E181 | The legal and social environments surrounding slavery and manumission during the early modern period varied from place to place and profession to profession. In this episode, Nur Sobers-Khan presents her exciting research on the lives of a particular population of slaves in Ottoman Galata during the late sixteenth century, how they were classified and documented under Ottoman law, and the terms by which they were able to achieve their freedom.

Music: İnci Çayırlı - Kıskanıyorum  ; İlhan Kızılay - Örenli Gelin

Nur Sobers-Khan completed a PhD in Ottoman History in 2012 at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University Cambridge, having previous completing a BA in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Persian) at the same institution in 2006.  Her PhD dissertation, entitled, ‘Slaves without Shackles: Forced Labour and Manumission in the Galata Court Registers: 1560-1572,’ was a microhistorical study of the social and cultural context of slavery in the early modern Ottoman Empire, using a selection of legal and archival documents as well as manuscripts in Arabic, Ottoman and Persian. From 2012 to 2013, Dr. Sobers-Khan was the Iran Heritage curator for Persian manuscripts at the British Library, where she was engaged in creating a digital reference tool for the Persian manuscripts held in the BL.  She is currently working as a curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, where she is responsible for the collection of manuscripts and art of the Ottoman Empire. 

Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.

Nir Shafir is a doctoral candidate at UCLA studying Ottoman intellectual history. 

See: Sobers-Khan, Nur. Slaves Without Shackles Forced Labour and Manumission in the Galata Court Registers, 1560-1572. Berlin: Klaus-Schwarz-Vlg, 2014. 

For complete bibliography and more, visit http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/12/slavery-istanbul-ottoman-empire.html

Slavery and Manumission in Ottoman Galata | Nur Sobers-Khan

E212 | Much of the scholarship on the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which had its roots in the sociopolitical context of the 8th century Iraq, focuses on the early centuries of that school's development. Meanwhile, recent scholarship on the later periods emphasizes the transformations within the Hanafi jurisprudence in the early modern and modern periods, particularly as a result of the increasing role of the Ottoman state in the process of lawmaking. Dr. Samy Ayoub presents a different approach on Ottoman Hanafi jurists, who maintained the integrity of the legal discourse while recognizing the needs of the times. In this episode, Dr. Ayoub shares some of his reseach on the question of continuity and change under the self-desctibed “late-Hanafis” from the 16th century until the making of mecelle, the first attempt at codifying Islamic law, during the late 19th century.

Samy Ayoub earned his Ph.D. in Islamic law from the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. He earned a B.A. in Islamic jurisprudence from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, in 2006, where he received systematic instruction in Ḥanafī jurisprudence. He also received an MSc. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK, in 2008. Dr. Ayoub’s research interests cover the history of the early modern Ottoman Empire, contemporary Arab legal regimes, Muslim ethics, and the Arab renaissance (nahḍa).

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/hanafi-law.html

CREDITS

Episode No. 212
Release date: 22 November 2015
Location: The University of Texas at Austin
Produced in collaboration with Christopher Rose at 15 Minute History. Recording credits to Michael Heidenreich (HIGH-den-ryke), Jacob Weiss, and the audio services team in Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sound samples courtesy of Chris Gratien
Image from Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004668145/
Bibliography courtesy of Samy Ayoub at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/hanafi-law.html

Late Hanafi Law in the Ottoman Empire | Samy Ayoub

E215 | Note: This podcast refers to visuals available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/tanzimat.html

Within Anglophone historiography, the Tanzimat period is conventionally represented as an era of centralizing reforms emanating from the imperial center that represent a trend often labeled as "modernization" or "Westernization." Less attention has been given to what these administrative changes meant in practice and how they were carried out in the different provinces of the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, Cengiz Kırlı discusses his work on various facets of the Tanzimat and its implementation, offering a preview of his new Turkish-language monograph on the "invention of corruption" in the Ottoman Empire and examining the interplay of local and imperial power during an the early Tanzimat period in the Balkans. 

Cengiz Kırlı is an associate professor at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University. His research mainly focuses on mid-nineteenth century Ottoman social history.

CREDITS

Episode No. 215
Release date: 5 December 2015
Location: Boğaziçi University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Musical excerpt Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep
Additional sound excerpt Boş Araba (recorded by Chris Gratien)
Images courtesy of Cengiz Kırlı
Additional thanks to Seçil Yılmaz

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kuehn, Thomas. Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1849-1919. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

Kırlı, Cengiz. Yolsuzluğun icadı: 1840 Ceza kanunu, iktidar, ve bürokrasi. İstanbul: Verita, 2015.

______. “Coffeehouses: Public Opinion in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire,” in Public Islam and the Common Good, Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman, eds (Brill, 2004), 75-96.

Köksal, Yonca. Local Intermediaries and Ottoman State Centralization: A Comparison of the Tanzimat Reforms in the Provinces of Ankara and Edirne, 1839-1878. 2002.

