Prohibition and Negotiation
Alcoholic Beverages and Taverns in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12970596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sultan Toprak Oker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-64 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social History of Alcohol Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-2783 • E-ISSN: 2640-7329 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/728455 |
| OpenAlex | W4388094433 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This article explores the prohibitions on alcoholic beverages and taverns in seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul. It enhances recent challenges to the conventional notion that there was a universal ban on alcohol consumption among Ottoman Muslims during the early modern period and that this ban was imposed on the population in a top-down manner. I argue that the authorities normally issued bans for limited times and/or in specific neighborhoods and that they did so to maintain social and public order. Their attempts to impose city-wide prohibitions consistently proved impractical. I further demonstrate that both Muslim and non-Muslim residents negotiated with the state to have the bans imposed or lifted, revealing the bottom-up use of the sultanic orders, the Islamic courts, and the discourse of Muslim morality. This article thus provides new insights about the nature and politics of alcohol prohibitions in Ottoman society, serving as the first comprehensive social history of these prohibitions
Negotiation · Political science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies · History · Law · Ottoman and Turkish Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |