Ottoman History Podcast

<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://uva.academia.edu/OzgeCalafato" target="_blank"> with Özge Calafato </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/ZeinabAzarbadegan" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What can family and individual studio photographs tell us about social life in the early Republic of Turkey? In this episode, Özge Calafato highlights the negotiations between the Kemalist state, the photographers, and the people being photographed that led to classed and gendered representation of modern Turkish citizens in vernacular photography. Calafato analyzes not only the image, but also the context of production and the inscriptions written behind photographs. Looking at photos of subjects as ranging from beauty queens and feminist activists to bank employees and soldiers, she considers the production and circulation of photos not only in urban studios and within families but also in rural areas and within friendship groups. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/10/calafato.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"> with Ian Nagoski </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://smith.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">hosted by Suzie Ferguson</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Zabelle Panosian's ethereal music transfixed audiences from Boston to Paris in the early years of the twentieth century. Yet, by the 1960s, her work was all but forgotten. In this episode, we explore Panosian's life story and some of her exceptional music. What did it mean to leave behind an Ottoman homeland, only to watch the destruction of the 1915 Armenian genocide from afar? What was it like to be diva in Europe and an ambitious Armenian woman artist in the United States, only to be siloed into the category of "ethnic music" by major record labels as anti-immigrant sentiment rose? In this epsiode, we listen to many of Zabelle's songs to explore these questions and more with record producer and music researcher Ian Nagoski. Zabelle's story helps us to understand how and why 'serious artists' have been remembered or forgotten in the annals of American music, especially the immigrants among them. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/09/panosian.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name"> with Jesse Howell & Marijana Mišević </div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In this special episode of the Ottoman History Podcast, Sam Dolbee and Jesse Howell travel by bike along the Ćiro Trail from Dubrovnik in Croatia to Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they meet fellow Ottoman historian Marijana Mišević. Along the way, they consider the legacy and traces of early modern Ottoman caravan roads across this space, as well as their intersections with the Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav, and more recent past. The episode is about mobility, memory, and the built environment. Also bicycles, friendship, and the journey. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/09/blog-post.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/hist/people/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1058017" target="_blank"> with Richard Antaramian </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire's many geographies and communities? This episode explores that question through the experiences of Armenians in the Ottoman East. Our guest, Richard Antaramian, shares some of his research, which argues that Ottoman shared governance worked through networks of power that linked center to periphery and sustained relationships among notables of different confessions, classes, and locations. The Ottoman tax-farming system of the 18th century forged ties among central authorities, provincial notables, and Armenian financiers. As the Ottoman government embarked upon the modernizing reform projects of the late 1700s and 1800s, those forms of shared governence frayed. In the Ottoman East, the Armenian Patriarchate's attempts to enact new notions of reform saw major successes, with the establishment limited representative governance, a constitution, and new educational institutions. Yet, those successes came at the cost of weakening the ties between provincial Armenians and important power brokers like provincial notables and Kurdish tribal leaders. Ultimately, the Armenian Patriarchate's successes at reform translated into trouble for its newly-isolated flock in the empire's eastern borderlands. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/05/antaramian.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/HOOzavci" target="_blank"> with Ozan Ozavci </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/ZeinabAzarbadegan" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | How was European military intervention in the Ottoman Empire justified throughout the nineteenth century? What did Ottoman statesmen and subjects think of these would-be attemepts to provide them with more security? From the late eighteenth century, as a new international system was emerging, European powers considered the Ottoman Empire a weaker foil to their own expanding empires. In this episode, Ozan Ozavci explores how this perception of Ottoman weakness, known as the Eastern Question, affected the Ottoman Empire's place in and engagement with the new international system and law. Exploring the different phases of the Eastern Question, from the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the Civil War in Greater Syria durings the 1860s, Ozavci highlights agency of individual actors in the Ottoman capital and the provinces. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/mayte-green-mercado" target="_blank">Mayte Green-Mercado</a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Brittany White</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In 1609, King Phillip III of Spain signed an edict to expel a community known as the Moriscos from the Iberian Peninsula. The Moriscos were Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity during the 16th century, after Christian kingdoms displaced the last remaining Muslim rulers in Iberia. The persecution and erasure of the Moriscos following the Reconquista are well documented in the historiography, where alongside Iberian Jews, they appear as victims of the fall of Islamic al-Andalus. But in this episode of Ottoman History Podcast, we’ll explore what these events looked like through the eyes of the Moriscos themselves and study their roles as political actors in the momentous political shifts of the 16th century. In this conversation with Mayte Green-Mercado about her book <i>Visions of Deliverance</i>, we discuss the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts, known as jofores; and how these texts were catalysts for morisco political mobilization against the Spanish crown. We chart the formal and informal networks of communication between Moriscos, the Ottoman Empire, and the broader Mediterranean world. And we reflect on the challenges and benefits of using biased sources like the records of the Inquisition alongside other material. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/moriscos.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-helen-pfeifer" target="_blank"> with Helen Pfeifer </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Maryam Patton</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In 1517, the Ottomans captured Cairo and with it, the Arabophone lands of the Mamluk Sultanate. Suddenly, scores of learned scholars who had been preparing and vying for positions of esteem in either the academy or the bureaucracy found themselves under new authority. How did these scholars navigate the new political and linguistic environments? As Helen Pfeifer argues in a new book, <i><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691195230/empire-of-salons" target="_blank">Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands</a></i>, the answer lies in gentlemanly salons, where elite men displayed their knowledge and status. These social laboratories played a key role in negotiating Syria and Egypt’s integration into the empire. Through Pfeifer's study of the life and network of the star scholar Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, we learn how urban elite of former Mamluk Syria and Egypt continued to exert social and political influence, rivaling powerful officials from Istanbul. The gentlemanly salons also illustrate how Ottoman culture was forged collaboratively by Arabophone and Turcophone actors. