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

Contents\nIntroduction\nCemal Kafadar: A Çelebi for Our Times\nPart One: TEXTS\n1 Narrating Ottoman Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Perspectives from Some Byzantine and Ottoman Histories\n2 Nişancı Mehmed Paşa and His History of the Ottoman House\n3 Book-Picking in a Conquered Citadel\n4 A Sufi Mirror: Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) Advice for the Ottoman Ruler\n5 La Jetée and the Illustrated Ottoman History: An Inquiry into Word, Image, and Audience\n6 How Did Evliya Çelebi Write His Travel Account?\n7 Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620–1840\n8 Blending Piety and Philology: A Seventeenth-Century Mecmu‘a as the Mirror of Istanbul’s Persianate Urban Milieu\n9 An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire\nPart Two: Lives\n10 Uç Beys, Dervishes, and Yürüks: The Cultural Politics of the Turahanoğlu of Thessaly\n11 A Short Account of Long Entanglements: Şeyh Bedreddin, ‘Abdurrahman al-Bistami, and his Durrat taj al-rasa’il\n12 A Tale of Two Boils: Selim I, Melek Ahmed Pasha, and Changing Perceptions of Medical Practice and Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire\n13 In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman Egypt\n14 The Eunuch, a Complete Statesman: Functional Historiography in the Face of Social and Political Precarity\n15 Reorientation in Worldviews: Milescu and Cantemir\n16 The Hamidian Visual Archive, 1878–1909: A User’s Manual\nPart Three: PLACES\n17 Ottoman Montology: Hazardous Resourcefulness and Uneasy Symbiosis in a Mountain Empire\n18 Ottoman Mountains: Mobility in a Forbidding Environment\n19 A Code(x) of His Own: Deacon Mikayēl, Armeno- Turkish, and Creative Conventions of “Collecting” in Seventeenth-Century Kaffa\n20 On Self and Empire: A Seventeenth-Century First-Person Narrative from the Mughal Domains\n21 Cabinetmaking for the Sultan: Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in the Life Narratives of German-Speaking Journeymen\n22 Conjuring Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through the Journalistic Writings of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1805–87) and Basiretçi Ali (1845?–1910)\n23 Reşat Ekrem Koçu and İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Writing on Place\nPart Four: PROCESSES\n24 Early Modern Reflections on Bayezid II’s Reign\n25 The Ottoman Fleet at the Battle of Mississippi: What Videogames Can Teach Us About History\n26 Continuity and Change in the Ottoman Early Modern Era: An Analysis of ‘Adet-i Kadime and Hâdis\n27 Between Soldier and Civilian: Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and Aleppo\n28 Confessionalization and Religious Nonconformity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Cases of Kizilbash/Alevi and the Sabbatean Communities\n29 De-a‘yanization: A Black Hole in Ottoman History\n30 Bitter Triumph of “the Declined” Dynasty? Notions of Universal Monarchy, Caliphate, and World Religions in Comparisons between Sultan Abdulhamid and Emperor Meiji\nNotes on Contributors\nAcknowledgments