• Introduction by H. Erdem Cipa and Emine Fetvaci
• 1. Dimitris Kastritsis, "The 'Tales of Sultan Mehmed' (Ahval-i Sultan Mehmed) in the Context of Ottoman Historiography"--
• 2. Tijana Krstic, "Conversion to Islam, Ottoman Historiography, and the Changing Notions of Ottomanness in the 15th and 16th Centuries"--
• 3. Ebru Turan, "Histories in Verse: Ottoman Imperialism and its Supporters in Early Sixteenth-Century Istanbul"--
• 4. Baki Tezcan, "Falling through the Cracks of Patronage: The Lost Prose Sehname of Taskopruzade Kemaleddin"--
• 5. Sinem Eryilmaz, "Reading History through Illustrations: The Case of 'Arif's Sahname-yi Al-i 'Osman"--
• 6. Giancarlo Casale, "History and the Ottoman World View: Reading a mid 16thCentury Veneto-Ottoman Mappamundi as an Historical Text"--
• 7. Kaya Sahin, "How to Read Celalzade's Histories? Narrative, Ideology and Historiography in the Works of Celalzade Mustafa"--
• 8. Hakan Karateke, "What was History? Who was a Historian?: Ottoman Conceptions of Historiography" Bibliography-- Contributors-- Index.
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Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the implicit messages conveyed by the texts and illustrations of key manuscripts. It answers such questions as how the Ottomans understood themselves within their court and in relation to non-Ottoman others; how they visualized the ideal ruler; how they defined their culture and place in the world; and what the significance of Islam was in their self-definition.
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• Introduction Marios Hadjianastasis Rhoads Murphey's bibliography
• 1. Tekfur, fasiliyus and kayser: Disdain, negligence and appropriation of Byzantine imperial titulature in the Ottoman world Hasan Colak
• 2. Slave Labour in the Early Ottoman Rural Economy. Regional Variations in the Balkans during the 15th Century Konstantinos Moustakas
• 3. The Topographic Reconstruction of Ottoman Dimetoka: Issues of Periodization and Urban Morphology Ourania Bessi
• 4. Being Tiryaki Hasan Pasha: the textual appropriations of an Ottoman hero Claire Norton
• 5. Ottoman Hil'at: Between Commodity and Charisma Amanda Phillips
• 6. Between the Porte and the Lion: identity, politics and opportunism in seventeenth century Cyprus Marios Hadjianastasis
• 7. The carta incognita of Ottoman Athens Katerina Stathi
• 8. Lingering Questions Regarding the Lineage, Life & Death of Barbaros Hayreddin Pasa Heath W. Lowry
• 9. Entre les insurges reaya et les indisciplines ayan: la revolution grecque et la reaction de l'Etat ottoman Sophia Laiou
• 10. Regional Reform as an Ambition: Charles Blunt Sen., His Majesty's Consul in Salonica, during his Early Years in the Ottoman Empire (1835-39) Michael Ursinus
• 11. Nineteenth Century Ottoman Americana Johann Strauss
• 12. The End Of Bismarck's "Pretended Disinterestedness" and a New Era for German - Ottoman Relations: The Ottoman Special Mission to Berlin and Resid Bey's Report in 1881 Naci Yorulmaz Index.
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Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination is a compilation of articles celebrating the work of Rhoads Murphey, the eminent scholar of Ottoman studies who has worked at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham for more than two decades. This volume offers two things: the versatility and influence of Rhoads Murphey is seen here through the work of his colleagues, friends and students, in a collection of high quality and cutting edge scholarship. Secondly, it is a testament of the legacy of Rhoads and the CBOMGS in the world of Ottoman Studies. The collection includes articles covering topics as diverse as cartography, urban studies and material culture, spanning the Ottoman centuries from the late Byzantine/early Ottoman to the twentieth century. Contributors include: Ourania Bessi, Hasan Colak, Marios Hadjianastasis, Sophia Laiou, Heath W. Lowry, Konstantinos Moustakas, Claire Norton, Amanda Phillips, Katerina Stathi, Johann Strauss, Michael Ursinus, Naci Yorulmaz.
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• Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction Part One: The Making of a Sultan
• 1. Politics of Succession: Selim's Path to the Throne
• 2. Politics of Factions Part Two: The Creation of Selim's Composite Image Part Two Introduction: A Historiographical Survey
• 3. Selim, The Legitimate Ruler
• 4. Selim, The Idealized Ruler
• 5. Selim, The Divinely Ordained Ruler Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I ("The Grim") set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the size of the empire. Conquering Eastern Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt, Selim promoted a politicized Sunni Ottoman* identity against the Shiite Safavids of Iran, thus shaping the early modern Middle East. Analyzing a wide array of sources in Ottoman-Turkish, Persian, and Arabic, H. Erdem Cipa offers a fascinating revisionist reading of Selim's rise to power and the subsequent reworking and mythologizing of his persona in 16th- and 17th-century Ottoman historiography. In death, Selim continued to serve the empire, becoming represented in ways that reinforced an idealized image of Muslim sovereignty in the early modern Eurasian world.
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• What changed?
• Run-up to change
• Trials
• Resistance to change
• Context
• Gezi protests
• Media engineering
• Anything goes?
• Peace at home
• Everyday atrocities.