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/salons.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/crg8w" target="_blank"> with Chris Gratien </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Susanna Ferguson</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | How did ordinary Ottoman subjects experience the momentous changes that made our modern world? This episode explores that question through the history of the Çukurova region of southern Turkey. As our guest Chris Gratien has argued in a new book entitled <i>The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier</i>, Çukurova can be studied as a microcosm of social and environmental change in the late Ottoman Empire. In our conversation, we explore how the approaches of environmental history can offer a fresh perspective on the political history of the Tanzimat period, and we discuss how the history of malaria -- an ancient disease -- sheds light on a modern experience of displacement and dispossession for rural communities in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/gratien.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> with Carlos Grenier </div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Maryam Patton</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | How did one learn to be a good Muslim in the early 15th century? In newly conquered Ottoman lands where Christians and converts lived side by side, how would one go about learning the proper rites and beliefs to hold? This conversation with Carlos Grenier explores the lives and ideas of two brothers, Mehmed Yazıcıoğlu and Ahmed Bican, Sufis of the frontier city of Gelibolu who grappled with this very question. Their response was to craft a synthesis, an Ottoman Islam so to speak, in the form of Turkish texts that guided their communities on the proper way to be a Muslim. They reached an enormous readership and rank as some of the most popular books to ever be produced in Ottoman Turkish. And as Grenier explains, the Yazıcıoğlus articulated a new Ottoman spiritual vernacular forged in the balance between two worlds of the Balkan and Mediterranean frontiers and the Islamic intellectual sphere.</div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/02/grenier.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/People/academicStaff/baer/baer" target="_blank">with Marc Baer</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/ZeinabAzarbadegan" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The expulsion of Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula and their arrival in the Ottoman Empire thereafter changed the relationship of Jewish communities to the Ottoman dynasty. The history of Ottoman Jews would become part and parcel of a narrative that contrasted the Ottoman Empire's beneficence and tolerance with the anti-Semitism of other European societies. Yet as Marc Baer explains in this second part of a two-part conversation, the image of "Sultanic saviors" became entangled with the denial not only of anti-Semitism in Turkey but also of violence against Christians in the late Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. Adopting a history of emotions approach, Baer explores the reasons for the erasure of violence and persecution in the memory of the Ottoman Empire's relationship with Christians and Jews and uses the sentiments that animate this historiography and memory as a starting point for a way forward. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/01/baer2.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<p> </p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://history.umd.edu/directory/shay-hazkani" target="_blank"> with Shay Hazkani </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The 1948 War resulted in the creation of the state of Israel and the Nakba of 750,000 Palestinian refugees. In Dear Palestine, Shay Hazkani sheds new light on these events through a unique source base: hundreds of personal letters secretly copied by an Israeli censorship apparatus. We talk in this episode both about his struggle to access these materials and the subversive truths that they reveal, including everything from Moroccan Jewish volunteers who felt solidarity with Arabs to Palestinian refugees who attempted to care for and return to their homes in the immediate aftermath of the conflict.</div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/hazkani.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.eui.eu/people?id=giancarlo-casale" target="_blank">with Giancarlo Casale</a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Brittany White</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Osman of Timișoara was a Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire born during the late 17th century in modern-day Romania. As a young man serving in the Ottoman military, he was captured by the Habsburg army. He would spend more than a decade as a captive in Austria. Many people of his time had similar stories. What made Osman special was that he left behind a rare autobiographical account of his experiences and exploits. In our conversation with Giancarlo Casale about his translation of Osman’s memoir entitled <i>Prisoner of the Infidels</i>, we’ll explore the similarities among experiences of enslavement in the Ottoman and Habsburg lands and learn how Osman positioned himself as a linguistic and later diplomatic go-between. And through the life of Osman, his account of his own efforts to return to the Ottoman Empire, and the momentous events he witnessed, we will reflect on his autobiography as a work of literature and the messages contained within it. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/casale.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DqfmioO1FrPCxjWEvt-3Zdc_5Nlg8ccGSm1dwHYjHFQ/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"> with Şölen Şanlı Vasquez </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Brittany White</div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Over the course its final decades, millions of Muslim immigrants, many of them refugees of war and Russian conquest, settled in the Ottoman Empire. Between a quarter and a third of people in Turkey today have ancestors who arrived with those migrations. Yet their history often stops short of capturing the personal experiences of such people, what was erased, and what they have sought to preserve. In this episode, we speak with sociologist Şölen Şanlı Vasquez about how to write a more empathetic history of migration in Turkey through the lens of the Circassian diaspora. For her, this history is not just the story of how people from the North Caucasus were expelled from one empire and settled in an another. It is also a personal story about continuity, rupture, and recovery within the families of immigrants across generations and continents. Through a conversation about her ongoing research project called "<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/circassianexile/home" target="_blank">The Home Within</a>," we explore the themes of family, gender, ethnicity, race, and erasure --- not only in Turkey --- but across contexts of migration and displacement in the US and elsewhere. And we also reflect on the importance of public history that makes these issues relevant and relatable to a wider audience. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/09/circassian.