Christine Woodhead
Biographic Data
| ID | 5531628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Woodhead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodhead |
| SIGNATURE | WOODHEAD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Empire of Manners
Occasions for Poetry
CHAPTER 1 E. J. W. Gibb (1857–1901)
Privilege and Practice in the Ottoman Chancery c. 1600
As a measure of rationalization in the Ottoman central chancery after the Eğri campaign of 1596, forty imperial council secretaries (divan-ı hümayun katipleri) were granted permanent exemption from the campaign service required by their status as zeamet-holders. An archive register, KK 7530, lists these holders of ‘a position as one of the 40’ (kırklı gedikliler) and names 29 others who succeeded to vacancies in this group between 1598 and 1610. …
The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters
Among highly-educated Ottomans letter-writing was not simply a means of practical communication but an art in itself and a significant aspect of Ottoman literary culture. Collections of exemplary letters from the seventeenth century survive in considerable numbers, but they have been neglected as literary and historical sources due largely to the complexity of their rhymed, rhetorical prose and to a modern belief that they were mostly empty bomba…
Render unto the Sultan
Tom Papademetriou’s study of the relationship between the Ottoman Muslim state and its Greek Orthodox subjects in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries makes a significant contribution to current reassessments of two particular topics in early Ottoman history. One is the much-debated question of whether, when (and, if so, how) the term millet (‘religious community’) was used by the Ottomans; the other is the increasing interest in influentia…
Picturing history at the Ottoman court
The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750
In the last thirty years, the study of relations between the Western world and that of Islam, and of the knowledge each had of the other, has been both advanced and hindered by Edward Said’s theory of ‘Orientalism’. Said’s controversial challenge brought to life a previously rather predictable subject area and sparked a rash of studies on new literary and cultural themes. A much broader range of scholars began to concern themselves with East–West…
The Ottoman World
The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities with varying political and cultural backgrounds. Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman world’ beyond the principle of sultanic rule from Is…
Consolidating the Empire
FOR around four hundred years until 1914 the Ottoman empire dominated south-west Asia, eastern and south-eastern Europe, northern Africa and much of the Mediterranean. Europeans measured their societies against it out of fascination and fear in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and with an increasingly confident eye for commercial and diplomatic profit in the seventeenth and eighteenth. The music of the Janissary band, croissants baked in Vi…
Les Ottomans en Égypte. Historiens et conquérants au XVIe siècle
Le Serail ebranle
THE Ottoman empire was first and foremost a dynastic state, defined by the ruling ‘house of Osman’ and by its household and administrative adherents rather than by territorial boundaries, religious cohesion or other natural determinants. Until at least the mid-seventeenth century, the death of a sultan and the accession of his successor were therefore events of particular significance and potential political weakness. In the absence of an enthron…
B. Reviews and notes
CATALOGUE DES MANUSCRITS ARABES: DEUXIÈME PARTIE: MANUSCRITS MUSULMANS—TOME V, NOS. 1465–1685. Compiled by Yvette Sauvan and Marie‐Genevieve Balty‐Guesdon. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1995. 333pp. FF3000. THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF AL‐FURQAN ISLAMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION. Edited by Yusuf Ibish, General Editor, and George Atiyeh. London, Al‐Furqan Islamic Heritage Fou…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHRISTINE WOODHEAD CHRISTINE WOODHEAD University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.712 Published: 01 June 1996
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BYZANTIUM AND THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS. By WALTER E. KAEGI. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii, 313pp. 5 maps, 2 pp. of plates. £45.00 (hb). STUDIES IN EARLY MUSLIM JURISPRUDENCE. By NORMAN CALDER. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. xiv, 257pp. £35.00. GOLDEN ROADS: MIGRATION, PILGRIMAGE AND TRAVEL IN MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN ISLAM. Edited by IAN RICHARD NETTON. Richmond (Surrey), Curzon Press, 1993. xvii, 193pp. £35 (hb), £16.99 (pb). …
Letters of Misirli İbrahim Paşa to Menl[idot]kl[idot] Ahmed Paşa, governor of Adana, 1843–46
C. Reviews and notes
FAHARIS AL‐MAKHTUTAT AL‐'ARABIYYA FI AL‐'ALAM. Compiled by KURKIS ‘AWWAD. Kuwait, Ma'had al‐Makhtūtat al‐'Arabiyya, 1984. 2 vols. 445; 448pp. A SURVEY OF THE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE EGYPTIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY. By DAVID A. KING. (American Research Center in Egypt: Catalogs, 5.) Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1986. xiv, 331pp. (incl. illustrations on pp.221–331). US $54.50 (cloth); US $39.50 (paperback). AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC SCIENCE…
The Present Terrour of the World’?* Contemporary Views of the Ottoman Empire c1600
From scribe to litterateur
The Present Terrour of the World’?* Contemporary Views of the Ottoman Empire c1600
Consolidating the Empire
