The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It - Course Information

~ CONTENTS ~ VII
to slave: 124 ~ The miseries of transportation: 126 ~ On galleys and in
arsenals: 127 ~ Charity and the tribulations of prisoners: 129 ~ The ‘extracurricular’
labours of galley – and other – slaves: 131 ~ Domestic service:
132 ~ The role of local mediation in ransoming a Christian prisoner: 134 ~ In
conclusion: 135 ~
6 ~ Trade and foreigners 137
Merchants from remote countries: the Asian world: 138 ~ Merchants from a
(not so) remote Christian country: the Venetians: 140 ~ Polish traders and
gentlemanly visitors: 142 ~ Merchants from the lands of a (doubtful) ally:
France: 144 ~ Subjects of His/Her Majesty, the king/queen of England: 148 ~
Links to the capital of the seventeenth-century world economy: the Dutch
case: 150 ~ How Ottoman merchants coped with foreigners and foreign trade:
151 ~ Revisiting an old debate: ‘established’ and ‘new’ commercial actors:
154 ~ The Ottoman ruling group and its attitudes to foreign trade: 155 ~
7 ~ Relating to pilgrims and offering mediation 161
The problems of Iranian pilgrims in Iraq and the Hijaz: 162 ~ Jewish visitors
to Jerusalem: 164 ~ Christian visitors writing about Palestine and the Sinai
peninsula: 165 ~ Ottoman people and places in western accounts of
Jerusalem: 167 ~ The Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem in Muslim eyes: 169
~ Catholic missionaries in Ottoman lands: 171 ~ Mediations, ambiguities and
shifts of identity: 174 ~ An eighteenth-century Istanbul xenophobe: 176 ~
Was friendship between an Ottoman Muslim and a non-Muslim foreigner an
impossible proposition?: 177 ~
8 ~ Sources of information on the outside world 179
The knowledge of the ambassadors: some general considerations: 181 ~
Fleeting encounters: a sea captain and diplomat in sixteenth-century
India: 183 ~ The knowledge of the envoys: representing Ottoman dignity
in Iran: 185 ~ Lying abroad for the good of one’s sovereign: obscuring
Ottoman intentions in early eighteenth-century Iran: 186 ~ Reporting on
European embassies: 187 ~ Old opponents, new allies: 191 ~ In the empire of
the tsars: 192 ~ Difficult beginnings: a new type of information-gathering:
193 ~ Framing the world according to Ottoman geographers: 194 ~ Taking
notice of the Americas: 197 ~ Kâtib Çelebi and his circle: 199 ~ Non-Muslim
Ottoman subjects and their travel writing: 200 ~ Tracking down the
knowledge of the educated Muslim townsman: 203 : Evliya Çelebi’s stories
about Europe: 204 ~ Holland and the way thither: 204 ~ European frontiers:
a quantité négligeable?: 206 ~ And what about Evliya’s intentions in
writing?: 207 ~ In conclusion: 208 ~