Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space

by Sahar Bazzaz (Editor), Yota Batsaki (Editor), Dimiter Angelov (Editor), Antonis Anastasopoulos (Contribution by), Mevhibe Pinar Emiralioglu (Contribution by)

Overview

Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space opens new and insightful vistas on the nexus between empire and geography. The volume redirects attention from the Atlantic to the space of the eastern Mediterranean shaped by two empires of remarkable duration and territorial extent, the Byzantine and the Ottoman. The essays offer a diachronic and comparative account that spans the medieval and early modern periods and reaches into the nineteenth century. Methodologically rich, the essays combine historical, literary, and theoretical perspectives. Through texts as diverse as court records and chancery manuals, imperial treatises and fictional works, travel literature and theatrical adaptations, the essays explore ways in which the production of geographical knowledge supported imperial authority or revealed its precarious mastery of geography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674066625
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	02/25/2013
Series:	Hellenic Studies Series , #56
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sahar Bazzaz is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross.

Yota Batsaki is Executive Director at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Dimiter Angelov is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University.

Antonis Anastasopoulos is Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete, and a research associate of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (IMS/FORTH).

Mevhibe Pinar Emiralioglu is Assistant Professor of History at the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.

Constanze Gütenke is Associate Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

Dimitri Kastritsis is the author of The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402–1413 and editor of An Early Ottoman History: The Oxford Anonymous Chronicle. He is Associate Librarian for Global Studies and Development at the University of Virginia.

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at Northeastern University.

Paul Magdalino is Professor of Byzantine History at Koç University and Fellow of the British Academy.

Anna Stavrakopoulou is Associate Professor of Theater Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Sibel Zandi-Sayek is Associate Professor of Art History at the College of William and Mary.

Table of Contents

Map 1: The Contraction of the Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire in: 565,1025,1143,1330 vii

Map 2: The Expansion of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire in: 1300,1481,1512,1683 viii

Introduction Dimiter Angelov Yota Batsaki Sahar Bazzaz 1

1 Constantine VII and the Historical Geography of Empire Paul Magdalino 23

2 "Asia and Europe Commonly Called East and West": Constantinople and Geographical Imagination in Byzantium Dimiter Angelov 43

3 Cartography and the Ottoman Imperial Project in the Sixteenth Century Pinar Emiralioglu 69

4 Feridun Beg's Münse'atü 's-Selatin ('Correspondence of Sultans') and Late Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Views of the Political World Dimitris Kastritsis 91

5 Imperial Geography and War: The Ottoman Case Antonis Anastasopoulos 111

6 Ambiguities of Sovereignty: Property Rights and Spectacles of Statehood in Tanzimat Izmir Sibel Zandi-Sayek 133

7 Ottoman Arabs in Istanbul, 1860-1914: Perceptions of Empire, Experiences of the Metropole through the writings of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Muhammad Rashid Rida, and Jirji Zaydan Ilham Khuri-Makdisi 159

8 Evading Athens: Versions of a Post-Imperial, National Greek Landscape around 1830 Constanze Gütherike 183

9 Translation as Geographical Relocation: Nineteenth-Century Greek Adaptations of Molière in the Ottoman Empire Anna Stavrakopoulou 207

10 In "Third Space": Between Crete and Egypt in Rhea Galanaki's The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha Yota Batsaki 225

11 The Discursive Mapping of Sectarianism in Iraq: The Sunni Triangle in the Pages of The New York Times Sahar Bazzaz 245

Contributors 263

Index 265