Crafting History

Rachel Goshgarian is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College. She completed her Ph.D. under Cemal Kafadar’s supervision at Harvard University in 2008. Her first monograph, The City in Late Medieval Anatolia: Inter-faith Interactions and Urbanism in the Middle East, will be published in 2023.Ilham Khuri-Makdisi is Associate Professor of Middle East and World History at Northeastern University, Boston. She completed her Ph.D. under Cemal Kafadar’s supervision at Harvard University in 2003. She is a social and intellectual historian of the nahda and the late Ottoman period, and the author of The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914 (2010).Ali Yaycıoğlu is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. He studied under Cemal Kafadar at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2008. He is the author of Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (2016).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionRachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali YaycioğluCemal Kafadar, A Çelebi for Our TimesAhmet Karamustafa  Cemal Kafadar’s Teaching and Scholarship, 1981-2021Part One: Texts1. Narrating Ottoman Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Perspectives from Some Byzantine and Ottoman Histories.Aslihan Akişik-Karakullukçu and Dimitri Kastritsis2.Nişancı Mehmed Paşa and His History of the Ottoman HouseHimmet Taşkömür and Hüseyin Yilmaz3. Book-Picking in a Conquered CitadelSerpil Bağci and Zeynep Yürekli4. A Sufi Mirror: Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) Advice for the Ottoman RulerTimothy J. Fitzgerald5. La Jetée and the Illustrated Ottoman History: An Inquiry into Word, Image, and AudienceEmine Fetvaci6. How Did Evliya Çelebi Write His Travel Account?Hakan T. Karateke7. Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620-1840Hülya Canbakal, Meredith Quinn, and Derin Terzioğlu8. Blending Piety and Philology: A Seventeenth-Century Mecmua as the Mirror of Istanbul’s Persianate Urban MilieuAslihan Gürbüzel and Ekin Tuşalp Atiyas9.An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman EmpireLeyla Kayhan Elbirlik and Selim S. Kuru Part Two: Lives10. Uç beys, Dervishes, and Yürüks: The Cultural Politics of the Turahanoğlu of ThessalyTheoharis Stavrides11. A Short Account of Long Entanglements: Şeyh Bedreddin, ‘Abdurrahman al-Bistami, and his Durrat taj al-rasa’ilCornell Fleischer12. A Tale of Two Boils: Selim I, Melek Aḥmed Pasha, and Changing Perceptions of Medical Practice and Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman EmpireH. Erdem Çipa and Jane Hathaway13.In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman EgyptAleksandar Shopov14. The Eunuch, a Complete Statesman: Functional Historiography in the face of Social and Political PrecarityJocelyne Dakhlia15. Reorientation in Worldviews: Milescu and Cantemirİsenbike Togan16. The Hamidian Visual Archive, 1878-1909: A User’s ManualAhmet Ersoy and Deniz Türker  Part Three: Places17. Ottoman Montology: Hazardous Resourcefulness and Uneasy Symbiosis in a Mountain EmpireAli Yaycioğlu18. Ottoman Mountains: Mobility in a Forbidding EnvironmentMolly Greene19.A Code(x) of His Own: Deacon Mikayēl, Armeno-Turkish and Creative Conventions of “Collecting” in Seventeenth-Century KaffaRachel Goshgarian  20. On Self and Empire: A Seventeenth-Century First-Person Narrative from the Mughal DomainsMuzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam21.Cabinetmaking for the Sultan: Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in the Life Narratives of German-Speaking JourneymenRichard Wittmann22.Conjuring Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through the Journalistic Writings of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1805-1887) and Basiretçi Ali (1845?–1910)Ilham Khuri-Makdisi and Asli Niyazioğlu23. Reşat Ekrem Koçu and İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Writing on PlaceShirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem KafesçioğluPart Four: Processes24. Early Modern Reflections on Bayezid II’s Reignİklil Selçuk and Cihan Yüksel 25. The Ottoman Fleet at the Battle of Mississippi: What Videogames Can Teach Us about HistoryGiancarlo Casale and Nicolas Trépanier26. Continuity and Change in the Ottoman Early Modern Era: An Analysis of Adet-i kadime and HâdisÖzer Ergenç27.Between Soldier and Civilian: Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and AleppoCharles Wilkins and Eunjeong Yi28. Confessionalization and Religious Nonconformity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Cases of Kizilbash/Alevi and the Sabbatean CommunitiesAyfer Karakaya-Stump and Cengiz Şişman29. De-ayanization: A Black Hole in Ottoman HistoryH. Şükrü Ilicak30.Bitter Triumph of “the Declined” Dynasty? Notions of Universal Monarchy, Caliphate, and World Religions in Comparisons between Sultan Abdulhamid and Emperor MeijiCemil AydinNotes on Contributors