This book presents the holistic examination of the 1720 Ottoman imperial circumcision festival through a combined analysis of the hitherto unknown archival sour

Introduction -- 1. Preparing the Festival -- 2. Staging the Festival -- 3. Representing the Festival -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

This multi-disciplinary volume reflects the wealth of recent scholarship devoted to early modern Istanbul. It embraces manifold perspectives on the city through

A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.

In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity