Amy Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3663186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1399-4596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 41 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Collective Inattention in an Online Milk-Sharing Community
This article examines a complete collection of posts made within two of the largest online peer-to-peer breastmilk-sharing communities in the United States, collected during the first month after the COVID-19 vaccine became available to all U.S. adults. I propose that such communities support not only the circulation of human milk among strangers but also the circulation of widely shared attentional norms alongside interactional rules of relevanc…
The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam
Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory
Studying Turkey through a Graphic Lens
In Turkish Kaleidoscope , social anthropologist and novelist Jenny White has expanded her repertoire to the graphic novel format to create an account of the violence and political chaos that pervaded Turkey in the late 1970s. 2 White builds here on her academic work and her own student experience at Hacettepe University in Ankara. Artist Ergün Gündüz has created visual interpretations of place, space, events, and emotions that bring the story to …
Imagining cultural wealth
An early Ottoman history
For scholars and students of the Ottoman fifteenth century, the early twenty-first century is a promising time. This crucial era of Ottoman state and cultural formation has long been the preserve o
Bernard Lewis, Scholar and Mentor
The Strategic, Shifting Work of Market Devices
For the producers of food products originating in the tropics, far from consumers and their local farmers' markets, vital processes of interacting and storytelling necessarily take place in grocery store aisles and rely on food product packages as vehicles for valuable stories. As a result, specialty food entrepreneurs are dependent upon food packages-market devices-to communicate about the goods they contain in order to create symbolic value on …
Rescaling terroir through virtual identity work and impression management
A powerful cultural concept not easily translated into English, terroir both contains and communicates valuable associations about place. Because terroir is an important way to communicate with US consumers, food producers work to draw upon valuable associations between food products and their particular places of origin. In this paper, I put forward a notion of terroir as a conceptual terrain on which artisan food entrepreneurs negotiate with th…
Replace Stasis with Motion to Fathom the Persistence of Waqf
President's Note
President's Note Amy Singer Beginning with this issue, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) will include a brief letter from the current president of OTSA. This is an opportunity to establish a more dynamic connection between the organization and its journal; to update readers about OTSA activities; to point to developments in the field of Ottoman and Turkish studies; to highlight upcoming events; and to note signifi…
Strategies of distinction
The Edinburgh history of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768
Molly Greene’s new book is the latest contribution to research that has been shifting the terms of writing Ottoman history with increasing vigour and intent over the past few decades. Ottoman histo
Halil İnalcık (1916–2016)
Halil Inalcik (1916–2016) was the pre-eminent historian of the Ottoman Empire in the world from his establishment as a published scholar in the 1950s until the time of death. This article is an initial examination of his legacy to the study of Ottoman history broadly. His goal was to create an empirically-based narrative of Ottoman history from beginning to end, based on exploitation of the vast resources of the Ottoman archives as well as the ex…
Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia. A New Social History
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world
There is much to praise in Nukhet Varlik’s Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World. In the broadest context, Varlik has written her work to address a lacuna in discussions of the
Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 407–412 Copyright © 2016 Ottoman and Turkish T Studies Association. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.3.2.20 Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman Summary of the Second Workshop of the Digital Ottoman Platform 20–24 June 2016, Princeton, NJ School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study Introduction OpenOttoman (originally: the Digital Ottoman Platform1 ) i…
Little Girls on the Prairie and the Possibility of Subversive Reading
Special Issue Introduction
Almost two decades ago, Michael Bonner, Mine Ener, and I organized the first in a series of MESA panels on the general theme of poverty and charity in Middle Eastern contexts. We came to the topic using different chronologies, sources, and approaches but identified a common field of interest in shared questions about how attitudes toward benevolence and poverty affected state and society formation: in early Islamic thought, in the Ottoman Empire …
Giving Practices in Islamic Societies
Charity is an integral part of Muslim life at every level of society, in every era, and across the entire lifespan of individuals. Obligatory alms and voluntary donations are acts that concern all Muslims. Charitable endowments have sustained and promoted Muslim cultural and social institutions alike. Unhappily, Muslim charity has received some very bad press since September 11, 2001, with analysts and observers frequently emphasizing the links b…
Blue Jeans
Middle East Historiographies
The Persistence of Philanthropy
One of the most profound Ottoman legacies to contemporary Turkey is the central role of private philanthropy as a vehicle for shaping culture and society. Two principal legacies of Ottoman philanthropy exist in Turkey today. The first is cultural, apparent in the thriving practice of elite philanthropy; the second is physical, readily discovered in the urban fabric of most Turkish cities, notably Istanbul. This article examines these legacies in …
