Project MUSE®: Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.daily12026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2014) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies AssociationTWOProject MUSE®Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association2376-07022376-0699Latest articles in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity by Emine Ö. Evered (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988080
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In Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity, Emine Ö. Evered offers a richly detailed and interdisciplinary account of the regulation of alcohol in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Far from treating alcohol as a minor or moral footnote in state history, Evered centers it as a contested site of identity formation, state authority, and social discipline. Through close archival research and a well-developed theoretical approach, the book argues that the regulation, and at times prohibition, of alcohol has operated as a vital tool for crafting national identity, delineating boundaries between citizen and state, and staging performances of modernity, piety, and civic virtue.The book unfolds
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallProhibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity by Emine Ö. Evered (review)2026-04-15text/htmlen-USProhibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity by Emine Ö. Evered (review)2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®108092026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988081
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Welcome! It is our pleasure to present to you the latest issue of JOTSA. You will undoubtedly notice the strange numbering for this issue. We have decided to combine both issues of volume 12 (2025). The primary reason for doing so is to return our journal to a more normal production schedule. This means that our next issue, 13.1 (Spring 2026) will be coming out when the weather is warm and the trees are in full bloom. And, most importantly, in calendar year 2026. This change will have no impact on your JOTSA subscription.This issue of JOTSA features three articles from very different time periods and geographies of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world. Nesi Altaras examines the emergence of kayadez—a distinctive
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallIntroduction2026-04-15text/htmlen-USIntroduction2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®76912026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15President’s Note
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988082
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In addition to recent news from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, the president’s note shares practical information about our organization’s structure, programming, and instructions on how you can contribute to our community. You can find this information in the final section at the end of this message.Dear friends,It was wonderful to see many of you at OTSA’s reception and awards ceremony in Washington D.C. at the MESA annual conference this past November, where we reconnected as a community and cheered this year’s prize winners and OTSA’s incoming officers. Zozan Pehlivan and Nir Shafir were the co-winners of OTSA’s book prize, We congratulate them and look forward to hearing more about their work in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallPresident’s Note2026-04-15text/htmlen-USPresident’s Note2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®71382026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15The Voice of Kayadez: La Boz de Turkiye (1939–1949) and Quietism as Jewish Politics in Turkey
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988083
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The December 15, 1942, issue of La Boz de Turkiye, Turkey’s only Jewish newspaper at the time, featured in its first pages a review of a Turkish poetry book that had been published thirteen years ago and an article on the artists of the Renaissance. It printed sermons by local rabbis for Hannukah and news from other Jewish communities around the world such as a call by Albert Einstein for Jewish youth to learn Hebrew.1 It did not contain a word about a subject that had been much discussed in the Turkish press during the fall of 1942: a new discriminatory tax policy called the Varlık Vergisi (Wealth Tax, commonly Varlik in Ladino) that targeted non-Muslims in the country. The law enacting Varlik passed in November
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallThe Voice of Kayadez: La Boz de Turkiye (1939–1949) and Quietism as Jewish Politics in Turkey2026-04-15text/htmlen-USThe Voice of Kayadez: La Boz de Turkiye (1939–1949) and Quietism as Jewish Politics in Turkey2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®1516672026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15The Reintroduction of Bell Ringing in Late Ottoman Jerusalem
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988084
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The history of Jerusalem has been the object of numerous studies. Scholars have also devoted hundreds of monographs and articles to the archaeology of the city and its most famous buildings, the Temple of Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulchre and the Dome of the Rock. The significance of the city for the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, ensures that the interest on its antiquities and material culture remains up to date. Recently, its soundscape has also attracted the interest of researchers.1 One of the most characteristic sounds of the Christian faith is the pealing of bells. Since Jerusalem is the holiest place for Christians in the world, bell ringing plays an important role in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallThe Reintroduction of Bell Ringing in Late Ottoman Jerusalem2026-04-15text/htmlen-USThe Reintroduction of Bell Ringing in Late Ottoman Jerusalem2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®1397052026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Seydi Ali the Sailor: Reading the Mir’atü’l-Memalik as an Adventure Fable
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988085
