Leslie Peirce
Biographic Data
| ID | 366076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Peirce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Peirce |
| SIGNATURE | PEIRCE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Honor, Reputation, and Reciprocity
The essay argues that looking at reputation and how one gained a good or bad one is the most productive avenue for understanding how people in early modern Ottoman times understood honor. It explores honor and dishonor as relational processes whereby one person’s gain may spell another’s loss, or there may be an attempt to maintain equilibrium among individuals, that is, to recoup damaged reputations for all parties involved in a troubled situati…
Abduction with (Dis)honor
This essay is interested in the ways in which acts of abduction, their significations, and the identities of abductors changed over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the start of this period, abduction was a positive force for the honor and reputation of the Ottoman sultanate, but it gradually turned into an act that threatened the state’s authority. Powerful abductors—those whose deeds aroused public admiration or alarm, …
Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol
The victory at Manzikert in 1071 of the Seljuq ruler Alp Arslan over the forces of the Byzantine emperor is the primary focus of this book—or rather the historiography of the event as it evolved over the centuries. The battle, which took place in eastern Anatolia, has typically been taken to mark the opening of Anatolia (Asia Minor) to Turkish penetration and the gradual Turkification and Islamicization of the peninsula that culminated nearly fou…
Her day in court
Beyond Harem Walls
For roughly 100 years, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries, women of the Ottoman royal family exercised so much influence on the political life of the empire that this period is often referred to, in both scholarly and popular writing, as “the sultanate of women.” This period is notable for the important role acquired by dynastic women, the queen mother in particular, in the symbolics of sovereignty: the ceremonial demonstrati…
Changing Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire
This article surveys twentieth-century historical scholarship devoted to various aspects of the first four centuries of Ottoman history. It opens with the end-of-the-century ‘good news’ of an increasing number of studies accessible to wider audiences. The article then goes on to note that archivally based social and economic history writing quantitatively outperformed work on facets of Ottoman cultural history. Religious and legal studies, art hi…
Morality Tales
In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anatolian city that had recently been conquered by the Ottoman sultanate, Peirce argues that local residents responded to new opportunities and new constra…
Localizing Legitimation
Processes of legitimation in the Ottoman Empire are usually approached from the center-from the perspective of the dynasty, the entity assumed to be seeking legitimacy. This essay approaches the question of law and legitimacy in the Ottoman polity from a provincial vantage point, the province of Aintab, which took its name from its capital city (today's Gaziantep). It also examines the question of legitimation at a particular moment, from Septemb…
The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt
In a lucidly argued revisionist study of Ottoman Egypt, first published in 1996, Jane Hathaway challenges the traditional view that Egypt's military elite constituted a revival of the institutions of the Mamluk sultanate. The author contends that the framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties that took various forms. In this respect, she argues, Egypt's elite represented a provincial variati…
The Heritage of Central Asia
Le dilemme de Fatma. Crime sexuel et culture juridique dans une cour ottomane au début des Temps modernes
Durant l'été de 1541, une jeune paysanne nommée Fatma fut conduite à la cour ottomane provinciale d''Aintab parce qu'elle était enceinte. Elle n'était pas mariée. Il est donc évident qu'elle ne pouvait qu'être impliquée d'une manière quelconque dans le crime de relations sexuelles illicites, ouzina.Mais qui était le père ? L'affaire se clarifiant, il apparut que Fatma avait désigné deux individus, et de plus accusé l'un deux de l'avoir violée. A …
Women in the Ottoman Empire
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' i…
Seniority, Sexuality, and Social Order
The Imperial Harem
The Imperial Harem
The rise to power of the imperial harem is one of the most dramatic developments in the history of the Ottoman empire. From the beginning of the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent in 1520 until the mid-17th century, high-ranking women of the Ottoman dynasty enjoyed a degree of political power greater than ever before or after. Leslie Peirce challenges the notion that the gender segregation of traditional Islamic society precluded women from playin…
News of Fellows and Scholars
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The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt
In a lucidly argued revisionist study of Ottoman Egypt, first published in 1996, Jane Hathaway challenges the traditional view that Egypt's military elite constituted a revival of the institutions of the Mamluk sultanate. The author contends that the framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties that took various forms. In this respect, she argues, Egypt's elite represented a provincial variati…
Changing Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire
This article surveys twentieth-century historical scholarship devoted to various aspects of the first four centuries of Ottoman history. It opens with the end-of-the-century ‘good news’ of an increasing number of studies accessible to wider audiences. The article then goes on to note that archivally based social and economic history writing quantitatively outperformed work on facets of Ottoman cultural history. Religious and legal studies, art hi…
Abduction with (Dis)honor
