Ottoman Fake

Marc Aymes, Ph.D. (2005), Aix-Marseille University, is Professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), affiliated to the Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asia Studies (CETOBaC).

• Preface: Forgery in ActionAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsCalendar SystemsTransliterationAbout the coverIntroduction—Fakes: In It From the Outset1 Carlo Ginzburg’s Photo Finish2 Robert-Henri Bautier’s Passion3 What Two Out-And-Out Usurpers Look Like4 State Art and StatecraftPart1 Apprehensions and Reprehensions: Looking for ImprintsIntroduction to Part11 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription1 El-ḥâc Ṣâliḥ from Bûrdur2 Ḥaḳḳı Efendi—Deactivating a Pasha3 An Inventory as an Example2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity1 From Afar, or the Fleeting Glimpse of Meḥmed Fû’âd Efendi2 Seen from Closer Up—the Attentive Gaze3 Collocation Effects4 In Which Excellence Frequents Mediocrity5 Matter for Discernment6 Distinctive Characteristics3 Conditioning What Cannot Be Discerned1 Clipped and Gilded2 Meḥmed the Kurd, or the Mutism of Scratching3 Sándor Radnóti, or the Power of Wear(ing)4 Süleymân Efendi, or Interpolation in the Hollows5 The Report from Bîġâ, or How to Falsify Without Altering6 Falsification despite the Indiscernible7 Vanishing Fakes8 The Garden of San Stefano4 Extracts from the Realm of ParticlesA Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations1 Medicines, Fats, and Assimilated Products2 Trieste Rums, Leucadian Wines3 Water, Lemonade, and Carbonic Acid4 Rearranged and Recomposed5 Léon the Austrian and Co.6 Aniline and Its Admixtures7 The Color of Science: The Artifice of Chromatopsia8 Tea in the Laboratory9 All Sorts of Avania10 The Apothecary Dressed Up as a ChemistCoda: The Power of Suspicion1 Gone AWOLPart2 Characterization and Classification: The Morphology of Reports and RelationshipsIntroduction to Part21 One Beginning, Two Trials5 Forgers and Co.Incrimination by the Gang1 Lads from the Docks (1)2 The Steamer from Trebizond3 Traces of Companionship4 Lads from the Docks (2)5 Vâsîlâkî, Sûrepa, Mıġırdîc, and the Gang6 Confecting Is ConceivingConviction by Instruments1 The Idle-Handed2 Forever Tinkering, Forever Trying7 The Work of Interrogation1 The Question2 Pressure3 To SummarizeAfterword: Making the Most of FakesAppendix 1: Facsimiles and TransliterationsAppendix 2: Analytical TableBibliographyIndex of OperationsIndex of Terms & Phrases