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The Ottoman Captain Seydi Ali Reis (d. 1562) fought the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, traveled around western and southern Asia, and wrote a number of books based on his knowledge and experiences at sea. His travelogue the Mir’atü’l-Memalik or “Mirror of Kingdoms” in particular has received scholarly attention as an important source for Ottoman maritime history in the Indian Ocean.1 However, a smaller body of scholarly works has also highlighted, albeit rather summarily, some of the literary features of the travelogue. The present article is devoted exclusively to an analysis of Seydi Ali’s famous book as a work of literature. Specifically, it will be argued that the captain penned the Mir’at as an adventure
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallSeydi Ali the Sailor: Reading the Mir’atü’l-Memalik as an Adventure Fable2026-04-15text/htmlen-USSeydi Ali the Sailor: Reading the Mir’atü’l-Memalik as an Adventure Fable2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®794672026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988086
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Ottoman studies took shape within the institutional framework of area studies in North America. For decades, the field remained defined by methodological nationalism and guided by the teleologies of the modern nation-state. Much of its scholarship read the Ottoman past through the prism of national histories in a way that portrayed the history of an empire of striking diversity as it became a precursor to modern statehood. In the process, the complexity of imperial rule was often reduced to the language of transition and reform. In recent decades, that framework has begun to unravel. The “imperial turn” redirected attention to empire as a form of rule and imagination distinct from the nation-state. Historians began
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallIntroduction2026-04-15text/htmlen-USIntroduction2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®221982026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Centering Curiosity, Mapping Engagement: Studying “The Ottomans and Their World”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988087
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At the start of the 2022 academic year, Patrick J. D’Silva, my colleague in the Philosophy Department, and I co-designed an upper division, hybrid course that centered “The Ottomans and Their World.” Teaching at a four-year, R2 public, Mountain West university predominantly serving a first-generation, military- affiliated, and faith-centered student population of roughly 11,000 people, the Ottoman Empire does not pique the interest of most students. This statement does not discount the enthusiasm of a student whose source of knowledge about the janissaries is the action-adventure video game Europa Universalis. A central challenge of teaching subject matters related to West/Southwest Asia and North Africa and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallCentering Curiosity, Mapping Engagement: Studying “The Ottomans and Their World”2026-04-15text/htmlen-USCentering Curiosity, Mapping Engagement: Studying “The Ottomans and Their World”2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®254212026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Teaching Ottoman History, Writing an Ottoman Textbook: Asia In My Perspective
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988088
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I have a confession to make. I entered the field of Ottoman history by accident. You might wonder how a student who years ago earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics (and a Math minor), ended up an Ottomanist whose PhD focused upon Ottoman views of Meiji Japan as a model for reform, modernization, and awakening a national consciousness in the last decades of the Ottoman Empire’s existence. You could say I came into Ottoman history “through the back door” after an overseas undergraduate semester in the Middle East (let’s call it West Asia) in 1985 ignited my desire to understand the Palestine-Israel struggle and kindled my desire to learn Arabic (and Hebrew briefly). After living and working in Japan for several
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallTeaching Ottoman History, Writing an Ottoman Textbook: Asia In My Perspective2026-04-15text/htmlen-USTeaching Ottoman History, Writing an Ottoman Textbook: Asia In My Perspective2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®219192026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Building a Late Ottoman Literature Syllabus Through Translation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988089
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As a comparatist working on late Ottoman literature in a comparative literature department, I often struggle with the scarcity of English translations that would allow Ottoman novels to enter broader literary conversations. Each year, I imagine teaching a course on nineteenth-century literature, desire, and gender, pairing Halit Ziya’s Aşk-ıMemnu (Forbidden Love, 1900) with Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. Yet Aşk-ıMemnu, despite its cultural weight and renewed popularity following its 2008 television adaptation, remains untranslated, like much of the late Ottoman canon. The unsettling question this raises is: if Aşk-ıMemnu, often hailed as the first true Ottoman novel and now beloved by younger generations in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallBuilding a Late Ottoman Literature Syllabus Through Translation2026-04-15text/htmlen-USBuilding a Late Ottoman Literature Syllabus Through Translation2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®210442026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Teaching the Ottoman Empire as a Transregional Power: Comparative Approaches in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988090
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Teaching the Ottoman Empire presents numerous challenges that I encounter as both a scholar and a researcher. One of the most common is the approach to the Ottoman Empire in the context of the end of empire and the decline paradigm, when scholars cast the Ottoman Empire merely in retrospect of the triumph of the nation-states. According to this absurd yet common approach, lands the Ottoman Empire lost in the nineteenth century in the Balkans suddenly turned from Orient into Europe. In fact, the very switch from Ottoman studies to Eastern European studies is projected back to this juncture—a presumed political, civilizational, and geopolitical break. Such a perspective creates a bizarre setting wherein the Balkans
