Suraiya Faroqhi is Professor Emerita at Ibn Haldun University, Turkey. She has previously held positions at Istanbul Bilgi, Turkey, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany and the Middle East Technical University. A leading expert on the social history of the Ottoman Empire, her books include Subjects of the Sultan (I.B.Tauris, 2000), The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It (I.B.Tauris, 2003), Artisans of Empire (I.B.Tauris, 2009) and The Ottoman and Mughal Empires (I.B.Tauris, 2019).
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
A note on spelling and transliteration
Introduction
Prologue: A conspectus of Ottoman history
1. Ottoman women, Ottoman history: Coping with a changing world
Part I (1500s to about 1700)
2. The legal framework of family life
3. Dependent on work, investments and charity
4. Exceptionally talented, exceptionally active: women of distinction
Part II (about 1700-1870s)
5. Ottoman diversity: Female agency and survival in Ottoman Syria and Egypt
6. Ottoman diversity: Coping with relatives, the state and dependent
capitalism
Part III (1870-1918)
7. Female teachers, journalists and actors: education as a source of
survival skills
8. Before 1912: Making a living through family relations, work and charity
- and occasionally turning to crime
9. In profound distress:Struggling to survive the disintegration of the
empire (1912-18)
Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading: A bibliographical essay
Notes
Timeline
Glossary
