Auteur: Faroqhi Suraiya Faroqhi

The manufacture and trade in crafted goods and the men and women who were involved in this industry – including metalworkers, ceramicists, silk weavers, fez-makers, blacksmiths and even barbers – lay …

In Islamic law the world was made up of the ”House of Islam” and the ”House of War” with the Ottoman Sultan – successor to the early Caliphs – as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in t …

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities – since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could …

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this …

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this …

In Islamic law the world was made up of the ‘House of Islam’ and the ‘House of War’ with the Ottoman Sultan – successor to the early Caliphs – as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in this …

The manufacture and trade in crafted goods and the men and women who were involved in this industry – including metalworkers, ceramicists, silk weavers, fez-makers, blacksmiths and even barbers – lay …

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities – since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could …

For many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insulated from the outside world, except when it came to ”campaigns …

For many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insulated from the outside world, except when it came to ”campaigns …

Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East presents research on craft workers within and outside the guild structure from the modern and contemporary Mediterranean world. From the late sixteenth-century …

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 …

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 …