Suraiya Faroqhi
Biographic Data
| ID | 118241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suraiya Faroqhi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suraiya |
| FAMILY NAME | Faroqhi |
| SIGNATURE | FAROQHI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History
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 s…
The Material World of Early Modern Ottoman Women: Ornaments, Robes and Domestic Furnishings in Istanbul and Bursa
The present article investigates the jewelry and domestic furnishings owned by wealthy women who died in Bursa during the early 1730s, combining the data derived from the estate inventories of the decedents with imagery, both Ottoman and non-Ottoman, dating to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This tentative linkage between the written and the visual has made it possible to ‘zoom in’ on the manner in which well-to-do females of eighteenth…
Aziz Nesin about Himself and His Parents: Poor People in Istanbul during the Late Ottoman Period
A resolute modernist and socialist, Aziz Nesin (1915–95) was definitely an author of the republican period. Born Mehmet Nusret to poor parents, both migrants to Istanbul from the Black Sea coast, he adopted Nesin as his legal surname when surnames became obligatory in 1934. By the 1950s, his satirical short stories and plays had made him famous, but he faced political difficulties for much of his life; likely, it did not endear him to the authori…
Slave Agencies Compared: The Ottoman and Mughal Empires
Istanbul and Crete in the Mid-1600s: Evliya Çelebi’s Discourse on Orthodox Christians
The subject of our discussion is the travelogue of Evliya Çelebi, born in 1611 to a goldsmith of the sultans’ palace known as Derviş Mehemmed Zılli and who probably died in Cairo around 1685. It is intriguing for a multitude of reasons, one of them especially relevant for the present purpose: While Evliya’s work covers the entire Ottoman Empire and adjacent territories in ten substantial volumes, we do not know the patrons and/or other addressees…
Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-century consumers of the Qing and Ottoman empires had access to an increasingly diverse array of goods, from home furnishings to fashionable clothes and new foodstuffs. While this tendency was of shorter duration and intensity in the Ottoman world, some urbanites of the sultans’ realm did enjoy silks, coffee, and Chinese porcelain. By contrast, a vibrant consumer culture flourished in Qing China, where many consumers flaunted their fur…
Making Things to Serve Sultans, Viziers and Army Commanders (1450-1800)
Ottoman documents on manufactures for court and army concentrate on governmental initiatives. However, the time has come to view these branches of production in a broader, comparative perspective, focusing on the demands of the sultan’s officials and the actions of skilled persons working for the apparatus of empire. As for the production of military hardware, the demands of eighteenth-century warfare fell most heavily on the more prosperous work…
Bread From the Lion's Mouth
The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries. The guilds transformed and eventually dissolved as they were incre…
Bread from the Lion's Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities
Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire: Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era
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 leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel. However, Suraiya Faroqhi’s extensive archival research shows that this was not the case; pious men from all walks of life w…
The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 2, the Ottoman Empire As a World Power, 1453-1603
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Turkey examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603. During this period, the Ottoman Empire moved into a new phase of expansion, emerging in the sixteenth century as a dominant political player on the world scene. With territory stretching around the Mediterranean from the Adriatic Sea to Morocco, and from the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, the Ottomans reac…
Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam
This collection of papers by various scholars discusses a wide range of practices and beliefs relating to saints in Islam. The studies also demonstrate the influence of sainthood on political structures in many societies
Seeking Wisdom in China: An Attempt to Make Sense of the Celali Rebellions
Making a Living in the Ottoman Lands, 1480 to 1820
This collection of essays represents a sample of Suraiya Faroqhi’s groundbreaking work into Ottoman social and economic history. In it, she looks at individuals and structures in the Ottoman provinces.
