Surviving Istanbul : struggles, feasts and calamities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries

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Surviving Istanbul : struggles, feasts and calamities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries

Suraiya Faroqhi

(Koç Üniversitesi yayınları, 305 ; history . Studies on the Ottoman Empire & Turkey ; 2)

Koç Üniversitesi, 2023

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Bibliography: p. 399-434

Includes index

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Description

A fascinating exploration of everyday life in premodern Istanbul. In Surviving Istanbul, Suraiya Faroqhi takes the reader to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, with occasional forays into earlier and later periods, focusing in particular on the city’s ordinary inhabitants. From the foods eaten and the streets traversed, to the miseries endured because of recurring fires, Surviving Istanbul illustrates a city of immigrants, slaves, artisans, and rural dwellers supplying the urban markets, with all the struggles that living in (and around) the city entailed. At the same time, Faroqhi shows, the city’s relatively young population also found ways to have fun, such as celebrating at public festivals or taking a swim in a river emptying into the Bosporus. Drawing on archival and narrative sources, with particular reliance on the impressions of Evliya Çelebi (1611–about 1685), this book offers a mosaic of daily life in premodern Istanbul.  

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 7 Acknowledgements 9 On Editorial Decisions and Copyrights 11 INTRODUCTION 13 The Travails and Occasional Pleasures of Life in Istanbul PART ONE 43 Commentaries CHAPTER ONE 45 Istanbul and Crete in the Mid-1600s: Evliya Çelebi’s Discourse on Non-Muslims CHAPTER TWO 65 What Happened in Istanbul’s Gardens and Beauty Spots? Evliya Çelebi on Religion, Domination and Entertainment CHAPTER THREE 83 Streets as Contested Spaces: Istanbul against a Parisian Backdrop (1600–1850) CHAPTER FOUR 115 Resat Ekrem Koçu Among the Historians: Academic Credibility vs. the Enjoyment of History PART TWO 139 Food and Water CHAPTER FIVE 141 Before Döner: “Fast Food” in Pre-Tanzimat Istanbul CHAPTER SIX 161 Should It Be Olives or Butter? Consuming Fatty Titbits in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire CHAPTER SEVEN 177 No Business without Water! Operating Khans, Baths and Factories in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul PART THREE 195 Festivities and Calamities CHAPTER EIGHT 197 Fireworks in Seventeenth-century Istanbul CHAPTER NINE 211 Fires in Istanbul: Eighteenth-Century Reflections on the Sultans’ Legitimacy PART FOUR 229 The Working World CHAPTER TEN 231 The Parades of Ottoman Guildsmen: Self-assertion and Submission to the Sultan’s Command CHAPTER ELEVEN 257 Making and Marketing Rough Woollens: From Balkan Looms to Istanbul Shops CHAPTER TWELVE 279 Did Cosmopolitanism Exist in Eighteenth-century Istanbul? Stories of Christian and Jewish Artisans CHAPTER THIRTEEN 299 Manumission in Seventeenth-century Suburban Istanbul CHAPTER FOURTEEN 323 Captured in Üsküdar during the 1550s: Fugitive Slaves and Their Clothing CHAPTER FIFTEEN 335 Rural Conflicts Swirling around Istanbul’s Food: Gegbuze/Gebze (District of Üsküdar) in the Mid-1700s CHAPTER SIXTEEN 371 Istanbul in the Early Modern Period: A City of Migrants Bibliography 399 Index 437

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  • NCID
    BD03229295
  • ISBN
    • 9786258022407
  • Country Code
    tu
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Istanbul
  • Pages/Volumes
    446 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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