Season 11

E503 | In this first part of a two-part interview, we talk to Marc Baer about how he first became interested in Ottoman history and explore the main themes and the questions underpinning the research in his five books. In this conversation, we place special focus on the books Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe and The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Our discussion centers on approaches to the subject of conversion in the Ottoman Empire and the history of the dönme community born out of the transformations of the 17th century.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/baer1.html

Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include religious conversion, gender and sexuality, and interreligious relations and state violence in the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Turkey, and Germany.

Zeinab Azarbadegan is the post-doctoral fellow at the Vienna School of International Studies. She completed her PhD at Columbia University. Her research focuses on imperial knowledge production about the space of Ottoman Iraq by the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the British in the late nineteenth century.

CREDITS

Episode No. 503
Release Date: 18 June 2021
Audio editing by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: Special thanks to Monsieur Doumani for permission to use the composition "The System/Το σύστημαν", Isaac Algazi - Avinou Malkenou, Isaac Algazi - Ana Ke Av Zedoni 
Images and bibliography courtesy of Marc Baer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/baer1.html

Conversion and Jewish Histories of the Ottoman Empire | Marc Baer

E504 | The Ottoman conquests of the 16th century represented a watershed moment in many senses. Our guest Faisal Husain explains the most literal of these senses: the unification of the Tigris and Euphrates basins under a single political authority and its ramifications for the history of Iraq. In our conversation, we explore how Ottoman rule in Iraq created new ecological possibilities and realities, setting the stage for momentous interventions in the rivers detailed in Husain's recent book "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire." We also reflect on what Iraq reveals about Ottoman history writ large and the empire's dualist historical identity as an agrarian empire on one hand and flexible one on the other, in which accommodating local ecological difference was critical to governance.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/the-environmental-origins-of-ottoman.html

Faisal Husain is Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Rivers of the Sultan and a member of the editorial boards of Marmara Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi and Global Environment.

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first monograph entitled The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.

CREDITS

Episode No. 504
Release Date: 27 June 2021
Recording Location: Charlottesville, VA / State College, PA
Sound production and compisition by Sam Dolbee
Music: Chad Crouch - Pacing 
Bibliography and images courtesy of Faisal Husain available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/the-environmental-origins-of-ottoman.html

The Environmental Origins of Ottoman Iraq | Faisal Husain

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E505 | 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında, dinamit gibi patlayıcıların icadı ile küresel düzeyde oluşan küçük silah fazlası Osmanlı Balkanlarındaki devrimcileri hangi bakımlardan güçlendirdi? Osmanlı Devleti, imparatorluk karşıtı eylemleri kolaylaştıran bu ”devrim karaborsası”nı hangi yöntemleri kullanarak kontrol etmeye çalıştı? Bu bölümde, Dr. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan ile geç Osmanlı Balkanlarında devrimcilik, şiddet ve teknoloji ilişkisini, meselenin küresel politik ekonomi boyutunu da dikkate alarak değerlendiriyoruz. Devrimci şiddetin kavramsallaştırılması ve ideolojilerin devrimci siyasetteki önemini eleştirel olarak ele alırken, bu alandaki arşiv kaynaklarının nasıl incelenebileceğini de örneklerle tartışıyoruz.

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/oztan.html

Ramazan Hakkı Öztan lisans eğitimini Hacettepe Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı’nda, yüksek lisansını ise Wyoming Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde tamamladı. 2016 yılında Utah Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde Peter Sluglett’ın danışmanlığında tamamladığı doktora tezinde, 19 yüzyıl sonu Osmanlı Balkanlarında ‘milliyetçiliğin metaları’ ve ‘devrimin karaborsası’ olarak kavramsallaştırdığı silah ve dinamit kaçakçılığı üzerine yoğunlaştı. 2017-2020 yılları arasında Neuchâtel Üniversitesi’nde Jordi Tejel’in yürütücüsü olduğu ve Avrupa Birliği Ufuk2020 programı kapsamındaki bir araştırma projesinde, doktora sonrası araştırmacı olarak çalıştı ve Türkiye-Suriye sınır bölgesi üzerine araştırmalar yaptı. Kasım 2020’den beri Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü’nde Dr. Öğretim Üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır.

Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.

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Bölüm No: 505
Yayınlanma Tarihi: 6 Temmuz 2021
Kayıt yeri: İstanbul
Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş
Müzik: Aitua; A.A. Aalto; Chad Crouch
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E506 | Refik Halid Karay (1889-1965) was a writer, bureaucrat, and political exile whose life spanned the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Christine Philliou traces his life as well as a genealogy of political opposition more broadly in her new book Turkey: A Past Against History. Following Refik Halid between his exiles in Sinop, Syria, and elsewehre as well as his momentous encounter with Mustafa Kemal in the Telegraph Episode, Philliou sheds light on the complicated transition between empire and nation. She also grapples with the challenge of telling history based on the voluminous and often satirical musings of a figure himself deeply invested in interpreting the past. 

