Slaves Without Shackles : : Forced Labour and Manumission in the Galata Court Registers, 1560-1572 / / Nur Sobers-Khan.
This dissertation consists in a microhistorical study of the social and cultural context of slavery in the early modern Ottoman Empire and Eastern Mediterranean. Using a wide selection of primary sources in Arabic, Ottoman, Persian and various European languages, it examines the slave population rec...
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Sobers-Khan, Nur, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Slaves Without Shackles : Forced Labour and Manumission in the Galata Court Registers, 1560-1572 / Nur Sobers-Khan. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (384 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker ; 20 Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Chapter 1: Laying the Groundwork -- Chapter 2: The Corpus of Texts -- Chapter 3: Categorising the Origins of Slaves -- Chapter 4: The mukātaba Contract and Maritime Slave Labour -- Chapter 5: Identification or Subjugation? -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Appendix: Individual Slave Manumission Contracts -- Bibliography restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This dissertation consists in a microhistorical study of the social and cultural context of slavery in the early modern Ottoman Empire and Eastern Mediterranean. Using a wide selection of primary sources in Arabic, Ottoman, Persian and various European languages, it examines the slave population recorded in the Ottoman shari'a court registers (1560-1572 ?AD) of Galata, a neighbourhood of Istanbul. Based on evidence from the court registers, the origins of the slaves, their rates of religious conversion, and the nature of slave labour in Galata are examined. A detailed analysis of the descriptions of slaves in the court registers and contemporary literature illuminates the cultural construct of slavery in sixteenth-century Istanbul, and it is argued that the contemporary discourses (legal, literary and pseudoscientific) surrounding slavery allow us to reconstruct the Ottoman articulation of difference and sixteenth-century Ottoman understandings of slavery. Furthermore, it is argued that the early modern Ottoman Empire encouraged the manumission and integration of skilled slaves into the urban social hierarchy; the capture and enslavement of skilled individuals, particularly in the context of sixteenth-century Ottoman maritime expansion, disposited as a method of increasing levels of Ottoman manpower and recruiting skilled labour into Ottoman elite households. In addition to presenting empirical findings concerning early modern slavery gathered from the court registers, this dissertation also presents the study of slavery as a framework for analysing the construction of identity in the early modern Mediterranean and argues for a new methodological approach to reading the Ottoman court registers. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) HISTORY / Modern / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 9783110696288 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2020 Part 1 9783110696271 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Ottoman Turkish Studies eBooks 2021 9783110756708 print 9783879974368 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112209080 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783112209080 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783112209080/original |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Chapter 1: Laying the Groundwork -- Chapter 2: The Corpus of Texts -- Chapter 3: Categorising the Origins of Slaves -- Chapter 4: The mukātaba Contract and Maritime Slave Labour -- Chapter 5: Identification or Subjugation? -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Appendix: Individual Slave Manumission Contracts -- Bibliography |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Chapter 1: Laying the Groundwork -- Chapter 2: The Corpus of Texts -- Chapter 3: Categorising the Origins of Slaves -- Chapter 4: The mukātaba Contract and Maritime Slave Labour -- Chapter 5: Identification or Subjugation? -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Appendix: Individual Slave Manumission Contracts -- Bibliography |
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