Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law

Fikret Yılmaz Emrah Safa Gürkan'ın sunuculuğuyla
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Osmanlı'da kamusal alan ile özel yaşam arasındaki sınır nasıl çizilmiştir? Herkesin birbirinin muhbiri olduğu bir toplumda iktidar, toplum ve birey arasındaki ilişki nasıl düzenlenmiştir? Bu sorulara yanıt aradığımız bu podcastımızda Fikret Yılmaz ile erken modern Osmanlı toplumunda mahremiyetin sınırları üzerine konuştuk. Ayrıca, Osmanlı toplum tarihçiliğinin sıkıntılarına dikkat çekerek, kavramsal çalışmaların gerekliliğine dikkat çektik.
Where did the boundary between the public and private spheres lie in the Ottoman Empire? How was the relationship between government, society and individual configured in a society where everyone spied on their neighbors? In search of answers to these questions, this episode of Ottoman History Podcast explores the boundaries of privacy in early modern Ottoman society with Dr. Fikret Yılmaz, drawing attention to the lacuna in historiography on Ottoman society and the need for conceptual studies. (podcast is in Turkish)
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Erken modern Osmanlı toplum tarihi üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Fikret Yılmaz Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu) Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu)
Episode No. 129
Release date: 9 November 2013
Location: Kuzguncuk, Üsküdar
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Fikret Yılmaz
Citation: "Osmanlı'da Mahremiyetin Sınırları," Fikret Yılmaz, Emrah Safa Gürkan, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 129 (November 9, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/11/private-public-sphere-ottoman-empire.html. SEÇME KAYNAKÇA Fikret Yılmaz, "Zina ve Fuhuş Arasında Kalanlar: Fahişe Subaşıya Karşı,” Toplumsal Tarih 220 (April 2012): 22-31.
Fikret Yılmaz, “Boş Vaktiniz Var Mı? veya 16. yüzyılda Anadolu’da şarap, eğlence ve suç,” Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar 1 (Bahar 2005): 11-49.
Fikret Yılmaz, “16. yüzyılda tarımsal yapılarda değişim, Akdeniz mutfağı ve yağ kullanımı,” Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar 10 (Bahar 2010): 23-42.
Fikret Yılmaz, “XVI. Yüzyıl Osmanlı toplumunda mahremiyetin sınırlarına dair,” Toplum ve Bilim 83 (Kış 1999-2000): 92-110.
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: Village occitain de 1294 à 1324 (Paris: Gallimard, 1975).

with Nora Barakat Groups variously labeled as nomadic and tribal formed an integral part of Ottoman society, but because their communities exercised a wide degree of autonomy, they are often represented as somehow separate or "other" to urban and settled populations. However, the social history of these communities reveals that tribes and their members were involved in the continual transformation of Ottoman society not just as a force of resistance or hapless victims of state policies but also as participants. In this podcast, Nora Barakat deals with the social history of such communities, which appear in the court records of Salt (in modern Jordan) as "tent-dwellers," and their place in the complex legal sphere of the Tanzimat era during which both shar`ia law courts as well as new nizamiye courts served as forums for legal action.

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Nora Barakat is a PhD candidate at UC-Berkeley studying the legal and social history of Ottoman Syria Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Citation: "Pastoral Nomads and Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Jordan." Nora Barakat and Chris Gratien. Ottoman History Podcast, No. 61 (July 24, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/07/pastoral-nomads-and-legal-pluralism-in.html.
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Agmon, Iris. Family & court: legal culture and modernity in late Ottoman Palestine. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Kasaba, Reşat. A moveable empire : Ottoman nomads, migrants, and refugees. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.
Mundy, Martha, and Richard Saumarez Smith. Governing Property: Making the Modern State Law Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
Rogan, Eugene L. Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Rubin, Avi. Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

with Zoe Griffith hosted by Chris Gratien and Kalliopi Amygdalou
Inheritance and the transfer of property across generations connects the history of families to a broader analysis of political economy, particularly in societies where wealth and capital are deeply rooted in the earth. In this episode, Zoe Griffith provides a framework for the study of family history through the lens of the mulberry tree and its produce in a study of Ottoman court records from Tripoli (modern-day Lebanon).
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Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early modern Mediterranean (see academia.edu) Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu) Kalliopi Amygdalou is a doctoral candidate in the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College in London working on the relationship between national historiographies and the built environment in Greece and Turkey (see academia.edu)
Episode No. 130
Release date: 18 November 2013
Location: Kurtuluş, Istanbul
Editing and Production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Zoe Griffith
Citation: "Mulberry Fields Forever: Family, Property, and Inheritance in Ottoman Lebanon," Zoe Griffith, Chris Gratien, and Kalliopi Amygdalou, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 130 (November 18, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abu Husayn, Abdul Rahim. Provincial Leaderships in Syria, 1575-1650. Beirut: American University in Beirut, 1985.
Cuno, Kenneth. The Pasha’s Peasants: land, society and economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Doumani, Beshara. “Introduction.” In Beshara Doumani, ed. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 1-19.
--- “Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860.” In Beshara Doumani, Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 173-200.
Ergene, Boğaç. Local Court, Provincial Society, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: legal practice and dispute resolution in Çankırı and Kastamonu (1652-1744). Leiden: Brill, 2003.
Fay, Mary Ann. “Women and Waqf: toward a reconsideration of women’s place in the Mamluk household.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 29 (1997): 33-51.
Ferguson, Heather. “Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham.” In Beshara Doumani, ed. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 229-244.
‘Imad, ‘Abd al-Ghani. Mujtama’ Trablus fi zaman al-tahawwulat al-‘uthmaniya. Tripoli, Lebanon: Dar al-Insha’ lil’Sihafah wa’l-Tiba’ah wa’l-Nashr, 2002.
Imber, Colin. “The Status of Orchards and Fruit Trees in Ottoman Law.” Tarih Enstitüsü Dergisi, 12 (1981-82): 763-774.
Mundy, Martha and Richard Saumarez-Smith. Governing Property, Making the Modern State: law, administration, and production in Ottoman Syria. London: I.B. Taurus, 2007.
Tezcan, Baki. The Second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformations in the early modern world. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Music: Wadi al-Safi - Ya al-Tut al-Shami

