E526 | How was European military intervention in the Ottoman Empire justified throughout the nineteenth century? What did the Ottoman statesmen and subjects think of these would-be attemepts to provide them with more security? From the late eighteenth century, as a new international system was emerging, European powers considered the Ottoman Empire a weaker foil to their own expanding empires. In this episode, Ozan Ozavci explores how this perception of Ottoman weakness, known as the Eastern Question, affected the Ottoman Empire's place in and engagement with the new international system and law. Exploring the different phases of the Eastern Question, from the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the Civil War in Greater Syria durings the 1860s, Ozavci highlights agency of individual actors in the Ottoman capital and the provinces.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html

Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project.

Zeinab Azarbadegan is a 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. 526
Release Date: 22 April 2022
Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: "Melodia Arabia" from Franz Hünten's Fantaisie arabe op. 136 (1845). A famous French melody copied from a North African (Egyptian or Algerian) one since 1600s. "Partant pour la Syrie" sung by Joseph Saucier (Canadian National Archives). The lyrics were inspired by the French invasion of Egypt and Syria and was the French national anthem during the Second Empire. "Aldahre Kataâ Awsali " by Munira al-Mahdiyya (Free Music Archive). "Samaii Hijaz Kar Kurdi" by Chahadé Saadé(Free Music Archive)
Images and bibliography courtesy of Ozan Ozavci available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html

Season 11

A New History of The Eastern Question | Ozan Ozavci

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E529 | In this special episode of the Ottoman History Podcast, Sam Dolbee and Jesse Howell travel by bike along the Ćiro Trail from Dubrovnik in Croatia to Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they meet fellow Ottoman historian Marijana Mišević. Along the way, they consider the legacy and traces of early modern Ottoman caravan roads across this space, as well as their intersections with the Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav, and more recent past. The episode is about mobility, memory, and the built environment. Also bicycles, friendship, and the journey.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/09/blog-post.html

Jesse Howell is the Academic Programs Manager and Associate Director of the AM Program at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is a historian of the early modern Mediterranean, and completed his dissertation "The Ragusa Road: Mobility and Encounter in the Ottoman Balkans (1430-1700)" as part of Harvard's joint program in History and Middle East Studies. Prior to his work as a historian, he was a professional dance theater performer in California and Germany.

Marijana Mišević is a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the south Slavic world. She completed her PhD in Harvard's joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program in 2022 with a dissertation entitled "Writing Slavic in the Arabic Script: Literacy and Multilingualism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire." She completed her MA at Central European University, and her BA at University of Belgrade.

Sam Dolbee is an Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power will be out in early 2023 from Cambridge University Press.

CREDITS

Episode No. 529
Release Date: 15 September 2022
Recording Location: Ćiro Trail, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Music: Blue Dot Sessions, "Fifteen Street"; Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Big Road of Burravoe"
Audio editing by Sam Dolbee
Production and editing help from Chris Gratien, Arianne Sedef Urus, and Harun Buljina
Special thanks to Miran Hasibović and the Herzegovina Bike Project
Bibliography courtesy of Jesse Howell and images courtesy of Jesse Howell and Sam Dolbee available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/09/blog-post.html

Season 12

Water from Stone | Jesse Howell & Marijana Mišević

E531 | How did massive, modern shipping ports emerge from the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, and what they teach us about our present forms of global exchange? Combining historical research with site visits that included multiple voyages around the Arabian Peninsula, our guest Laleh Khalili sheds light on these questions in this two-part series on shipping and empire around the Arabian Peninsula. Through her investigation of the entangled realms of commerce, technology, and empire in the Indian Ocean world, Khalili shows how changes in any of one of them sparked associated changes in the others. In this first part, we focus on the period from the 16th century Ottoman entry into the region until decolonization in the 20th century, covering topics including the Hajj, disease, steam engines, ship laborers, Anglo-Ottoman rivalries, and the retreat of the British Empire after the Second World War.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/08/laleh-khalili.html

Laleh Khalili is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, and the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge 2007), Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford 2013), and Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020).

Matthew Ghazarian is an Eveillard Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College. His research examines the intersections of social, economic, and environmental history in the late Ottoman Empire.

