Additional Readings

None of these are on the WEB, but all are in the Library. You are expected to read from this list to supplement the assigned readings for purposes of your group reports and essays.

Week 2

Speros Vryonis, Jr. The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century. U of California Press, 1971.
Paul Wittek. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire [Royal Asiatic Society Monographs, XXIII] London, 1938.
R. C. Jennings. "Some Thoughts on the Gazi-Thesis" in Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes. vol. 76, 1986, 151-161.
E. A. Zachariadou. Trade and Crusade: Venetian Crete and the Emirates of Menteshe and Aydin (1300-1415). Venice, 1983.
E. A. Zachariadou. The Ottoman Emirate (1300-1389). Rethymnon (Crete), 1993.
Cemal Kafadar. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. Univ of California Press, 1995.
Colin Imber. "The Ottoman Dynastic Myth," Turcica, vol. XIX, 1987.
A. Bryer, "Greek historians on the Turks: the case of the first Byzantine-Ottoman marriage," in R. Davis and J. Wallace-Hadrill (eds.), The Writing of History in the Middle Ages, Oxford, 1981.
Colin Imber. "Canon and Apocrypha in Early Ottoman History" in Heywood and Imber volume [see week 7], pp. 117-138.
Cemal Kafadar. "Osman Beg and his Uncle: Murder in the Family?" in Heywood and Imber volume, [see week 7], pp. 157-164.
N. Oikonimides. "From Soldiers of Fortune to Gazi Warriors: the Tzympe Affair." in Heywood and Imber volume [see week 7], pp. 239-248.
Ibrahim Artuk. "Early ottoman Coins of Orhan Ghazi as Confirmation of his Sovereignty," in Dickran Kouymjian (ed.) Near Eastern Numismatics, Iconography, Epigraphy and History. Beirut 1974, pp. 457-463.

Week 3

Halil Inalcik. "Ottoman Methods of Conquest", Studia Islamica, vol. III, 1954, 103-129.
Colin Imber. The Ottoman Empire: 1300-1481. Isis Press, Istanbul, 1990.
Halil Inalcik. "The Conquest of Edirne (1361)," Archivum Ottomanicum, III, 1971.
S. Vryonis. "The Ottoman Conquest of Thessaloniki in 1430," in A. Bryer and H. Lowry (eds.), Continuity and Change in Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Society, Birmingham, England, 1986
M. M. Alexandru-Dersca. "La Campagne de Timur en Anatolie (1402). London, 1982.
J. W. Barker. Manuel II Palaeologus (1391-1425): A Study in Late Byzantine Statesmanship. New Brunswick, NJ 1969.
Colin Imber. "Paul Wittek's De la defaite d'Ankara a la prise de Constantinople" in Osmanli Arastirmalari. vol. V, 1986. 65-81. [this is in English].
Uriel Heyd. Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law. [ed. V. Menage], Oxford, 1973.
Nicholas Beldiceanu. Recherche sur la ville ottoman au XVe siecle; etudes et actes. 1973.
Beatrice Forbes Mainz. The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane. Cambridge, 1989.

Week 4

J. R. Jones. Nicolo Garbaro. Diary of the Siege of Constantinople 1453. New York 1969. An account by a European in the city during the siege.
Franz Babinger. Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time [transl. William Hickman], Princeton, 1978. A major analysis of this book and its subject is found in: Halil Inalcik, "Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time" in Speculum, 1960, 408-427.
E. A. Zachariadou. Romania and the Turks (c. 1300-c. 1500). London 1985.
Kate Fleet. European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey. Cambridge 1999.

Week 5

C. G. Fisher and A. Fisher. "Topkapi Sarayi in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: Bobovi's Description," Archivum Ottomanicum. vol. X (1985/1987), pp. 5-81.
Peter Sebastian. "Ottoman Government Officials and their Relations with the Republic of Venice in the Early Sixteenth Century." [in Heywood and Imber volume, see week 7], pp. 319-338.
Linda Darling, "A Treatise on Accounting Methods by a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Finance Official," in Lowry and Hattox volume [see week 13], pp. 123-126.