Selim Karahasanoğlu
Sadreddinzade günlüğünden
örnek sayfalar
Kaynak: BOA, KK 7500, 158-159 Osmanlı tarihyazımında cevabı aranan önemli bir soru da Osmanlı kültüründe günlük, anı, hatırat gibi ben anlatılarının bulunup bulunmadığıdır. Bu bölümümüzde Selim Karahasanoğlu ile son çalışması Sadreddinzade Telhisi Mustafa Efendi ceridesi hakkında konuştuk. 18. yüzyılın önde gelen ulema ailelerinden birine mensup bu Osmanlı kadısının 24 yıl boyunca düzenli olarak tuttuğu bu günlüğün tarihsel kaynak olarak değerine ve Avrupa'daki diğer örneklerle arasındaki fark ve benzerliklere değindik. Ayrıca, yazma kütüphanelerinde karşılaşılan kurumsal zorlukların nasıl Osmanlı kültür tarihi araştırmalarının önünü tıkadığının altını çizerek, bir kaç eser üzerinden genellemeler yapmanın zorluğundan bahsettik.
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18. yüzyıl Osmanlı tarihi üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Selim Karahasanoğlu İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see his page) Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu)
SEÇME KAYNAKÇA
Selim Karahasanoğlu Akçetin, Elif. “A Frustrated Scholar of the Post-Conquest Generation: Wang Jingqi (1672-1726) and his Casual Jottings of my Journey to the West (1724).” Basılmamış Makale. Behrendt, S. D. A. J. H. Latham, D. Northrup. The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Beydilli, Kemal. Osmanlı Döneminde İmamlar ve Bir İmamın Günlüğü (İstanbul: TATAV, 2001). Çeçen, Halil, haz. Niyazî-i Mısrî’nin Hatıraları (İstanbul: Dergah Yayınları, 2006). Çelebi, İlyas. “Rüya.” DİA, cilt: 35 (İstanbul: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, 2008), 306-309. Di Cosmo, Nicola. haz., The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: “My Service in the Army,” by Dzengšeo (London: Routledge, 2007). Elger, Ralf ve Yavuz Köse. eds. Many Ways of Speaking About the Self: Middle Eastern Ego-Documents in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (14^th-20^th century) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010). Erünsal, İsmail E. “Bir Osmanlı Efendisi’nin Günlüğü: Sadreddinzâde Telhisî Mustafa Efendi ve Cerîdesi.” Kaynaklar, 2 (1984): 77-81. “Türk Edebiyatı Tarihinin Arşiv Kaynakları III: Telhisî Mustafa Efendi Ceridesi,” Ege Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2 (1983): 37-42. Hassam, Andrew. Writing and Reality: A Study of Modern British Diary Fiction (Wesport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993). _____. “Reading Other People’s Diaries.” University of Toronto Quarterly, 56: 3 (1987): 435-442. Houldbrooke, Ralph, ed. English Family Life, 1576-1716: An Anthology from Diaries (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989). Huff, Cynthia A. “Reading a Re-Vision: Approaches to Reading Manuscript Diaries.” Biography, 23: 3 (2000): 504-523. Işıközlü, Fazıl. “Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivinde Yeni Bulunmuş Olan ve Sadreddin Zâde Telhisî Mustafa Efendi Tarafından Tutulduğu Anlaşılan H. 1123 (1711)-1148 (1735) Yıllarına Ait Bir Ceride (Jurnal) ve Eklentisi.” 7. Türk Tarih Kongresi: Kongreye Sunulan Bildiriler, cilt: 2 (Ankara: TTK, 1973), 508-534. Jarrick, Arne. Back to Modern Reason: Johan Hjerpe and Other Petit Bourgeois in Stockholm in the Age of Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999). Jones, Susan E. “Reading Leonard Thompson: The Diary of a Nineteenth-Century New Englander.” Atenea, 24: 2 (2004): 117-127. Kafadar, Cemal. “Self and Others: The Diary of a Dervish in Seventeenth Century Istanbul and First-Person Narratives in Ottoman Literature.” Studia Islamica, 69 (1989): 121-150. Káldy Nagy, Gy. “Kādī: Ottoman Empire.” EI², cilt: 4 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978), 375. Karahasanoğlu, Selim. “A Tulip Age Legend: Consumer Behavior and Material Culture in the Ottoman Empire (1718-1730).” Basılmamış Doktora Tezi, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2009. _____. “Osmanlı Literatüründe Ben-Anlatılarına (<...

Episode 430
with Nurfadzilah Yahaya hosted by Chris Gratien
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During the 19th century, Southeast Asia came under British and Dutch colonial rule. Yet despite the imposition of foreign institutions and legal codes, Islamic law remained an important part of daily life. In fact, as our guest Fadzilah Yahaya argues, Islamic law in the region underwent significant transformation as a result of British and Dutch policies. But rather than merely a top-down transformation, Yahaya highlights the role of the small and largely mercantile Arab diaspora as a major factor in European policy towards Islamic law in Southeast Asia. In our conversation, we discuss Islamic law and the Arab diaspora in Southeast Asia during the colonial period as well as some of the more unusual court cases arising from this period and the implications of this history for Southeast Asia today.
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