Benjamin C Fortna
Biographic Data
| ID | 599805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin C Fortna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Fortna |
| SIGNATURE | FORTNA B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Imperial Lives Turned National
Multilingualism and History
We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliché. It is the first volume to shine light on the millennia-long history of multilingualism as a social, institutional and demographic phenomenon. Its fifteen chapters, written in clear, accessible language by prominent historians, classicists, and sociolinguists, span the period from the third century BC to the present day, and range …
Lâle Can. Spiritual Subjects
Lâle Can’s Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire tells the story of central Asian Muslims who traveled to the Ottoman lands for the sake of the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In doing so, it carefully yet forcefully shifts our understanding of the late Ottoman Empire by subverting the prevailing conceptions of foreignness, religion, nationality…
Writing under the Same Banner
This article explores the motivations behind the creation and preservation of ego-doc- uments written by late Ottoman participants in World War I. Focusing on three distinct but linked narratives found among the papers of Kuşçubaşı Eşref, it investigates the authors’ impulse to write “ego-documents” in this volatile period and among this par- ticular group of individuals. The discussion focuses on three texts: first, the diary writ- ten by Süleym…
Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
1 Passport photo of orphan sent to Germany in 1917 148 6.2 Photograph of Ottoman apprentices in Berlin 149 6.
Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey
Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of two states towards minority populations living within their borders. Making extensive use of new archival material, this volume transcends the tendency to compare the Greek-Orthodox in Turkey and the Muslims in Greece separately and, through …
Context and Content
Pushing further in the direction of reading content and the messages that sustained the drive for literacy in the late Ottoman and early Republican periods, this chapter identifies four thematic tensions facing young readers. Each of these pairings — the religious and the secular; the family and the nation state; the new and the old and the global and the local — affords the opportunity to highlight the contrasts that played such a major role in …
Introduction
In the modern world the importance of reading is everywhere apparent. In today’s society we are continually confronted with a swirling array of things demanding to be read. Making sense of them is critical to our engagement with the world and implicitly synonymous with modern existence. The range of texts and images with which we are confronted is prodigious and seemingly ever expanding. In fact, the imperative to read is so great that it is freq…
Reading between Public and Private in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
This article examines the concepts of public and private in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic through the worlds of child readers. It interrogates the shifting lines of demarcation between public and private against the background of children learning to read and being exposed to an increasing array of written material, some of it supplied by the state and some by the private sector. It begins by delineating the relationship …
The reign of Abdülhamid II
The place occupied by Sultan Abdülhamid II in late Ottoman and Turkish history is as important as it is controversial. As the only reign in the late Ottoman period to be known by the name of its sultan, the 'Hamidian' period (1876–1908) stands out among the other eras of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Turkish history. Opinions of Abdülhamid's legacy reveal a striking degree of contradiction; some authors have criticised the sultan for bein…
The Modern Middle East
The Modern Middle East is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, western journalists’ and travellers’ accounts, literature, and official reports (including statistical data). Each document has been prefaced, translated and annotated by a specialist in the particular history and culture from which it was drawn. Enough information…
Change in the School Maps of the Late Ottoman Empire
In the mid‐1890s school maps in the Ottoman Empire underwent a simple but important change: maps that represented the empire in its entirety confronted students in the growing number of Ottoman state schools. These new maps, which showed the empire's far‐flung territory within a single frame, began to replace older maps based on European models that had depicted the Ottoman domains as marginal lands clinging to the fringes of Europe, Asia and Afr…
Imperial Classroom
In the Ottoman Empire, as in many countries around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, education was critical to the state's efforts to redefine its relationship with its subjects. This book presents a many-sided view of education under the Ottoman Empire in this period. Drawing on a wide array of primary material, ranging from archival reports to textbooks and classroom maps, Benjamin C. Fortna provides a detailed sch…
Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic
Research Article| August 01 2001 Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Benjamin C. Fortna Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 33–41. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Benjamin C. Fortna; Le…
Education and Autobiography at the End of the Ottoman Empire
education and autobiography 1 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2001 Die Welt des Islams 41, 1 EDUCATION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 1 BY BENJAMIN C. FORTNA London In his history of the twentieth century Eric Hobsbawm observed that human society has witnessed two encompassing social revolu- tions in the last hundred years: the near vanishing of the peas- antry, which had predominated in human society since the neo- lithic rev…
The Revolution of 1908 in Turkey
Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “Secular” Schools
Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous efforts aimed at repositioning the state, reconceptualizing knowledge, and restructuring “society.” 1 A comparative perspective has helped students of the period recognize that the late Ottoman Empire…
Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “Secular” Schools
Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous efforts aimed at repositioning the state, reconceptualizing knowledge, and restructuring “society.” 1 A comparative perspective has helped students of the period recognize that the late Ottoman Empire…
Change in the School Maps of the Late Ottoman Empire
In the mid‐1890s school maps in the Ottoman Empire underwent a simple but important change: maps that represented the empire in its entirety confronted students in the growing number of Ottoman state schools. These new maps, which showed the empire's far‐flung territory within a single frame, began to replace older maps based on European models that had depicted the Ottoman domains as marginal lands clinging to the fringes of Europe, Asia and Afr…
Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic
Research Article| August 01 2001 Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Benjamin C. Fortna Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 33–41. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Benjamin C. Fortna; Le…
Education and Autobiography at the End of the Ottoman Empire
education and autobiography 1 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2001 Die Welt des Islams 41, 1 EDUCATION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 1 BY BENJAMIN C. FORTNA London In his history of the twentieth century Eric Hobsbawm observed that human society has witnessed two encompassing social revolu- tions in the last hundred years: the near vanishing of the peas- antry, which had predominated in human society since the neo- lithic rev…
Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “Secular” Schools
Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous efforts aimed at repositioning the state, reconceptualizing knowledge, and restructuring “society.” 1 A comparative perspective has helped students of the period recognize that the late Ottoman Empire…
Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic
Research Article| August 01 2001 Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Benjamin C. Fortna Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 33–41. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Benjamin C. Fortna; Le…
Education and Autobiography at the End of the Ottoman Empire
education and autobiography 1 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2001 Die Welt des Islams 41, 1 EDUCATION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 1 BY BENJAMIN C. FORTNA London In his history of the twentieth century Eric Hobsbawm observed that human society has witnessed two encompassing social revolu- tions in the last hundred years: the near vanishing of the peas- antry, which had predominated in human society since the neo- lithic rev…
The Revolution of 1908 in Turkey
Imperial Classroom
In the Ottoman Empire, as in many countries around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, education was critical to the state's efforts to redefine its relationship with its subjects. This book presents a many-sided view of education under the Ottoman Empire in this period. Drawing on a wide array of primary material, ranging from archival reports to textbooks and classroom maps, Benjamin C. Fortna provides a detailed sch…
Change in the School Maps of the Late Ottoman Empire
In the mid‐1890s school maps in the Ottoman Empire underwent a simple but important change: maps that represented the empire in its entirety confronted students in the growing number of Ottoman state schools. These new maps, which showed the empire's far‐flung territory within a single frame, began to replace older maps based on European models that had depicted the Ottoman domains as marginal lands clinging to the fringes of Europe, Asia and Afr…
The Modern Middle East
The Modern Middle East is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, western journalists’ and travellers’ accounts, literature, and official reports (including statistical data). Each document has been prefaced, translated and annotated by a specialist in the particular history and culture from which it was drawn. Enough information…
The reign of Abdülhamid II
The place occupied by Sultan Abdülhamid II in late Ottoman and Turkish history is as important as it is controversial. As the only reign in the late Ottoman period to be known by the name of its sultan, the 'Hamidian' period (1876–1908) stands out among the other eras of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Turkish history. Opinions of Abdülhamid's legacy reveal a striking degree of contradiction; some authors have criticised the sultan for bein…
Reading between Public and Private in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
This article examines the concepts of public and private in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic through the worlds of child readers. It interrogates the shifting lines of demarcation between public and private against the background of children learning to read and being exposed to an increasing array of written material, some of it supplied by the state and some by the private sector. It begins by delineating the relationship …
Context and Content
Pushing further in the direction of reading content and the messages that sustained the drive for literacy in the late Ottoman and early Republican periods, this chapter identifies four thematic tensions facing young readers. Each of these pairings — the religious and the secular; the family and the nation state; the new and the old and the global and the local — affords the opportunity to highlight the contrasts that played such a major role in …
Introduction
In the modern world the importance of reading is everywhere apparent. In today’s society we are continually confronted with a swirling array of things demanding to be read. Making sense of them is critical to our engagement with the world and implicitly synonymous with modern existence. The range of texts and images with which we are confronted is prodigious and seemingly ever expanding. In fact, the imperative to read is so great that it is freq…
Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey
Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of two states towards minority populations living within their borders. Making extensive use of new archival material, this volume transcends the tendency to compare the Greek-Orthodox in Turkey and the Muslims in Greece separately and, through …
Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
1 Passport photo of orphan sent to Germany in 1917 148 6.2 Photograph of Ottoman apprentices in Berlin 149 6.
Writing under the Same Banner
This article explores the motivations behind the creation and preservation of ego-doc- uments written by late Ottoman participants in World War I. Focusing on three distinct but linked narratives found among the papers of Kuşçubaşı Eşref, it investigates the authors’ impulse to write “ego-documents” in this volatile period and among this par- ticular group of individuals. The discussion focuses on three texts: first, the diary writ- ten by Süleym…
Lâle Can. Spiritual Subjects
Lâle Can’s Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire tells the story of central Asian Muslims who traveled to the Ottoman lands for the sake of the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In doing so, it carefully yet forcefully shifts our understanding of the late Ottoman Empire by subverting the prevailing conceptions of foreignness, religion, nationality…
Multilingualism and History
We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliché. It is the first volume to shine light on the millennia-long history of multilingualism as a social, institutional and demographic phenomenon. Its fifteen chapters, written in clear, accessible language by prominent historians, classicists, and sociolinguists, span the period from the third century BC to the present day, and range …
Imperial Lives Turned National
History (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Ancient history (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Empire (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Ottoman empire (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works)