Coping with the State: Political Conflict and Crime in the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1720
The Ottoman Ruling Group and the Religions of its Subjects in the Early Modern Age: A Survey of Current Research
Throughout the early modern period, the Ottoman ruling group perpetuated a social order based on clear-cut hierarchies; this emphasis on hierarchy governed relationships between Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, and between the ruling group and the tax-paying population, regardless of religion. Within this system—where everybody was supposed to know his or her place and, ideally, remain in it—there was room for ad hoc agreements. While flexible arr…
The Material Culture of Global Connections
La consommation des sujets ottomans et la civilisation materielle des elites et du « peuple » sont des sujets etroitement lies l'un a l'autre. Dans ce champ de travail, il y a eu un 'renversement de tendance' assez important: en effet, les chercheurs qui s'occupent de cette epoque ne pensent plus qu'il y a eu un lien etroit entre l'influence croissante des modeles occidentaux et l'expansion de la consommation des elites ottomanes, du moins pas da…
The Cambridge History of Turkey
This volume examines the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia from the arrival of the first Turks at the end of the eleventh century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Taking the period as a whole, the volume covers the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural history of the region as the Byzantine empire crumbled and Anatolia passed into Turkish control to become the heartland of the Ottoman empire. In this way, the authors emphas…
Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans
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 at the social as well as the economic heart of the Ottoman empire. This comprehensive history by leading Ottoman historian Suraiya Faroqhi presents the definitive view of the subject, from the production and distribution of different craft objects to…
Province Strikes Back: Imperial Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean
In 2024, the publisher of PMFIA series (Foundation for the Finnish Institute of Athens) decided to re-publish all previous volumes of the series, earlier available in printed form only, in an open-access format. Simultaneously, the contributions have been re-licensed with Creative commons license standard CC BY-NC, now commonly used in scientific publishing. The volumes, and the individual articles contained within them, have also been addigned D…
The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 4, Turkey in the Modern World (Cambridge History of Turkey)
Turkey's modern history has been shaped by its society and its institutions. In this fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Turkey a team of some of the most distinguished scholars of modern Turkey have come together to explore the interaction between these two aspects of Turkish modernization. The volume begins in the nineteenth century and traces the historical background through the reforms of the late Ottoman Empire, the period of the Youn…
Purchasing Guild- and Craft-based Offices in the Ottoman Central Lands
A partir de la fin du XVI e siecle, la venalite des offices devint plus repandue, dans l'Empire ottoman, que cela n'avait ete le cas anterieurement. Cependant nous ne savons pas quand l'office de kethuda de guilde en vint, pour la premiere fois, a etre inclus dans les charges qui pouvaient etre achetees et vendues. Au moins a Istanbul et a Bursa, les kethuda des XVII e et XVIII e siecles furent frequemment destitues par les kâdi parce qu'ils avai…
The Cambridge History of Turkey
Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Turkey traces the history of the later Ottoman Empire from the death of Mehmed III in 1603 to the proclamation of the tanzimat, the administrative reconstruction of the Ottoman state, in 1839. This was a period of relative stability when trade between the empire and Europe flourished and, wartime apart, merchants and pilgrims travelled in relative security. However, despite the emphasis on the sultan's role as…
Islamic architecture: Urban development and housing
Camels, Wagons, and the Ottoman State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The history of Ottoman transportation as a whole still remains to be written. To date, scholars have concentrated mainly upon the institutional aspects of the problem. Thus Cengiz Orhonlu in his pioneering work has dealt with attempts on the part of the Ottoman administration to maintain street and road paving, establish ferryboat services, control river navigation, and ensure the safety of public roads. Boat traffic within Istanbul, which linked…
Population rise and fall in Anatolia 1550–1620
(1979). Population rise and fall in Anatolia 1550–1620. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 322-345
The Ottomans and the Balkans. A Discussion of Historiography
Throughout, the contributors have distanced themselves from the nostalgia for 'the past greatness' of certain rulers of yore, and aimed for a detached, source-based assessment of historical developments. They have made a conscious effort to debunk ancient myths, although, human weakness being what it is, their successors probably will accuse them of being responsible for new myths in their turn