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/emeritus/rpl.html" target="_blank"> with Rudi Lindner </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by Joshua White & Maryam Patton</div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Among the most murky periods of the Ottoman dynasty's six-century history is the period of its very emergence in medieval Anatolia. In this episode, we talk to Rudi Lindner about his attempts to understand this early period of Ottoman history and the development of hypotheses and methods concerning the investigation of Ottoman origins over the past century of scholarship. We also reflect on what decades of research and teaching have taught Lindner about sources for history and the questions they require us to ask. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/rudi.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/nada-moumtaz" target="_blank"> with Nada Moumtaz </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://smith.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="blank">Susanna Ferguson</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The waqf, often translated as "endowment," is a critical player in the story of urban landscapes, charitable giving, property management, and religion in the Islamic world. But what is a waqf? In this episode, Nada Moumtaz uncovers the many lives of waqf in the city of Beirut, from Ottoman times until the present. We talk about waqfs as buildings, processes, acts, and investments. We see how the story of waqf illuminates central features of the modern state while blurring boundaries between family life and public life, religion and business, charity and investment, past and future, and human and divine. </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/moumtaz.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.rayyahaddad.net/about" target="_blank"> with Rayya Haddad </a></div><br><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The modern history of Beirut has been defined by periods of intense construction, destruction, and reconstruction. In this episode, we explore the layers of history in Beirut's cityscape through a walking tour with Rayya Haddad. We chart Beirut's transformation from its rise as a late Ottoman capital through the expansion of the port during the French Mandate period, its golden age as a commercial center in independent Lebanon during the 1950s and 60s, the long civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990, and the postwar reconstruction carried out by the company Solidere. We also explore the history of Beit Beirut, a unqiue building designed by Youssef Aftimus--Beirut's foremost architect of the late Ottoman and French Mandate period--from its Mediterranean revivalist origins to its redesign as a sniper's haven during the war, ending with its rescue and renovation by activists in recent decades. We conclude with some thoughts on what this layered history of the city means for the new layer of destruction and reconstruction created by the port explosion during August 2020. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/beirut.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://ucriverside.academia.edu/FaribaZarinebaf" target="_blank"> with Fariba Zarinebaf </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a> and <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf discusses the history of Galata and the early modern Mediterranean more broadly. Beginning with the incorporation of Galata's Genoese community of Istanbul under Ottoman rule in 1453, Zarinebaf explains how the treaties known as the capitulations (<i>ahdname</i> in Turkish) provided a durable framework for commercial exchange and pluralistic everyday life in Ottoman port cities. She also considers how these arrangements compared with commerce and life in non-Ottoman Mediterranean ports. Through a focus on French-Ottoman relations, Zarinebaf offers a glimpse of how treaties become involved in changing economic fortunes in the Mediterranean and the world. She also attends to how these economic patterns shaped the more intimate aspects of social life in Galata, closing with the impact of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt on the French community of Galata. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/zarinebaf.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://berkeley.academia.edu/ChristinePhilliou" target="_blank"> with Christine Philliou </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a> and <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/BrittanyWhite" target="_blank">Brittany White</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Refik Halit Karay (1889-1965) was a writer, bureaucrat, and political exile whose life spanned the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Christine Philliou traces his life as well as a genealogy of political opposition more broadly in her new book <i>Turkey: A Past Against History</i>. Following Refik Halit between his exiles in Sinop, Syria, and elsewhere as well as his momentous encounter with Mustafa Kemal in the Telegraph Episode, Philliou sheds light on the complicated transition between empire and nation. She also grapples with the challenge of telling history based on the voluminous and often satirical musings of a figure himself deeply invested in interpreting the past. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/halit.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name_smaller"> <a href="https://www.hmc.edu/hsa/faculty-staff/ambereen-dadabhoy/" target="_blank"> with Faisal Husain </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="blank">Chris Gratien</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The Ottoman conquests of the 16th century represented a watershed moment in many senses. Our guest Faisal Husain explains the most literal of these senses: the unification of the Tigris and Euphrates basins under a single political authority and its ramifications for the history of Iraq. In our conversation, we explore how Ottoman rule in Iraq created new ecological possibilities and realities, setting the stage for momentous interventions in the rivers detailed in Husain's recent book <i>Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire</i>. We also reflect on what Iraq reveals about Ottoman history writ large and the empire's dualist historical identity as an agrarian empire on one hand and flexible one on the other, in which accommodating local ecological difference was critical to governance. </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/the-environmental-origins-of-ottoman.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cca.rutgers.edu/72-people/fellows/faculty-fellows/563-zeynep-gursel" target="_blank"> with Zeynep Gürsel </a></div><br><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | The Ottoman archives contain just over a hundred photographs that look like old family portraits, but they were created for an entirely different purpose. They document the renunciation of Ottoman nationality, "terk-i tabiiyet," by Armenian emigrants bound for the US and elsewhere. As our guest Zeynep Devrim Gürsel explains, these photographs were "anticipatory arrest warrants for a crime yet to be committed"--the crime of returning to the Ottoman Empire. Gürsel's research goes far beyond the story of the small number of photographs that remain as she has documented over four thousand individuals who went through the process of "terk-i tabiiyet." In this Ottoman History Podcast-AnthroPod collaboration, we talk to Gürsel about her research project on the production, circulation and afterlives of these photographs titled "Portraits of Unbelonging." It is a double-sided history that explores not only the context of Armenian migration and policing during the late Ottoman period but also the experiences of those pictured and their descendants following their departure from the Ottoman Empire. (Recorded August 2019) This episode is dedicated to the memory of Mary Lou Savage (née Khantamour). </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/gursel.