Ottoman History, 2016-17

Professor Cemal Kafadar

Week 1 Intro: Surveys
1. Aksan, Virginia H. and Daniel Goffman, eds. The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping
the  Empire.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
2. Cambridge History of Turkey, 4 vols. ONLINE
3. Faroqhi, Suraiya, The Ottoman Empire : a Short History. Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener
Publishers, 2009.
4. Faroqhi, Suraiya, The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.
5. Findley, C. The Turks in World History, New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
6. Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream. The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923. New York:
Basic Books, 2006.
7. Hammer-Purgstall, Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches, Grossentheils aus bisher
unbenützten Handschriften und Archiven, Pest, 1827.
8. Inalcik, Halil. The Ottoman Empire. The Classical Age 1300-1600. London: Phoenix, 2000.
9. Inalcık, Halil and Donald Quatert, eds.  An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman
Empire, 1300-1914.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
10. Imber, Colin. The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650. The Structure of Power. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002. PDF
11. Itkowitz, Norman. Ottoman Empire and the Islamic Tradition. New York: Phoenix, 1980.
PDF
12. Jorga
13. Karpat Kemal, ed., The Ottoman state and its place in world history. Leiden : Brill, 1974.
14. Quataert, Donald, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambrige
University Press, 2005. PDF
15. Shaw, Stanford J. and Ezel Kural Shaw. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern
Turkey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. PDF
16. Woodhead, Christine, ed. Ottoman World. Routledge, 2012.
17. Faroqhi, Suraiya. Approaching Ottoman history: an introduction to the sources. Cambridge,
UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Week 2 Foundations

18. Kafadar, Cemal. Between two worlds : the construction of the Ottoman state. Berkeley :
University of California Press, 1995 - HARD

19. Lowry, Heath W. The nature of the early Ottoman state. Albany : State University of New
 York Press, 2003. PDF

20. Imber, Colin. The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1481.(Part on the Rise)

21. Heywood, Colin.”Boundless Dreams of the Levant”: Paul Wittek, the George-"Kreis", and
the Writing of Ottoman History,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and
Ireland, No. 1 (1989): 32-50 - PDF

22. Heywood, Colin.”A Subterranean History: Paul Wittek (1894–1978) and the Early Ottoman
State,” Die Welt des Islams 38/3 (1998): 386-405. PDF

23. Heywood, Colin. “The 1337 Bursa Inscription and its Interpreters,” Turcica 36 (2004): 215-
232 PDF

24. Kalus, Ludvik. “L’inscription de Bursa au nom du sultan Orḫān, datee de 738/1337-38:
comment faut-il la lire?“ Turcica 36 (2004): 233-251 PDF

Week 3 Mehmed II

25. Babinger, Franz. Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University
Press, 1978. PDF

26. İnalcık, Halil "Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time" (Book Review)”, Speculum: A Journal
of Medieval Studies, 1960 July, Vol.35(3), pp.408-27. PDF
27. İnalcık Murphey Ottoman Historians, Tursun Beg

28. Theoharis Stavrides, The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir
Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453-1474)
29. Memoirs of a Janissary

30. Çıpa, Erdem. “The Centrality of the Periphery: The Rise to Power of Selim I, 1487-1512”
PhD diss., Harvard University, 2007. PDF
31. Necipoğlu, Gülru. Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapı Palace in the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York, N.Y: Architectural History Foundation, 1991.
+ Necipoğlu, Gülru. "Virtual archaeology" in light of a new document on the topkapi palace's
waterworks and earliest buildings, circa 1509” Muqarnas, Vol 30, 2013, pp.315-350 PDF

32. Vısual Cosmopolıtanısm And Creative Translation: Artıstıc Conversatıons Wıth Renaıssance
Italy In Mehmed II’s Constantınople”,  Muqarnas, 2012, Vol.29(1), pp.1-81. PDF

33. Mavroudi, Maria. “Translations from Greek into Arabic at the court of Mehmed the
Conqueror,” in Ödekan Ayla, Nevra Necipoğlu, and Engin Akyürek, eds. The Byzantine
court : source of power and culture : papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül
Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul 21-23 June 2010, pp.195-207. Istanbul : Koç
University Press, 2013. – PDF
 Week 4 Ottoman empire and the world around it