This essay is interested in the ways in which acts of abduction, their significations, and the identities of abductors changed over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the start of this period, abduction was a positive force for the honor and reputation of the Ottoman sultanate, but it gradually turned into an act that threatened the state’s authority. Powerful abductors—those whose deeds aroused public admiration or alarm, …
Le dilemme de Fatma. Crime sexuel et culture juridique dans une cour ottomane au début des Temps modernes
Durant l'été de 1541, une jeune paysanne nommée Fatma fut conduite à la cour ottomane provinciale d''Aintab parce qu'elle était enceinte. Elle n'était pas mariée. Il est donc évident qu'elle ne pouvait qu'être impliquée d'une manière quelconque dans le crime de relations sexuelles illicites, ouzina.Mais qui était le père ? L'affaire se clarifiant, il apparut que Fatma avait désigné deux individus, et de plus accusé l'un deux de l'avoir violée. A …
News of Fellows and Scholars
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
News of Fellows and Scholars
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Imperial Harem
The rise to power of the imperial harem is one of the most dramatic developments in the history of the Ottoman empire. From the beginning of the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent in 1520 until the mid-17th century, high-ranking women of the Ottoman dynasty enjoyed a degree of political power greater than ever before or after. Leslie Peirce challenges the notion that the gender segregation of traditional Islamic society precluded women from playin…
The Imperial Harem
Women in the Ottoman Empire
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' i…
Seniority, Sexuality, and Social Order
Le dilemme de Fatma. Crime sexuel et culture juridique dans une cour ottomane au début des Temps modernes
Durant l'été de 1541, une jeune paysanne nommée Fatma fut conduite à la cour ottomane provinciale d''Aintab parce qu'elle était enceinte. Elle n'était pas mariée. Il est donc évident qu'elle ne pouvait qu'être impliquée d'une manière quelconque dans le crime de relations sexuelles illicites, ouzina.Mais qui était le père ? L'affaire se clarifiant, il apparut que Fatma avait désigné deux individus, et de plus accusé l'un deux de l'avoir violée. A …
The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt
In a lucidly argued revisionist study of Ottoman Egypt, first published in 1996, Jane Hathaway challenges the traditional view that Egypt's military elite constituted a revival of the institutions of the Mamluk sultanate. The author contends that the framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties that took various forms. In this respect, she argues, Egypt's elite represented a provincial variati…
The Heritage of Central Asia
Localizing Legitimation
Processes of legitimation in the Ottoman Empire are usually approached from the center-from the perspective of the dynasty, the entity assumed to be seeking legitimacy. This essay approaches the question of law and legitimacy in the Ottoman polity from a provincial vantage point, the province of Aintab, which took its name from its capital city (today's Gaziantep). It also examines the question of legitimation at a particular moment, from Septemb…
Morality Tales
In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anatolian city that had recently been conquered by the Ottoman sultanate, Peirce argues that local residents responded to new opportunities and new constra…
Changing Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire
This article surveys twentieth-century historical scholarship devoted to various aspects of the first four centuries of Ottoman history. It opens with the end-of-the-century ‘good news’ of an increasing number of studies accessible to wider audiences. The article then goes on to note that archivally based social and economic history writing quantitatively outperformed work on facets of Ottoman cultural history. Religious and legal studies, art hi…
Beyond Harem Walls
For roughly 100 years, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries, women of the Ottoman royal family exercised so much influence on the political life of the empire that this period is often referred to, in both scholarly and popular writing, as “the sultanate of women.” This period is notable for the important role acquired by dynastic women, the queen mother in particular, in the symbolics of sovereignty: the ceremonial demonstrati…
Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol
The victory at Manzikert in 1071 of the Seljuq ruler Alp Arslan over the forces of the Byzantine emperor is the primary focus of this book—or rather the historiography of the event as it evolved over the centuries. The battle, which took place in eastern Anatolia, has typically been taken to mark the opening of Anatolia (Asia Minor) to Turkish penetration and the gradual Turkification and Islamicization of the peninsula that culminated nearly fou…
Her day in court
Abduction with (Dis)honor
This essay is interested in the ways in which acts of abduction, their significations, and the identities of abductors changed over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the start of this period, abduction was a positive force for the honor and reputation of the Ottoman sultanate, but it gradually turned into an act that threatened the state’s authority. Powerful abductors—those whose deeds aroused public admiration or alarm, …
Honor, Reputation, and Reciprocity
The essay argues that looking at reputation and how one gained a good or bad one is the most productive avenue for understanding how people in early modern Ottoman times understood honor. It explores honor and dishonor as relational processes whereby one person’s gain may spell another’s loss, or there may be an attempt to maintain equilibrium among individuals, that is, to recoup damaged reputations for all parties involved in a troubled situati…
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Political science (15 works) · History (12 works) · Islamic Studies and History (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ottoman empire (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Classics (4 works)