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

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E443 | In this episode, Professor Faiz Ahmed recounts the fascinating history of Afghanistan’s first modern constitution, contextualizing it within a broader legal and political history. The constitution was developed by Afghan, Ottoman and Indian and other scholars, at the behest of the country’s monarch, between 1919-1925. After the first world war, Afghanistan was one of few sovereign Muslim countries. This was one factor which drew many scholars and activists to the court of Amanullah Khan — a “Young Afghan,” graduate of an Ottoman institution in Kabul, and a Muslim modernizer. We learn about the role of figures like Queen Soraya, her father Mahmud Tarzi, and myriad scholars and jurists in shaping the constitution. We discuss the nature of the constitution as a living document, which acknowledges its place within an Islamic legal heritage — as well as the fact that the constitution will evolve. Professor Ahmed also reads from one section of the constitution, which determines “Who is an Afghan?,” and shares his translation. We also learn how the history of the constitution is remembered in Afghanistan today.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/afghanistan-rising.html

Faiz Ahmed is Associate Professor of History at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and currently a Senior Fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He specializes in legal and constitutional history in the Ottoman Empire, Middle East, and South Asia, as well as diasporic communities connected to these regions.

Shireen Hamza is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of medical exchange in the medieval Indian Ocean world. She is also the managing editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.

Huma Gupta is a post-doctoral fellow at New York University–Abu Dhabi. In 2019, she completed her dissertation “The Architecture of Dispossession: Migrant Sarifa Settlements and State-Building in Iraq” at MIT. There, she was in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture + Art department and a fellow in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. She has been an SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellow, Rabb Family fellow, and MIT Presidential fellow.

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Episode No. 443
Release Date: 4 January 2020
Recording Location: Boston, MA
Audio editing by Chris Gratien
Music: Soft and Furious; Chad Crouch
Images and bibliography courtesy of Faiz Ahmed available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/01/afghanistan-rising.html

Afghanistan's Constitution and the Ottoman Empire | Faiz Ahmed

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