34. Cihan Muslu, Ottoman-Mamluk Relations: Diplomacy and Perceptions, 2014 – intro and
conclusion

35. Hess, Andrew. “The Evolution of the Ottoman Seaborne Empire in the Age of the Oceanic
Discoveries, 1453-1525”, The American Historical Review, Vol. 75, No. 7 (Dec., 1970), pp.
1892-1919. PDF
36. Hess, Andrew. “The Ottoman Conquest of Egypt (1517) and the Beginning of the Sixteenth-
Century World War”, International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan.,
1973), pp. 55-76. PDF
37. Allouche, Adel. The Origins and Development of the Ottoman-Ṣafavid Conflict (906-
962/1500-1555). Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Bd. 91. Berlin: K. Schwarz Verlag, 1983.
PDF
38. Lindner, ch. 2-4
39. Hess, Andrew. “The battle of Lepanto and its place in Mediterranean history”, Past and
Present, Nov 1972, pp.53-73. PDF
40. Hess, Andrew. Forgotten Frontiers PDF, 1978
41. İnalcik, Kafadar, Süleymân the Second and His Time. İstanbul: Isis Press, 1993.
-İnalcık, ??
-Flemming, “Public Opinion under Sultan Süleyman”
-Issawi, “The Ottoman –Habsburg Balance of Forces”
-Elliot, “Ottoman Habsburg Rivalry: The European Perspective”
-Necipoğlu, “Süleyman the Magnificent and the Representation of Power in the Context of
Ottoman Habsburg-Papal Rivalry”
-Preto, “Relations between the Papacy, Venice and the Ottoman Empire in the Age of Süleyman
the Magnificence”
-Ortaylı, “Süleyman and Ivan: Two Autocrats of Eastern Europe”
-Murphey ??
42. Brummett, Palmira. Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery,
1994.

43. Casale, Giancarlo. The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

+Faroqhi, Suraiya, The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.
PDF
+Zachariadou, Elisavet A. Trade and crusade : Venetian Crete and the Emirates of Menteshe
and Aydin (1300-1415). Venice : Istituto ellenico di studi bizantini e postbizantini di Venezia per
tutti i paesi del mondo, 1983. 270 p. ???
Week 5 The magnificent century, decline consciousness and reassessment of the Ottoman
experience
44. Soliman le Magnifique et son temps, ed. Gilles Veinstein (Paris: La Documentation
Francaise, 1992):
-Fleischer, Cornell H. “The Lawgiver as Messiah: The Making of the Imperial Image in the
Reign of Süleymân,” in Soliman le Magnifique et son temps, ed. Gilles Veinstein (Paris: La
Documentation Francaise, 1992). 159-177.
-Imber, Colin. “Suleyman as Caliph of the Muslims: Ebu’s-suud’s Formulation of Ottoman
Dynastic Ideology,” in Ibid.
-Pierce, Leslie. The Family as Faction: Dynastic Politics in the reign of Suleyman.” In Ibid.
-Necipoğlu, Gülru, “A Kanun for the State, a Canon for the Arts,” in Ibid. 195-216.

45. Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri. Ottoman medicine : healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700.
Albany : SUNY Press, 2009. – Conclusion

46. + Kunt Metin and Christine Woodhead, eds. Süleyman the Magnificent and his age : the
Ottoman Empire in the early modern world. London ; New York : Longman, 1995. (entries
by Metin Kunt, Geza David, Suraya Faroqhi, Christine Woodhead, Colin Imber)

+Ahmed, Shahab ; Filipovic, Nenad “The Sultan's Syllabus: A Curriculum for the

Ottoman Imperial medreses Prescribed in a fermān of Qānūnī I Süleymān, Dated 973 (1565)”,
Studia Islamica, 1 January 2004, Issue 98/99, pp.183-218. PDF

47. Fleischer, Cornell H. Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian
Mustafa Ali (1541-1600), N.J: Princeton University Press, 1986.

48. Kafadar, Cemal, “The Myth of the Golden Age” // Inalcik, Kafadar, Süleymân the Second
and His Time. İstanbul: Isis Press, 1993

49. Kafadar,Cemal. “A Rome of One’s Own,” PDF

50. Kafadar, Cemal. “The Question of Ottoman Dec line.” Harvard Middle Eastern and
Islamic Review, 4 (1997-8): 30-75. PDF
51. Murphey, Rhoads. Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700. [U43.T9 M87 1999bx  - C-E-62]

+Murphey’s review of Fleischer and Fleischer’s reply

+Tezcan, Baki. The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early
Modern World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. – CHAPTER 4? On sekbans

52. Parker, Geoffrey, Global Crisis- War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth
Century. Yale Press, 2013. [Chapter 7: The Ottoman Tragedy 1618-83] PDF
Week 6 Crisis in local and global perspective
53. Cook, M. A. Population pressure in rural Anatolia, 1450-1600. London : New York ;
Oxford University Press, 1972.

