Crafting History : Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar

Contents Introduction Cemal Kafadar: A Çelebi for Our Times Part One: TEXTS 1 Narrating Ottoman Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Perspectives from Some Byzantine and Ottoman Histories 2 Nişancı Mehmed Paşa and His History of the Ottoman House 3 Book-Picking in a Conquered Citadel 4 A Sufi Mirror: Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) Advice for the Ottoman Ruler 5 La Jetée and the Illustrated Ottoman History: An Inquiry into Word, Image, and Audience 6 How Did Evliya Çelebi Write His Travel Account? 7 Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620–1840 8 Blending Piety and Philology: A Seventeenth-Century Mecmu‘a as the Mirror of Istanbul’s Persianate Urban Milieu 9 An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire Part Two: Lives 10 Uç Beys, Dervishes, and Yürüks: The Cultural Politics of the Turahanoğlu of Thessaly 11 A Short Account of Long Entanglements: Şeyh Bedreddin, ‘Abdurrahman al-Bistami, and his Durrat taj al-rasa’il 12 A Tale of Two Boils: Selim I, Melek Ahmed Pasha, and Changing Perceptions of Medical Practice and Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire 13 In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman Egypt 14 The Eunuch, a Complete Statesman: Functional Historiography in the Face of Social and Political Precarity 15 Reorientation in Worldviews: Milescu and Cantemir 16 The Hamidian Visual Archive, 1878–1909: A User’s Manual Part Three: PLACES 17 Ottoman Montology: Hazardous Resourcefulness and Uneasy Symbiosis in a Mountain Empire 18 Ottoman Mountains: Mobility in a Forbidding Environment 19 A Code(x) of His Own: Deacon Mikayēl, Armeno- Turkish, and Creative Conventions of “Collecting” in Seventeenth-Century Kaffa 20 On Self and Empire: A Seventeenth-Century First-Person Narrative from the Mughal Domains 21 Cabinetmaking for the Sultan: Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in the Life Narratives of German-Speaking Journeymen 22 Conjuring Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through the Journalistic Writings of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1805–87) and Basiretçi Ali (1845?–1910) 23 Reşat Ekrem Koçu and İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Writing on Place Part Four: PROCESSES 24 Early Modern Reflections on Bayezid II’s Reign 25 The Ottoman Fleet at the Battle of Mississippi: What Videogames Can Teach Us About History 26 Continuity and Change in the Ottoman Early Modern Era: An Analysis of ‘Adet-i Kadime and Hâdis 27 Between Soldier and Civilian: Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and Aleppo 28 Confessionalization and Religious Nonconformity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Cases of Kizilbash/Alevi and the Sabbatean Communities 29 De-a‘yanization: A Black Hole in Ottoman History 30 Bitter Triumph of “the Declined” Dynasty? Notions of Universal Monarchy, Caliphate, and World Religions in Comparisons between Sultan Abdulhamid and Emperor Meiji Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments It would not be an overstatement to say that Cemal Kafadar has transformed the field of Ottoman history. As a result of his pathbreaking books and articles, the field is experiencing a turn within itself as well as recasting its relationship with world history. This volume acts as a tribute to Kafadar and the important interdisciplinary work he has both done and inspired in the field. In line with the intellectual pluralism that Kafadar has cultivated over his career, readers will find a number of articles engaging with a wide range of questions, approaches, perspectives, and sources across Ottoman history. Kafadar's students and friends, individually or in pairs, researched and crafted contributions to this volume with a variety of conceptual premises, theoretical approaches, and interpretive tools to celebrate his thirty years of teaching, research, and mentorship, in addition to the overwhelming generosity of his intellectual and personal engagement.