The first full account of the historic change in Turkey between 2007 and 2011, and the only scholarly description of the new order in the immediate aftermath of the change from 2011.
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• The environment and early influences shaping the political ideas of Niyazi Berkes in British Cyprus, 1908-1922
• The education and early career of Niyazi Berkes during the construction of the Kemalist state and ideology, 1922-1933
• Kemalist University reform, the Great Depression, and the graduate education of Niyazi Berkes, 1933-1939
• Niyazi Berkes's role in power struggles of the post-Atatürk period, 1939-1945
• The Ankara University unrest and the construction of right-wing ideology in Turkey, 1945-1950
• Niyazi Berkes's contributions to Islamic studies: the development of secularism in Turkey, 1950-1960
• The 1960 coup d'état and Niyazi Berkes's formative Kemalist contributions to the Turkish left, 1960-1988.

Niyazi Berkes (1908-1988) was among the most prominent figures in Turkish political thought in the Republican period. He was the author of several masterpieces that broke fresh ground in the fields of Turkish politics and history. Berkes not only witnessed political history, on several occasions he was influential in shaping Turkish identity during his long life, which began in Cyprus, where he was born in 1908, and concluded with his death in Britain in 1988. In fact, the Young Turk Revolution (1908), the War of Independence (1919-1922), the reforms of Kemal Atatürk (1923-1938), the construction of a Kemalist ideology and its transformation during the Second World War (1939-1944), and the Cold War (1945-1989) are some of the weighty matters of Turkish history that were a part of his life story. Berkes's political and intellectual biography thus affords a unique vantage point from which this book studies both Turkish political thought and examines the interplay between political history and an intellectual biography. This book also sheds light on recent political developments in contemporary Turkey, suggesting that the challenges to inculcate the democratic vision that originated in Berkes's lifetime still continue today.