Introduction
Introduction| December 01 2011 Introduction: The Ottoman Legacy for Contemporary Turkish Culture, Institutions, and Values Amy Singer Amy Singer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 553–556. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1426728 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Singer; Introduction: The Ottoman Legacy f…
Ottoman Cyprus
Michalis N. Michael, Matthias Kappler, and Eftihios Gavriel (Near and Middle East Monographs, 4), Wiesbaden, Harassowitz Verlag, 2009, 366 pp., 46 figs, €68.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-447-95899-5 Th
Serving Up Charity
Beneficent giving is one of Islam's basic obligations and principles. Food distributions in the Ottoman public kitchens (imarets) offer one material example of how Muslims put these principles into practice. The imaret distributions also demonstrate the extent to which particular historical perceptions of need and deservingness informed more universally familiar decisions about charitable giving
Rescaling terroir through virtual identity work and impression management
A powerful cultural concept not easily translated into English, terroir both contains and communicates valuable associations about place. Because terroir is an important way to communicate with US consumers, food producers work to draw upon valuable associations between food products and their particular places of origin. In this paper, I put forward a notion of terroir as a conceptual terrain on which artisan food entrepreneurs negotiate with th…
Blue Jeans
The Persistence of Philanthropy
One of the most profound Ottoman legacies to contemporary Turkey is the central role of private philanthropy as a vehicle for shaping culture and society. Two principal legacies of Ottoman philanthropy exist in Turkey today. The first is cultural, apparent in the thriving practice of elite philanthropy; the second is physical, readily discovered in the urban fabric of most Turkish cities, notably Istanbul. This article examines these legacies in …
A Novel Approach
This article discusses the complexity of literary analysis and the implications of using fiction as a source of sociological data. This project infuses literary analysis with sociological imagination. Using a random sample of children's novels published between 1930 and 1980, this article describes both a methodological approach to the analysis of children's books and the subsequent development of two analytical categories of novels. The first ca…
Replace Stasis with Motion to Fathom the Persistence of Waqf
Giving Practices in Islamic Societies
Charity is an integral part of Muslim life at every level of society, in every era, and across the entire lifespan of individuals. Obligatory alms and voluntary donations are acts that concern all Muslims. Charitable endowments have sustained and promoted Muslim cultural and social institutions alike. Unhappily, Muslim charity has received some very bad press since September 11, 2001, with analysts and observers frequently emphasizing the links b…
Soup and sadaqa
Journal Article Soup and sadaqa: charity in Islamic societies Get access Amy Singer Amy Singer Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 79, Issue 205, August 2006, Pages 306–324, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2006.00363.x Published: 25 May 2006
Peasant Migration
Peasant migration was the subject of careful regulation in the Ottoman Empire. The government tried to control peasant movement in order to ensure the supply of agricultural labor; peasants, on the other hand, used migration as one weapon against government abuses. This article examines Ottoman policy towards migration and recorded instances of peasant migration in sixteenth-century Palestine.Peasant migration is most commonly considered in the c…
The Strategic, Shifting Work of Market Devices
For the producers of food products originating in the tropics, far from consumers and their local farmers' markets, vital processes of interacting and storytelling necessarily take place in grocery store aisles and rely on food product packages as vehicles for valuable stories. As a result, specialty food entrepreneurs are dependent upon food packages-market devices-to communicate about the goods they contain in order to create symbolic value on …
Strategies of distinction
Little Girls on the Prairie and the Possibility of Subversive Reading
Special Issue Introduction
Almost two decades ago, Michael Bonner, Mine Ener, and I organized the first in a series of MESA panels on the general theme of poverty and charity in Middle Eastern contexts. We came to the topic using different chronologies, sources, and approaches but identified a common field of interest in shared questions about how attitudes toward benevolence and poverty affected state and society formation: in early Islamic thought, in the Ottoman Empire …
Introduction
Research Article| December 01 2008 Introduction: Intellectual History in Middle Eastern Studies Israel Gershoni; Israel Gershoni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amy Singer Amy Singer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 383–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
The Countryside of Ramle in the Sixteenth Century
The Countryside of Ramle in the Sixteenth Century
Eighteenth Century Egypt
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Peasant Migration
Peasant migration was the subject of careful regulation in the Ottoman Empire. The government tried to control peasant movement in order to ensure the supply of agricultural labor; peasants, on the other hand, used migration as one weapon against government abuses. This article examines Ottoman policy towards migration and recorded instances of peasant migration in sixteenth-century Palestine.Peasant migration is most commonly considered in the c…
Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials
In a unique study of rural administration in the Ottoman Empire, Amy Singer explores the relationship between Palestinian peasants and Ottoman provincial officials around Jerusalem in the mid-sixteenth century. With the use of court records, the author provides a detailed account of local conditions of production, the mechanisms for assessing and collecting taxes, and the strategies that were evolved in evading them. The book emphasises the compl…
Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials
In a unique study of rural administration in the Ottoman Empire, Amy Singer explores the relationship between Palestinian peasants and Ottoman provincial officials around Jerusalem in the mid-sixteenth century. With the use of court records, the author provides a detailed account of local conditions of production, the mechanisms for assessing and collecting taxes, and the strategies that were evolved in evading them. The book emphasises the compl…
The Mülknāmes of Hürrem Sultan's Waqf in Jerusalem
The Mulknames of Hurrem Sultan's Waqf in Jerusalem
Aspects of Ottoman History
Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts
Mine Ener. Managing Egypt's Poor and the Politics of Benevolence, 1800–1952. Princeton
Egypt of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been a focus for study by social scientists and humanists of various disciplines. To an extensive bibliography is now added a unique work of social history that explores the lives of Egypt's poor and the shifting attitudes toward them over 150 years. Mine Ener has written an account of how the poor of Cairo and Alexandria negotiated assistance from traditional institutions and government ag…
Serving Up Charity
Beneficent giving is one of Islam's basic obligations and principles. Food distributions in the Ottoman public kitchens (imarets) offer one material example of how Muslims put these principles into practice. The imaret distributions also demonstrate the extent to which particular historical perceptions of need and deservingness informed more universally familiar decisions about charitable giving
Soup and sadaqa
Journal Article Soup and sadaqa: charity in Islamic societies Get access Amy Singer Amy Singer Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 79, Issue 205, August 2006, Pages 306–324, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2006.00363.x Published: 25 May 2006
Introduction
Research Article| December 01 2008 Introduction: Intellectual History in Middle Eastern Studies Israel Gershoni; Israel Gershoni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amy Singer Amy Singer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 383–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
The image of an Ottoman city
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2004, 278 pp., 20 figures, 37 plates, €128/$191 (hardback), ISBN 90 04 12454 3 In The Image of an Ottoman City, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh traces t
İstanbul Mahkemesi 121 Numaralı Şer'iyye Sicili Tarih
When Bad Girls Go Good
This article examines the ways in which VH1's Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School (2007) conceptualized ideas of reality and the self. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical research, and the authors' observations, we find that the ideas of reality and the self that Charm School employed rely on very traditional boundaries between reality and unreality, ordinariness and celebrity. These contrast sharply with ideas of the self and reality propounded …
Untold Histories of the Middle East
This book consists of a series of articles where discussions are focused on historical factors such as colonialism, modernism, nationalism, and patriarchy which have silenced the historical voices of certain individuals, population groups or social classes
Middle East Historiographies
The Persistence of Philanthropy
One of the most profound Ottoman legacies to contemporary Turkey is the central role of private philanthropy as a vehicle for shaping culture and society. Two principal legacies of Ottoman philanthropy exist in Turkey today. The first is cultural, apparent in the thriving practice of elite philanthropy; the second is physical, readily discovered in the urban fabric of most Turkish cities, notably Istanbul. This article examines these legacies in …
Introduction
Introduction| December 01 2011 Introduction: The Ottoman Legacy for Contemporary Turkish Culture, Institutions, and Values Amy Singer Amy Singer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 553–556. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1426728 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Singer; Introduction: The Ottoman Legacy f…
Ottoman Cyprus
Michalis N. Michael, Matthias Kappler, and Eftihios Gavriel (Near and Middle East Monographs, 4), Wiesbaden, Harassowitz Verlag, 2009, 366 pp., 46 figs, €68.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-447-95899-5 Th
A Novel Approach
This article discusses the complexity of literary analysis and the implications of using fiction as a source of sociological data. This project infuses literary analysis with sociological imagination. Using a random sample of children's novels published between 1930 and 1980, this article describes both a methodological approach to the analysis of children's books and the subsequent development of two analytical categories of novels. The first ca…
Giving Practices in Islamic Societies
Charity is an integral part of Muslim life at every level of society, in every era, and across the entire lifespan of individuals. Obligatory alms and voluntary donations are acts that concern all Muslims. Charitable endowments have sustained and promoted Muslim cultural and social institutions alike. Unhappily, Muslim charity has received some very bad press since September 11, 2001, with analysts and observers frequently emphasizing the links b…
Blue Jeans
Special Issue Introduction
Almost two decades ago, Michael Bonner, Mine Ener, and I organized the first in a series of MESA panels on the general theme of poverty and charity in Middle Eastern contexts. We came to the topic using different chronologies, sources, and approaches but identified a common field of interest in shared questions about how attitudes toward benevolence and poverty affected state and society formation: in early Islamic thought, in the Ottoman Empire …
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