CREDITS

Episode No. 531
Release Date: 1 October 2022
Sound production by Matthew Ghazarian
Music: "Um Pepino" by Blue Dot Sessions
Images and bibliography courtesy of Laleh Khalili available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/08/laleh-khalili.html

Shipping and Empire around the Arabian Peninsula | Laleh Khalili

E533 | What is an image in Islam? Is its permissibility the main preoccupation of Islamic discourses? In this episode, Wendy M.K. Shaw revisits the foundations of art history and considers their colonial and Eurocentric roots. She discusses the stories of art and artists that circulated in the Islamic world, not all of which were accompanied with images, in order to understand what the role of art and the artist were conceived of the pre-modern Islamic world. Redefining concepts such as the image, perspective, art, and history, she sketches the alternative Islamic perceptual culture in which seeing with the ear and seeing with the heart are central to understanding this world as the manifestation of the divine.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/11/shaw.html

Wendy M. K. Shaw (Ph.D. UCLA, 1999) has served as a professor in the United States, Turkey, Switzerland, and Germany. She researches postcolonial art historiography and decolonial art history of the Islamic world and the modern Middle East. She is author of Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire (University of California Press, 2003), Osmanlı Müzeleri (İletişim Yayınları, 2006), Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (IB Tauris, 2011), Osmanlı Resmi (Bozlu Sanat, 2022). What is “Islamic” Art: Between Religion and Perception (Cambridge University Press, 2019, Honorable Mention for the 2020 Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association and the 2021 Iran Book Award), and Loving Writing (Routledge, 2021).

Zeinab Azarbadegan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the intersection of inter-imperial relations and history of science, technology, and medicine, in nineteenth century Ottoman Iraq

CREDITS

Episode No. 533
Release Date: 3 November 2022
Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: Nima JanMohammadi - Dastgah-i Shur, The Sounds of Tarab - Bowmazan Ya Mahaba Bi Kidude, Kamancha Sayat - Nova
Images and bibliography courtesy of Wendy M. K. Shaw available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/11/shaw.html

What is Islamic Art? | Wendy Shaw

E537 | Since the 19th century, different forms of missionary activities and preaching have been shaping the role of religion within the societies of the Middle East and North Africa. Not only Christian congregations, but also Muslim and Jewish institutions participated in this phenomenon. Emulation but also competition existed across confessional boundaries and intersected with colonialism, wars, emancipation projects, and state authority. In this episode, we approach the galaxy of missions and preaching in the longue durée with the three editors of a recently published edited volume, Missions and Preaching: Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century).

This episode is cross-listed with The Southeast Passage: http://thesoutheastpassage.com/

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/sep2023.html

Norig Neveu is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)/ Iremam. Her present research focuses on the reconfiguration of Christian and Muslim religious authorities in Jordan and Palestine from the end of the 19th century. From 2017 to 2021, she was co-PI and coordinator of the MisSMO research program about Christian missions in the Middle East since the late 19th century (https://missmo.hypotheses.org/). Her last publication includes the Special Issue: “Gender and Mission”, Social Sciences and Missions, 34:1–2 (2021) with Séverine Gabry-Thienpont.

Karène Sanchez Summerer is Professor and Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies Programme at Groningen University (The Netherlands). Her current research considers the interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies, missionaries’ modalities and impact and the Arab Catholic communities in Palestine (1860–1948). She is the PI of the research project (2017–2022), ‘CrossRoads—A connected history between Europeans’ cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Mandate Palestine’ (project funded by The Dutch Research Council NWO), and was co-PI of MisSMO. Her last publications include Sanchez Summerer, K. and Zananiri, S., Imaging and Imagining Palestine- Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens (1918–1948) (Leiden/ Boston: Brill, 2021); Irving, S., Nassif, C. and Sanchez Summerer, K., The House of the Priest. A Palestinian life (1885–1954) (Leiden/ Boston: Brill, 2022).

Annalaura Turiano is a postdoctoral researcher within the Archival City Project at the University Gustave Eiffel (Marne-la-Vallée). Her research interests span missionary education, trans-Mediterranean migrations, and philanthropy in modern Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. Her last publications include “Masculinity, Industrial Education and Fascism in Egypt. The construction of gender in the schools of the Salesian mission in Egypt (1900–1939)”, Social Sciences and Missions, 24/2021: 1–32. She is currently finishing a monograph entitled Missionnaires italiens en Égypte. De la pastorale migratoire à la coopération technique 1897-1970, EFR/ IFAO, forthcoming 2023.

CREDITS

Episode No. 537
Release Date: 6 March 2023
Sound production by Andreas Guidi

An Interconfessional History of Missions in the Middle East and North Africa

E538 | Bu bölümde, Dr. Erdem Sönmez ile Osmanlı’dan Türkiye’ye tarihin ayrı bir disiplin olarak ortaya çıkış sürecini tartışıyor, bu sürecin önemli kurumlarını, yayınlarını ve aktörlerini detaylandırıyoruz. Dönemin siyasi, ekonomik ve kültürel iklimiyle yakinen ilişkili olan tarihyazımı pratiğinin on dokuzuncu yüzyılın ikinci yarısından Cumhuriyet dönemine geçirdiği dönüşümleri incelerken bu husustaki mitleri de yeniden ele alıyoruz.

