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From Economic History to Cultural History in Ottoman Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2014

Cengiz Kırlı
Cengiz Kırlı*
Affiliation:
Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul; e-mail: cengiz.kirli@boun.edu.tr
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Reflecting on the state of Ottoman social history poses a paradox. On the one hand, it is impossible not to appreciate the great strides accomplished over the past three decades. Earlier approaches have been challenged, topics that were previously untouched or unimagined have been studied, and the foundations of a meaningful dialogue with historiographies of other parts of the world have been established. On the other hand, the theoretical sophistication and methodological debates of Ottoman social history still look pale compared to European and other non-Western historiographies in the same period.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 2: Politics of Benevolence , May 2014 , pp. 376 - 378
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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NOTES

1 For the influence of the Annales school on Ottoman historiography in the 1970s, see İnalcık, Halil, “Impact of the Annales School on Ottoman Studies and New Findings,” Review 1, nos. 3/4 (1978): 69–96Google Scholar; for the influence of Wallerstein's world-system approach, see İslamoğlu-İnan, Huri, ed., The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy (CambridgeCambridge University Press 1987)Google Scholar; and Kasaba, Reşat, The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy: The Nineteenth Century (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1988)Google Scholar.

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3 Kafadar, Cemal, “‘Self and Others:’ The Diary of a Dervish in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and First-Person Narratives in Ottoman Literature,” Studia Islamica LXIX (1986): 191–218Google Scholar; Sajdi, Dana, The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kafadar, Cemal, “Mütereddid Bir Mutassavvıf: Üsküplü Asiye Hatun'un Rüya Defteri 1641–43,” Topkapı Sarayı Yıllığı 5 (1992): 168–222Google Scholar; Ozgen Felek, “Re-creating Image and Identity: Dreams and Visions as a Means of Murad III's Self-Fashioning” (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2010).

4 Intellectual itineraries of Suraiya Faroqhi and the late Quataert, Donald, among others, may illustrate this point. See Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000)Google Scholar; and Quataert, Donald, ed., Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550–1922: An Introduction (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000)Google Scholar.

5 See Peirce, Leslie P., Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2003)Google Scholar.

6 Mikhail, Alan, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Mikhail, Alan, ed., Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; White, Sam, The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.