Week 6

Heath Lowry. "Suleyman's Formative Years". in Halil Inalcik and Cemal Kafadar (eds) Suleyman the Second and His Time. Istanbul 1993, pp. 21-36; in same volume, the following useful essays:
Barbara Flemming. "Public Opinion Under Sultan Suleyman", pp. 49-58.
Madeline C. Zilfi. "Sultan Suleyman and the Ottoman Religious Establishment." pp. 109-120.
John Elliott. "Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry: The European Perspective." pp. 153-162.
Michael Rogers. "The Arts under Suleyman the Magnificent." pp. 257-294.
Walter G. Andrews. "Literary Art of the Golden Age: The Age of Suleyman" pp. 353-368.
Michael Rogers. "The Palace, Poisons and the Public. Some Lists of Drugs in mid-16th Century Ottoman Turkey". in Heywood and Imber volume [see week 7], pp. 273-296.
Palmira Brummett. Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery. Albany, 1993.
Daniel Goffman. Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650. Seattle 1990.

Week 7

Geza David. "Ottoman Administrative Strategies in Western Hungary" in Colin Heywood and Colin Imber (eds). Studies in Ottoman History in Honour of Professor V. L. Menage. Istanbul, 1994, pp. 31-44.
Michael Winter, "Ethnic and Religious Tensions in Ottoman Egypt," in Lowry and Hattox volume [see week 13], pp. 309-318.
George Stripling. The Ottoman Turks and the Arabs, 1511-1574.
M Cizakca. "Price History and the Bursa Silk Industry: A Study in Ottoman Industrial Decline, 1550-1560" in The Journal of Economic History, XL/3, 1980, 533-550.
Amnon Cohen and Bernard Lewis. Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century, Princeton 1978.
Halil Berktay and Suraiya Faroqhi (eds.) New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History. London 1992.
Daniel Goffman. Britons in the Ottoman Empire 1642-1660. Seattle 1998.
Haim Gerber. Economy and Society in an Ottoman City: Bursa 1600-1700. Jerusalem 1988.

Slavery

R. Brunschvig. "Abd" [Slavery] in Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition.
Franz Rosenthal. The Muslim Concept of Freedom Prior to the Nineteenth Century, Leiden 1960.
Walid Arafat, "The Attitude of Islam to Slavery", in Islamic Quarterly, X, 1966, 12-18.
Mrray Gordon, Slavery in the Arab World, New York 1989 [on modern and recent times only].
A. Fisher, "Studies on Ottoman Slavery and Slave Trade: II. Manumission," Journal of Turkish Studies, IV, 1980, 49-56.
Gabriel Baer, "Slavery in Nineteenth Century Egypt," Journal of African History, VIII, 1967.
David Ayalon, "On the Eunuchs in Islam," in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, I, 1979, 67-124.
Ehud Toledano, "The Imperial Eunuchs of Istanbul: From Africa to the Heart of Islam," Middle Eastern Studies, XX, 1984, 379-90.
A. Fisher, "The Sale of Slaves in the Ottoman Empire: Market and State Taxes on Slave Sales," Bogazici Universitesi Dergisi, VI, 1978, 149-71.
A Fisher. "Muscovy and the Black Sea Slave Trade," Canadian-American Slavic Studies, VI, 1972, 575-94.
Halil Sahillioglu, "Slaves in the Social and Economic Life of Bursa in the Late 15th and early 16th Centuries," Turcica, XVII, 1985, 43-112.
Ehud Toledano, The Ottoman Slave Trade and its Suppression, Princeton, 1982.

Week 8

Emel Esin, "Turkish Women in the Eighteenth Century," in Lowry and Hattox volume [see week 13], pp. 205-212.

Week 9

Benjamin Braude and Bernard Lewis (eds). Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, 2 vols., New York 1982.
Stanford Shaw. The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. New York Univ Press, 1991.
Norman Stillman. The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book, Philadelphia 1979.
Jacob Landau (ed). The Jews in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1914), Jerusalem, 1988.
Aryeh Shmuelevitz, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Centuries: Administrative, Economic, Legal and Social Relations as Reflected in the Responsa, Leiden, 1984.
M. Ma'oz (ed), Studies on Palestine during the Ottoman Period, Jerusalem, 1975.
Mustin McCarthy, Muslims and Minorities: The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire, New York Univ Press, 1983.
David Kushner (ed), Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period: Political, Social and Economic Transformation, Leiden, 1986.
Uriel Heyd, "Moses Hamon, Chief Physician to Sultan Suleyman", in Oriens XVI, 1963, 152-70.
Mark Epstein, The Ottoman Jewish Communities and their Role in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Freiburg, 1980.
Avigdor Levy. The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire. Princeton, 1992.

