Madeline C Zilfi
Biographic Data
| ID | 288451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madeline C Zilfi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madeline C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zilfi |
| SIGNATURE | ZILFI M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa: Exploitation and Resistance from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
An international conference on modern slavery at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was the impetus for the present collected volume, Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa. The volume was shepherded into publication by Elena Andreeva and Kevin McNeer, whose careful introduction provides an overview of the individual chapters and their wider resonances. As is common with collected works, there are dissimilarities among the c…
Betul Ipsirli Argit. Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court
Journal Article Betul Ipsirli Argit. Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. Get access Betül İpşirli Argıt. Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xv, 277. Cloth $99.99, e-book $80.00. Madeline C. Zilfi Madeline C. Zilfi University of Maryland at College Park Email: [email protected] Search for other works…
Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker. By Jane Hathaway
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker. By Jane Hathaway. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 323. $105, £75
Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant. By Dana Sajdi
The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant. By Dana Sajdi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 293. $60
The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasıf By Ethan L. Menchinger
Ottomanists have had much to cheer about of late, with the many exceptional monographs appearing since the turn of the century. Quality and quantity have been especially striking for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as individual authors have scoured diverse archives to move beyond the single-source soundings of much previous scholarship. The paucity of subjective documents, though, continues to stand in the way of biographical narrative…
The Prequel: Setting the Analytic Stage
Outside the disciplines of communication and cultural studies, scholarly interest in television programming, especially scripted entertainment, has been overshadowed by attention to digital media, reality TV, and smart phone connectivity. A 2017 University of Maryland conference offered a reconsideration of popular Middle East-produced television dramas and their surprising impacts on national and transnational politics and culture. As conference…
Les musulmans dans l’histoire de l’Europe I: Une intégration invisible
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Mediterranean Slavery Revisited (500-1800): Neue Perspektiven auf Mediterrane Sklaverei (500-1800), written by Stefan Hanss and Juliane Schiel
Muslim women in the early modern era
In the Ottoman East as in other societies, women’s lived experience and society’s representation of women seldom coincided. In early modern Istanbul and Damascus, as in London and Lyons, or for that matter ancient Rome and Athens, women’s lives were more complex and varied than their contemporaries were ready to concede. In Western and Mediterranean literary traditions, women’s daily lives, like the lives of most men, went unremarked. But unlike …
Servants, Slaves, and the Domestic Order in the Ottoman Middle East
To an appreciable degree, female domestic work in the Ottoman Middle East was shaped by organizational and valuative premises that were also common to women outside the Ottoman and Islamic worlds. Ambiguity such as between women's duties and socially recognized "work", or between kin and servant—was a keynote of women's condition regardless of cultural setting. However, in the Middle East, the persistence of slavery into the late nineteenth centu…
Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era
This collection of articles by 14 Middle East historians is a pathbreaking work in the history of Middle Eastern women prior to the contemporary era. The collection seeks to begin the task of reconstructing the history of (Muslim) women's experience in the middle centuries of the Ottoman era, between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth, prior to hegemonic European involvement in the region and prior to the modernizing reforms' in…
Hâkİm's Chronicle Revisited
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914.
The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Postclassical Age (1600 - 1800)
East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century . Fatma Müge Göçek
A Medrese for the Palace: Ottoman Dynastic Legitimation in the Eighteenth Century
It is generally agreed that the Ottomans placed high value on an Islamic identity for their dynasty and realm. Far less appreciated is how the precise content of that identity varied according to the interests and needs of individual sultans. Availing themselves of the diverse, even conflicting inspirational strands of Islam, different sultans were able to cultivate or set aside symbols and rites to suit their needs. In the eighteenth century, Mu…
The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Postclassical Age (1600-1800)
An Introduction to Religious Foundations in the Ottoman Empire
The Kadizadelis: Discordant Revivalism in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Elite Circulation in the Ottoman Empire: Great Mollas of the Eighteenth Century
ELITE CIRCULATION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: GREAT MOLLAS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY MADELINE C. ZILFI University of Maryland "Great men" gave life to the Ottoman religious institution (ilmiye) of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For twenty and thirty years at a time individual scholar-jurists (ulema) like the Seybulislams Molla Hüsrev (d. 1480), Zenbilli Ali Cemali (d. I52S-26) and Ebussuud Mehmed (d: * embodied the range and depth of the Ot…
The Kadizadelis: Discordant Revivalism in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Servants, Slaves, and the Domestic Order in the Ottoman Middle East
To an appreciable degree, female domestic work in the Ottoman Middle East was shaped by organizational and valuative premises that were also common to women outside the Ottoman and Islamic worlds. Ambiguity such as between women's duties and socially recognized "work", or between kin and servant—was a keynote of women's condition regardless of cultural setting. However, in the Middle East, the persistence of slavery into the late nineteenth centu…
Elite Circulation in the Ottoman Empire: Great Mollas of the Eighteenth Century
ELITE CIRCULATION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: GREAT MOLLAS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY MADELINE C. ZILFI University of Maryland "Great men" gave life to the Ottoman religious institution (ilmiye) of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For twenty and thirty years at a time individual scholar-jurists (ulema) like the Seybulislams Molla Hüsrev (d. 1480), Zenbilli Ali Cemali (d. I52S-26) and Ebussuud Mehmed (d: * embodied the range and depth of the Ot…