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://iastate.academia.edu/MichaelChristopherLow" target="_blank"> with Michael Christopher Low</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In the Hijaz, the Ottoman Empire managed not only Mecca and Medina--the two holiest cities in Islam--but also port cities of the Red Sea with connections to the Indian Ocean and beyond. In this episode, Michael Christopher Low explains how the empire ruled this region as the hajj transformed thanks to steam travel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While European colonial anxieties about the hajj focused on epidemic disease and subversive politics, Ottoman concerns centered on the legal status of the region and its infrastructural networks. Although projects such as the Hijaz Railway are often understood as manifestations of Abdulhamid II's commitment to pan-Islam, Low suggests that these measures were more accurately a product of emerging technocratic forms of Ottoman governance. He also discusses continuities with the Saudi state. Low's book is <a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/imperial-mecca/9780231190770">Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj</a>. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/04/low.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.hmc.edu/hsa/faculty-staff/ambereen-dadabhoy/" target="_blank"> with Ambereen Dadabhoy </a></div><div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/MaryamPatton" target="_blank">Maryam Patton</a> and <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="blank">Chris Gratien</a></div><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | William Shakespeare's lifetime overlapped with the height of Ottoman prowess on the world stage, which is partly why so many Turkish characters graced the Elizabethan stage during the 16th and 17th centuries. As our guest Ambereen Dadabhoy explains, the representations of "Turks" and "Moors" in early modern English drama offer a window onto conceptions of race in Europe before the modern period. In this conversation, Dadabhoy shares her experience writing and teaching about race in early modern English literature, and we reflect on the value of Shakespeare for charting connections and transformations in conceptions of Muslim societies from Shakespeare's time to the present. </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/03/shakerace.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.uwlax.edu/profile/rbreaux/" target="_blank"> with Richard Breaux </a></div><br><br> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | Richard Breaux needed a hobby. He began collecting 78 rpm records as a break from his work as a professor of Ethnic and Racial Studies at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. But when he stumbled upon a trove of Arabic language records at an estate sale, his hobby became a scholarly project of its own to document and reconstruct the history of the Arab diaspora in La Crosse, Wisconsin and the Greater Midwestern United States. In this episode, we talk about the history of early 78 rpm Arabic records in the United States, the people who owned them, and the story of a forgotten center of the Midwest Mahjar. </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/02/midwest-mahjar.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/mmringer" target="_blank">with Monica Ringer</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank"> hosted by Matthew Ghazarian </a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | What is Islamic modernism, and how did authors of this movement position themselves vis-á-vis other 19th century intellectual movements? In this episode, we examine how Islamic modernism was more than a product of 19th century social and political reforms or even an attempt at using Islamic language to justify such reforms. Rather, Islamic modernism was a substantive theological reform movement, fueled by the belief that God's intent could be recovered through correct and contextual readings of the past. As a result, Islamic modernists helped give rise not only to new understandings of Islam but also to new understandings of history. In our discussion, we draw on Dr. Ringer's book <i>Islamic Modernism and the Re-enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History </i> out from Edinburgh University Press in 2020. In it, she takes up the work of four authors from across Eurasia: Namık Kemal from the Ottoman Empire, Ataullah Bayezidof from the Russian Empire, Syed Amir Ali from British India, and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, who spent his formative years in Iran. Although they shared a religion, it was much more Islam that tied their ideas together. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/islamic-modernism.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ucl.academia.edu/NevilaPahumi" target="_blank"> with Nevila Pahumi </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://smith.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">hosted by Susanna Ferguson</a></div> <div class="hidden_synopsis"> | In 1919, Paraskevi Kyrias went to Paris to advocate for Albanian independence. As a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine space of international diplomacy, she faced sexism and unwanted romantic overtures. Nevertheless, she called on her connections within a global Protestant community, her life in diaspora in the United States, and her experiences at the elite Constantinople Girls' School to play a unique role in the Albanian campaign for independence after World War I. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Nevila Pahumi about Kyrias' story, her leadership of the early Albanian women's movement, and the diary of her experiences in Paris she left behind. We also trace the history of this remarkable woman after 1919, as she and her family were repudiated by a secularizing Albanian state determined to exise Protestant activism from their national history -- until she was once again remade as a feminist icon in the last years of her life. </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/pahumi.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 478</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://randatawil.com/" target="_blank"> with Randa Tawil </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank"> hosted by Chris Gratien </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> How do social categories like gender and race impact migrant trajectories as they move through different imperial, national, and liminal spaces? In this episode, we explore this question through the incredible journey of Zeinab Ameen, one of many Syrian migrants featured in the work of our guest Randa Tawil. Zeinab Ameen was born in late Ottoman Lebanon. Like hundreds of thousands of other people of her generation in the Ottoman Empire, she and her family decided to emigrate to America during the early 20th century. The result was a tale of tribulation that spans more than three decades. In telling Zeinab’s story, we’ll visit a number of other global ports, including Marseille, Liverpool, New York City, and Veracruz. We’ll also visit both land borders of the United States--the Canadian border and the Mexican border, as well as the Midwest, one of the great centers of the Syrian-American mahjar.<br> </div> </div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/09/zeinab.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 473</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://usf.academia.edu/ElisabethFraser" target="_blank"> with Elisabeth Fraser </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://temple.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">hosted by Emily Neumeier</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> For centuries, people have been documenting their travels with images, which purportedly function as visual evidence for someone’s experience far from home. This was no less the case for Europeans touring through Ottoman lands, who created a whole industry selling pictures from their time abroad. In this episode, Elisabeth Fraser explains how Western European artists at the turn of the eighteenth century began to create a new type of popular media, the illustrated travel volume. But these were not small guide books to tuck away in your pocket, they were large-scale luxury publications for the discerning armchair traveler. The enormous size and high production quality of these books and the accompanying images means that they were not the work of a single person but rather a large team of artists. Reflecting on these questions of authenticity, Dr. Fraser discusses how her research aims to take up a more nuanced view of the complexities of cross-cultural encounter. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/08/fraser.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 472</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.alanmikhail.org/" target="_blank"> with Alan Mikhail </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis">Sultan Selim I is well known for the conquests he pursued that brought places like Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca into the Ottoman Empire. But in this episode, we're exploring the life and times of Selim I in an entirely new light by placing the Islamic world at the center of the momentous events of the turn of the 16th century. We talk with historian Alan Mikhail about his new book <i><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631492396">God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World</a></i>. We discuss the events and developments that led to Selim's rise as well as the ignored centrality of Islam in the imagination of the early European explorers of the Americas and thinkings of the Protestant Reformation. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/08/alan-mikhail.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 471</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://www.satomoughalian.com/" target="_blank"> with Sato Moughalian </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis">David Ohannessian is one of the foremost pioneers of the ceramic styles associated today with the city of Jerusalem, but the remarkable story of how he ended up there has never been properly told. Born in 1884 outside of Eskişehir (modern-day Turkey), David Ohannessian became a master in the iconic Kütahya style of Ottoman ceramics. He worked on important architectural projects of the Ottoman government, only to be deported during the Armenian Genocide. He managed to survive, however, and continued his craft afterward in Jerusalem, where he became involved with restoration of the Dome of the Rock and opened his own ceramics studio in the Old City. Yet the past stayed with him, especially the weight of his experience during the genocide. In this episode, Sato Moughalian discusses <i><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28630">Feast of Ashes</a></i>, her recent biography of Ohannessian. She also talks about his story's personal resonance for her as Ohannessian's granddaughter. His artistic persistence provided a model of resilience to emulate in her own art, but the violence and displacement experienced by Ohannessian and his family also left a legacy of secrets and complicated grief in Moughalian's life that was long felt but seldom addressed. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/08/ohannessian.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 468</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://southasia.berkeley.edu/gregory-maxwell-bruce" target="_blank"> with Gregory Maxwell Bruce </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank"> hosted by Zoe Griffith </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1892, the renowned Islamic scholar and educator Shibli Nomani traveled to the Ottoman Empire, where he visited cities in modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Egypt. His travelogue, entitled <i>Safarnāmah-i Rūm o Miṣr o Shām</i>, was published in the Urdu language within his own lifetime. In this episode, we talk to Gregory Maxwell Bruce, the author of an annotated translation of Shibli's travelogue, which has been recently published by Syracuse University Press. In our conversation, we delve into the process of translating the travelogue and explore the South-South connections between South Asia and the Middle East revealed by Shibli Nomani's relationships and contacts during his travels in the Ottoman Empire.</div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/07/shibli-nomani.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 466</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://afam.ucla.edu/alden-h-young/" target="_blank"> with Alden Young </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank"> hosted by Chris Gratien </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As a site of recent civil wars, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, Sudan's history is often framed by violence. In this podcast, our guest Alden Young offers an alternative framing of Sudan's modern history, as we discuss Sudan's economy and its relationship to the broader Middle East from the 19th century onward. We discuss Sudan's unique experience of colonialism under Ottoman/Egyptian rule and how the issue of slavery intensified as Sudan's ties to Egypt and the broader Ottoman world intensified during the 19th century. We also discuss how colonial planners slowly reoriented Sudan's economy towards agricultural export and away from pastoralism. We explore the Gezira scheme, a long foretold irrigation project that would become the centerpiece of Sudanese economic development after independence during the 1950s. And we consider the fate of the class of Sudanese economists and technocrats who straddled the late colonial and postcolonial periods.<br> <br> At the bottom of this post, we also offer <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XxTz9LiT04PtmoW7QoDebUjBIh2Hfw40/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">an activity module</a> for university classrooms based on this podcast, a documentary about the Gezira scheme from the 1950s, and the novel <i>Season of Migration to the North</i> by Sudanese author Tayeb Salih.</div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/07/sudan.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 465</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://people.ceu.edu/robyn-dora_radway" target="_blank"> with Robyn Dora Radway </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://temple.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">hosted by Emily Neumeier</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What was it like to be a foreigner living in Ottoman Istanbul? In this episode, our guest Robyn Dora Radway answers this question by providing an in-depth look at an unusual type of document: alba amicorum, or friendship albums, which were essentially the social media of the sixteenth century. Produced in the Habsburg embassy (aka the “German House"), these albums functioned like yearbooks in that the owners residing in the embassy would strive to collect all manner of mementos from their time abroad, including signatures, poems, short anecdotes, and even drawings and paintings. At the German House, men from all walks of life would end up assembling their own album amicorum, from the Habsburg ambassador to the cook (who was quite popular and had the largest album by far). We discuss how these albums can thus serve as a valuable resource for historians, as they offer a full picture of the social makeup of these kinds of diplomatic spaces—information that does not often turn up in more traditional archives. </div> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/07/radway.