Private World Of Ottoman Women

Author : Godfrey Goodwin
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863567762
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private World of Ottoman Women written by Godfrey Goodwin and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politi, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter of palaces over the trials of daily life, Goodwin also reconstructs ordinary women's domestic toil. As the Ottoman Empire first expanded and then shrank, women travelled its width and breadth whether out of necessity or merely for pleasure. Some women owned slaves while others suffered the misfortune of being enslaved. Goodwin examines the laws which governed women's lives from the harem to the humblest tasks. This perceptive study of Ottoman life culminates with the nineteenth century and explores the advent of modernity and its impact on women at a time of imperial decline. 'The best book on the subject and likely to remain so for some time.' Times Literary Supplement 'A fascinating account by the foremost authority on the Ottoman period.' The Middle East 'Goodwin is an exceptional scholar with an insight that reveals itself in every sentence.' Asian Affairs 'Offers excellent scholarship into a history that has been much neglected by the West.' Judaism Today

Author : Elif Mahir Metinsoy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108191312
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ottoman Women during World War I written by Elif Mahir Metinsoy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During war time, the everyday experiences of ordinary people - and especially women - are frequently obscured by elite military and social analysis. In this pioneering study, Elif Mahir Metinsoy focuses on the lives of ordinary Muslim women living in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. It reveals not only their wartime problems, but also those of everyday life on the Ottoman home front. It questions the existing literature's excessive focus on the Ottoman middle-class, using new archive sources such as women's petitions to extend the scope of Ottoman-Turkish women's history. Free from academic jargon, and supported by original illustrations and maps, it will appeal to researchers of gender history, Middle Eastern and social history. By showing women's resistance to war mobilization, wartime work life and the everyday struggles which shaped state politics, Mahir Metinsoy allows readers to draw intriguing comparisons between the past and the current events of today's Middle East.

Author : Godfrey Goodwin
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863567819
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janissaries written by Godfrey Goodwin and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They set up semi-independent states along the North African coast and even fought at sea. Their political power was such that even sultans trembled. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? These are some of the questions which this book attempts to answer. It is the story of extraordinary personalities in both victory and defeat. 'An incredible book ... a tour de force' Middle East International 'Well written and lucid.' Muslim World Books Review 'Goodwin has done so much in his scholarly career to introduce a wide audience to Ottoman culture.' Financial Times

Author : M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691146179
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire written by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the millions of people living within its borders. This text provides a concise history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent years marked by incredible social change.

Author : Fabio Giomi
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633866847
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Muslim Women European written by Fabio Giomi and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were silent and relegated to a purely private space until 1945, when the communist state “unveiled” and “liberated” them from the top down. After systematic archival research in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Austria, Fabio Giomi challenges this view by showing: • How different sectors of the Yugoslav elite through association publications, imagined the role of Muslim women in post-Ottoman times, and how Muslim women took part in the construction or the contestation of these narratives. • How associations employed different means in order to forge a generation of “New Muslim Women” able to cope with the post-Ottoman political and social circumstances. • And how Muslim women used the tools provided by the associations in order to pursue their own projects, aims and agendas. The insights are relevant for today’s challenges facing Muslim women in Europe. The text is illustrated with exceptional photographs.

Author : Leslie P. Peirce
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195086775
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Harem written by Leslie P. Peirce and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004316620
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ottoman Women in Public Space written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining women as economic and political actors, prostitutes, flirts and slaves, Ottoman Women in Public Space argues that women were active participants in the public space, visible, present and an essential element in the everyday, public life of the empire.

Author : Suad Joseph
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004128182
Total Pages : 873 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures written by Suad Joseph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family, Law and Politics, Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, brings together over 360 entries on women, family, law, politics, and Islamic cultures around the world.

Author : Madeline Zilfi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515831
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire written by Madeline Zilfi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : Godfrey Goodwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topkapi Palace written by Godfrey Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the palace of the Ottoman sultans in Istanbul, it takes the reader through all the rooms and gardens which are open to the public - and some that are not. It talks about the thousands who lived in the saray. It gives an understanding of this core of Ottoman life.