A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts

A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts

by Suraiya Faroqhi
A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts

A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts

by Suraiya Faroqhi

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Overview

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this vast empire illustrate the real and everyday concerns of its subjects and elites and, with this in mind, Suraiya Faroqhi, one of the most distinguished Ottomanists of her generation, has selected 40 of the most revealing, surprising and striking.Each image - reproduced in full colour - is deftly linked to the latest historiography, and the social, political and economic implications of her selections are never forgotten. In Faroqhi's hands, the objects become ways to learn more about trade, gender and socio-political status and open an enticing window onto the variety and colour of everyday life, from the Sultan's court, to the peasantry and slavery. Amongst its faiences and etchings and its sofras and carpets, A Cultural History of the Ottomans is essential reading for all those interested in the Ottoman Empire and its material culture. Faroqhi here provides the definitive insight into the luxuriant and varied artefacts of Ottoman world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857729804
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 05/24/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 328
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Suraiya Faroqhi is Professor of History at Bilgi University, Istanbul. She was previously Professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. Among her many publications are The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It, Pilgrims and Sultans and Subjects of the Sultan (all published by I.B.Tauris).
Suraiya Faroqhi is a professor of history at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her focus is on Ottoman social history of the early modern period, especially women, artisan production, the use of objects as historical sources, as well as urban life and cross-cultural linkages, her most recent publications are, A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts ( I. B. Tauris, 2016), and The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World (I.B. Tauris, 2019).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1 Re-using the work of past times and foreign lands
Chapter 2 The Ottoman Sultan: victorious and pious
Chapter 3 Society and its divisions
Chapter 4 A world of three religions
Chapter 5 Making war and peace: fighting, gift-giving and the delineation of borders
Chapter 6 Eating and drinking, mostly from precious objects
Chapter 7 Piles and piles of textiles and leathers
Chapter 8 Earth, Water, Air and Fire: The gifts and perils of nature
Conclusion
Glossary
Time-Line
Bibliography
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