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/halit.html

Christine Philliou is professor in the History Department, Director of the Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Program at the Institute for European Studies, and Director of the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program at the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Berkeley. Her first book was Biography of an Empire (2010, UC Press; Greek edition forthcoming 2021 with Alexandria Publications) and her new book is Turkey: A Past Against History (2021, UC Press).

Sam Dolbee is a lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His research is on the environmental history of the late Ottoman Empire told through the frame of locusts in the Jazira region.

Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories.

CREDITS 

Episode No. 506
Release Date: 16 July 2021
Recording Location: Kensington, CA / Somerville, MA / New York, NY
Sound production by Sam Dolbee
Script by Brittany White and Sam Dolbee
Additional thanks to Chris Gratien
Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Saez," "Big Road of Burravoe"
Images and bibliography courtesy of Christine Philliou available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/halit.html

Refik Halit: A Life of Opposition | Christine Philliou

E507 | In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf discusses the history of Galata and the early modern Mediterranean more broadly. Beginning with the incorporation of Galata's Genoese community of Istanbul under Ottoman rule in 1453, Zarinebaf explains how the treaties known as the capitulations (ahdname in Turkish) provided a durable framework for commercial exchange and pluralistic everyday life in Ottoman port cities. She also considers how these arrangements compared with commerce and life in non-Ottoman Mediterranean ports. Through a focus on French-Ottoman relations, Zarinebaf offers a glimpse of how treaties become involved in changing economic fortunes in the Mediterranean and the world. She also attends to how these economic patterns shaped the more intimate aspects of social life in Galata, closing with the impact of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt on the French community of Galata.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/zarinebaf.html

Fariba Zarinebaf obtained her PhD in Middle Eastern history from the University of Chicago in 1991. She is a professor of history at the University of California-Riverside and was the former director of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies there. She has taught at Bilkent University, Northwestern University and the University of Virginia. Among her publications are, Les Iraniens d’Istanbul, co-edited with Thierry Zarcone, Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century Istanbul (University of California Press, 2010), Mediterranean Encounters, Trade and Pluralism in Galata (University of California Press, 2018) and Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet and Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece (American School of Classical Studies, 2005), Women on the Margins: Gender, Charity and Justice in the Early Modern Middle East ( Isis press, 2014). Her next book is tentatively entitled; The Last of the Silk Caravans, Cross-Cultural Trade and Urban Life on the Ottoman-Safavid Silk Road in the Early Modern Period.

Sam Dolbee is a lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His research is on the environmental history of the late Ottoman Empire told through the frame of locusts in the Jazira region.

Nir Shafir researches the intellectual and religious history of the Middle East, from roughly 1400-1800, focusing on material culture and the history of science and technology. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.

CREDITS

Episode No. 507
Release Date: 23 July 2021
Recording Location: Chicago, IL / Somerville, MA / Torino
Sound production by Sam Dolbee
Additional thanks to Chris Gratien
Music: Blue Dot Sessions, "Fifteen Street,"; Zé Trigueiros, "Saez" 
Images and bibliography courtesy of Fariba Zarinebaf available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/zarinebaf.html

Galata and the Early Modern Mediterranean World | Fariba Zarinebaf

E522 | State archives that function as a site of history scholarship are generally a modern creation. But in this episode, we discuss how past Islamic empires, while not necessarily leaving behind an organized archive used by scholars today, had much more sophisticated documentary practices than often assumed. As our guest Marina Rustow has recently shown in a new book entitled <i>The Lost Archive</i>, the relative absence of extant documentation, in the case of the Fatimid Caliphate of Cairo, belies a long paper trail. Using fragments of Fatimid documents surviving in the storeroom (genizah) of a Cairo synagogue, Rustow has identified traces of a lost Fatimid archive. In part one of this two-part interview with Professor Rustow, we explore how she followed a trail of scrap paper and scholarship to locate the lost archive of a medieval Islamic dynasty.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/rustow1.html

Marina Rustow is a social historian of the medieval Middle East at Princeton University. She has worked extensively on the documents of the Cairo Genizah, and her published works include Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008) and The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Medieval Synagogue (2020). Rustow was a 2015 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century.

CREDITS

Episode No. 522
Release Date: 1 March 2022
Recording Location: New York, NY / Charlottesville, VA
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Music: via Free Music Archive - A.A. Aalto - Canyon; Chad Crouch - Pacing

Locating the Lost Islamic Archive | Marina Rustow

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The Minimalists talk about why it’s so difficult to let go. Listen to all 2.5 hours of episode 378 on The Minimalists Private Podcast: patreon.com/theminimalists

Discussed in this episode:

How do I push myself out of my long-term comfort zones? (02:08)

How do we learn to better trust our intuition? (16:37)

What is most concerning about the desire for nice things? (21:01)

How do we ensure we purchase items with weighted consideration for utility, durability, environmental cost, and fair trade manufacturing? (30:39)

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Podcast 378 | Difficulty Letting Go

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