Suraiya Faroqhi

Women in the Ottoman Empire (eBook, PDF)

A Social and Political History

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Produktbeschreibung

It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world, as in most empires, there were 'first-class' and 'second class' subjects. Among the townspeople, peasants and nomads subject to the sultans, who might be Muslims or non-Muslims, adult Muslim males were first-class subjects and all others, including Muslim boys and women, were of the second class. As for the female members of the elite, while less privileged than the males, in some respects their life chances might be better than those of ordinary women. Even so, they shared the risks of pregnancy, childbirth and epidemic diseases with townswomen of the subject class and to a certain extent, with village women as well. Thus, the study of Ottoman women is indispensable for understanding Ottoman society in general.

In this book, the agency of women from a diverse range of class, religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds is, for the first time, woven into the social and political history of the Ottoman Empire, from the early-modern period to its dissolution in 1918. Suraiya Faroqhi charts the history of elite and non-elite women in thematic chapters concentrating on urban women, family life, work, slavery, education and survival in times of war. In the process the book introduces readers to the key sources, primary and secondary, necessary to reconstruct and understand the ways that females navigated social, legal and economic constraints, through the central prisms of family relations, work and charity. The first introductory social history of women in the Ottoman Empire, and including a timeline and extended further reading section, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Ottoman history and the history of women in the Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755638277
• Artikelnr.: 66390734

Autorenporträt

Suraiya Faroqhi is a professor of history at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her focus is on Ottoman social history of the early modern period, especially women, artisan production, the use of objects as historical sources, as well as urban life and cross-cultural linkages, her most recent publications are, A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts ( I. B. Tauris, 2016), and The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World (I.B. Tauris, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgements A note on spelling and transliteration
Introduction Prologue: A conspectus of Ottoman history 1. Ottoman women,
Ottoman history: Coping with a changing world Part I (1500s to about 1700)
2. The legal framework of family life 3. Dependent on work, investments and
charity 4. Exceptionally talented, exceptionally active: women of
distinction Part II (about 1700-1870s) 5. Ottoman diversity: Female agency
and survival in Ottoman Syria and Egypt 6. Ottoman diversity: Coping with
relatives, the state and dependent capitalism Part III (1870-1918) 7.
Female teachers, journalists and actors: education as a source of survival
skills 8. Before 1912: Making a living through family relations, work and
charity - and occasionally turning to crime 9. In profound
distress:Struggling to survive the disintegration of the empire (1912-18)
Conclusion Suggestions for further reading: A bibliographical essay Notes
Timeline Glossary