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How did adults, religious institutions and the state view children during the Ottoman Empire? This volume gathers specialists in the social history of the Ottoman Empire as a whole in regions ranging from Anatolia through the Arab provinces to the Balkans, and from the 15th to the early 20th century to respond to recent theoretical calls to recognise children as active agents in history. Divided into five thematic sections (concepts of childhood, family interrelationships, children outside family circles, children's bodies, and education), the volume covers the social and political structure of the Ottoman Empire. It uses the innovative prism of children as social agents who are not only shaped by but also shape society, rather than being the passive recipients of their social environment.

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Author:   Gülay Yilmaz (Associate Professor, Akdeniz University) ,  Fruma Zachs (Professor, the University of Haifa)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.603kg
ISBN:  

9781474455398

ISBN 10:   1474455395
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   22 May 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

ForewordSuraiya Faroqhi IntroductionGülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs 1. Ottoman Childhoods in Comparative PerspectiveColin Heywood Part I: Concepts of Childhood 2. Childhood in the Peasant Militia Registers and the Age Boundaries of AdolescenceCahit Telci 3. An Ottoman Boyhood: Child Life in the Late Eighteenth Century through the Lens of Panayis Skouzes’ AutobiographyEleni Gara Part II: Family Interrelationships 4. Preliminary Observations on the Demographic Roots of Modern Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: Wealth, Children and Status in Ruse, Vidin and Sofia, 1670–1855İrfan Kokdaş 5. The Emotional Bond between Early Modern Ottoman Children and Parents: A Case Study of Sünbülzade's ‘Ideal’ Child (1700–1800)Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik 6. A World of Conflicts: Youth and Violence towards Parents in the Family in Rural Wallachia, 1716–1859Nicoleta Roman Part III: Children Outside Family Circles 7. Born and Bred in Seventeenth-Century Crimea: Child Slavery, Social Reality and Cultural IdentityFırat Yaşa 8. Rural Girls as Domestic Servants in Late Ottoman IstanbulYahya Araz 9. Muslim Orphans and the Shari‘ah in Nineteenth Century Palestine: Cases from NablusMahmud Yazbak Part IV: Children’s Bodies 10. Body Politics and Devşirmes in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Conscripted Children of HerzegovinaGülay Yılmaz 11. Pastimes for Child Breadwinners: The Sanitisation and Recreation Facilities of the Hereke Factory CampusDidem Yavuz Velipaşaoğlu 12. Beating is Heaven-Sent: Corporal Punishment of Children in the late Ottoman and Early Republican EraNazan Çiçek Part V: Children and Education 13. Childhood and Education in Ottoman Bosnia during the Early Modern Period (mid-Fifteenth to Late Eighteenth Century)Elma Korić 14. Children’s Education in Ottoman Jewish Society (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)Ruth Lamdan 15. Women as Educators towards the End of the Nahda Period: Labiba Hashim and Children’s UpbringingFruma Zachs GlossaryList of ContributorsIndex

Reviews

"""G lay Y?lmaz and Fruma Zachs's edited volume is a welcome contribution to the field of history of children and youth in the Ottoman Empire [...] The prominence of the early modern era (with nine chapters) in the volume's chronological focus is worth stressing, as the research on Ottoman children to date has been confined mostly to the nineteenth century. By the same token, wide geographic coverage of the book, going beyond the Balkans and Anatolia to Wallachia, Crimea, Palestine, and Egypt, has the added value of facilitating comparisons."" -Nazan Maksudyan"

Gülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs’s edited volume is a welcome contribution to the field of history of children and youth in the Ottoman Empire [...] The prominence of the early modern era (with nine chapters) in the volume’s chronological focus is worth stressing, as the research on Ottoman children to date has been confined mostly to the nineteenth century. By the same token, wide geographic coverage of the book, going beyond the Balkans and Anatolia to Wallachia, Crimea, Palestine, and Egypt, has the added value of facilitating comparisons. -- Nazan Maksudyan * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth * Gülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs’s edited volume is a welcome contribution to the field of history of children and youth in the Ottoman Empire [...] The prominence of the early modern era (with nine chapters) in the volume’s chronological focus is worth stressing, as the research on Ottoman children to date has been confined mostly to the nineteenth century. By the same token, wide geographic coverage of the book, going beyond the Balkans and Anatolia to Wallachia, Crimea, Palestine, and Egypt, has the added value of facilitating comparisons. -- Nazan Maksudyan * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth * This volume will encourage young scholars to develop projects in the area of Ottoman and MENA childhood. The choice of themes for the five sections is well-thought-out and marks for future contributions the contours of the field. The involvement of young scholars (young PhDs mostly) alongside more established ones is an excellent recipe for pushing ahead the study of this all-important sub-field of socio-cultural history. * Ehud R. Toledano, Professor of Middle East History, Tel Aviv University * [A] welcome contribution not only to the history of Ottoman childhoods, but also to children’s historiography and childhood history more broadly. -- Özkan Bardakçı, University of Lorraine * Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies. *

Author Information

Gülay Yilmaz is Associate Professor at Akdeniz University. She is author of articles in The Journal of Ottoman Studies, Belleten and Studies of the Ottoman Domain and of chapters in Bread from the Lion’s Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities (Berghahn Books, 2015) and Children in Slavery Through the Ages (Ohio University Press, 2009). Fruma Zachs is a Professor at the University of Haifa. She is author of The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in 19th-Century Beirut (Brill, 2005), co-author of Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and co-editor of Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh (I.B. Tauris, 2005).

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