Inalcik, Halil. “Application of the Tanzimat and Its Social Effects”, ArchivumOttomanicum 5 (1973), p. 97-127.

İslamoğlu, Huri. "Property as a Contested Domain: A Reevaluation of the Ottoman Land Code of 1858." In New Perspectives on Property and Land, edited by Roger Owen and Martin P. Bunton, 3-61. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Maʻoz, Moshe. Ottoman Reform in Syria and Palestine, 1840-1861; The Impact of the Tanzimat on Politics and Society. Oxford: Clarendon P., 1968.

Masters, Bruce. "The 1850 Events in Aleppo: An Aftershock of Syria's Incorporation into the Capitalist World System." International Journal of Middle East Studies 22, no. 1 (1990): 3-20.

Mundy, Martha, and Richard Saumarez Smith. Governing Property, Making the Modern State Law Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Petrov, Milen V. 2004. "Everyday Forms of Compliance: Subaltern Commentaries on Ottoman Reform, 1864-1868". Comparative Studies in Society and History : an International Quarterly.

The Ottoman Tanzimat in Practice | Cengiz Kırlı

From Dr. Abou El Fadl's halaqa on hijab. This is chapter 3 of 4.

Hijab: Chapter 3

E 413 | Our latest podcast in collaboration with The Southeast Passage examines how Kemalism as a political category has been used widely and often ambiguously throughout the history of the Turkish Republic in  public discourse as well as in historiography. In this episode, we discuss Kemalism from an innovative transnational perspective. The making of Kemalism was embedded in hybridity and circulations involving other regions of the post-Ottoman space. Practices of governance, material objects, new conceptions of the body and gender roles, and scientific debates created a convergence of Islam and modernity which was influenced by external references but also attracted observers from surrounding countries such as Albania, Yugoslavia and Egypt.

See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/transnational-kemalism.html

Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek are members of the Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC). They are the editors of Kemalism: Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World(London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

CREDITS

Episode No. 413
Release Date: 9 June 2019
Recording Location: Paris, France
Audio editing by Andreas Guidi
Music: "The Southeast Passage Theme," Giulio Stermieri and "Yanık Ömer," performed by Bayan Safiye 
Images and bibliography courtesy of Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek 

See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/transnational-kemalism.html

A Transnational History of Kemalism

The Beloved ﷺ told us that a time will come when confusion will reign supreme and believers will be bewildered. It seems we can't go a week without Muslims online jumping into another moshpit that adds to the chaos and further obscures matters rather than bringing any clarity or benefit to the actions of the limbs or the heart.

This is a recording of a talk I gave on Saturday, October 26, 2019, in Sydney, Australia at Mīzān Avenue about the Fourth Pillar upon which the religion of Islam rests as per the Hadith of Jibreel peace be upon him - the Signs of the Hour.

This was not a storytelling talk. Knowledge and action in Islam are intimately linked, and knowledge of the Signs of the Hour implies an imperative to act, which means there’s a whole aspect of fiqh most of us haven’t been exposed to. I hope to be a means of elucidating this area so that it serves as an antidote in these confusing times where a person wakes up a believer and becomes a disbeliever in the evening, or ends his day as a believer and wakes up a disbeliever.

May Allah protect us all from such tribulations.

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E476 | The Dodecanese Islands in the Southeastern Aegean Sea are part of Greece today, and for centuries, they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire. But for a brief period, Italy governed the Dodecanese Islands under the Fascist government of Mussolini. In this podcast, we talk to historian Valerie McGuire about the history of Italian Empire and the ignored importance of the Dodecanese Islands within the study of colonialism writ large. We explore how the islands changed under Italian rule and the creation of a special nationality known as Italian Aegean Citizenship. We also discuss the legacy of the islands beyond the amnesia and nostalgia concerning Italy's imperial impact on the Mediterranean region.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/09/dodecanese.html

Valerie McGuire is a Lecturer of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). Her research investigates colonialism, postcolonialism and Mediterraneanism in Italian history and culture. She received her PhD from New York University and is the author of Italy's Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean, 1894-1945 (Liverpool University Press, 2020).

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.

Episode No. 476
Release Date: 13 September 2020
Recording Location: Berkeley, CA / Syracuse, NY
Music and Audio Elements (by order of appearance): "Rhodes"; Kai Engel - Illumination; A.A. Aalto - Entonces; Soularflair - Slow Gentle Solo Piano; "Ethiopia - Italian Advance"; Aitua - IV Volcano; A.A. Aalto - Side Story; Chad Crouch - Taut; "Mussolini Speaking - 1929"; Kai Engel - Dark Alleys; Chad Crouch - Lollygag; Chad Crouch - Charcoal; Aitua - Blind Fire
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Additional credits to Sam Dolbee
Bibliography and images courtesy of Valerie McGuire available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/09/dodecanese.html

Italian Empire and the Dodecanese | Valerie McGuire

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