Suraiya Faroqhi

Approaching Ottoman History (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction to the Sources

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Produktbeschreibung

Suraiya Faroqhi's scholarly contribution to the field of Ottoman history has been prodigious. Her latest book represents a summation of that scholarship, an introduction to the state-of-the-art in Ottoman history. In a compelling exploration of the ways that primary and secondary sources can be used to interpret history, the author reaches out to students and researchers in the field and in related disciplines to familiarise them with these documents. By considering both archival and narrative sources, she explains why they were prepared, encouraging her readers to adopt a critical approach to their findings, and disabusing them of the notion that everything recorded in official documents is necessarily true! While the book is essentially a guide to a complex discipline for those about to embark upon their research, the experienced Ottomanist will find much that is original and provocative in its sophisticated interpretation of the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511033544
• Artikelnr.: 38202791

Autorenporträt

Suraiya Faroqhiis a professor of history at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her focus is on Ottoman social history of the early modern period, especially women, artisan production, the use of objects as historical sources, as well as urban life and cross-cultural linkages, her most recent publications are, A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts ( I. B. Tauris, 2016), and The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World(I.B. Tauris, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Entering the field
3. Locating Ottoman sources
4. Rural life as reflected in archival sources: selected examples
5. European sources on Ottoman history: the travellers
6. On the rules of writing (and reading) Ottoman historical works
7. Perceptions of empire: viewing the Ottoman Empire throught general histories
8. Conclusion
References
Index.