54. Griswold, William J. The Great Anatolian Rebellion 1000-1020/1591-1611. Cambridge

University Press, 1983. online

55. Kafadar, PhD

56. Kafadar, Cemal. “Prelude to Ottoman Decline Consciousness: Monetary Turbulence at the
End of the Sixteenth Century and the Intellectual Response,” pp. 1-40. (typescript). Kafadar
& Sené, Jean-François “Les troubles monétaires de la fin du XVIe siècle et la prise de
conscience ottomane du déclin” Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 1 March 1991,
Vol.46(2), pp.381-400 PDF
57. Murphey, Rhoads.” Ottoman Census Methods in the Mid-Sixteenth Century: Three Case
Histories,” Studia Islamica 71 (1990):115-126.

58. Özel, Oktay. “Population Changes in Ottoman Anatolia during the 16th and 17th Centuries:
The "Demographic Crisis" Reconsidered,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 36/ 2
(May, 2004):183-205.

59. Pamuk, Şevket. “The Price Revolution in the Ottoman Empire Reconsidered,” IJMES 33
(2001): 69–89.

60. McNeill J. R. The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. PDF –

61. White, Sam. The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Cambridge
University Press, 2011. PDF – chapters 1-7 // – chapters 8-11, introduction and conclusion

62. +Tabak, Faruk. The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870: A Geohistorical Approach
Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. online - REVIEWS

Week 7 Transofrmation of the classical order

63. Kafadar, Cemal, "The Ottomans and Europe", in Handbook of European History 1400-1600.
Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994-1995. PDF
64. Mutafchieva, Vera P. Agrarian relations in the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th
centuries. Boulder : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia
University Press, 1988
65. Singer, Amy. Constructing Ottoman beneficence : an imperial soup kitchen in Jerusalem.
Albany : State University of New York Press, 2002

66. Keyder and Islamoglu, “An Agenda for Ottoman History, ” Review No. 1, Vol. 1(1977) –
 programmatic statement of Wallersteinian world systems drive

67. Keyder Çağlar and Faruk Tabak eds. Landholding and commercial agriculture in the Middle
East. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1991. – chapters on malikane
68. Faroqhi, Suraiya, “Introduction.” In Cambridge history of Turkey 3.
69. Darling, Linda. In Cambridge history of Turkey 3.

70. Kunt, Metin. the Sultan's Servants, The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government,
1550-1650. 1983 chapters 1-4+5

71. Barkey, Karen. Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization, Ithaca,
N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994.

72. Darling, Linda. Revenue-raising and legitimacy : tax collection and finance administration in
the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660. Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.
+ İnalcık Halil and Donald Quataert. An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire,
1300-1914. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994. VOL II.

73. Hathaway, Jane. The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlis,
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997

74. Tezcan, Baki. The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early
Modern World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
75. Salzmann, Ariel. “An Ancien Regime Revisited: ‘Privatization’ and Political Economy in
the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire.” Politics and Society 21.4 (1993).

76. Inalcik, Capital Formation

Week 8 Ottoman Islam and Ottoman law

77. +Bulliet, Richard W. “The Shaikh Al-Islām and the Evolution of Islamic Society”, Studia
Islamica, No. 35 (1972), pp. 53-67. PDF

78. Repp, Richard C. The Müfti of Istanbul: A Study in the Development of the Ottoman Learned
Hierarchy. London: Ithaca Press, 1986. PDF

79. Ahmed, Shahab ; Filipovic, Nenad “The Sultan's Syllabus: A Curriculum for the
Ottoman Imperial medreses Prescribed in a fermān of Qānūnī I Süleymān, Dated 973
(1565)”, Studia Islamica, 1 January 2004, Issue 98/99, pp.183-218.

80. Zilfi, Madeline, The Politics of Piety: the Ottoman Ulema in the Postclassical Age 1600-
1800, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. : Bibliotheca Islamica, 1988.

+Imber, Colin. “Suleyman as Caliph of the Muslims: Ebu’s-suud’s Formulation of Ottoman

Dynastic Ideology,” in Soliman le Magnifique et son temps, ed. Gilles Veinstein (Paris: La
Documentation Francaise, 1992)
81. Imber, Colin. Ebuʼs-suʻud : The Islamic Legal Tradition. Jurists-- Profiles in Legal Theory.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. PDF

+Heyd, Uriel, and Victor Louis Ménage. Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1973. PDF

82. Gerber, Haim. State, Society, and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

83. Peters, Rudolph. Crime and punishment in Islamic law: theory and practice from the
sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005. (Chapter 3:
The implementation of Islamic criminal law in the pre-modern period: the Ottoman Empire)
PDF

+Katip Çelebi

84. Peirce, Leslie. Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab, 2003

+ Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri. Ottoman medicine : healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700.

