Week One – Jan. 8
- Ahmad, Feroz. “The Ottomans: From Statehood to Empire, 1300-1789,” and “From Reform to Revolution, 1789-1908.” In Turkey: The Quest for Identity, 1-47. Oxford: Oneworld, 2003. PDF link
- Quataert, Donald. “Why Study Ottoman History?” In The Ottoman Empire 1700-1922, 1-12. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. UBC Library Link
Week Two – Jan. 13 & 15
- Quataert, “The Ottoman Empire from its Origins until 1683,” The Ottoman Empire 1700-1922, 13-36. UBC Library Link
- Gerber, Haim. “The Public Sphere and Civil Society in the Ottoman Empire.” In The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies, Edited by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, 65-82. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. UBC Library Link
Week Three – Jan 20 & 22 Led by Jenna
- Faroqhi, Suraiya. “Chapter 2: sovereignty and subjects: expanding and safeguarding the Empire” OR “Chapter 5: Of prisoners, slaves and the charity of strangers.” In The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. UBC Library Link
- NOTE: This week there is an option to read EITHER Chapter 2 OR Chapter 5 of the Faroqhi book.
- Quataert, “Ottoman Society and Popular Culture,” The Ottoman Empire 1700-1922, 142-173. UBC Library Link
Week Four – Jan 27 & 29 Led by Melanie
- Ebru, Boyar. “Chapter 2: The Palace and the Populace,” In A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul, Edited by Boyar Ebru and Kate Fleet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp 28-71 PDF Link
- NOTE: “Chapter 7: The Hamam” pp. 249-274 is OPTIONAL (but recommended)
- Celebi, Evliya. “Volume One: Istanbul.” In An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Celebi. Eland Books, 2011.
Week Five – Feb 03 & 05 Led by Alice
- Celebi, Evliya. Selections from:: “Volume Eight: Greece and the Conquest of Crete.” In An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Celebi. Eland Books, 2011. 278-293.
- Mckenzie, Molly. “The Coming of the Turks,” “A Portrait of a Turkish Town,” “Life Under the Turks,” and “Religion and Education,” In Turkish Athens: the Forgotten Centuries 1456-1832. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1992. 1-15 & 26-51. PDF Link
Week Six – Feb 12 Led by Emma
- Anameric, Hakan and Fatih Rukanci, “Libraries in the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire (1517-1918),” Libri (2009) 59: 145-154. UBC Library Link
- Reilly, J. A. “Ottoman Syria: Social History through an Urban Lens.” History Compass, 10 (2012): 70–80. UBC Library Link
- TBA: Selections from: Dana Sajdi, The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant
Week Seven – Feb 24 & 26 Led by Adnan
- Peri, Oded. “Chapter Four: The Holy Sites as a Source of Income to the Ottoman State,” in Christianity under Islam in Jerusalem: The Question of the Holy Sites in Early Ottoman Times. (Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001), 160-201. UBC Library Link
- Freas, Erik E. “Ottoman Reform, Islam, and Palestine’s Peasantry.” Arab Studies Journal. 18.1 (04/01/2010): 196-231. JStor. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27934082
- Celebi, Evliya. Selections from:: “Volume Nine: Pilgrimmage.” In An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Celebi. Eland Books, 2011. 315-338.
Week Eight – March 03 & 05 Led by Lars and Yaniv
- Celebi, Evliya. Selections from:: “Volume Ten: Egypt and Sudan.” In An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Celebi. Eland Books, 2011. 371-413.
- Faroqhi, Suraiya. “Chapter Seven: From Military Penetration of Artisan Guilds to the State Monopolies of Mehmed Ali Pasha,” in Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople under the Ottomans. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009), 128-141. UBC Library Link
- OPTIONAL: Faroqhi, Suraiya. “Chapter Four: Guildsmen of Istanbul and Cairo,” in Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople under the Ottomans. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009), 65-87.
Week Nine – March 10 & 12 Led by Calum and Brittany
- Heacock, Roger, “The Framing of Empire: Cyprus and Cypriots through British Eyes, 1878-1960.” The Cyprus Review 23.2 (Fall 2011): 21-37. UBC Library Link
- Walsh, Michael J. K. “’The Vile Embroidery of Ruin’: Historic Famagusta between Ottoman and British Empires in Fin de Siecle Cyprus: 1878-1901” Journal of Intercultural Studies 31.3 (2010): 247-269. UBC Library Link
Week Ten – March 17 & 19 Led by Alexi
- Quataert, “The Ottomans and their Wider World,” The Ottoman Empire 1700-1922, 75-89. UBC Library Link
- Faroqhi, Suraiya. “European Sources on Ottoman History: The Travellers,” In Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources, pp. 110-143. UBC Library Link
- Celebi, Evliya. Selections from: “Volume Seven: Habsburg Borderlands, Crimea and beyond.” In An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Celebi. Eland Books, 2011. 230-249.
Week Eleven – March 24 & 26 Led by Tugce
- Mikhail, Alan. “Chapter 6: The Heart’s Desire: Gender, Urban Space and the Ottoman Coffee House” in Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Dana Sajdi (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007), 133-170. UBC Library Link
- Hanioglu, M. Sukru. “Chapter 6: From Revolution to Imperial Collapse: The Longest Decade of the Late Ottoman Empire” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2008) 150-211. PDF Link
Week Twelve – March 31 & April 02
- Quataert, “Inter-communal Cooperation and Conflict” and “Legacies of the Ottoman Empire,” The Ottoman Empire 1700-1922, 174-194 & 195-201. UBC Library Link
- Articles from: Imperial legacy: the Ottoman imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East Edited by L. Carl Brown TBA
Week Thirteen – April 07
- Last class, wrap-up discussion, NO READINGS!