• Contents Acknowledgements List of Maps and Figures Notes on Conventions Abbreviations List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction Pascal W. Firges and Tobias P. Graf Part I: Trade, Warfare, and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean Introduction to Part I
• 2 Trading between East and West: The Ottoman Empire of the Early Modern Period Suraiya N. Faroqhi
• 3 Shifting Winds: Piracy, Diplomacy, and Trade in the Ottoman Mediterranean, 1624-1625 Joshua M. White
• 4 Ottoman Seas and British Privateers: Defining Maritime Territoriality in the Eighteenth-Century Levant Michael Talbot
• 5 French Capitulations and Consular Jurisdiction in Egypt and Aleppo in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries Viorel Panaite Part II: Constructing and Managing Identity Introduction to Part II
• 6 Fira setle naz ar edesin: Recreating the Gaze of the Ottoman Slave Owner at the Confluence of Textual Genres Nur Sobers-Khan
• 7 Turks Reconsidered: Jakab Nagy de Harsany's Changing Image of the Ottoman Gabor Karman
• 8 Of Half-Lives and Double-Lives: "Renegades" in the Ottoman Empire and their Pre-Conversion Ties, ca. 1580-1610 Tobias P. Graf
• 9 Aspects of Juridical Integration of Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire: Observations in the Eighteenth-Century Urban and Rural Aegean Christian Roth Part III: Responding to an Age of Challenge Introduction to Part III
• 10 Gunners for the Sultan: French Revolutionary Efforts to Modernize the Ottoman Military Pascal W. Firges
• 11 "Humble Efforts in Search of Reform": Consuls, Pashas, and Quarantine in Early-Tanzimat Salonica Gulay Tulasoglu
• 12 Transforming a Late-Ottoman Port-City: Salonica, 1876-1912 Sotirios Dimitriadis
• 13 A Civic Initiative for the Founding of a Museum in the Ottoman Province around 1850 Maximilian Hartmuth
• 14 The Transcultural Dimension of the Ottoman Constitution Aylin Kocunyan Bibliography Printed Primary Sources Published Secondary Sources Unpublished Secondary Sources
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Well-Connected Domains offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Ottoman Empire as deeply connected to the world beyond its borders by way of trade, warfare and diplomacy, as much as intellectual exchanges, migration, and personal relations. While for decades the Ottoman Empire has been portrayed as largely aloof and distant from - as well as disinterested in - developments abroad, this collection of essays edited by Pascal W. Firges, Tobias P. Graf, Christian Roth, and Gulay Tulasoglu highlights the deep entanglement between the Ottoman realm and its European neighbors. Taking their starting points from individual case studies, the contributions offer novel interpretations of a variety of aspects of Ottoman history as well as new impulses for future research. Contributors are: Sotirios Dimitriadis, Suraiya N. Faroqhi, Maximilian Hartmuth, Gabor Karman, Aylin Kocunyan, Viorel Panaite, Nur Sobers-Khan, Michael Talbot, and Joshua M. White.
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• Introduction 1) People and geography 2) The break with the Ottoman past 3) The post-war era 4) Democracy and civil rights 5) Foreign policy 6) Economy 7) Contemporary politics 8) Islam and nationalism 9) Society and culture 10) Epilogue: Turkey finding its voice Acknowledgments Notes Index.
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Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: culturally, historically, and geographically, it is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. The only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, Turkey straddles both Europe and Asia. And it boasts an economy larger than any of the states that have joined the EU in recent years-Istanbul alone has a bigger economy than that of Hungary or the Czech Republic-with pipelines that carry much of the world's oil and gas. Andrew Finkel has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for a number of leading news media such as The Economist and Time magazine. In this concise book, Finkel unravels Turkey's complexities, setting them against the historical background of the Ottoman Empire, the secular nationalist revolution led by Kemal Ataturk, and repeated political interventions by the military, which sees itself as the guardian of Ataturk's legacy. Finkel reveals a nation full of surprises. Turkey's labyrinthine politics often lead to such unexpected outcomes as leaders of the untra-nationalist party starting on the road to EU membership by voting to scrap the death penalty-which also meant giving a reprieve to the convicted leader of the Kurdish separatist movement. And where else but in Turkey, Finkel writes, would secularist liberals have supported a prime minister who was once jailed for promoting religious extremism? From the Kurdish question to economic policy, from Turkey's role in Iraq to its quest for EU membership, Finkel illuminates the past and present of this unique, and uniquely consequential, country.
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• Front Cover; Global History of the Present; About the author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Overview of political parties in Turkey; Key moments in Turkey's history; Note on orthography and pronunciation; Explanatory note; Preface; Map; Introduction; The workings of the guardian state; Life-world transformations; 1 Empire and nation before
• 1980: the late Ottoman state and the Turkish Republic; Reform and imperial dissolution; The Kemalist one-party state; The guardian state's incomplete democracy (1946-80).

