Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire

Suraiya Faroqhi is a professor of history at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her focus is on Ottoman social history of the early modern period, especially women, artisan production, the use of objects as historical sources, as well as urban life and cross-cultural linkages, her most recent publications are, A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts ( I. B. Tauris, 2016), and The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World (I.B. Tauris, 2019).

• IntroductionPART I: TravelsAn Edirne scholar on Ottoman architecture and politics: The pilgrimage account of Abdurrahman HibriBringing back keepsakes from seventeenth-century Mecca Evliya Çelibi's tales of Cairo's guildsmenTravellers and sojourners in mid-sixteenth century ÜsküdarImmigrant tradesmen as guild members – or the adventures of Tunisian fez-sellers in eighteenth-century IstanbulRefugees and asylum seekers on Ottoman territory in the early modern periodThe image of Europe in the reports of the Ottoman ambassadors of the eighteenth centuryOttoman travellers to VenicePART II: Artisans9.Repairs to the Ottoman fortress of Hotin10.Ottoman artisans under Selim III11.Ottoman textiles in early modern Europe12.Seventeenth and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul13.Christian and Jewish artisans in late eighteenth-century Istanbul14.Istanbul halva manufacturers in the mid-eighteenth century15.Keeping artisans in their places – or how to run a guild16.At the Ottoman Empire's industrious core: The Story of BursaPurchasing guild and craft-based offices in the Ottoman central lands