Albany : SUNY Press, 2009. chapter 3 and 4 // reviews

85. Krstić, Tijana. Contested Conversions to Islam : Narratives of Religious Change in the Early
Modern Ottoman Empire. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2011. PDF

86. Terzioğlu, Derin. Sufi and Dissent in the Ottoman Empire : Niyazî-i Mısrî (1618-1694),
1999.

87. Marc Baer. Honored by the glory of Islam [waist of time!!!]

Week 9 Ottoman cities

88. Todorov, Nikolaĭ. The Balkan City, 1400—1900. Seattle : University of Washington Press,
c1983.

89. Faroqhi, Suraiya. Men of modest substance : house owners and house property in
seventeenth-century Ankara and Kayseri. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Gerber, Haim. Economy and society in an Ottoman city : Bursa, 1600-1700. Jerusalem : Institute
of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988.

Cohen, Amnon. Economic life in Ottoman Jerusalem. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge
University Press, 1989.
90. Marcus, Abraham. The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth
Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
91. Charles Wilkins, Forging Urban Solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700 (Brill, 2010)
Eldem, Edhem. The Ottoman City between East and West : Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul / Edhem
Eldem, Daniel Goffman, and Bruce Masters. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge
University Press, 1999.

92. Hanna, Nelly. In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to
the Eighteenth Century Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Egypt's adjustment to Ottoman rule : institutions, waqf and

architecture in Cairo, 16th and 17th centuries. Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994.

93. Mazower, Mark. Salonica, city of ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 / Mark
Mazower. London : HarperCollins, 2004.

94. Canbakal, Hülya. Society and politics in an Ottoman town : ‘Ayntāb in the 17th century.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Yi, Eunjeong. Guild dynamics in seventeenth-century Istanbul : fluidity and leverage. Leiden ;
Boston : Brill, 2004.

95. Maurice Cerasi, Divanyolu, BOOK or Article in Muqarnas

+Hamadeh, Shirine. The city's pleasures : Istanbul in the eighteenth century. Seattle : University
of Washington Press, c2008. (Publications on the Near East, University of Washington. – intro
and conclusion
-Raymond, André. Artisans et commerçants au Caire au XVIIIe siècle. Damas : Institut français
de Damas, 1973-1974. 2 v. (1v, 920 p.), [16] fold. leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
-Raymond, André. Cairo / André Raymond ; translated by Willard Wood. Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press, 2000.
-Cohen, Amnon /1936/.The guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
-Cohen, Amnon. Economic life in Ottoman Jerusalem. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge
University Press, 1989.
-Brinkley, Messick, Sth on Cairo, Anthropological
-Masters, Bruce Alan, 1950/ The origins of western economic dominance in the Middle East :
mercantilism and the Islamic economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750. New York : New York University
Press, c1988.: http://quod.lib.umich.edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?
c=acls;idno=heb00918
-Marcus, Abraham, 1948/The Middle East on the eve of modernity : Aleppo in the eighteenth
century. New York : Columbia University Press, c1989.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb00914

+Hanna, Nelly. Making big money in 1600 : the life and times of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian
merchant. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Week 10-Late Ottoman Empire
96. Aksan, Virginia. Ottoman Wars 1700-1870: An Empire Besieged. Harlow, England:
Longman/Pearson, 2007. PDF
97. +Shaw, Stanford, Between old and new; the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Selim III, 1789-
1807, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. ???
98. Yaycioglu, Ali. Partners of the empire : the crisis of the Ottoman order in the Age of
Revolutions. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016] PDF
99. Hanioğlu Şükrü M. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire. Princeton : Princeton
University Press, 2008. PDF
100. Strauss. J. “The Millets and the Ottoman Language: The Contribution of Ottoman Greek
to Ottoman Letters (19th and 20th Centuries), Die Welt des Islams, Vol. 33/2 (1995): 189-249.
101. Hourani, A. “The Ottoman Background of the Modern Middle East.” ???

Week 11 Women, Gender,

102. Pierce, Leslie. “Writing History of Sexuality in the Middle East,” 2009.

103. Alderson, A.D. The Structure of Ottoman Dynasty, 1956 [Ott 151.15 6/E/88]

104. Peirce, Leslie. The Imperial Harem. Oxford University Press, 1993.
105. Andrews, Walter G., and Mehmet Kalpaklı. The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved
in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2005.

+Peirce, Morality Tales