• 2 The Özal years: rupture, promise and missed chances (1980-91)Silence and torture: 12 September 1980; Motherland promise: wealth and stability; Re-engagement with the world: the US, Europe and 1989; 3 The 'lost decade': wars, crises and weak coalitions (1991-2002); State of emergency in the east: the Kurdish war in the 1990s; Fighting terror: the guardian state in western Turkey; Postmodern coups and cracks in the system (1997-2001); Crises, hopes and saviours (2000-02); 4 Justice and development: 'Islamic Calvinists' versus the guardian state (2002-07); Islamic Calvinists in office.

• War and peace in KurdistanMemory and reality: the return of the guardians; 5 Another nation: moving towards the present (2007-10); The guardian state exposed; Home affairs: Kurdish, Alevi and human rights; Engaging with the world; Turkey's possible futures; Postscript; Sources; Index.

Kerem Öktem charts the contemporary history of Turkey, exploring such key issues as the relationship between religion and the state, Kurdish identity, Turkey's relationship with Israel and the ongoing controversy over EU membership. Readable but comprehensive, Turkey since 1989 is the definitive book on the country's erratic transformation from a military dictatorship to a maturing, if still troubled, democracy.

• GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS: STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICAL THEORY Series Editor: Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernity and Democracy in Turkey; Part One
• Ottoman Presence;
• Chapter 1
• Ottoman Awqaf, Turkish Modernization, and Citizenship; Introduction; Citizenship After Orientalism; Ottoman Awqaf; Ottoman Awqaf and Modernization; Translating Citizenship; Conclusion; Notes;
• Chapter 2
• Reflections of European Self-Images in Ottoman Mirrors.

• Christianity and the European Self-ImageLiberal Europe; Civilized Europe; Notes; Part Two
• Problematizing Turkish Modernity;
• Chapter 3
• Laiklik and Turkey's "Cultural" Modernity: Releasing Turkey into Conceptual Space Occupied by "Europe"; Approach and Theoretical Framework; Case One: Interpreting the Institutional Power of Turkey's "Secular" State; Case Two: Turkey's "Cultural" Modernity; Re/Making Turkey; Notes;
• Chapter 4
• From Culture of Politics to Politics of Culture: Reflections on Turkish Modernity; Introduction.

• The Culture of Politics and why it is not the Politics of Culture: Turkey and the Politics-Culture ClashSecularism versus Religion; Citizen: Old or New; The Shortcomings of Kemalism and the Continuity Thesis; By Way of Conclusion: The Last Trial, Post-1980 Period; Notes;
• Chapter 5
• The Public Sphere and the Question of Identity in Turkey; Public Sphere, Democratic Politics, and Community; The Public Sphere as the Site of Modernity; The Public Sphere as the Site of Nation Building Project; The State as the Autonomous Agent of the Public Sphere; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

• Part Three
• The Question of Recognition
• Chapter 6
• Defensive and Liberal Nationalisms: The Kurdish Question and Modernization/ Democratization; Introduction; Turkish Nationalism and the Kurdish Question; The Possibility and Desirability of LNP; Current Mainstream-Discursive Dynamics; Political-Economic Prospects and Policy Implications; Notes; References;
• Chapter 7
• A Legitimate Restriction of Freedom? The Headscarf Issue in Turkey; The Headscarf as a Symbol of Sectarianism; Is the Headscarf Really a Symbol of Extremism?; The Headscarf as the Precursor for Stricter Demands; Notes.

• Chapter 8
• Globalization, Modernization, and Democratization in Turkey: The Fethullah Gülen MovementThe Historical Backdrop of the Gülen Movement; The Gülen Movement and Globalization; The Gülen Movement and Democratization; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography;
• Chapter 9
• The Anatomy of Civil Society in Turkey: Toward a Transformation; Introduction; Civil Society in Turkey: Its Anatomy and Changing Context; An Analytical Framework and Data: Derived from the Turkish Study of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI); The Remaking of Turkish Civil Society: The EU's Impact; Concluding Remarks.

In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population. Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possiblity of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting, as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement.

