Istanbul - Kushta - Constantinople (eBook, ePUB)

Narratives of Identity in the Ottoman Capital, 1830-1930
Redaktion: Herzog, Christoph; Wittmann, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

The book introduces sources on late Ottoman Istanbul's diverse population by drawing on the voices of its permanent residents and foreign visitors. It juxtaposes a selection of unpublished and/or neglected life narratives to the prevailing national historiographies and creates a tapestry of diverse perceptions of life in the Ottoman capital.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351805223
• Artikelnr.: 54114953

Autorenporträt

Christoph Herzog is Professor of Turcology at the University of Bamberg, Germany. He studied Middle Eastern and modern European history at Freiburg, Germany and in Istanbul. His research interests focus on late Ottoman history, especially on the history of the Arab provinces, intellectual history and biographical studies. Richard Wittmann is the Associate Director of the German Orient-Institut Istanbul. He studied law, Islamic Studies and Turcology in Munich, Berlin, and Cambridge, Mass., where he earned his PhD in Middle Eastern Studies and History from Harvard University. He specializes in the Islamic legal and social history of the Ottoman Empire, as well as narrative sources for the study of the Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents. List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Introduction Christoph
Herzog and Richard Wittmann. Part I: European and Ottoman Women in the
Empire. 1. The Memories of German-speaking Women of Constantinople Gudrun
Wedel. 2. Wanderlust, Follies, and Self-Inflicted Misfortunes: The Memoirs
of Anna Forneris and her Thirty Years in Constantinople and the Levant
Malte Fuhrmann. 3. The Imperial Harem Network in Istanbul, 1850s to 1922
Börte Sagaster. Part II: Outside Observers of Istanbul 4. Amalgamated
Observations: Assessing American Impressions of Nineteenth-Century
Constantinople and its Peoples Kent Schull. 5. Istanbul and the Formation
of an Arab Teenager's Identity. Recollections of a Cadet in the Ottoman
Army in 1914 and 1916-17 Malek Sharif. 6. Hispanic Observers of Istanbul
Pablo Martín Asuero. Part III: Jewish Communities 7. The Autobiographical
Writings of the Constantinople Judezmo Journalist David Fresco as a Clue
toward His Attitude to Language David M. Bunis 8. Istanbul's Jewish
Community through the Eyes of a European Jew. Ludwig A. Frankl in his Nach
Jerusalem Yaron Ben-Naeh. Part IV: Armenian and Bulgarian Christian
Communities 9. A Stroll through the Quarters of Constantinople: Sketches of
the City as Seen through the Eyes of the Great Satirist Hagop Baronian
Rachel Goshgarian. 10. From Short Stories to Social Topography: Misak
Koçunyan's Life Landscapes Aylin Koçunyan. 11."Bulgar Milleti Nedir?"
Syncretic Forms of Belonging in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Istanbul. Darin
Stephanov. 12. Twenty Years in the Ottoman Capital: The Memoirs of Doctor
Hristo Tanev Stambolski of Kazanlik (1843-1932) from an Ottoman Point of
View Johann Strauss. Index