Travellers in Ottoman Lands II

Dr Ines Aščerić-Todd is a Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Cultures, and Head of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK She has special interests in Middle Eastern, and particularly Ottoman, cultural and religious history, especially Sufism and Ottoman dervish orders, conversions to Islam, and interfaith relations in the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Europe.Dr Aid Smajić is a professor of psychology at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo. He graduated in Psychology (2002) and Islamic Studies (2001); obtained his master's degree at the International Islamic University in Malaysia, and received his PhD in 2010 at the Department of Psychology at the University of Sarajevo. Dr Janet Starkey formerly worked at KISR, Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Middle East; at the British Museum, London and the Oriental Museum, Durham; and as a lecturer in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies at Durham University, UK. Following her retirement from Durham, she lectures for the u3a in the Scottish Borders.Professor Paul Starkey is Emeritus Professor at Durham University, UK and was the first Chair of ASTENE. A specialist on Arabic literature and culture, he is Chairman of the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature and until 2018 was Vice-President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES). In summer 2021 he was the recipient of the BRISMES Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies.

• Preface: Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo – Aid Smajić An Introduction to Travellers in Ottoman Lands II: the Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond – Paul and Janet Starkey Part 1: Landscapes1 ‘The khans of Bosnia are large barns’? A material approach to mobility in Ottoman Bosnia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century – Vincent Thérouin2 Eco-Narrative of the Balkans in the sixteenth-century chronicle Hasht Bihisht, by Idrīs Bidlīsī – Sabaheta Gačanin3 Representation of rivers in travel literature in the German language on late Ottoman Bosnia – Nedim Rabić and Amer Maslo4 Counting the Ottoman Capital: Auguste Viquesnel’s Voyage dans la Turquie d’Europe and travel writing as a quantitative source – Burak Beşir Fındıklı5 Travellers’ Narratives on the Ottoman House: filling the missing links in the evolution of structure and form – İbrahim Canbulat Part 2: Religion and Travel6 The Mystical Aspect of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Travels: the spiritual visions that shaped IbnBaṭṭūṭa’s path – Ibrahim Al-Khaffaf7 Mobility among Ottoman ʿulamāʾ: Mudarris Ḍiyāʾ al-dīn ʿAbdullah b. Muḥammad al-Akhiskhāwī in Sarajevo – Velida Mataradžija8 Foreign travel writers’ perceptions of religious orders in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the long nineteenth century – Omer Merzić and Vedrana Šimić9 The ‘Millet-system’ to the test: religious freedom, tolerance and coexistence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bosnia as revealed in Arthur J. Evans’s 1875 travelogue Through Bosnia and Herzegovina on foot – Ines Aščerić-Todd Part 3: Travellers from Diplomats, Merchants and Physicians, to Photographers, Botanists and Kings10 Descriptions and images of women in the Ottoman Balkans in sixteenth- to seventeenth-century Netherlandish travelogues – Maja Perić11 On Departing the Ottoman Empire; the return of Peter Mundy (1597–c. 1667) from Constantinople through the Balkans to London in 1620 – Jennifer Scarce12 Mixing Western and Eastern medical practice in the Ottoman Empire: the adventures of a Transylvanian doctor in Constantinople, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq (1815–1838) – Alexandru Balas13 The Journey of His Majesty King Friedrich August of Saxony through Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro in the spring of 1838 with Bartolomeo Biasoletto – Kristina Milković14 Girault de Prangey and his connection to Lamartine’s Anatolian Colonisation Project – Anastasia Uskova† Part 4: Fantasies, Images and Folktales15 Mermen, revenants, unicorns: fantastic creatures in Western travel writing on the Ottoman Empire – Doris Gruber16 Fair Boys and Wicked Ladies: peoples of the Balkans in the work of Enderunlu Fazıl Bey – Michael Erdman17 En plein air: three artist-writers and their travelling companions in Rumelia – Janet Starkey18 Imagological models of Bosnia in pictures and words: Heinrich Renner’s travelogue Durch Bosnien und die Herzegovina, Kreuz und Quer [‘Criss-cross through Bosnia and Herzegovina’] (1896) – Aida Abadžić Hodžić19 An American, a Scot, and an Irishman at a Turkish coffeehouse: Tales recounted in Ottoman coffeehouses introduced to the Western World – Melike Tokay20 ‘The Hero’s Journey’ out from Under The Yoke – Gemma Masson Part 5: Imperial Discourse, the Rise of Nations, and Rapportage21 Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer – Christina Erck22 Edith Durham: Balkan Traveller, Anthropologist, and ‘Mountain Queen’ – Paul Starkey23 Backwardness and Otherness: Ahmed Şerif’s Description of the Ottoman Provinces (1909–1914) and the Question of Ottoman Orientalism – Patrick Schilling24 The Ottoman Empire and Italian imperial discourse: How Ottoman rule in Albania was represented in Italian literature to legitimate its imperial ambitions – Pietro Dalmazzo25 The Balkan nations in the Italian Travelogue Mirror: a contribution to the study of reportage (1774–1922) – Konstantin Dragaš26 Travelogues published in Bosanska Sumejja: magazin za žene i porodicu from 2000 to 2022 – Azra Hasanović Papers read at the Seminar ‘Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond’ held at of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, on 24-26 August 2022 Contributors  Index