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallTeaching the Ottoman Empire as a Transregional Power: Comparative Approaches in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies2026-04-15text/htmlen-USTeaching the Ottoman Empire as a Transregional Power: Comparative Approaches in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®211222026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Beyond the Three Ms: Armenians, Mass Violence, and the Gaps in Modern Middle East Textbooks
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988091
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One major challenge in teaching the history of the modern Middle East is addressing the role of non-dominant ethnic and ethno-religious groups within the region’s history. These communities often fall on the margins of mainstream narratives, despite their significant contributions to social, political, and cultural change. Including their histories provides a richer, more nuanced understanding of the Middle East’s complex social fabric.Most textbooks about the modern Middle East focus on three main groups: Arabs, Ottomans/Turks, and Persians/Iranians. Other groups—such as Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Copts, Kurds, and Alevis—are rarely featured in these textbooks. When they are, their roles are often
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallBeyond the Three Ms: Armenians, Mass Violence, and the Gaps in Modern Middle East Textbooks2026-04-15text/htmlen-USBeyond the Three Ms: Armenians, Mass Violence, and the Gaps in Modern Middle East Textbooks2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®441642026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Teaching Ottoman History: Practices, Challenges, and Possibilities Divan: Crowdsourcing Graduate Training and Mentoring in Ottoman Studies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988092
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Graduate training in Ottoman studies can be very challenging, especially at a public university with limited resources and personnel to help train those interested in pursuing a doctorate in this field. Numerous challenges face these students, such as acquiring the necessary language and interpretive skills to engage the multiplicity of sources found within the empire, developing the empirical and theoretical knowledge to properly interpret and analyze the sources they find, overcoming language barriers when English is not the student’s native language, adjusting to the demands of graduate training in the North American system, visa issues and work permits, limited stipends and funding opportunities, the pressures
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallTeaching Ottoman History: Practices, Challenges, and Possibilities Divan: Crowdsourcing Graduate Training and Mentoring in Ottoman Studies2026-04-15text/htmlen-USTeaching Ottoman History: Practices, Challenges, and Possibilities Divan: Crowdsourcing Graduate Training and Mentoring in Ottoman Studies2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®182512026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Curating and Teaching Occupation: Displaying Post-Armistice Istanbul
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988093
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How should curators and educators approach the task of displaying and teaching difficult episodes of Ottoman history, such as wars and occupations? In what ways can the layered experiences of such sensitive times be made visible? And, what kinds of sources allow us to reconstruct and teach these histories in ways that foreground multiplicity and critical engagement with well-established historical narratives?The post-World War I occupation of Istanbul by British, French, and Italian forces between 1918 and 1923 long remained a marginal chapter in both Ottoman historiography and studies of European imperialism.1 In Turkey, historical narratives of the War of Independence have focused on events in Anatolia, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallCurating and Teaching Occupation: Displaying Post-Armistice Istanbul2026-04-15text/htmlen-USCurating and Teaching Occupation: Displaying Post-Armistice Istanbul2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®277332026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Civil Society and Autocratisation: Co-optation, Repression and Contestation in Turkey by Bilge Yabancı (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988094
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As the global democratic decline continues, civil society scholarship in recent years has turned its attention to how civic life is reshaped under hybrid and authoritarian regimes. A growing number of studies on state-civil society dynamics in countries like Hungary, India, Russia, and China show that the long-standing assumption of civil society as a metric of democratization and a counterweight to state power is more complex than the Latin American and Eastern European post–Cold War analyses suggested.This recent wave of studies typically follows one of two paths: analyses of state-aligned organizations and GONGOs, or examinations of the contracting space for rights-oriented actors. Bilge Yabancı’s Civil Society
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallCivil Society and Autocratisation: Co-optation, Repression and Contestation in Turkey by Bilge Yabancı (review)2026-04-15text/htmlen-USCivil Society and Autocratisation: Co-optation, Repression and Contestation in Turkey by Bilge Yabancı (review)2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®91502026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Religion, Politics and Society in Modern Turkey by İştar Gözaydın (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988095
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A vast array of books has been published, both in Turkey and abroad, to mark the centenary of the Republic of Turkey. İştar Gözaydın’s Religion, Politics and Society in Modern Turkey, 1808–2023 is one such contribution, offering a historical review of the republic with a particular focus on religion. The book is organized chronologically into six main chapters: the first deals with Ottoman modernization; the second focuses on the single-party regime; the third explores the transition to multi-party politics; the fourth covers the period between the 1960 and 1980 military coups; the fifth examines the era from the 1980 coup to the beginning of AKP rule in 2002; and finally, the sixth chapter covers the AKP’s more
