
Yakınçağ Orta Doğu Tarihi çalışan Chris Gratien Georgetown Üniversitesi'nde doktora yapmaktadır (bkz. academia.edu)


SEÇME KAYNAKÇA


İnceleme Kitapları:
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, XIX. Asır Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi, Yay.Haz. Abdullah Uçman (İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul 2006)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Edebiyat Üzerine Makaleler, Haz.: Zeynep Kerman (İstanbul: Dergâh Yayınları, 1992).
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, XIX. Asır Türk EdebiyatıTarihi (İstanbul: Çağlayan Kitabevi, 1967).
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Sanata Dair II (İstanbul: Hilmi Kitabevi, 1938).
Halid Ziya, Kırk Yıl III, (İstanbul: Cumhuriyet Gazetesi ve Matbaası, 1936). 
Ayşe Melda Üner, Roman ve Musiki (İstanbul: Simurg Kitapçılık, 2006).

Romanlar:
Ahmet Midhat Efendi, Felâtun Bey ve Rakım Efendi, Haz.: Necat Birinci (Ankara: Atatürk Kültür , Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2000).
Ahmet Midhat Efendi, Müşahedat, Haz.: Necat Birinci (Ankara: Atatürk Kültür , Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, 2000). 
Ahmet Midhat Efendi, Jön Türk, Haz.: Dr. Osman Gündüz (Ankara: Akçağ Basım Yayım Pazarlama A.Ş., 1999).
 Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Araba Sevdası, Haz. İsmail Parlatır, Nurullah Çetin ve Hakan Sazyek (İstanbul: Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Yayınları , 1997).
Mizancı Murat, Turfanda mı Yoksa Turfa Mı? (Ankara: Akçağ Yayınları, 1999).
Sami Paşazade Sezai, Sergüzeşt (İstanbul: Sahip ve Naşiri Kütüphane-i Sudî, İstanbul Bab-ı Âli Caddesi, Orhaniye Matbaası, 1924).
Nabizade Nazım, Zehra (Ankara: Akçağ Yayınları, 1997).
Fatma Aliye Hanım, Udî, (Dersaâdet: İkdam Matbaası, 1315/1899).
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Mai ve Siyah, Haz.: Enfel Doğan (İstanbul: Özgür Yayınları, 2007).
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Aşk-ı Memnu, Haz.: Muharrem Kaya (İstanbul: Özgür Yayınları, 2003).
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Nesl-i Ahir, Haz.: Alev Sınar Uğurlu (İstanbul: Özgür Yayınları, 2009).
Mehmet Rauf, Eylül, Haz.: Metin Martı (İstanbul: Arma Yayınları, 1998).

Müzik:

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Concerto per violino e orchestra in Mi minore op. 64
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1944

Giuseppe Verdi
La fatal pietra (Aida)
Nicola Zerola, 1909

Giuseppe Verdi
Pace, Pace, Mio Dio (La Forza Del Destino)
Rosa Ponselle, 1928

Charles Gounod
Je veux vivre dans le rêve (Roméo et Juliette)
Amelita Galli-Curci (1917)

Charles Gounod
'O merveille! ... A moi les plaisirs' (Faust)
 Enrico Caruso / Marcel Journet, 1910

Jacques Offenbach
Le roi plaintif qui s'embarque (La Belle Hélène)
Paris Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, 1952

Ludwig van Beethoven
Moonlight Sonata
Solomon, 1956

Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 2
Alfred Cortot, piano / John Barbirolli, conductor (1935)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Cleveland Orchestra, 1942

Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in C sharp Minor (No.20)
Vladimir Ashkenazy

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