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The economic and social stability of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th century led to what is widely believed to be a "Pax Ottomanica" in which trade and the arts flourished and peaceful coexistence reigned. However, the works collected in Disliking Others encourage a closer consideration of this idyllic historical moment. By exploring patterns in expressions of dislike in literature, historiography, religious texts, and memoirs and other personal accounts, the volume provides rare insight into the perspectives of individual Ottoman subjects and the social, religious, and ethnic groups to which they belonged. In doing so, the collection seeks to reconstruct the mind-set of broad groups of people in Ottoman lands in order to illustrate how prejudice, distrust, and mutual antipathy were still a prevalent force despite prosperity. Contributors consider the role of religion as an influencing force, whether political propaganda stoked distrust, and how class and gender distinctions might have fostered antipathies. Disliking Others shows how an understanding of Ottoman alterophobia, or the irrational dislike of other groups within one's society, provides a more nuanced understanding of that complex society.
Contents
Introduction1. Changing Perceptions about Christian-born Ottomans: Anti-kul Sentiments in Ottoman Historiography / H. Erdem Cipa2. Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500-1730: The Eastern Alternative / Jane Hathaway3. Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier's Treatise: A Comparative Look at Black Africans in Ottoman Letters in the Early Modern Period / Baki Tezcan4. Critiquing the Ottomans: Arab Invective against the Ottoman Center in the Long Eighteenth Century / Basil Salem5. The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550-1700 / Bilha Moor6. An Ottoman Anti-Judaism / Hakan T. Karateke7. Evliya Celebi's Perception of Jews / Hakan T. Karateke8. Ambiguous Subjects and Uneasy Neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans' Attitudes toward the Ottoman State, "Turks," and Vlachs / Vjeran Kursar9. "Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land": Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th-18th Centuries / Konrad Petrovszky10. Representing the Margins: The Many Faces of the "Gypsy" in Early Modern Ottoman Discourse / Faika Celik11. Gendered Infidels in Fiction: A Case Study on S abit's Hikaye-i Hvace Fesad / Ipek Huner-Cora12. "The Greatest of Tribulations": Constructions of Femininity in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Physiognomy / Emin Lelic13. Defining and Defaming the Other in Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Invective / Michael Sheridan14. "Are You From Corum?": Derogatory Attitudes Toward the "Unruly Mob" of the Provinces as Reflected in a Proverbial Saying / Helga AnetshoferIndex