Week 10

A. Uner Turgay, "Ottoman-British Trade Through Southeastern Black Sea Ports During the Nineteenth Century," in Bacque-Grammont and Dumont volume, see week 12], pp. 297-315.
Abdul-Karim Rafeq, "The Impact of Europe on a Traditional Economy: The Case of Damascus, 1840-1870," in Bacque-Grammont and Dumont volume, pp. 419-432.
A. Fisher. The Russian Annexation of the Crimea. Cambridge, 1970.
Immanuel Wallerstein. "The Ottoman Empire and the Capitalist World Economy," Review, II/3, 1979, 389-400.
Gabreal Baer. Fellah and Townsman in the Middle East, London 1982.
Amnon Cohen. Palestine in the 18th Century: Patterns of Government and Administration. Jerusalem 1973.
Bruce Masters, The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle East, New York 1986.
Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, Oxford, 1968.
Bernard Lewis, "The Impact of the French Revolution on Turkey," Journal of World History, I, 1953, 105-125.
Stanford Shaw, Ottoman Egypt in the Age of the French Revolution, Cambridge, 1964.
Edhem Eldem. French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century. Leiden 1999.
Fatma Muge Gocek. East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century. New York 1987.

Week 11

Fatma Muge Gocek. "Encountering the West: The French Embassy of Yirmisekiz Celebi Mehmet Efendi (1720-21)", in volume by Lowry and Hattox [see week 13], pp. 79-84.
Stanford Shaw, Between Old and New: The Ottoman Empire under Selim III, 1789-1807, Cambridge, 1971.
Niyazi Berkes. The Development of Secularism in Turkey, Montreal, 1964.

Week 12

Donald Quataert, "The Carpet Makers of Usak, Anatolia, 1860-1914," in volume by Lowry and Hattox [see week 13], pp. 85-92.
Bernard Lewis, "The Tanzimat and Social Equality," in Jean-Louis Bacque-Grammont and Paul Dumont (eds), Economie et societes dans l'empire ottoman (Fin du XVIIIe -Debut du XXe siecle), Paris, 1983, pp. 47-54. [at MSU, HC 492 .E356 1983]
Adia K. Boudjikanian, "Les roles socio-economiques et politiques des armeniens d'egypte au XIXe siecle," in Bacque-Grammont and Dumont, pp. 441-448.
Z. Celik. The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, Seattle, 1982.
Roderic Davison. Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1876, New York, 1973.
Carter Findley, Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922, Princeton, 1980.
Serif Mardin. The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought, Princeton, 1962.
E. Frangakis-Syrett. The Commerce of Smyrna in the 18th Century (1700-1820). Athens 1992.

Week 13

Mim Kemal Oke. "Young Turks, Freemasons, Jews and the Question of Zionism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1913," in Heath Lowry and Ralph Hattox (eds) IIIrd Congress on the Social and Economic History of Turkey. Proceedings. Istanbul, 1990, pp. 29-46 . [at MSU, DR 486 .I57 1983].
Serif Mardin, "L'alienation des jeunes turcs: essai d'explication partielle d'une 'conscience revolutionnaire'," in Bacque-Grammont and Dumont volume [see week 12], pp. 157-165.
Gabriel Baer, "Landlord, Peasant, and the Government in the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and early 20th Centuries," in Bacque-Grammont and Dumont volume, pp. 261-274.
Stephane Yerasimos, "La communaute grecque de trabzon au XIXe siecle," in Jean-Louis Bacque-Grammont, Ilber Ortayle and Emeri van Donzel (eds), Comite international d'etudes pre-ottomanes et ottomanes, VIIe symposium, Ankara 1994, pp. 241-268. [at MSU , DR 440 .C56 1986].
David Kushner. The Rise of Turkish Nationalism, 1876-1908, London 1977. Sevket Pamuk, The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913, Cambridge, 1987.
Donald Quataert, Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire, 1881-1908: Reactions to European Economic Penetration, New York, 1983.
Feroz Ahmad. The Young Turks: The Committee of Un8ion and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-1914, Oxford, 1969.
Michael Gunter. Pursuing the Just Cause of Their People: A Study of Contemporary Armenian Terrorism, New York, 1986.
Selim Deringil. The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the LEgitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1909. London 1998.
M. Yazbak. Haifa in the Late Ottoman Period, 1864-1914: A Muslim Town in Transition. Leiden 1998.

Week 14

Justin McCarthy, "The Population of Ottoman Europe Before and After the Fall of the Empire," in Lowry and Hattox volume [see week 13], pp. 275-298.

Final Written Project

Christpher Simpson. The Splendid Blond Beast:Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. New York 1993.
Vahakn N. Dadrian. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. Providence, 1995.
H. Barsoumian. "The Dual Role of the Armenian Amira Class Within the Ottoman Government and the Armenian Millet (1750-1850)," in B. Braude and B. Lewis (eds.) Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, vol. I, New York 1982, 171-184.