Overview
Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called ""Pax Ottomanica."" This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of Ottoman tolerance that has long dominated the discussions. The articles carefully strive to contextualize the many issues that sound like ethnic slurs, racial stereotyping, religious discrimination, misogyny and elitism to modern ears. The goal of the volume is not to prove that Ottoman society was a persecuting one, or that dislike or distrust was its defining characteristic, but to investigate the axes of tension, blemishes, and fractures in the everyday practice of coexistence in a dynamic, multi-religious, multi-confessional and multi-ethnic empire in which difference was the norm rather than the exception.
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Author: Hakan T. Karateke ,
H. Erdem Çıpa ,
Helga Anetshofer
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
ISBN: 9798897830947
Publication Date: 06 November 2025
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
“Overall this volume thus proposes highly interesting visions of forms of hostility in Ottoman society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century. … The volume … constitute[s] a major contribution … as well as a precious entry towards an understanding of the tensions at work in Ottoman society.” —Nora Lafi, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Turkish Historical Review
Author Information
Hakan T. Karateke (PhD, Bamberg University) is Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language, and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Evliya elebi's Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne (2013) and an article titled ""The Rosy History of Jews in the Ottoman Empire: A Critical Approach to Jewish Historiography."" H. Erdem pa (PhD, Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Ottoman history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World (2017) and co-editor, with E. Fetvac, of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future (2013). Helga Anetshofer (PhD, Vienna University) is Lecturer for Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago. Her publications include her recent articles ""Folk Etymologies and Stories of Toponyms from Danishmendid Territory in Evliya elebi's Seyahatname"" (2015) and ""The Hero Dons a Talismanic Shirt for Battle: Magic Objects Aiding the Warrior in a Turkish Epic Romance"" (2018).