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 464</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/cemal-kafadar" target="_blank"> with Cemal Kafadar </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/MaryamPatton" target="_blank">Maryam Patton</a>, <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="blank">Chris Gratien</a>, and <a href="https://yale.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In part one of our interview with Cemal Kafadar, we discuss his intellectual influences in the broadest sense, ranging from the Balkan accents of the Istanbul neighborhood in which he grew up to his early interest in theater and film. Kafadar talks about key events that shaped his worldview, including the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution. He also touches on the works of history and literature that inspired him, as well as his first archival forays in the shadow of the 1980 military coup. And in closing, he brings up a question that nagged him from the beginning: "do we do what we do to understand, or do what we do to change the world?" <br> <br> We'll speak more about that question in part two of this interview, coming soon.</div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/06/kafadar-1.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 463</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://music.fsu.edu/person/panayotis-league" target="_blank"> with Panayotis League </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank"> hosted by Chris Gratien </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> What is Greek music? For our guest Panayotis League, it's no one thing. Rather, it is diversity that defines the many regional musical traditions of Greece and the broader Greek diaspora. In this episode, we discuss League's ethnomusicological research on Greek music in diaspora, and we explore the history and transformation of Ottoman Greek music before and after the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece. As League explains, Greek music in the Ottoman Empire was inextricably linked to the musical traditions of neighboring Turkish, Armenian, and Sephardic communities. However, the First World War, the Second Greco-Turkish War, and the exchange of populations that sent the entire Greek Orthodox population of Anatolia to Greece eliminated spaces of intercommunality where Ottoman music thrived. In our conversation, we discuss how the intercommunal music of the Ottoman Empire survived in Greece among exchanged people who pioneered the new <i>rebetiko</i> style that would reshape Greek popular music. We also discuss how the music of Ottoman Greeks fit into a larger diasporic communal dynamic in places like the United States.</div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/05/greek-music.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 462</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/oo4qw" target="_blank"> with Oludamini Ogunnaike </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">hosted by Shireen Hamza</a> </div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Reading and writing poems in praise of the prophet Mohammad is no simple matter in West Africa. Their composition was a vehicle for intellectual debate, just as their recitation was a means of spiritual transformation for the listener. In this episode, we speak to Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike, the author of a recent book about praise or "madih" poetry in West Africa, and we listen to recordings of several recitations. Madih poetry is widely recited by Muslims in West Africa; we learn of several major authors from the 18th century to now, including Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse and Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba. Professor Ogunnaike explains the complex Sufi cosmologies and epistemologies intrinsic to the memorization and recitation of madih poetry, which make this such a powerful and widespread practice in Muslim communities. Finally, we discuss why these poems -- manuscripts of which can be found in every collection in West Africa -- remain so little studied. While part of this can be explained by the colonial legacy of considering Islam to be essentially Arab, and thus a foreign importation to Africa, there are other epistemological issues at stake. Professor Ogunnaike's work thus broadens our understanding of a form of embodied knowledge in Islam. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/ogunnaike.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 456</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/harun-k%C3%BC%C3%A7%C3%BCk" target="_blank"> with Harun Küçük </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://yale.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank"> hosted by Sam Dolbee</a><a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank"> and Zoe Griffith </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What did science look like in early modern Istanbul? In this episode, Harun Küçük discusses his new book, <i>Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732 </i>(University of Pittsburgh Press), which tackles this question in a bold fashion. Tracing the impact of late seventeenth and early eighteenth transformations of the Ottoman economy, Küçük argues that the material conditions of scholars greatly deteriorated in this period. The changes did not, however, stop people from wanting to know about the world, but rather reoriented their work toward more practical applications of science. Küçük contrasts these conditions with those in some parts of northwestern Europe, where a more leisurely version of science--often theoretically inclined--emerged. He also grapples with the parallels between educational institutions in the early modern period and today. </div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/science-ottoman-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 455</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/history/our_people/directory/nukhet.php" target="_blank"> featuring Nükhet Varlık,</a> <a href="http://yaronayalon.com/" target="_blank">Yaron Ayalon, </a><a href="https://www.orhanpamuk.net/default.aspx" target="_blank">Orhan Pamuk, </a><a href="https://uottawa.academia.edu/LoriJones" target="_blank">Lori Jones, </a><a href="https://cambridge.academia.edu/ValentinaPugliano" target="_blank">Valentina Pugliano, </a><a href="https://mpiwg-berlin-mpg.academia.edu/EdnaBonhomme" target="_blank">and Edna Bonhomme </a></div> <br> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank"> narrated by Chris Gratien </a><a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">and Maryam Patton </a><br> <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">with contributions by Nir Shafir, </a><a href="https://yale.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee,</a> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/AhmetTuncSen" target="_blank">Tunç Şen,</a><a href="https://uni-konstanz.academia.edu/AndreasGuidi" target="_blank"> and Andreas Guidi</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The plague is caused by a bacteria called <i>Yersinia pestis</i>, which lives in fleas that in turn live on rodents. Coronavirus is not the plague. Nonetheless, we can find many parallels between the current pandemic and the experience of plague for people who lived centuries ago. This special episode of Ottoman History Podcast brings together lessons from our past episodes on plague and disease in the early modern Mediterranean. Our guests offer state of the art perspectives on the history of plague in the Ottoman Empire, and many of their observations may also be useful for thinking about epidemics in the present day. