A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu. and, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, by Karen Barkey. and, Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914, by Zeynep Çelik.A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2008. xii, 241 pp. $42.000 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper).Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, by Karen Barkey. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv, 342 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $25.99 (paper).Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914, by Zeynep Çelik. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2008. xiii, 337 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 442-447
Author(s):  
Wayne H. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
The City ◽  
Washington University ◽  
Late Ottoman

DURABLE EMPIRE: STATE VIRTUOSITY AND SOCIAL ACCOMMODATION IN THE OTTOMAN MEDITERRANEAN

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 953-966 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS DOUMANIS
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Arab World ◽  
State University ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Social Accommodation ◽  
History Of

Subjects of the sultan: culture and daily life in the Ottoman empire. By Suraiya Faroqhi. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000. Pp. x+358. ISBN 1-86064-289-6. £35.00.The Ottoman empire and early modern Europe. By Daniel Goffman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi+273. ISBN 0-5214-59087. £15.99.A shared world: Christians and Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean. By Molly Greene. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+228. ISBN 0-619-00898-1. $29.50.Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab world: the roots of sectarianism. By Bruce Masters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv+222. ISBN 0-521-803330. £48.00.Consumption studies and the history of the Ottoman empire, 1560–1922: an introduction. Edited by Donald Quataert. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. Pp. vii+358. ISBN 0-7914-4431-7. $25.50.The Ottoman empire, 1700–1922. Second edition. By Donald Quataert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii+212. ISBN 0-521-839106. £40.00.Since Edward Said first launched his devastating critique of western scholarship on the Islamic world, it has been almost impossible to think of Orientalism as anything other than a euphemism for the systematic distortion of an exotic Other. That imaginings of a fanciful ‘Orient’ are now recognized as providing acute expositions of western pathologies, of references to deep-seated desires and anxieties so disturbing that they only reveal themselves in alterities, goes some way towards explaining the sheer bulk of interdisciplinary publications that have been directly inspired by Said's Orientalism.1 As reflexive phenomena, however, such publications have even less to say about the real ‘Orient’. Rather, the historical reconstruction of Orientalism's ostensible subject has been left to a separate and less conspicuous stream of scholarship that is characterized by painstaking archival research.

scholarly journals ISLAMIC MORALITY IN LATE OTTOMAN “SECULAR” SCHOOLS

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin C. Fortna
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
World History ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
The West ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
Late Ottoman

Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous efforts aimed at repositioning the state, reconceptualizing knowledge, and restructuring “society.”1 A comparative perspective has helped students of the period recognize that the late Ottoman Empire shared and took action against many of the same problems confronting its contemporaries, East and West. The assertion of Ottoman agency has been critical to finishing off the stereotype of the “sick man of Europe,” but the persistent legacies of modernization theory and nationalist historiography continue to obscure our view of the period.

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