• Contents and AbstractsIntroduction: Afterlife of Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey, an Introduction chapter abstractThe introduction introduces the protagonist of the story, Hayganush Mark, the Constantinopolitan Armenian woman who published the main primary source of the book, Hay Gin (Armenian Woman), a feminist biweekly, from 1919 to 1933 in Istanbul. The chapter clarifies the research questions that drove the writing of this book and explains what kind of a route was taken to answer them. The analytical core of the chapter revolves around the historical explanation of why and how a gendered way of organizing social relations was fundamental for Armenians as they adjusted to the multiple catastrophes that befell them from the World War I into the mid-1930s.
• 1The Re-Birth of a Nation chapter abstractThe story takes place in Allies' occupied Constantinople from late 1918 to late
• 1922. During this time Armenian leadership aimed to cede territory from the defeated Ottoman Empire and declare independence. Their goal was to unite the Eastern and Western parts of the Armenian ancestral lands. The chapter looks at the ways in which this goal was enmeshed with a broader agenda called National Revival or Restoration. Post-genocide Armenians mobilized to prove "the Turk" wrong and exist as a community, as a nation, and as a state. They have imagined these agendas in familial and gendered terms whereby children, most of them orphaned, represented the future.
• 2Can Feminists Revive a Nation? chapter abstractArmenians of Constantinople experienced the war years different from their counterparts in other parts of the Empire. They were not massacred or deported en masse. Therefore in the aftermath of the war, they were the ones who helped the survivors through various relief organizations. Elite, intellectual women of the Ottoman capital were very active in these endeavors and they also contributed to all other kinds of National Revival-related causes, such as fundraising, lobbying, and propaganda. In return, they asked to have a say in the decision making bodies of their community. This chapter focuses on the ways in which feminists formulated their arguments for the inseparability of the women's cause from the national cause. They established a Women's Association and began publishing a feminist fortnightly called Hay Gin (Armenian Woman)
• 3An Exodus and its Aftermath chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on one single year, from late 1922 to late 1923 when it became obvious that Armenians failed in their territorial goals. As a result of the Turkish War of Independence which was led by Mustafa Kemal, Ottoman Muslims drew the occupation forces out and forced the Allies to renegotiate a peace treaty. In the fall of 1922, after the Symrna Catastrophe (Kemalist takeover of Western Anatolia from occupying Greeks), Armenians (and Greeks) in Constantinople fled the city in panic, in anticipation of Kemalist entry to the city which could unleash violence against Christians whom Kemalists and the Muslim majority accused of collaboration with the enemy. Most people that we encountered in the first and second chapters of the book leave the city during this time. The remaining become an officially recognized minority in Turkey according to the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne.
• 4A Tamed Minority chapter abstractThe chapter looks at the communal survival strategies that Turkish Armenians crafted in order to stay put and remain safe in a place where they were unwanted by the state and by the majority. Armenians performed loyalty to the state and in returned hoped to receive freedom of religion and traditions. This formulation was gendered. Because women represented and were seen as the transmitters of tradition, they were assigned the task of ensuring the continuation of Armenianness in Turkey. The ways in which Armenians adapted to the new Turkey's conditions rested on an age-old relationship between the Ottoman state and its non-Muslims (dhimmis). But Turkey was very different from the former Empire, especially after the secularization and westernization reforms that the Kemalist Republic passed in the 1920s and 30s. Armenians welcomed these developments. This new-but-old state-minority relationship is termed "secular dhimmitude, " a consciously paradoxical term.
• 5Can Armenian Feminism Survive the new Turkey? chapter abstractThe ways in which the Turkish state discriminated against Armenians and the legacies of the recent, violent past, pushed the community into an enclave-like existence. As Armenians turned in on themselves they cherished domesticity, conservatism, and status quo. The chapter follows the Hay Gin journal to see how both the nationalist and feminist discourses changed in its pages. Because the editor of the journal, unlike most of her peers, did not leave Turkey, her case provides an emblematic case of what Armenians had to do in order to survive the new Turkey. Feminists were faced with a dilemma. On the one hand, they wanted to continue the Armenian tradition. On the other hand, their liberal progressive ideas that demanded gender equality required a change in the hierarchical order of the community. The chapter analyzes how Hayganush Mark, Hay Gin's editor tried to resolve these challenges.
• Conclusion: When History Became Destiny, a Conclusion chapter abstractThe chapter summarizes main points of the book. It briefly discusses its interventions into the historiography. The last part narrates how young Armenian women in early 2000s Istanbul resurged an interest in the history of Turkish Armenian feminism.
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Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Following World War I, as the victorious Allied powers occupied Ottoman territories, Armenian survivors returned to their hometowns optimistic that they might establish an independent Armenia. But Turkish resistance prevailed, and by 1923 the Allies withdrew, the Turkish Republic was established, and Armenians were left again to reconstruct their communities within a country that still considered them traitors. Lerna Ekmekcioglu investigates how Armenians recovered their identity within these drastically changing political conditions. Reading Armenian texts and images produced in Istanbul from the close of WWI through the early 1930s, Ekmekcioglu gives voice to the community's most prominent public figures, notably Hayganush Mark, a renowned activist, feminist, and editor of the influential journal Hay Gin. These public figures articulated an Armenianess sustained through gendered differences, and women came to play a central role preserving traditions, memory, and the mother tongue within the home. But even as women were being celebrated for their traditional roles, a strong feminist movement found opportunity for leadership within the community. Ultimately, the book explores this paradox: how someone could be an Armenian and a feminist in post-genocide Turkey when, through its various laws and regulations, the key path for Armenians to maintain their identity was through traditionally gendered roles.
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• Introduction Zone Making Midfield Wars Origins of Violence Looking AheadPart I. Insurgency
• Chapter 1. Organization Competitive Origins Building Trust Extracting Resources The Weberian Experiment Failed Organizational Inertia