Approaching Ottoman History. An Introduction to the Sources
Suraiya Faroqhi's scholarly contribution to the field of Ottoman history has been prodigious. Her latest book represents a summation of that scholarship, an introduction to the state-of-the-art in Ottoman history. In a compelling exploration of the ways that primary and secondary sources can be used to interpret history, the author reaches out to students and researchers in the field and in related disciplines to familiarise them with these docum…
Political Activity Among Ottoman Taxpayers and the Problem of Sultanic Legitimation (1570-1650)
The Tekke of Haci Bektaş: Social Position and Economic Activities
Throughout the Ottoman period, dervishes and their convents have played an important part in both towns and countryside. Yet they have not received the attention that their importance merits, and the religious aspect of their activities has attracted more interest than the social. In the latter area, one of the pioneer works has been ömer Lutfi Barkan's study of the role of dervishes and their convents in the settlement of Anatolia and Rumelia, a…
Red Sea Trade and Communications as Observed by Evliya Çelebi (1671-72)
Evliya Çelebi is known to historians as an observer of public buildings, such as mosques, medreses and city walls, as a valuable source on languages and dialects and, much too rarely, as an artist of narration. Commerce was not his main area of interest, though when describing Anatolian towns, he paid due attention to covered and open-air markets, to khans and sometimes even to shops. As a member of the Ottoman upper class, he could finance his t…
In search of Ottoman history
Civilian Society and Political Power in the Ottoman Empire: A Report on Research in Collective Biography (1480–1830)
Prosopography, or collective biography, as this field of study is sometimes called by scholars dealing with periods later than Greek and Roman antiquity, is a relatively simple and unsophisticated research technique. Basically, it consists of assembling and comparing biographical data for all individuals belonging to a clearly circumscribed group of people. Frequently, but not necessarily, the individuals in question held public office of some ki…
The Development of the Anatolian Urban Network During the Sixteenth Century
The authors use data from the tax registers of the Ottoman Empire to examine urban development in Anatolia during the sixteenth century. Some comparisons are made with nineteenth-century data. (ANNOTATION)
The Ottoman Ruling Group and the Religions of its Subjects in the Early Modern Age: A Survey of Current Research
Throughout the early modern period, the Ottoman ruling group perpetuated a social order based on clear-cut hierarchies; this emphasis on hierarchy governed relationships between Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, and between the ruling group and the tax-paying population, regardless of religion. Within this system—where everybody was supposed to know his or her place and, ideally, remain in it—there was room for ad hoc agreements. While flexible arr…
Agriculture and Rural Life in the Ottoman Empire (ca 1500-1878)
When introducing this survey, it is necessary to say a word of justification about the time limits adopted. The year 1500 has been selected as an approximate starting point, because only during the reign of Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512) do Ottoman tax registers become frequent enough to allow even approximate conclusions with respect to agricultural production. However when dealing with certain regions of the Empire, we need to adopt an even late…
Valery Stojanow, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der osmanisch-türkischen Paläographie und Diplomatik, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 76 (Berlin: (Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1983). Pp. v + 329
Valery Stojanow, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der osmanisch-türkischen Paläographie und Diplomatik, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 76 (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1983). Pp. v + 329. - Volume 16 Issue 3
Vakif Administration in Sixteenth Century Konya: The Zaviye of Sadreddin-I Konevi
Vakif Administration in Sixteenth Century Konya: The Zaviye of Sadreddin-I Konevi
Vakif Administration in Sixteenth Century Konya
The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the administration and development of a medium-sized vakzf or pious foundation in sixteenth century Konya. In an area where fourteen percent of the dues produced by peasant farming were tied up in pious foundations 1), it is perhaps not without some interest to find out how these resources were administered and what they were used for. If we accept the fact that payments to the central government…
The Tekke of Haci Bektaş: Social Position and Economic Activities
Throughout the Ottoman period, dervishes and their convents have played an important part in both towns and countryside. Yet they have not received the attention that their importance merits, and the religious aspect of their activities has attracted more interest than the social. In the latter area, one of the pioneer works has been ömer Lutfi Barkan's study of the role of dervishes and their convents in the settlement of Anatolia and Rumelia, a…
Population rise and fall in Anatolia 1550–1620