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/plague-ottoman-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 453</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://nancyum.com/" target="_blank"> with Nancy Um </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank"> hosted by Zoe Griffith </a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Red Sea port of Mocha enjoyed ties with London, Amsterdam, Surat, and Jakarta in the eighteenth century. But not all of the ivory, porcelain, and coffee that passed through Mocha was sold for a profit. In this episode, Nancy Um brings the eye of an art historian to the history of exchange and diplomacy in the early modern Indian Ocean, focusing on the ceremonies and gift exchanges that legitimated and lubricated English and Dutch trade with Yemen’s Qasimi rulers. Gift-giving was far more than an annoyance to the major overseas merchants in Mocha. We explore how “promiscuous” objects became valuable beyond their price tag, allowing merchants to communicate across linguistic, religious, and cultural lines.</div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/03/um.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 448</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://stanford.academia.edu/BurcuKarahan" target="_blank"> with Burcu Karahan </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">hosted by Suzie Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/freedom-and-desire-in-late-ottoman-erotica-burcu-karahan" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> "One Thousand Kisses," "Plate of Cream," "Story of a Lily:" these are some of the provocative titles that graced the covers of Ottoman erotic novels in the early decades of the twentieth century. While erotic fiction and poetry had a long history in Ottoman and Arabic manuscript culture, the erotic novels of the second constitutional period (1908-1914), some creatively adapted from French originals, emerged in a period of unprecedented freedom for writers. Yet the novels themselves were often less explicit and transgressive than their their titles might suggest. In this episode, Burcu Karahan shows how, in late Ottoman fiction, stories about sex and desire celebrated not only sexual freedom, but also conservative fantasies about male sexual power and the power of heterosexual love. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/erotica.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 446</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://29mayis.academia.edu/esg" target="_blank"> featuring Emrah Safa Gürkan,</a> <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/jmw4xd" target="_blank">Joshua White</a><a href="https://languages.uconn.edu/person/daniel-hershenzon/" target="_blank">, and Daniel Hershenzon </a></div> <br> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">narrated by Chris Gratien</a><br> <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">with contributions by Nir Shafir, </a><a href="https://rutgers.academia.edu/TaylorMoore" target="_blank">Taylor Moore,</a> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a>,<a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank"> and Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/pirates" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Piracy is often depicted as a facet of the wild, lawless expanses of the high seas. But in this episode, we explore the order that governed piracy, captivity, and ransom in the early modern Mediterranean and in turn, how these practices shaped early modern politics, Mediterranean connections, and the emergent notions of international law. Emrah Safa Gürkan talks about Ottoman corsairs and the practicalities of piracy in the early modern Mediterranean. Joshua White discusses facets of Islamic law and gender in the realm of piracy. And Daniel Hershenzon explores the paradoxical connections forged by slavery, captivity, and ransom on both sides of the Mediterranean. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/pirates.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 444</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/hyilmaz" target="_blank"> with Hüseyin Yılmaz </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">hosted by Nir Shafir</a><a href="https://uio.academia.edu/AlpErenTopal" target="_blank"> and Alp Eren Topal</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/hyilmaz" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In medieval Anatolia, political authority could be found in surprising places. In this podcast, we speak to Hüseyin Yılmaz about the political role of Sufi leaders in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. We explore how these shaykhs could become powerful political leaders in their own right and how the nascent Ottoman state dealt with their power, ultimately participating in what Yılmaz calls "the mystical turn" in Ottoman political thought.</div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/the-mystical-turn-in-ottoman-political.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 443</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/history/people/faiz-ahmed" target="_blank"> with Faiz Ahmed </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="http://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">hosted by Shireen Hamza</a><a href="https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/centers-labs-and-projects/humanities-research-fellowship-program/research-fellows/huma-gupta.html" target="_blank"> and Huma Gupta</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/afghanistan" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this episode, Professor Faiz Ahmed recounts the fascinating history of Afghanistan’s first modern constitution, contextualizing it within a broader legal and political history. The constitution was developed by Afghan, Ottoman and Indian and other scholars, at the behest of the country’s monarch, between 1919-1925. After the first world war, Afghanistan was one of few sovereign Muslim countries. This was one factor which drew many scholars and activists to the court of Amanullah Khan — a “Young Afghan,” graduate of an Ottoman institution in Kabul, and a Muslim modernizer. We learn about the role of figures like Queen Soraya, her father Mahmud Tarzi, and myriad scholars and jurists in shaping the constitution. We discuss the nature of the constitution as a living document, which acknowledges its place within an Islamic legal heritage — as well as the fact that the constitution will evolve. Professor Ahmed also reads from one section of the constitution, which determines “Who is an Afghan?,” and shares his translation. We also learn how the history of the constitution is remembered in Afghanistan today. </div> <br> <itunes:category text="History"> </itunes:category> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/afghanistan-rising.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 441</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile/heather-ferguson" target="_blank">with Heather Ferguson</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank">hosted by Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/h-ferguson" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this episode, historian Heather Ferguson takes us behind the scenes of early modern Ottoman state-making with a discussion of her recent book <i><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27958" target="_blank">The Proper Order of Things</a></i>. We discuss how the architecture of Topkapı palace, the emergence of new bureaucratic practices, and the administration of space from Hungary to Lebanon projected early modern discourses of “order” that were crucial to imperial legitimacy, governance, and dissent. Heather also offers rare insights into the challenges, vulnerabilities, and victories of transforming a dissertation into a prize-winning book manuscript. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/language-power-ottoman-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 440</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/NazanMaksudyan" target="_blank"> with Nazan Maksudyan </a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/maksudyan4" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Children are often imagined as victims of war or passive bystanders. But in this episode, Nazan Maksudyan is back on the program to talk about how the First World War looked through the eyes of Ottoman children and their lives as historical actors during and after the conflict. We explore the experience of child workers and the many situations faced by children throughout the war, and we also explore the themes of survival and resilience as expressed in the experience of children, especially Ottoman Armenians. We also discuss the challenges of writing amid a tumultuous period for Turkey and an experience of exile. </div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/nazan-4.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 434</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ucla.academia.edu/SarahStein" target="_blank"> with Sarah Abrevaya Stein </a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://yale.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/family-papers-and-ottoman-jewish-life-after-empire-sarah-stein" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this episode, historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein speaks to us about the journey of one Jewish family from Ottoman Salonica in the late nineteenth century to Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and beyond during the twentieth century. In her new book Family Papers, she reveals the poignant continuities and changes that accompanied the Sephardic family's movement from an imperial world into a national one through stories of displacement and genocide, endurance and survival. She also discusses the cache of family papers that allowed her to provide this uniquely intimate vantage on large-scale historical transformations.</div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/11/jewish-life-after-empire.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 429</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://tulane.academia.edu/YigitAkin" target="_blank">with Yiğit Akın</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a><a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank"> and Susanna Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/how-war-changed-ottoman-society-yigit-akin" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> World War I brought unprecedented destruction to the Ottoman Empire and resulted in its fall of as a political entity, but war also produced new politics. In this podcast, Yiğit Akın is back to talk about his book <i>When the War Came Home</i> and how years of war transformed the Ottoman Empire. We discuss how the experience of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars reshaped Ottoman officials' understanding of modern warfare and informed decisions taken during the First World War. We also discuss the social history of the war for ordinary Ottoman citizens and consider how the particularities of the Ottoman case reveal new insights about WWI and its legacy. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/10/wwi.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 427 </div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cssh.ku.edu.tr/en/people/personel-detail/?user=ykoksal" target="_blank">with Yonca Köksal </a> </div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian </a> </div> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/social-networks-in-ottoman-reform-yonca-koksal" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> How do social networks determine the results of government reform? In this episode we examine this quesiton during the Tanzimat reform era (1839-76) with historical sociologist Yonca Köksal. Her research focuses on the differing outcomes of the Tanzimat in two core provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Ankara and Edirne. Applying social network analysis to imperial correspondence and provincial petitions, Köksal shows how differing network structures could lead to different outcomes in government reforms, empowering local dynasties in some areas and giving rise to cross-confessional coalitions in others. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/09/socialnetworks.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="episode_no"> Episode 425</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://uio.academia.edu/AlpErenTopal" target="_blank">with Alp Eren Topal</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a> and <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/medical-metaphors-in-ottoman-political-thought-alp-eren-topal" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br><br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this episode, Alp Eren Topal traces the history of medical metaphors for describing and diagnosing state and society in Ottoman political thought. From the balancing of humors prescribed by Galenic medicine to the lifespan of the state described by Ibn Khaldun and the germ theory of nineteenth-century biomedicine, we explore some of the ways people thought about the state and its health or illness in the early-modern and modern Mediterranean world. How did these metaphors and images change over time, and how did they inform the policies of the Empire and its rulers? </div> <br> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/09/medical-metaphors.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 423</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/faculty/ellis-matthew.html" target="_blank">with Matthew Ellis</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank">hosted by Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/ellis" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> When the Ottoman state granted the province of Egypt to the family of Mehmed Ali Pasha in the 19th century, neither party much cared where Egypt's western border lay. As Matthew Ellis argues in his book, Desert Borderland, sovereignty in the eastern Sahara, the expanse of desert spanning Egypt and Ottoman Libya, was not simply imposed by modern, centralized states. In this episode, we discuss the various groups and actors who complicated the question of borders and political identity in one of the least studied corners of Ottoman and Middle Eastern history. Conflict and negotiations between oasis dwellers, Ottoman bureaucrats, Egyptian royals, the Sanusi order, and colonial officials kept this territory unbounded until the border was ultimately drawn in 1925. How did modern states attempt to practice sovereignty and claim territory in this vast desert borderland? And how did local populations resist and assist in state-making in the decades surrounding the First World War? </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/08/ellis.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="episode_no"> Episode 421</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/G%C3%BClhanBalsoy" target="_blank">with Gülhan Balsoy </a><a href="https://kemerburgaz.academia.edu/TubaDemirci" target="_blank">and Tuba Demirci</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">hosted by Suzie Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/population-and-reproduction-in-the-late-ottoman-empire" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> How did the experience of pregnancy and childbirth change in the Ottoman Empire in the context of nineteenth-century reforms? In this episode, we discuss how the question of managing a "population" become a key concern for the Ottoman state, bringing new opportunities and difficulties for Ottoman mothers and midwives alike. Questions about childbirth also became enmeshed in late-imperial demographic and cultural anxieties about the relationship between the Empire and its non-Muslim populations. As pregnancy and childbirth drew the attention of medical men, state bureaucrats, and men and women writers in the emerging periodical press, new technologies, regulations, and forms of medical knowledge changed what it meant to give birth and raise a child. </div> <br> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/08/populationreproduction.html#more">« Click for More »</a>