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A detailed history of a small neighborhood community of Ottoman Istanbul.Combining the vivid and colorful detail of a micro-history with a wider historical perspective, this groundbreaking study looks at the urban and social history of a small neighborhood community (a mahalle) of Ottoman Istanbul, the Kasap İlyas. Drawing on exceptionally rich historical documentation starting in the early sixteenth century, Cem Behar focuses on how the Kasap İlyas mahalle came to mirror some of the overarching issues of the capital city of the Ottoman Empire. Also considered are other issues central to the historiography of cities, such as rural migration and urban integration of migrants, including avenues for professional integration and the solidarity networks migrants formed, and the role of historical guilds and non-guild labor, the ancestor of the "informal" or "marginal" sector found today in less developed countries.
Cem Behar is Professor of Economics at Boğaziçi University and the author of many books, including (with Alan Duben) Istanbul Households: Marriage, Family, and Fertility, 1880–1940.
Preface INTRODUCTION: THE CITY, THE SEMT, AND THE MAHALLE The Mahalle and the SemtThe "Islamic City"The Kasap Ilyas MahalleFluidity and ImprecisionSources and Issues 1: THE CONTOURS OF A LOCAL IDENTITY Local Identity: The Formative Sixteenth CenturyMahalle Topography: Boundaries and LandmarksHouses and GardensStreets and Dead EndsThe Population and Inhabitants of a Peripheral MahalleKasap Ilyas' High Street: "Butchers' Road"Fire and Brimstone 2: POWER AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION IN KASAP ILYAS: TANZIMAT AND AFTER The Imam and His CongregationThe Benefits of Local Power: The Case of Aziz Mahmud EfendiA Case of Peaceful Transition: Imam and Muhtar in Kasap IlyasThe Administered Body: Early Nineteenth-Century Perspectives 3: MIGRATION AND URBAN INTEGRATION, THE ARAPKIR CONNECTION The Formation of a Migrant Shelter in Kasap Ilyas: Ispanakci Viranesi and the ArapkirlisFruit Vendors and Civil Servants: Provincials and Arapkirlis in 1885Legal Residence: Regionalism and Nepotism 4: "END OF EMPIRE": PORTRAIT OF A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY Families and HouseholdsStreets, Houses, Warehouses, and Shops: Residential and Commercial Areas in Kasap IlyasThe Muhtar and his Mahalle: Ruler, Representative, Middleman EPILOGUE Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Volumes in the SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East