• Chapter 2. Ideology A Fight for Independence Inviting Pressure from Abroad Bargaining with the State
• Chapter 3. Strategy A Border Specialist Reaching Out Paying the Price Back to BotanPart II. Counterinsurgency
• Chapter 4. Organization Administrative Solutions Special Rule Redistricting Abandoning the Countryside
• Chapter 5. Ideology Rural Bias Blaming Foreign Sponsors A Developmentalist Response The Backup Plan: Co-optation
• Chapter 6. Strategy Locating Insurgents Sweep and Strike Curbing Civilian Unrest The No-Entry ZoneConclusion Forging Identities Path-Dependent Origins Room for ContingencyAppendix Notes Index.
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How do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in war environments. In Zones of Rebellion, they integrate Turkish-Ottoman history with social science theory to unveil the long-term policies that continue to inform the distribution of violence in Anatolia. The authors show the astonishing similarity in combatants' practices over time and their resulting inability to consolidate Kurdish people and territory around their respective political agendas. The Kurdish insurgency in Turkey is one of the longest-running civil wars in the Middle East. Zones of Rebellion demonstrates for the first time how violence in this conflict has varied geographically. Identifying distinct zones of violence, Aydin and Emrence show why Kurds and Kurdish territories have followed different political trajectories, guaranteeing continued strife between Kurdish insurgents and the Turkish state in an area where armed groups organized along ethnic lines have battled the central state since Ottoman times. Aydin and Emrence present the first empirical analysis of Kurdish insurgency, relying on original data. These new datasets include information on the location, method, timing, target, and outcome of more than ten thousand insurgent attacks and counterinsurgent operations between 1984 and 2008. Another data set registers civilian unrest in Kurdish urban centers for the same period, including nearly eight hundred incidents ranging from passive resistance to active challenges to Turkey's security forces. The authors argue that both state agents and insurgents are locked into particular tactics in their conduct of civil war and that the inability of combatants to switch from violence to civic politics leads to a long-running stalemate. Such rigidity blocks negotiations and prevents battlefield victories from being translated into political solutions and lasting agreements.
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• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Eyal Ginio, Elie Podeh The Ottoman Empire and Europe Bernard Lewis Part One Ottoman Palestine King Solomon or Sultan Suleyman? Rachel Milstein The Renovations of Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839) in Jerusalem Khader Salameh Ottoman Intelligence Gathering during Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt and Palestine Dror Zeevi A Note on 'Aziz (Asis) Domet: A Pro-Zionist Arab Writer Jacob M. Landau Part Two Ottoman Egypt and the Fertile Crescent Un territoire " bien garde " du sultan ? Les Ottomans dans leur vilayet de Basra, 1565-1568 Nicolas Vatin Egyptian and Syrian Sufis Viewing Ottoman Turkish Sufism: Similarities, Differences, and Interactions Michael Winter Growing Consciousness of the Child in Ottoman Syria in the 19th Century: Modes of Parenting and Education in the Middle Class Fruma Zachs Part Three Ottoman Jews and the Surrounding Communities Retour sur les privileges des Alamanoglu : Une lignee juive ottomane a travers les siecles Gilles Veinstein Of Orphans, Marriage, and Money: Mating Patterns of Istanbul's Jews in the Early Nineteenth Century Minna Rozen Urban Encounters: The Muslim-Jewish Case in the Ottoman Empire Yaron Ben-Naeh Part Four Social History of the Ottoman Lands Shifting Patterns of Ottoman Enslavement in the Early Modern Period Ehud Toledano The Last Imaret? An Imperial Ottoman Firman from 1308/1890 Amy Singer Amnon Cohen's List of Publications Bibliography Index.
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This collection of articles discusses various political, social, cultural and economic aspects of the Ottoman Middle East. By using various textual and visual documents, produced in the Ottoman Empire, the collection offers new insights into the matrix of life during the long period of Ottoman rule. The different parts of the volume explore the main topics studied by Amnon Cohen: Ottoman Palestine, Egypt and the Fertile Crescent under Ottoman rule, Ottoman Jews and their relations with the surrounding societies and various social aspects of Ottoman societies.
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Sasun, a region of Anatolia formerly under Ottoman rule and today part of eastern Turkey, is frequently described as the site where, in 1894, the Turks massacred large numbers of Armenian Christians, with estimates ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 people. News reports at the time detailed that gruesome acts, including torture, had occurred at Sasun at the hands of the Ottoman army. The Ottoman Empire denied these allegations. A commission of European delegates sent to investigate the matter concluded that the news reports were highly exaggerated, yet the original stories of atrocities have persisted. This volume provides a close examination of the historical evidence to shed light on what happened at Sasun. The authors' research indicates that the stories circulated by the media of torture and murder in Sasun don't hold up against the findings of the European investigators. Evidence instead shows that an Armenian revolt led to fights with local Kurds and many fewer deaths, on both sides, and that the conflict had largely subsided before the arrival of the Ottoman army.
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• Introduction: new perspectives on Ottoman history / Jorgen S. Nielsen
• The Young Turks in power: a comparative and critical perspective / Klas-Göran Karlsson
• The Ottoman Empire between successors: thinking from 1821 to 1922 / Christine Philliou
• The Non-Muslim tax farmers in the fiscal and economic system of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century / Svetla Ianeva
• Conceptualizing difference during the Second Constitutional Period: new sources, old challenges / Kent F. Schull
• An Ottoman against the constitution: The Maronites of Mount Lebanon and the question of representation in the Ottoman Parliament / Abdulrahim Abuhusayn
• Late Ottoman state education / Michael Provence
• The Art of being replaced: the last of the Cretan Muslims between the empire and the nation-state / Elektra Kostopoulou
• Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey: medieval Anatolian warlord or Kemalist language reformer? history, language politics and the celebration of the Language Festival in Karaman, Turkey, 1961-2008 / Sara Nur Yildiz
• Ottoman Saida and problems of a Lebanese 'national' narrative / James A. Reilly
• Conversion to Islam in Bulgarian historiography: an overview / Rossitsa Gradeva
• The short history of Bulgaria for export / Evelina Kelbecheva
• Recent developments in the historiography of Bosnia and Herzegovina relating to the Ottoman Empire and their Impact on history textbooks / Vera Katz.

