A neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul : fruit vendors and civil servants in the Kasap İlyas Mahalle

Author(s)

• Behar, Cem

Bibliographic Information

A neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul : fruit vendors and civil servants in the Kasap İlyas Mahalle

Cem Behar

（SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East）

State University of New York Press, 2003

• : pbk
• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-216) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Combining the vivid and colorful detail of a micro-history with a wider historical perspective, this groundbreaking study looks at the urban and social history of a small neighborhood community (a mahalle) of Ottoman Istanbul, the Kasap İlyas. Drawing on exceptionally rich historical documentation starting in the early sixteenth century, Cem Behar focuses on how the Kasap İlyas mahalle came to mirror some of the overarching issues of the capital city of the Ottoman Empire. Also considered are other issues central to the historiography of cities, such as rural migration and urban integration of migrants, including avenues for professional integration and the solidarity networks migrants formed, and the role of historical guilds and non-guild labor, the ancestor of the "informal" or "marginal" sector found today in less developed countries.

Table of Contents

Preface INTRODUCTION: THE CITY, THE SEMT, AND THE MAHALLE The Mahalle and the Semt The "Islamic City" The Kasap Ilyas Mahalle Fluidity and Imprecision Sources and Issues 1: THE CONTOURS OF A LOCAL IDENTITY Local Identity: The Formative Sixteenth Century Mahalle Topography: Boundaries and Landmarks Houses and Gardens Streets and Dead Ends The Population and Inhabitants of a Peripheral Mahalle Kasap Ilyas' High Street: "Butchers' Road" Fire and Brimstone 2: POWER AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION IN KASAP ILYAS: TANZIMAT AND AFTER The Imam and His Congregation The Benefits of Local Power: The Case of Aziz Mahmud Efendi A Case of Peaceful Transition: Imam and Muhtar in Kasap Ilyas The Administered Body: Early Nineteenth-Century Perspectives 3: MIGRATION AND URBAN INTEGRATION, THE ARAPKIR CONNECTION The Formation of a Migrant Shelter in Kasap Ilyas: Ispanakci Viranesi and the Arapkirlis Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants: Provincials and Arapkirlis in 1885 Legal Residence: Regionalism and Nepotism 4: "END OF EMPIRE": PORTRAIT OF A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY Families and Households Streets, Houses, Warehouses, and Shops: Residential and Commercial Areas in Kasap Ilyas The Muhtar and his Mahalle: Ruler, Representative, Middleman EPILOGUE Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Volumes in the SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East

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Details

• NCID: BA69719759
• ISBN:
  • 079145682X
  • 0791456811
• LCCN: 2002030966
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: x, 224 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DR738.5.K37
  • DC21 : 949.61/8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Kasap İlyas Mahalle (Istanbul, Turkey)
  • LCSH : Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : Istanbul (Turkey) -- Economic conditions
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA1352453X