Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of DifferenceCambridge University Press, 22 mar 2010 - 281 páginas Madeline C. Zilfi's latest book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire. In a challenge to prevailing notions, her research shows that throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries female slavery was not only central to Ottoman practice, but a critical component of imperial governance and elite social reproduction. As Zilfi illustrates through her graphic accounts of the humiliations and sufferings endured by these women at the hands of their owners, Ottoman slavery was often as cruel as its Western counterpart. The book focuses on the experience of slavery in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, also using comparative data from Egypt and North Africa to illustrate the regional diversity and local dynamics that were the hallmarks of slavery in the Middle East during the early modern era. This is an articulate and informed account that sets more general debates on women and slavery in the Ottoman context. |
Índice
chapter 1 Empire and imperium | 1 |
chapter 2 Currents of change | 22 |
chapter 3 Women and the regulated society | 45 |
chapter 4 Telling the Ottoman slave story | 96 |
chapter 5 Meaning and practice | 153 |
chapter 6 Feminizing slavery | 189 |
chapter 7 Men are kanun women are shariah | 216 |
Selected works | 239 |
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Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference Madeline Zilfi No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2012 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abdullah Abdülmecid African slaves Ahmed Ahmed III Altınay Ankara askeri captives cariye Christian Circassian clothing concubines court cultural dealers domestic economic Efendi Egypt eighteenth and nineteenth eighteenth century elite emancipation empire's enslavement Erdem ethnic European Evliya Çelebi Faroqhi female slaves freeborn gender girls Halil İnalcık Hanım History household Imperial Harem Islamic law Istanbul İstM Janissaries kadı Kadın Kadızadelis Küçük labor Leyla Saz London Mahmud Mahmud II male slaves manumission Mediterranean medrese Mehmed Mekkizade Middle East Midhat military Muslim Mustafa Mustafa III nineteenth century non-Muslim Nonetheless Numaralı official Osman Osmanlı Ottoman Empire Ottoman Slave Trade owners palace Pardoe Pasha political population Qur'anic reaya reform regarding reign religious role rules sartorial Selim Selim III seventeenth century sexual Şeyhülislam shari'ah sixteenth Slave Market slave women slaveholding slavery Slavery and Abolition social status Sultan sumptuary Tanzimat Tarihi Toledano Turkey Turkish ulema ümm-i veled urban wife Zilfi