There has been a growing interest in recent years in reviewing the continued impact of the Ottoman empire even long after its demise at the end of the First World War. The wars in former Yugoslavia, following hot on the civil war in Lebanon, were reminders that the settlements of 1918-22 were not final. While many of the successor states to the Ottoman empire, in east and west, had been built on forms of nationalist ideology and rhetoric opposed to the empire, a newer trend among historians has been to look at these histories as Ottoman provincial history. The present volume is an attempt to bring some of those histories from across the former Ottoman space together. They cover from parts of former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece to Lebanon, including Turkey itself, providing rich material for comparing regions which normally are not compared.
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• Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Transliteration; Preface: The View from the Edge of the Center; Stephanos Vogorides' Apologia, November 1852;
• 1. The Houses of Phanar;
• 2. Volatile Synthesis;
• 3. Demolitions;
• 4. Phanariot Remodeling and the Struggle for Continuity;
• 5. Diplomacy and the Restoration of a New Order;
• 6. In the Eye of the Storm; Appendix A: Genealogies of the Vogorides, Musurus, and Aristarchi Families; Appendix B: Phanariot Dignitaries in the Four High Offices of Dragoman (Grand Dragoman; Dragoman of the Fleet) and Voyvoda (of Wallachia and Moldavia), 1661-1821.

