Companion to Early Modern Istanbul

Shirine Hamadeh, Ph.D. (1999), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and the History of Art at Koç University. She works on the architecture and urban culture of early modern Istanbul and is the author of The City’s Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century.Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Ph.D. (1996), Harvard University, is Professor in the History Department at Boğaziçi University. She works on the visual, urban, and architectural culture of the early modern Ottoman world and is the author of Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital.

• PrefaceNote on TransliterationList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsContributorsMaps 1 Early Modern IstanbulShirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem Kafescioğlu2 The City Opens Your Eyes Because It Wants to Be SeenThe Conspicuity and Lure of Early Modern IstanbulCemal KafadarPart 1: Istanbulites of City and Court3 Istanbul: A City of MenSelim S. Kuru4 Women in the CityLucienne Thys-Şenocak5 Elites’ Networks and MobilityChristoph K. Neumann6 Palace and City CeremonialsN. Zeynep Yelçe7 Courtly Spaces: Visual and Material CultureEmine FetvacıPart 2: Spaces and Landscapes of Production8 Volatile Urban Landscapes between Mythical Space and TimeGülru Necipoğlu9 Merchants and Global ConnectionsMaurits H. van den Boogert10 Artisans and GuildsPractices, Negotiations, and ConflictsSuraiya Faroqhi11 When Istanbul Was a City of BostānsUrban Agriculture and AgriculturistsAleksandar Shopov12 Water for the CityBuilders, Technology, and Private InitiativeDeniz KarakaşPart 3: Everyday Lives and Spaces of Habitation13 Neighborhood and Family LivesLeyla Kayhan Elbirlik14 Communal MattersKaren A. Leal15 Crafts and Everyday ConsumptionAmanda Phillips16 Death in IstanbulPlagues, Fires, and Other CatastrophesNükhet Varlık17 Crime, Violence, and Urban PolicingBetül BaşaranPart 4: Streets and Publics18 Sociability, Public Life, and DecorumMarinos Sariyannis19 Sufi Spaces and PracticesJohn J. Curry20 The Sultan, His Monument, and the Critical PublicZeynep Yürekli21 Urban Protests, Rebellions, and RevoltsGülay Yılmaz22 The 18th-Century “Istanbul Tale”Prose Tales and BeyondZeynep AltokPart 5: Spaces of Thought and Imagination23 Science and TechnologyB. Harun Küçük24 Music and Musicians in the CityCem Behar25 Poets, Sufis, and Their City ToursAslı Niyazioğlu26 The Poetics of Istanbul: The City of CitiesOscar Aguirre-Mandujano and Walter G. Andrews27 Istanbul Elites and Political WritingLinda T. DarlingSelect BibliographyIndex