The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasıf By Ethan L. Menchinger
Ottomanists have had much to cheer about of late, with the many exceptional monographs appearing since the turn of the century. Quality and quantity have been especially striking for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as individual authors have scoured diverse archives to move beyond the single-source soundings of much previous scholarship. The paucity of subjective documents, though, continues to stand in the way of biographical narrative…
A Medrese for the Palace: Ottoman Dynastic Legitimation in the Eighteenth Century
It is generally agreed that the Ottomans placed high value on an Islamic identity for their dynasty and realm. Far less appreciated is how the precise content of that identity varied according to the interests and needs of individual sultans. Availing themselves of the diverse, even conflicting inspirational strands of Islam, different sultans were able to cultivate or set aside symbols and rites to suit their needs. In the eighteenth century, Mu…
Elite Circulation in the Ottoman Empire: Great Mollas of the Eighteenth Century
ELITE CIRCULATION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: GREAT MOLLAS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY MADELINE C. ZILFI University of Maryland "Great men" gave life to the Ottoman religious institution (ilmiye) of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For twenty and thirty years at a time individual scholar-jurists (ulema) like the Seybulislams Molla Hüsrev (d. 1480), Zenbilli Ali Cemali (d. I52S-26) and Ebussuud Mehmed (d: * embodied the range and depth of the Ot…
The Kadizadelis: Discordant Revivalism in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
An Introduction to Religious Foundations in the Ottoman Empire
The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Postclassical Age (1600-1800)
East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century . Fatma Müge Göçek
A Medrese for the Palace: Ottoman Dynastic Legitimation in the Eighteenth Century
It is generally agreed that the Ottomans placed high value on an Islamic identity for their dynasty and realm. Far less appreciated is how the precise content of that identity varied according to the interests and needs of individual sultans. Availing themselves of the diverse, even conflicting inspirational strands of Islam, different sultans were able to cultivate or set aside symbols and rites to suit their needs. In the eighteenth century, Mu…
The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Postclassical Age (1600 - 1800)
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914.
Hâkİm's Chronicle Revisited
Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era
This collection of articles by 14 Middle East historians is a pathbreaking work in the history of Middle Eastern women prior to the contemporary era. The collection seeks to begin the task of reconstructing the history of (Muslim) women's experience in the middle centuries of the Ottoman era, between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth, prior to hegemonic European involvement in the region and prior to the modernizing reforms' in…
Servants, Slaves, and the Domestic Order in the Ottoman Middle East
To an appreciable degree, female domestic work in the Ottoman Middle East was shaped by organizational and valuative premises that were also common to women outside the Ottoman and Islamic worlds. Ambiguity such as between women's duties and socially recognized "work", or between kin and servant—was a keynote of women's condition regardless of cultural setting. However, in the Middle East, the persistence of slavery into the late nineteenth centu…
Muslim women in the early modern era
In the Ottoman East as in other societies, women’s lived experience and society’s representation of women seldom coincided. In early modern Istanbul and Damascus, as in London and Lyons, or for that matter ancient Rome and Athens, women’s lives were more complex and varied than their contemporaries were ready to concede. In Western and Mediterranean literary traditions, women’s daily lives, like the lives of most men, went unremarked. But unlike …
Mediterranean Slavery Revisited (500-1800): Neue Perspektiven auf Mediterrane Sklaverei (500-1800), written by Stefan Hanss and Juliane Schiel
The Prequel: Setting the Analytic Stage
Outside the disciplines of communication and cultural studies, scholarly interest in television programming, especially scripted entertainment, has been overshadowed by attention to digital media, reality TV, and smart phone connectivity. A 2017 University of Maryland conference offered a reconsideration of popular Middle East-produced television dramas and their surprising impacts on national and transnational politics and culture. As conference…
Les musulmans dans l’histoire de l’Europe I: Une intégration invisible
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasıf By Ethan L. Menchinger
Ottomanists have had much to cheer about of late, with the many exceptional monographs appearing since the turn of the century. Quality and quantity have been especially striking for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as individual authors have scoured diverse archives to move beyond the single-source soundings of much previous scholarship. The paucity of subjective documents, though, continues to stand in the way of biographical narrative…
Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker. By Jane Hathaway
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker. By Jane Hathaway. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 323. $105, £75
Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant. By Dana Sajdi
The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant. By Dana Sajdi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 293. $60
Betul Ipsirli Argit. Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court
Journal Article Betul Ipsirli Argit. Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. Get access Betül İpşirli Argıt. Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xv, 277. Cloth $99.99, e-book $80.00. Madeline C. Zilfi Madeline C. Zilfi University of Maryland at College Park Email: [email protected] Search for other works…
Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa: Exploitation and Resistance from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
An international conference on modern slavery at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was the impetus for the present collected volume, Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa. The volume was shepherded into publication by Elena Andreeva and Kevin McNeer, whose careful introduction provides an overview of the individual chapters and their wider resonances. As is common with collected works, there are dissimilarities among the c…
History (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Ancient history (14 works) · Islamic Studies and History (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Classics (6 works) · Ottoman empire (6 works) · Ottoman Empire History and Society (6 works)