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Ottoman and Turkish Studies: Surviving Istanbul : Struggles, Feasts and Calamities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Suraiya Faroqhi (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKoç Üniversitesi Yayinlari
ISBN-106258022405
ISBN-139786258022407
eBay Product ID (ePID)5061850112
Product Key Features
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSurviving Istanbul : Struggles, Feasts and Calamities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
SubjectMiddle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Modern / 16th Century, Modern / 17th Century
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHistory
AuthorSuraiya Faroqhi
SeriesOttoman and Turkish Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight35.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Publication Year2025
Series Volume Number2
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations 7 Acknowledgements 9 On Editorial Decisions and Copyrights 11 INTRODUCTION 13 The Travails and Occasional Pleasures of Life in Istanbul PART ONE 43 Commentaries CHAPTER ONE 45 Istanbul and Crete in the Mid-1600s: Evliya Çelebi's Discourse on Non-Muslims CHAPTER TWO 65 What Happened in Istanbul's Gardens and Beauty Spots? Evliya Çelebi on Religion, Domination and Entertainment CHAPTER THREE 83 Streets as Contested Spaces: Istanbul against a Parisian Backdrop (1600-1850) CHAPTER FOUR 115 Resat Ekrem Koçu Among the Historians: Academic Credibility vs. the Enjoyment of History PART TWO 139 Food and Water CHAPTER FIVE 141 Before Döner: "Fast Food" in Pre-Tanzimat Istanbul CHAPTER SIX 161 Should It Be Olives or Butter? Consuming Fatty Titbits in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire CHAPTER SEVEN 177 No Business without Water! Operating Khans, Baths and Factories in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul PART THREE 195 Festivities and Calamities CHAPTER EIGHT 197 Fireworks in Seventeenth-century Istanbul CHAPTER NINE 211 Fires in Istanbul: Eighteenth-Century Reflections on the Sultans' Legitimacy PART FOUR 229 The Working World CHAPTER TEN 231 The Parades of Ottoman Guildsmen: Self-assertion and Submission to the Sultan's Command CHAPTER ELEVEN 257 Making and Marketing Rough Woollens: From Balkan Looms to Istanbul Shops CHAPTER TWELVE 279 Did Cosmopolitanism Exist in Eighteenth-century Istanbul? Stories of Christian and Jewish Artisans CHAPTER THIRTEEN 299 Manumission in Seventeenth-century Suburban Istanbul CHAPTER FOURTEEN 323 Captured in Üsküdar during the 1550s: Fugitive Slaves and Their Clothing CHAPTER FIFTEEN 335 Rural Conflicts Swirling around Istanbul's Food: Gegbuze/Gebze (District of Üsküdar) in the Mid-1700s CHAPTER SIXTEEN 371 Istanbul in the Early Modern Period: A City of Migrants Bibliography 399 Index 437
SynopsisA fascinating exploration of everyday life in premodern Istanbul. In Surviving Istanbul , Suraiya Faroqhi takes the reader to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, with occasional forays into earlier and later periods, focusing in particular on the city's ordinary inhabitants. From the foods eaten and the streets traversed, to the miseries endured because of recurring fires, Surviving Istanbul illustrates a city of immigrants, slaves, artisans, and rural dwellers supplying the urban markets, with all the struggles that living in (and around) the city entailed. At the same time, Faroqhi shows, the city's relatively young population also found ways to have fun, such as celebrating at public festivals or taking a swim in a river emptying into the Bosporus. Drawing on archival and narrative sources, with particular reliance on the impressions of Evliya Çelebi (1611-about 1685), this book offers a mosaic of daily life in premodern Istanbul.
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