Disliking Others

Hakan T. Karateke (PhD, Bamberg University) is Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language, and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Evliya Çelebi’s Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne (2013) and an article titled “The Rosy History of Jews in the Ottoman Empire: A Critical Approach to Jewish Historiography.”H. Erdem Çıpa (PhD, Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Ottoman history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World (2017) and co-editor, with E. Fetvacı, of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future (2013).Helga Anetshofer (PhD, Vienna University) is Lecturer for Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago. Her publications include her recent articles “Folk Etymologies and Stories of Toponyms from Danishmendid Territory in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname” (2015) and “The Hero Dons a Talismanic Shirt for Battle: Magic Objects Aiding the Warrior in a Turkish Epic Romance” (2018).

“Overall this volume thus proposes highly interesting visions of forms of hostility in Ottoman society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century. … The volume … constitute[s] a major contribution … as well as a precious entry towards an understanding of the tensions at work in Ottoman society.” —Nora Lafi, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Turkish Historical Review

• IntroductionChanging Perceptions about Christian-born Ottomans: Anti-ḳul Sentiments in Ottoman HistoriographyH. Erdem ÇıpaCircassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500–1730: The Eastern AlternativeJane HathawayDispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier’s Treatise: A Comparative Look at Black Africans in Ottoman Letters in the Early Modern PeriodBaki TezcanThe Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550–1700Bilha MoorAn Ottoman Anti-JudaismHakan T. KaratekeEvliyā Çelebī’s Perception of JewsHakan T. KaratekeAmbiguous Subjects and Uneasy Neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans’ Attitudes toward the Ottoman State, ‘Turks,’ and VlachsVjeran Kursar‘Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land’: Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th–18th CenturiesKonrad PetrovszkyRepresenting the Margins: The Many Faces of the ‘Gypsy’ in Early Modern Ottoman DiscourseFaika ÇelikGendered Infidels in Fiction: A Case Study on S̱ābit’s Ḥikāye-i Ḫvāce Fesādİpek Hüner-Cora‘The Greatest of Tribulations’: Constructions of Femininity in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman PhysiognomyEmin LelićDefining and Defaming the Other in Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman InvectiveMichael Sheridan‘Are You From Çorum?’: Derogatory Attitudes Toward the “Unruly Mob” of the Provinces as Reflected in a Proverbial SayingHelga Anetshofer