Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire

Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvSuraiya Faroqhi

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It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legitimately leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel. However Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that this was not the case. Pious men from all walks of life went on pilgrimage to Mecca, slaves fled from their masters and craftspeople travelled in search of work. Faroqhi shows that even those craftsmen who did not travel extensively had some level of mobility and that the Ottoman sultans and viziers, who spent so much effort in attempting to control the movements of their subjects, could do so only within often very narrow limits. Challenging existing historiography and providing an important new perspective, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Ottoman history.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-07-08
Mått154 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781784536367

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Suraiya Faroqhi is Professor of History at Istanbul Bilgi University and Emerita Professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians Universitat in Munich. She is a renowned authority on Ottoman history and her previous publications include: The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It; Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans and Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (all I.B.Tauris).

IntroductionPART I: TravelsAn Edirne scholar on Ottoman architecture and politics: The pilgrimage account of Abdurrahman HibriBringing back keepsakes from seventeenth-century Mecca Evliya Çelibi’s tales of Cairo’s guildsmenTravellers and sojourners in mid-sixteenth century ÜsküdarImmigrant tradesmen as guild members – or the adventures of Tunisian fez-sellers in eighteenth-century IstanbulRefugees and asylum seekers on Ottoman territory in the early modern periodThe image of Europe in the reports of the Ottoman ambassadors of the eighteenth centuryOttoman travellers to VenicePART II: Artisans9.Repairs to the Ottoman fortress of Hotin10.Ottoman artisans under Selim III11.Ottoman textiles in early modern Europe12.Seventeenth and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul13.Christian and Jewish artisans in late eighteenth-century Istanbul14.Istanbul halva manufacturers in the mid-eighteenth century15.Keeping artisans in their places – or how to run a guild16.At the Ottoman Empire’s industrious core: The Story of BursaPurchasing guild and craft-based offices in the Ottoman central lands

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