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/sonmez.html

Erdem Sönmez global entelektüel tarih, beşerî bilimler tarihi, tarihyazımı ve tarih metodolojisi yanında, geç Osmanlı ve modern Türkiye düşünce tarihi, siyasal hayatı ve tarihçiliği üzerine çalışıyor. Doktorasını Bilkent Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümünde 2018 yılında tamamlayan Sönmez, İtalya’da Siena Üniversitesi ve İngiltere’de School of Oriental and African Studies gibi kurumlarda misafir araştırmacı olarak bulunmuştur. Ahmed Rıza: Bir Jön Türk Liderinin Siyasi-Entelektüel Portresi (Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2012) ve Annales Okulu ve Türkiye'de Tarihyazımı (Fol, 2022) başlıklı iki kitabı bulunan Sönmez'in diğer çalışmaları Modern Intellectual History, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Turkish Historical Review ve Middle Eastern Studies gibi dergilerde ve çeşitli kitap derlemelerinde yayımlanmıştır. Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümünde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmakta olan Sönmez, şu sıralar Harvard Üniversitesi Center for Middle Eastern Studies’te doktora sonrası çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir.

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.

Bölüm No: 538
Kayıt yeri: İstanbul / Ankara
Yayın tarihi: 13 Mart 2023
Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş
Müzik: Lobo Loco Speedy Delta
Kaynakça ve görseller Erdem Sönmez’in müsaadesiyle

Türkiye'de Tarihyazımı ve Tarihçilik | Erdem Sönmez

E539 | Beyond attending classes, reading books, or listening to podcasts, how do people learn about the history of the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East and the Islamic world? In this episode, we discuss a gaming project, The Hajj Trail, as one alternative. Like the 1970s educational computer game The Oregon Trail, The Hajj Trail is an interactive simulation of historical Hajj pilgrimages to Mecca. It aims to provide students with an opportunity to interact with 17th century Ottoman social and cultural history through a hypothetical journey on the road to Mecca. Also like its US-based predecessor, the simulation asks participants to make choices along the way, one beset with financial, ecological, and political obstacles. The visuals, music, and situations have been drawn from  primary sources gathered by our guest Tyler Kynn, and his collaborators. As the co-founder and current project lead, Kynn sat down with us to talk about creating the <i>The Hajj Trail</i> and how he has used it in the classroom. We discuss the impetus for the project, the mechanics of assembling it, and the learning opportunities that can arise when historians take seriously the potential of pairing education and play.  

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/kynn.html

Tyler Kynn is  Assistant Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. His research explores the hajj in the early modern world, examining both narrative and archival material related to questions of Ottoman sovereignty, power, and identity in the Hijaz.

Matthew Ghazarian is an Eveillard Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College, where his research and teaching focus on environmental history, political economy, and communal conflict in the Middle East. Ghazarian’s current project examines the links between material conditions - like debt, drought, and hunger - and widening communal divides in the late Ottoman Empire.

On the Hajj Trail | Tyler Kynn

Australian conductor Simone Young leads the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms's melody-rich Symphony No. 1 in C minor. Recorded in November of 2021 at Alice Tully Hall.

Simone Young, Conductor  

BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor 

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Performed November 11–13, 2021

Simone Young Conducts Brahms's Symphony No. 1

E540 | What did it mean to be Arab during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire? What did it mean to be Arab and invested in continuation of the Ottoman Empire? In this episode Mostafa Minawi answers these questions by focusing on the lives of two Arab-Ottoman Imperialists from the same family in Damascus, the al-'Azm or Azamzade family. By recounting their lives, excavating their writings, and narrating how their descendants remember them, Minawi explores questions of belonging, race and ethnicity, and the emotional world of a family divided by the fracturing of an centuries-old empire.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/minawi.html

Mostafa Minawi is an associate professor of History and the director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies initiative at Cornell University.

Zeinab Azarbadegan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the intersection of inter-imperial relations and history of science, technology, and medicine, in nineteenth century Ottoman Iraq

CREDITS

Episode No. 540
Release Date: 28 March 2023
Recording Location: MESA 2022, Denver, Colorado
Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: Katibim by Safiye Aliye and Banat Iskandaria by Mohammed El-Bakkar
Images and bibliography courtesy of Mostafa Minawi

Arab-Ottoman Imperialists at the End of Empire | Mostafa Minawi

Cairo is not just a great city for finding Arabic records. Various communities left their fingerprints on the city, evident from its architecture and the things you find at fleamarkets and in antique shops. Here's a mix of the best Greek 78s I found, with dark rebetika, jazzy novelty and oriental tunes. This was shared on Waxidermy some 10 years ago, so it is due for a second upload.

A New History of The Eastern Question | Ozan Ozavci

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