This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories - ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine Philliou brilliantly shines a new light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man. Stephanos Vogorides (1780-1859) was part of a network of Christian elites known phanariots, institutionally excluded from power yet intimately bound up with Ottoman governance. By tracing the contours of the wide-ranging networks - crossing ethnic, religious, and institutional boundaries - in which the phanariots moved, Philliou provides a unique view of Ottoman power and, ultimately, of the Ottoman legacies in the Middle East and Balkans today. What emerges is a wide-angled analysis of governance as a lived experience at a moment in which there was no clear blueprint for power.
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• Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Introduction; ONE: THE SULTAN'S REALM; TWO: THE EVE OF WAR; THREE: OPENING MOVES; FOUR: ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS; FIVE: GALLIPOLI; SIX: KUT; SEVEN: ARMENIAN AGONY; EIGHT: EL AURENS; NINE: THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS; TEN: THE FALL OF THE SULTAN'S REALM; Author's Note; Chapter Source Notes and Citations; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries. At the height of its power, it stretched over three continents and produced marvels of architecture, literature, science, and warfare. When it fell, its collapse redrew the map of the world and changed the course of history. Shadow of the Sultan's Realm is the story of the empire's dissolution during a tumultuous period that climaxed in the First World War. In its telling are battles and campaigns that have become the stuff of legend-Gallipoli, Kut, Beersheeba-waged by men who have become larger than life: Enver Bey, the would-be patriot who was driven more by ambition than by wisdom; T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), the enigmatic leader of an irregular war against the Turks; Aaron Aaronsohn, the Jewish botanist-turned-spy who deceived his Turkish and British allies with equal facility; David Lloyd George, the prime minister for whom power meant everything, integrity nothing; Mehmet Talaat, who gave the orders that began the Armenian massacres; Winston Churchill, who created a detailed plan for the Gallipoli campaign, which should have been the masterstroke of the Great War; Mustafa Kemal, a gifted soldier who would become a revolutionary politician and earn the name Ataturk; Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary who would promise anything to anyone; and Edmund Allenby, the general who failed in the trench warfare of the western front but fought brilliantly in Palestine. Daniel Allen Butler weaves the stories of the men and the events that propelled them into a compelling narrative of the death of an empire. Its legacy is the cauldron of the modern Middle East.
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• Intro; From the Sultan to Atatürk: Turkey; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Spelling and Pronunciation; Part I: Sèvres;
• 1. Illusions of Power;
• 2. Broken Promises;
• 3. Turks Fight for their Rights; Part II: Lausanne;
• 4. Western Revolution in the East;
• 5. At One with Civilisation; Part III: The Aftermath;
• 6. Creating a New State and Nation; Notes; Chronology; Further Reading; Picture Sources.