Disliking Others
Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Pre-Modern Ottoman Lands
Published on 1. February 2019
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-253-03812-8 (ISBN)
Description
The economic and social stability of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th century led to what is widely believed to be a "Pax Ottomanica" in which trade and the arts flourished and peaceful coexistence reigned. However, the works collected in Disliking Others encourage a closer consideration of this idyllic historical moment.
By exploring patterns in expressions of dislike in literature, historiography, religious texts, and memoirs and other personal accounts, the volume provides rare insight into the perspectives of individual Ottoman subjects and the social, religious, and ethnic groups to which they belonged. In doing so, the collection seeks to reconstruct the mind-set of broad groups of people in Ottoman lands in order to illustrate how prejudice, distrust, and mutual antipathy were still a prevalent force despite prosperity. Contributors consider the role of religion as an influencing force, whether political propaganda stoked distrust, and how class and gender distinctions might have fostered antipathies. Disliking Others shows how an understanding of Ottoman alterophobia, or the irrational dislike of other groups within one's society, provides a more nuanced understanding of that complex society.
By exploring patterns in expressions of dislike in literature, historiography, religious texts, and memoirs and other personal accounts, the volume provides rare insight into the perspectives of individual Ottoman subjects and the social, religious, and ethnic groups to which they belonged. In doing so, the collection seeks to reconstruct the mind-set of broad groups of people in Ottoman lands in order to illustrate how prejudice, distrust, and mutual antipathy were still a prevalent force despite prosperity. Contributors consider the role of religion as an influencing force, whether political propaganda stoked distrust, and how class and gender distinctions might have fostered antipathies. Disliking Others shows how an understanding of Ottoman alterophobia, or the irrational dislike of other groups within one's society, provides a more nuanced understanding of that complex society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-253-03812-8 (9780253038128)
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Persons
H. Erdem Cipa is Associate Professor of Ottoman History at the University of Michigan. He is author of The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World.
Hakan T. Karateke is Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language, and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is author of Evliya Celebi's Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne.
Helga Anetshofer is Lecturer for Ottoman and Turkish at the University of Chicago. She is author of Temporale Satzverbindungen in altosmanischen Prosatexten.
Hakan T. Karateke is Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language, and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is author of Evliya Celebi's Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne.
Helga Anetshofer is Lecturer for Ottoman and Turkish at the University of Chicago. She is author of Temporale Satzverbindungen in altosmanischen Prosatexten.
Content
Introduction
1. Changing Perceptions about Christian-born Ottomans: Anti-?ul Sentiments in Ottoman Historiography / H. Erdem Cipa
2. Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500-1730: The Eastern Alternative / Jane Hathaway
3. Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier's Treatise: A Comparative Look at Black Africans in Ottoman Letters in the Early Modern Period / Baki Tezcan
4. Critiquing the Ottomans: Arab Invective against the Ottoman Center in the Long Eighteenth Century / Basil Salem
5. The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550-1700 / Bilha Moor
6. An Ottoman Anti-Judaism / Hakan T. Karateke
7. Evliya Celebi's Perception of Jews / Hakan T. Karateke
8. Ambiguous Subjects and Uneasy Neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans' Attitudes toward the Ottoman State, "Turks," and Vlachs / Vjeran Kursar
9. "Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land": Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th-18th Centuries / Konrad Petrovszky
10. Representing the Margins: The Many Faces of the "Gypsy" in Early Modern Ottoman Discourse / Faika Celik
11. Gendered Infidels in Fiction: A Case Study on S?abit's ?ikaye-i ?vace Fesad / Ipek Huener-Cora
12. "The Greatest of Tribulations": Constructions of Femininity in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Physiognomy / Emin Lelic
13. Defining and Defaming the Other in Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Invective / Michael Sheridan
14. "Are You From Corum?": Derogatory Attitudes Toward the "Unruly Mob" of the Provinces as Reflected in a Proverbial Saying / Helga Anetshofer
Index
1. Changing Perceptions about Christian-born Ottomans: Anti-?ul Sentiments in Ottoman Historiography / H. Erdem Cipa
2. Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500-1730: The Eastern Alternative / Jane Hathaway
3. Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier's Treatise: A Comparative Look at Black Africans in Ottoman Letters in the Early Modern Period / Baki Tezcan
4. Critiquing the Ottomans: Arab Invective against the Ottoman Center in the Long Eighteenth Century / Basil Salem
5. The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550-1700 / Bilha Moor
6. An Ottoman Anti-Judaism / Hakan T. Karateke
7. Evliya Celebi's Perception of Jews / Hakan T. Karateke
8. Ambiguous Subjects and Uneasy Neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans' Attitudes toward the Ottoman State, "Turks," and Vlachs / Vjeran Kursar
9. "Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land": Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th-18th Centuries / Konrad Petrovszky
10. Representing the Margins: The Many Faces of the "Gypsy" in Early Modern Ottoman Discourse / Faika Celik
11. Gendered Infidels in Fiction: A Case Study on S?abit's ?ikaye-i ?vace Fesad / Ipek Huener-Cora
12. "The Greatest of Tribulations": Constructions of Femininity in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Physiognomy / Emin Lelic
13. Defining and Defaming the Other in Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Invective / Michael Sheridan
14. "Are You From Corum?": Derogatory Attitudes Toward the "Unruly Mob" of the Provinces as Reflected in a Proverbial Saying / Helga Anetshofer
Index