Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire

From the 15th to the 20th Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Gülay Yilmaz, Fruma Zachs, Akdeniz University) Yilmaz, Gulay (Associate Professor, the University of Haifa) Zachs, Fruma (Professor

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Explores 5 centuries of changing attitudes toward children and childhood in the Ottoman EmpireIncludes data on Christian, Jewish and Muslim children that shed light on differences and commonalities in family structures and communitiesCovers a broad geographic area including Ottoman Romania, Bulgaria, Crimea, Greece, Bosnia, Syria, Palestine and IstanbulPaves the way for new directions in research on the history of children and childhood in the Ottoman EmpireFeatures a Foreword by Suraiya Faroqhi, an introductory chapter by Colin Heywood, and includes 8 tables, 8 graphs, 9 illustrations and a glossary of key termsHow did adults, religious institutions and the state view children during the Ottoman Empire? This volume gathers specialists in the social history of the Ottoman Empire as a whole in regions ranging from Anatolia through the Arab provinces to the Balkans, and from the 15th to the early 20th century to respond to recent theoretical calls to recognise children as active agents in history. Divided into 5 thematic sections concepts of childhood, family interrelationships, children outside family circles, children's bodies and education the volume covers the social and political structure of the Ottoman Empire. It uses the innovative prism of children as social agents who are not only shaped by but also shape society, rather than being the passive recipients of their social environment.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-22
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt603 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
Antal sidor424
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474455398

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Gülay Yilmaz is Associate Professor at Akdeniz University. She is author of articles in The Journal of Ottoman Studies, Belleten and Studies of the Ottoman Domain and of chapters in Bread from the Lion’s Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities (Berghahn Books, 2015) and Children in Slavery Through the Ages (Ohio University Press, 2009). Fruma Zachs is a Professor at the University of Haifa. She is author of The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in 19th-Century Beirut (Brill, 2005), co-author of Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and co-editor of Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh (I.B. Tauris, 2005).

ForewordSuraiya FaroqhiIntroductionGülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs1. Ottoman Childhoods in Comparative PerspectiveColin HeywoodPart I: Concepts of Childhood2. Childhood in the Peasant Militia Registers and the Age Boundaries of AdolescenceCahit Telci3. An Ottoman Boyhood: Child Life in the Late Eighteenth Century through the Lens of Panayis Skouzes’ AutobiographyEleni GaraPart II: Family Interrelationships4. Preliminary Observations on the Demographic Roots of Modern Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: Wealth, Children and Status in Ruse, Vidin and Sofia, 1670–1855İrfan Kokdaş5. The Emotional Bond between Early Modern Ottoman Children and Parents: A Case Study of Sünbülzade's ‘Ideal’ Child (1700–1800)Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik6. A World of Conflicts: Youth and Violence towards Parents in the Family in Rural Wallachia, 1716–1859Nicoleta RomanPart III: Children Outside Family Circles7. Born and Bred in Seventeenth-Century Crimea: Child Slavery, Social Reality and Cultural IdentityFırat Yaşa8. Rural Girls as Domestic Servants in Late Ottoman IstanbulYahya Araz9. Muslim Orphans and the Shari‘ah in Nineteenth Century Palestine: Cases from NablusMahmud YazbakPart IV: Children’s Bodies10. Body Politics and Devşirmes in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Conscripted Children of HerzegovinaGülay Yılmaz11. Pastimes for Child Breadwinners: The Sanitisation and Recreation Facilities of the Hereke Factory CampusDidem Yavuz Velipaşaoğlu12. Beating is Heaven-Sent: Corporal Punishment of Children in the late Ottoman and Early Republican EraNazan ÇiçekPart V: Children and Education13. Childhood and Education in Ottoman Bosnia during the Early Modern Period (mid-Fifteenth to Late Eighteenth Century)Elma Korić14. Children’s Education in Ottoman Jewish Society (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)Ruth Lamdan15. Women as Educators towards the End of the Nahda Period: Labiba Hashim and Children’s UpbringingFruma ZachsGlossaryList of ContributorsIndex

Gülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs’s edited volume is a welcome contribution to the field of history of children and youth in the Ottoman Empire [...] The prominence of the early modern era (with nine chapters) in the volume’s chronological focus is worth stressing, as the research on Ottoman children to date has been confined mostly to the nineteenth century. By the same token, wide geographic coverage of the book, going beyond the Balkans and Anatolia to Wallachia, Crimea, Palestine, and Egypt, has the added value of facilitating comparisons.