
Positions and Possessions
Belonging in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Brill Deutschland (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. June 2026
Book
Hardback
207 pages
978-3-8471-1986-9 (ISBN)
Description
The early modern Ottoman Empire offers a compelling context for exploring the many-sided and often fluid nature of belonging. Spanning vast territories and encompassing diverse ethnic, religious, and social groups, the Ottoman context reveals how this fundamental human relationship operated across religious, spatial, social, cultural, professional, and emotional dimensions simultaneously. Beyond the theoretically prescribed affiliations of legal classifications and social norms, factors like spatial proximity, individual career choices, and dependencies emerged as crucial markers. The fluidity of identity within this complex, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and multilingual society is a key finding. The contributors demonstrate that while proximity fostered strong bonds of solidarity and shaped social hierarchy, belonging itself was often a fragile and volatile experience for both individuals and groups.
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Series
Edition
1. Edition 2026
Language
English
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
Publishing group
V&R unipress
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8471-1986-9 (9783847119869)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Editor
Veruschka Wagner, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Department for Islamic Studies and Middle-Eastern Languages at the University of Bonn and Affiliated Researcher of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS). Her research focuses primarily on Ottoman slavery and dependencies, as well as late Ottoman and early Republican satire and caricatures.
Dr Fırat Yasa teaches history at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey, focusing on microhistorical studies of slavery, captives, and social dependency in the Crimean Khanate and early modern Ottoman Empire.
Contributions
Veruschka Wagner, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Department for Islamic Studies and Middle-Eastern Languages at the University of Bonn and Affiliated Researcher of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS). Her research focuses primarily on Ottoman slavery and dependencies, as well as late Ottoman and early Republican satire and caricatures.
Dr Fırat Yasa teaches history at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey, focusing on microhistorical studies of slavery, captives, and social dependency in the Crimean Khanate and early modern Ottoman Empire.