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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author Bios -- Introduction -- Changing Perceptions about Christian-Born Ottomans: Anti-k . ul Sentiments in Ottoman Historiography / Çıpa, H. Erdem -- Circassian Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt and Istanbul, ca. 1500–1730: The Eastern Alternative / Hathaway, Jane -- Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier’s Treatise: A Comparative Look at Black Africans in Ottoman Letters in the Early Modern Period / Tezcan, Baki -- The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550–1700 / Moor, Bilha -- An Ottoman Anti-Judaism / Karateke, Hakan T. -- Evliyā Çelebī’s Perception of Jews / Karateke, Hakan T. -- Ambiguous Subjects and Uneasy Neighbors: Bosnian Franciscans’ Attitudes toward the Ottoman State, “Turks,” and Vlachs / Kursar, Vjeran -- “Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land”: Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th–18th Centuries / Petrovszky, Konrad -- The Many Faces of the “Gypsy” in Early Modern Ottoman Discourse / Çelik, Faika Ç -- Gendered Infidels in Fiction: A Case Study on S - ābit’s Ḥikāye-i Ḫvāce Fesād / Hüner-Cora, İpek -- “The Greatest of Tribulations”: Constructions of Femininity in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Physiognomy / Lelić, Emin -- Defining and Defaming the Other in Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Invective / Sheridan, Michael D. -- “Are You From Çorum?”: Derogatory Attitudes Toward the “Unruly Mob” of the Provinces as Reflected in a Proverbial Saying / Anetshofer, Helga -- Index
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