Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity

Seyfi Kenan, Ph.D. (2003), Columbia University, is Professor of Educational Philosophy and History at Marmara University. He has published books and articles on intellectual history and educational modernization including Selim III and His Era from Ancien Régime to New Order (İSAM, 2010).Selçuk Akşin Somel, Ph.D. (1993), Bamberg University, teaches the History Programme at Sabancı University. His research interests include Ottoman education, women and gender, and peripheral populations. He is the author of The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1908). Islamization, Autocracy and Discipline (Brill, 2001).

• AcknowledgementsAcronymsNotes on ContributorsMetin Kunt: Life and WorkSelçuk Akşin Somel and Seyfi KenanA Representative List of Metin Kunt’s PublicationsIntroduction: The Issue of Transformation within the Ottoman EmpireSelçuk Akşin Somel and Seyfi Kenanpart 1: Ottoman Historiography and Reflections1 A Firman Issued by Mustafa the Son of Bayezid I Surnamed Düzme (1422)Elizabeth A. Zachariadou2 Imaginary Voyages, Imagined Ottomans: A Gentleman Impostor, the Köprülüs, and Seventeenth-Century French Oriental RomancesTülay Artan3 Practices of Remembrance and Sites of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Beheading of Şeyh İsmâil Ma‌ʾşûkî (d.1539)Aslı Niyazioğlu4 Ottoman Artisans in a Changing Political Context: Debates in HistoriographySuraiya Faroqhipart 2: Ottomans – Culture and Careers5 Türbedar of the Ottoman Sultans: Şevkî Çelebi’s Nostalgia for the Bursa of Bayezid Han and Emîr SultanFatih Bayram6 The Personal Anthology of an Ottoman Litterateur: Celâlzâde Sâlih (d.1565) and His MecmuaCornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Şahin7 Transforming the Abode of War into the Abode of Islam: A Local Grandee in Ottoman Hungary, Osman Ağa, Çelebi and BeyPál Fodor8 Making Recommendations: Azmîzâde and the Mahzar for Vücûdî Efendi, 1608Christine Woodhead9 A Poet’s Warning: Veysî’s Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth CenturyMehmet Kalpaklı10 From the ‘Scribe of Satan’ to the ‘Master of Belâgât’: Ottoman Chief Scribes and the Rhetorics of Political Survival in the Seventeenth CenturyEkin Tuşalp-Atiyas11 The Compass and the Astrolabe: Empiricism in the Ottoman EmpireB. Harun KüçükPART 3: Law, Religion and Political Thought12 In Search of the Ancient Law or Kānûn-i Kadîm: Some Notes on Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Political ThoughtMehmet Öz13 Between a ‘Brilliant Retreat’ and a ‘Tragic Defeat’: Ottoman Narratives of the 1529 and 1683 Sieges of ViennaN. Zeynep Yelçe14 Bidʾat, Custom and the Mutability of Legal Judgments: The Debate on the Congregational Performance of Supererogatory Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman EmpireDerin Terzioğlu15 The Sicils of Karaferye (Veria) in the Eighteenth Century: A Case of Transformation?Antonis Anastasopoulos16 Ottoman Legal Change and the Şeriat Courts in the Long Nineteenth CenturyIris Agmon17 Transformation through Constitution: Young Ottomans and the Kānûn-i Esâsî of 1876Cemil KoçakIn Lieu of a Conclusion18 Repertories of Empire: How Did the Ottomans Last So Long in a Changing World?Karl K. BarbirGlossaryIndex