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallReligion, Politics and Society in Modern Turkey by İştar Gözaydın (review)2026-04-15text/htmlen-USReligion, Politics and Society in Modern Turkey by İştar Gözaydın (review)2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®116762026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies by Güneş Murat Tezcür (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988096
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In Liminal Minorities, Güneş Murat Tezcür explores how religious minorities navigate state power and authoritarian pressures. Focusing on groups such as Iraq’s Yezidis, Iran’s Bahá’ís, and Turkey’s Alevis, the book introduces the concept of “liminal minorities”—communities that are neither fully accepted as part of the national-religious mainstream nor wholly excluded. Their ambiguous status places them in a precarious position where survival strategies constantly evolve. Tezcür analyzes how these minorities respond to state repression: whether through quietist withdrawal, public resistance, or alignment with dominant powers. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival sources, he shows that their
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallLiminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies by Güneş Murat Tezcür (review)2026-04-15text/htmlen-USLiminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies by Güneş Murat Tezcür (review)2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®69372026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History by Suraiya Faroqhi (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988097
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Sometime in the early eighteenth century, Ayşe, the Turkish daughter of a miller in Adana, was traveling through Arab Greater Syria when disaster struck. Her husband divorced her in a foreign land and, in violation of Islamic law, married the hapless Ayşe to another man. In turn, the second husband sold her as a slave to another. In Damascus, she encountered Turkish pilgrims making their way home and realized an opportunity to escape servitude. Posing as the spouse of Adana’s governor, Ayşe regained her city, and hopefully her family. She demonstrated the kind of instinct for survival that is often subsumed under the rubric of “agency.”In 1913, the Istanbul telephone company was peppered with applications from
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallWomen in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History by Suraiya Faroqhi (review)2026-04-15text/htmlen-USWomen in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History by Suraiya Faroqhi (review)2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®79222026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Governing the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire: Notables, Tribes and Peasants of Muş (1820s–1880s) by Gülseren Duman Koç (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988098
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Gülseren Duman Koç’s book, Governing the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire: Notables, Tribes and Peasants of Muş (1820s–1880s), is an eloquent example of a trend in Ottoman studies which centers local actors in shaping administrative, fiscal, military, and political transformations in the Ottoman East. Koç’s work, a microhistory of the Muş sancak (district), in highlighting the dynamic relationship between the Ottoman government and local powers in Muş, contributes to a growing literature which complicates more traditional narratives of a distinct center-periphery divide. Koç follows three major groups: local Kurdish notables of the Alaaddin Pasha family, Muslim and Armenian peasants, and Kurdish pastoralists.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallGoverning the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire: Notables, Tribes and Peasants of Muş (1820s–1880s) by Gülseren Duman Koç (review)2026-04-15text/htmlen-USGoverning the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire: Notables, Tribes and Peasants of Muş (1820s–1880s) by Gülseren Duman Koç (review)2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®100962026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces by Talin Suciyan (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988099
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This book argues that Tanzimat (1839–76) was a period in which the Ottoman military and political elite turned to outright persecution of the Armenians—a policy which conventional historiography would locate in later periods, roughly from the 1890s onwards. The reform policy of the Tanzimat, such as the promise of security of life, property and honor, was in Suciyan’s eyes a mere cloak hiding the underlying strategy of making the Armenians to outcasts. Tanzimat’s centralization policy meant for the Armenians not only forceful integration, but a willing policy of subjugation stopping just short of genocide.Much of what Suciyan brings forward against “mainstream historiography” (not until page 5 does she refer
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallOutcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces by Talin Suciyan (review)2026-04-15text/htmlen-USOutcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces by Talin Suciyan (review)2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®82672026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World by Uğur Zekeriya Peçe (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988100
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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe’s Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World is a well-researched and deeply engaged account of ethnic strife on the island of Crete and the making of refugeehood in the late Ottoman Empire. The narrative begins in the 1890s, a period marked by intense ethnic conflict and violent armed confrontation between Muslims and Christians on the island. This was a major and bloody episode that turned a large part of the island’s rural Muslim population into refugees—first in the urban centres of the island, and later in the coastal towns of mainland Anatolia. The book follows these critical years at the turn of the century, exploring the meanings and practices of being a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/761/image/coversmallIsland and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World by Uğur Zekeriya Peçe (review)2026-04-15text/htmlen-USIsland and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World by Uğur Zekeriya Peçe (review)2026-04-152026TWOProject MUSE®102592026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-15