| Required/Recommended Readings | Introduction and Historical Background
Suggested readings:
- Halil Inalcık, “Istanbul: an Islamic City”, Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 1 (1990), 1-23. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/26195665?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents) Also its Turkish translation can be accesed online.
- Halil Inalcık, “Istanbul”, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi. (https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr /istanbul#3-turk-devri)
- Zeynep Çelik, “New Approaches to the ‘Non-Western’ City,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 58 No. 3 (1999): 374-381.
- Janet L. Abu-Lughod, “The Islamic City--Historic Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1987): 155-176.
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Beş Şehir (Istanbul: Millî Eğitim Basımevi̇, 1969), esp. 139–260.
Transforming Constantinople into Konstantiniyye
Required reading:
- Kritovoulos, http://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/kmc/kmc_1.htm, 1-95
Suggested readings:
- Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu, Reckoning with an Imperial Legacy: Ottomans and Byzantine Constantinople", in A. Kioussopoulou (ed.), 1453: The Fall of Constantinople and the Transition from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period (Rethymnon, 2005), 23-46.
- Robert Ousterhout, “Ethnic Identity and Cultural Appropriation in Early Ottoman Architecture,” Muqarnas 12 (1995): 48–62.
- Halil İnalcık, “The Policy of Mehmed II toward the Greek Population of Istanbul and the Byzantine Buildings of the City”, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 23/24 (1969/1970): 229-249.
- Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu, Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital (University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009).
Life around Imperial Mosques
Required reading:
- Howard Crane, “The Ottoman Sultan's Mosques: Icons of Imperial Legitimacy”, in Irene A. Bierman et al. (eds.), The Ottoman City and its Parts, (New Rochelle, N.Y: A.D. Caratzas, 1991) 173–243.
Suggested readings:
- Gülru Necipoglu, The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire, (London: Reaktion Books, 2005), chapter 3, esp. 115-126.
Coffeehouses and Hamams
Required readings:
- Mehrdad Kia, Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire, (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, 2011), 234–46.
- Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 249–62.
- D’Ohsson, 18. Yüzyıl Türkiyesinde Örf ve Adetler, (İstanbul: Tercüman, )39–67.
Suggested readings:
- Cemal Kafadar, “How Dark is the History of the Night, How Black the Story of Coffee, How Bitter the Tale of Love: The Changing Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Modern Istanbul” in eds. A. Öztürkmen and E. B. Vitz, Medieval and Early Modern Performance in the Eastern Mediterranean (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014).
- S. Ralph Hattox, Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East (Washington, University of Washington Press, 1985), esp. the chapter entitled “Taverns without Wine: The Rise of the Coffeehouse.”
- Nina Ergin, “Bathing Business in Istanbul: A Case Study of the Çemberlitaş Hamamı” in Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History and Imagination, eds. N. Ergin, C. Neumann and A. Singer (Istanbul: Eren Yayınevi, 2007), 143–68. (Available online at author’s academia page.)
- Alan Mikhail, “The Hearts Desire: Gender, Urban Space and the Ottoman Coffee House” in Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Dana Sajdi (New York: Tauris Academic Press, 2007), 133–170.
Ceremonies I
Required reading:
- Suraiya Faroqhi, “Ceremonies, Festivals and the Decorative Arts,” in Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (London: I.B.Tauris, 2005)
Suggested readings:
- Ünver Rüstem, “The spectacle of legitimacy: The dome-closing ceremony of the Sultan Ahmed mosque”, Muqarnas 33 (2016), 253–344.
- Derin Terzioğlu, “The Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582: An Interpretation”, Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture 12 (1995), 84-100.
- Nurhan Atasoy, 1582 Surname-i Hümayun: Düğün Kitabı, (İstanbul: Koçbank Yayınları, 1997). Skim.
- Esin Atıl, Levni and the Surname: The Story of an Eighteenth Century Ottoman Festival (Istanbul: Koçbank Yayınları, 1999). Skim.
- Zeynep Tarım Ertuğ, "The Depiction of Ceremonies in Ottoman Miniatures: Historical Record or a Matter of Protocol?" Muqarnas 27 (2010): 251-75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25769699.
- Erman Harun Karaduman, The Royal Mawlid Ceremonies in The Ottoman Empire (1789-1908), Unpublished Ma Thesis, Bilkent University, 2016
- Babak Rahimi, “Nahils, Circumcision Rituals and the Theatre State,” in Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Dana Sajdi (New York: Tauris Academic Press, 2007), 90–116.
Ceremonies II
Required reading:
- Hakan T. Karateke, Padişahım Çok Yaşa!: Osmanlı Devletinin Son Yüzyılında Merasimler, (Istanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2004; Third expanded printing:Istanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2017), tba.
Daily life in Istanbul: 16th – 18th centuries
Required readings:
- Carsten Niebuhr, Travels Through Arabia and Other Countries in the East, Performed by M. Niebuhr, Trans. R. Heron, 2 vols. (Perth: Morison Junior, 1799), 1: 8–13 (Available on google books: https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=lHOVF-i_jhQC&hl=en&pg=GBS.PR3)
- Antoine Galland, İstanbul'a Ait Günlük Hatıralar (1672-1673), ed. Charles Schefer, trans. Nahid Sim Örik, 2 vols. (Ankara: TTK, 1987), 1: 21–80.
Transportation and daily life: 19-20th centuries
Required reading:
- Zeynep Çelik, The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1993), 62–103.
- K. Mehmet Kentel, “Drawing Cosmopolitan Pera, Drawing on Yusuf Bey’s Caricatures,” in Youssouf Bey: Charged Portraits of Fin-de-Siècle Beyoğlu, ed. B. Öztuncay (Istanbul: Vehbi Koç Vakfı, 2016), 63–79.
Time & Night Time
Required reading:
- Avner Wishnitzer, “Shedding New Light: Outdoor Illumination in Late Ottoman Istanbul,” in Urban Lighting, Light Pollution and Society, ed. Josiane Meier et al. (London: Routledge, 2014), 66–84.
Suggested readings:
- Avner Wishnitzer, Reading Clocks Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)
- Avner Wishnitzer, "Into the Dark: Power, Light and Nocturnal Life in 18th Century Istanbul," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46/3(2014): 513–531.
- Avner Wishnitzer, "Eyes in the Dark: Nightlife and Visual Regimes in late Ottoman Istanbul," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 37, 2 (2017): 245–261.
- Nurçin İleri, “Hangi Usul Tenvir: Havagazı mı Elektrik mi?” in İstanbul Araştırmaları Yıllığı, (2018): 205–216.
- Nurçin İleri, “Geç Dönem Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Kent ve Sokak Işıkları,” (City and Street Lights in the Late Ottoman Istanbul) Toplumsal Tarih, no. 254, Şubat [2015]: 30–37.
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