Ottoman World

Hakan T. Karateke is Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.  Helga Anetshofer is Lecturer in Turkish and Ottoman at the University of Chicago. She is coeditor of Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Pre-Modern Ottoman Lands.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface1 Letters of an Insecure Scholar, 1553 Zaifi, d. after 1557Translated by A. Tunç Şen2 Adversities at Sea: From Basra to Gujarat, 1554Seydi Ali Reis, d. 1562Translated by Ármin Vámbéry3 Memoirs of an Ottoman Captive in Malta, 1597–98 Macuncuzade Mustafa, d. ca. Early Seventeenth CenturyTranslated by Helga Anetshofer4 The Excommunication of a Greek Orthodox Priest, ca. 1642Synadinos of Serres, d. after 1662Translated by Konrad Petrovszky5 Dream Letters of a Sufi Woman in Skopje, 1640sAsiye Hatun, d. Second Half of Seventeenth CenturyTranslated by Leslie Schick and Cemal Kafadar6 Diary of a Sufi Sheikh in Plague-Ridden Istanbul, 1661Seyyid Hasan Nuri, d. 1688Translated by Mary Işın7 Ramblings of an Eccentric Sufi Exiled on Limnos, ca. Early 1680sNiyazi-i Mısri, d. 1694Translated by Hakan T. Karateke and Ferenc Csirkés8 Adventures of an Ottoman Officer in Captivity, 1690–99Osman Agha of Timişoara, Written ca. 1724Translated by Hakan T. Karateke9 The Trial of a Heretic, 1527Told by Celalzade Mustafa, d. 1567Translated by Kaya Şahin and Cornell H. Fleischer10 The Life and Works of Two Mediocre PoetsTold by Âşık Çelebi, d. 1572Translated by Douglas Brookes11 The Extraordinary Life Story of a ScholarTold by Mehmed Mecdi, d. 1591Translated by Helga Anetshofer12 On Servants and SlavesMustafa Âli, d. 1600Translated by Douglas Brookes13 Children and YouthCourt Records, Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesSelected by Yahya Araz; Translated by Hakan T. Karateke14 Women at Courts of LawCourt Records, Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesTranslated by Hakan T. Karateke and N. İpek Hüner Cora15 Prostitutes and Pimps Court Records and Imperial Council Registers, Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesTranslated by Marinos Sariyannis16 On Nocturnal ActivitiesCourt Records, Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesTranslated by Hakan T. Karateke17 Impostors, Frauds, and SpiesVarious Documents, Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Christopher Markiewicz18 The Madmen of Istanbul Evliya Çelebi, d. after 1683Translated by Hakan T. Karateke19 Fetvas on Non-MuslimsVarious Grand Muftis, Sixteenth to Early Eighteenth CenturyTranslated by Cornell Fleischer and Amir A. Toft20 Conversion Among Ottoman Jews Responsa by Various Rabbis, Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Matt Goldish21 Marriage and Divorce Among Ottoman Jews Responsa by Various Rabbis, Seventeenth CenturyTranslated by Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky22 News from Istanbul at the Turn of the Seventeenth CenturyThe Chronicle of SelanikiTranslated by H. Erdem Çıpa23 Propagating the Faith in ConstantinopleCatholic Missionary Reports, Seventeenth CenturyTranslated by Paolo Girardelli24 An Armenian Chronicle of CrimeaKhachatur of Kaffa, d. 1658Translated by Naira Poghosyan25 On Revenants and Ghosts Various Documents, Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Marinos Sariyannis26 Miracles of an Anatolian Sufi SaintThe Hagiography of Hacı Bektaş, ca. Late Fifteenth CenturyTranslated by Helga Anetshofer27 A Dispute Concerning Sufi Tombs, 1619Ömer Fuadi, d. 1636Translated by John Curry28 Preserving Public HealthCourt Records and Imperial Council Registers, Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesTranslated by Amir A. Toft29 Traditional Medicine for Everyday AilmentsAnonymous, Late Fifteenth CenturyTranslated by Özgen Felek30 Snake Medicine and Snake Charming in CairoEvliya Çelebi, d. after 1683Translated by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong Kim31 On Smoking TobaccoAbdulmalik al-Isami, d. 1628; Katib Çelebi, d. 1657Translated by Basil Salem and Geoffrey Lewis32 Divining Past, Present, and Future in the SandA Geomantic Miscellany, ca. Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Matthew Melvin-Koushki33 Reading Character by AppearanceThe Book of Physiognomy, Hamdullah Hamdi, d. 1503Translated by Helga Anetshofer and Hakan T. Karateke34 Religious Guidance for HuntersEbu Bekr el-Kızılhisari, ca. Late Seventeenth CenturyTranslated by Christopher Markiewicz35 Cultivating the LandThe Splendor of the Garden, Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Hakan T. Karateke36 Wonders of Art and NatureAnonymous, Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Ido Ben-Ami37 On the Natural Advantages of EdirneAnonymous, Late Fifteenth to Early Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Amy Singer38 The Legend of the Construction of ConstantinopleAnonymous, Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Dimitris J. Kastritsis39 On the Construction of the Pyramids, ca. 1545Celalzade Salih, d. 1565Translated by Giancarlo Casale40 An Ode to IstanbulEremia Keomurchean Çelebi, d. 1695Translated by Henry Shapiro41 Passion and Murder on the BosphorusAnonymous Tıfli Story, Probably in Circulation During the LaterSeventeenth CenturyTranslated by Helga Anetshofer42 Stories of Guilt and RepentanceMehmed Nergisi, d. 1635Translated by Gisela Procházka-Eisl43 The Wiles of WomenAnonymous, Sixteenth to Seventeenth CenturiesTranslated by N. İpek Hüner Cora and Helga Anetshofer44 Social Criticism and Invective in PoetryVarious Poets, Fifteenth to Seventeenth CenturiesTranslated by Sooyong Kim45 Shrewd Witticisms by a Master PoetZati’s Anecdotes, Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Helga Anetshofer46 Subversive Jokes Featuring a Folk HeroNasreddin Hoca Jokes, Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Kathleen BurrillIndex