Entertainment Among the Ottomans

Ebru Boyar, Ph.D. Cambridge University, is Professor at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (London, 2007) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge, 2010).Kate Fleet, Ph.D. SOAS, London University, is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State (Cambridge, 1999) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge, 2010).

‘Some of the common themes – tradition and modernity, homosocial entertainment (including cross-dressing and acting), fun and escape under trying circumstances – come together to conclude this informative, wide-ranging and eye-opening volume.’Li Guo in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83.2 (2020), 347-349.doi:10.1017/S0041977X20002323

• Contents AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsContributors1 Ottoman Society through the Lens of EntertainmentEbru Boyar and Kate Fleet2 Contemplation or Amusement? The Light Shed by Ruznames on an Ottoman Spectacle of 1740-1750Tülay Artan3 Caravans and Voyages, Story and Song: Entertaining the Traveler in/to Ottoman SpacePalmira Brummett4 Play and Performance in Ottoman Costume AlbumsWilliam Kynan-Wilson5 Fun and Games in Ottoman Aleppo: the Life and Times of a Local Schoolteacher (1835-1865)James Grehan6 Between Tradition and Modernity – Entertainment in Late Ottoman RusçukSvetla Ianeva7 Public Celebrations and Ceremonies in the Late Ottoman Cretan Press: Building a Collective Identity among the Christian PopulationAntonis Anastasopoulos8 The Late Ottoman Brothel in Istanbul: a Heterosexual Social Space for Homosocial Entertainment?Ebru Boyar9 Bicycling into Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire: Ahmed Tevfik and his Bicycle TravelogueYavuz Köse10 Muslim Culture, Reform and Patriotism: Staging Namık Kemal in Post-Ottoman Bulgaria (1878-1908)Milena B. Methodieva11 Warriors in Drag: Performing Gender and Remaking Men in Prisoner of War TheaterYücel YanıkdağBibliographyIndex