(1979). Population rise and fall in Anatolia 1550–1620. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 322-345
Sixteenth Century Periodic Markets in Various Anatolian Sancaks: Icel, Hamid, Karahisar-i Sahib, Kutahya, Aydin, and Mentese
Sixteenth Century Periodic Markets in Various Anatolian Sancaks: İçel, Hami̇d, Karahi̇sar-i Sahi̇b, Kütahya, Aydin, and Menteşe, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan., 1979), pp. 32-80
Sixteenth Century Periodic Markets in Various Anatolian Sanc.Aks
The Development of the Anatolian Urban Network During the Sixteenth Century
The authors use data from the tax registers of the Ottoman Empire to examine urban development in Anatolia during the sixteenth century. Some comparisons are made with nineteenth-century data. (ANNOTATION)
Camels, Wagons, and the Ottoman State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The history of Ottoman transportation as a whole still remains to be written. To date, scholars have concentrated mainly upon the institutional aspects of the problem. Thus Cengiz Orhonlu in his pioneering work has dealt with attempts on the part of the Ottoman administration to maintain street and road paving, establish ferryboat services, control river navigation, and ensure the safety of public roads. Boat traffic within Istanbul, which linked…
Valery Stojanow, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der osmanisch-türkischen Paläographie und Diplomatik, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 76 (Berlin: (Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1983). Pp. v + 329
Valery Stojanow, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der osmanisch-türkischen Paläographie und Diplomatik, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 76 (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1983). Pp. v + 329. - Volume 16 Issue 3
Der Bektaschi-Orden in Anatolien
Civilian Society and Political Power in the Ottoman Empire: A Report on Research in Collective Biography (1480–1830)
Prosopography, or collective biography, as this field of study is sometimes called by scholars dealing with periods later than Greek and Roman antiquity, is a relatively simple and unsophisticated research technique. Basically, it consists of assembling and comparing biographical data for all individuals belonging to a clearly circumscribed group of people. Frequently, but not necessarily, the individuals in question held public office of some ki…
Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, Crafts, and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520-1650
Town Officials, timar -holders and Taxation
Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, Crafts and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520-1650
Men of Modest Substance: House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century Ankara and Kayseri
This is a study of two contrasting towns in Anatolia in the seventeenth century. As house ownership was widespread, data concerning value, description, location and ownership of dwellings constitute a valid manner of approaching urban society as a whole. Through her use of documents from the kadi registers of Ankara and Kayseri, Dr Faroqui follows changes in patterns of house ownership over approximately a century. The urban society thus revealed…
Agriculture and Rural Life in the Ottoman Empire (ca 1500-1878)
When introducing this survey, it is necessary to say a word of justification about the time limits adopted. The year 1500 has been selected as an approximate starting point, because only during the reign of Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512) do Ottoman tax registers become frequent enough to allow even approximate conclusions with respect to agricultural production. However when dealing with certain regions of the Empire, we need to adopt an even late…
Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, Crafts and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520-1650
Agricultural Crisis and the Art of Flute-Playing
Men of Modest Substance: House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century Ankara and Kayseri
Towns, Agriculture and the State in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia
Black Slaves and Freedmen Celebrating (Aydin, 1576)
A Tale of Two Cities
Traders and Customs Officials in 1660S Iskenderun
Present-day Iskenderun (Alexandrette) is a purely modern city. Throughout the pre-Tanzimat period, settlement in this locality was insignificant, and the name of Iskenderun denoted a landing stage (iskele) , rather than a town or city. When the traveller Evliya Çelebi passed through Iskenderun in the middle of the seventeenth century, he noted the fact that there was no business district or even shop-lined street, no khan and no public bath (Evli…
Red Sea Trade and Communications as Observed by Evliya Çelebi (1671-72)
Evliya Çelebi is known to historians as an observer of public buildings, such as mosques, medreses and city walls, as a valuable source on languages and dialects and, much too rarely, as an artist of narration. Commerce was not his main area of interest, though when describing Anatolian towns, he paid due attention to covered and open-air markets, to khans and sometimes even to shops. As a member of the Ottoman upper class, he could finance his t…
In search of Ottoman history
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