FOR around four hundred years until 1914 the Ottoman empire dominated south-west Asia, eastern and south-eastern Europe, northern Africa and much of the Mediterranean. Europeans measured their societies against it out of fascination and fear in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and with an increasingly confident eye for commercial and diplomatic profit in the seventeenth and eighteenth. The music of the Janissary band, croissants baked in Vi…
From scribe to litterateur
The Present Terrour of the World’?* Contemporary Views of the Ottoman Empire c1600
C. Reviews and notes
FAHARIS AL‐MAKHTUTAT AL‐'ARABIYYA FI AL‐'ALAM. Compiled by KURKIS ‘AWWAD. Kuwait, Ma'had al‐Makhtūtat al‐'Arabiyya, 1984. 2 vols. 445; 448pp. A SURVEY OF THE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE EGYPTIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY. By DAVID A. KING. (American Research Center in Egypt: Catalogs, 5.) Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1986. xiv, 331pp. (incl. illustrations on pp.221–331). US $54.50 (cloth); US $39.50 (paperback). AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC SCIENCE…
Letters of Misirli İbrahim Paşa to Menl[idot]kl[idot] Ahmed Paşa, governor of Adana, 1843–46
A
BYZANTIUM AND THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS. By WALTER E. KAEGI. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii, 313pp. 5 maps, 2 pp. of plates. £45.00 (hb). STUDIES IN EARLY MUSLIM JURISPRUDENCE. By NORMAN CALDER. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. xiv, 257pp. £35.00. GOLDEN ROADS: MIGRATION, PILGRIMAGE AND TRAVEL IN MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN ISLAM. Edited by IAN RICHARD NETTON. Richmond (Surrey), Curzon Press, 1993. xvii, 193pp. £35 (hb), £16.99 (pb). …
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHRISTINE WOODHEAD CHRISTINE WOODHEAD University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.712 Published: 01 June 1996
B. Reviews and notes
CATALOGUE DES MANUSCRITS ARABES: DEUXIÈME PARTIE: MANUSCRITS MUSULMANS—TOME V, NOS. 1465–1685. Compiled by Yvette Sauvan and Marie‐Genevieve Balty‐Guesdon. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1995. 333pp. FF3000. THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF AL‐FURQAN ISLAMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION. Edited by Yusuf Ibish, General Editor, and George Atiyeh. London, Al‐Furqan Islamic Heritage Fou…
Le Serail ebranle
THE Ottoman empire was first and foremost a dynastic state, defined by the ruling ‘house of Osman’ and by its household and administrative adherents rather than by territorial boundaries, religious cohesion or other natural determinants. Until at least the mid-seventeenth century, the death of a sultan and the accession of his successor were therefore events of particular significance and potential political weakness. In the absence of an enthron…
Consolidating the Empire
FOR around four hundred years until 1914 the Ottoman empire dominated south-west Asia, eastern and south-eastern Europe, northern Africa and much of the Mediterranean. Europeans measured their societies against it out of fascination and fear in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and with an increasingly confident eye for commercial and diplomatic profit in the seventeenth and eighteenth. The music of the Janissary band, croissants baked in Vi…
Les Ottomans en Égypte. Historiens et conquérants au XVIe siècle
The Ottoman World
The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities with varying political and cultural backgrounds. Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman world’ beyond the principle of sultanic rule from Is…
The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750
In the last thirty years, the study of relations between the Western world and that of Islam, and of the knowledge each had of the other, has been both advanced and hindered by Edward Said’s theory of ‘Orientalism’. Said’s controversial challenge brought to life a previously rather predictable subject area and sparked a rash of studies on new literary and cultural themes. A much broader range of scholars began to concern themselves with East–West…
Picturing history at the Ottoman court
Render unto the Sultan
Tom Papademetriou’s study of the relationship between the Ottoman Muslim state and its Greek Orthodox subjects in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries makes a significant contribution to current reassessments of two particular topics in early Ottoman history. One is the much-debated question of whether, when (and, if so, how) the term millet (‘religious community’) was used by the Ottomans; the other is the increasing interest in influentia…
CHAPTER 1 E. J. W. Gibb (1857–1901)
Privilege and Practice in the Ottoman Chancery c. 1600
As a measure of rationalization in the Ottoman central chancery after the Eğri campaign of 1596, forty imperial council secretaries (divan-ı hümayun katipleri) were granted permanent exemption from the campaign service required by their status as zeamet-holders. An archive register, KK 7530, lists these holders of ‘a position as one of the 40’ (kırklı gedikliler) and names 29 others who succeeded to vacancies in this group between 1598 and 1610. …
The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters
Among highly-educated Ottomans letter-writing was not simply a means of practical communication but an art in itself and a significant aspect of Ottoman literary culture. Collections of exemplary letters from the seventeenth century survive in considerable numbers, but they have been neglected as literary and historical sources due largely to the complexity of their rhymed, rhetorical prose and to a modern belief that they were mostly empty bomba…
Empire of Manners
Occasions for Poetry
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