Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage Politics, Society and Economy Edited by Suraiya Faroqhi Boğaç Ergene Founding Editor Halil İnalcık† Advisory Board Fikret Adanır – Antonis Anastasopoulos – Idris Bostan Palmira Brummett – Amnon Cohen – Jane Hathaway Klaus Kreiser – Hans Georg Majer – Ahmet Yaşar Ocak Abdeljelil Temimi volume 73 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/oeh - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity In Memory of Metin Kunt Edited by Seyfi Kenan Selçuk Akşin Somel LEIDEN | BOSTON - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access Cover illustration: “A portion of miniature where Takiyyüddin Râsıd is working, discussing and deliberating along with colleagues in his observatory in the late 16th century Ottoman Empire” (Istanbul University Library, Manuscript, FY, nr. 1404, vr.57a, modified and designed by Lâmia Kenan). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kenan, Seyfi, editor, writer of introduction. | Somel, Selçuk Akşin, editor, writer of introduction. | Kunt, İ. Metin, 1942– honouree. Title: Dimensions of transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval age to modernity : in memoriam of Metin Kunt / edited by Seyfi Kenan and Selçuk Akşin Somel. Description: Book edition. | Leiden : Brill, [2021] | Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 1380–6076 ; volume 73 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021011074 (print) | LCCN 2021011075 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004409828 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004442351 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Turkey—History—1453–1683. | Turkey—History—1683–1829. | Social change—Turkey—History. | Law—Turkey—History. | Turkey—Politics and government. | Turkey—History—Ottoman Empire, 1288–1918—Historiography. | Turkey—Civilization—1288–1918. 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Requests for re-use and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV via brill.com or copyright.com. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access Contents Acknowledgements xi Acronyms xii Notes on Contributors xv Metin Kunt: Life and Work xxii Selçuk Akşin Somel and Seyfi Kenan A Representative List of Metin Kunt’s Publications xxxvii Introduction: The Issue of Transformation within the Ottoman Empire 1 Selçuk Akşin Somel and Seyfi Kenan part 1 Ottoman Historiography and Reflections 1 A Firman Issued by Mustafa the Son of Bayezid I Surnamed Düzme (1422) 39 Elizabeth A. Zachariadou 2 Imaginary Voyages, Imagined Ottomans: A Gentleman Impostor, the Köprülüs, and Seventeenth-Century French Oriental Romances 54 Tülay Artan 3 Practices of Remembrance and Sites of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Beheading of Şeyh İsmâil Ma ʾşûkî (d.1539) 97 Aslı Niyazioğlu 4 Ottoman Artisans in a Changing Political Context: Debates in Historiography 123 Suraiya Faroqhi part 2 Ottomans – Culture and Careers 5 Türbedar of the Ottoman Sultans: Şevkî Çelebi’s Nostalgia for the Bursa of Bayezid Han and Emîr Sultan 149 Fatih Bayram - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access viii Contents 6 The Personal Anthology of an Ottoman Litterateur: Celâlzâde Sâlih (d.1565) and His Mecmua 165 Cornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Şahin 7 Transforming the Abode of War into the Abode of Islam: A Local Grandee in Ottoman Hungary, Osman Ağa, Çelebi and Bey 183 Pál Fodor 8 Making Recommendations: Azmîzâde and the Mahzar for Vücûdî Efendi, 1608 202 Christine Woodhead 9 A Poet’s Warning: Veysî’s Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth Century 219 Mehmet Kalpaklı 10 From the ‘Scribe of Satan’ to the ‘Master of Belâgât’: Ottoman Chief Scribes and the Rhetorics of Political Survival in the Seventeenth Century 229 Ekin Tuşalp-Atiyas 11 The Compass and the Astrolabe: Empiricism in the Ottoman Empire 257 B. Harun Küçük PART 3 Law, Religion and Political Thought 12 In Search of the Ancient Law or Kānûn-i Kadîm: Some Notes on Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Political Thought 287 Mehmet Öz 13 Between a ‘Brilliant Retreat’ and a ‘Tragic Defeat’: Ottoman Narratives of the 1529 and 1683 Sieges of Vienna 305 N. Zeynep Yelçe 14 Bidʿat, Custom and the Mutability of Legal Judgments: The Debate on the Congregational Performance of Supererogatory Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire 323 Derin Terzioğlu - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access Contents ix 15 The Sicils of Karaferye (Veria) in the Eighteenth Century: A Case of Transformation? 367 Antonis Anastasopoulos 16 Ottoman Legal Change and the Şeriat Courts in the Long Nineteenth Century 379 Iris Agmon 17 Transformation through Constitution: Young Ottomans and the Kānûn-i Esâsî of 1876 399 Cemil Koçak In Lieu of a Conclusion 18 Repertories of Empire: How Did the Ottomans Last So Long in a Changing World? 441 Karl K. Barbir Glossary 455 Index 463 - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access Acknowledgements The primal idea for this book began to trickle down in the second half of 2013. In 2014, we invited Metin Kunt’s colleagues and friends to offer their contribu- tions. Time passed as ideas, analyses and essays evolved into this book in late autumn 2020. Unfortunately, Metin Hoca passed away on 3 December 2020 – a terrible loss to us while still finalizing the last touches before submission to Brill for publication. We cannot help but recall the irony of the famous Ottoman epigraph, “Kazây-ı mübremi tedbir ile tağyîr mümkün mü?” “Is it possible to intervene in the passage of the inexorable decree of providence by meddling?” Metin Hoca was a genuinely kind human being, an erudite scholar and a wonderful teacher. Now it is with great difficulty that we need to make a little amendment in the title as our Festschrift turns into a memorial. We will miss him dearly. This volume has been prepared with the magnanimous cooperation of Engin D. Akarlı. Engin Hoca took part in the conceptualization and the inter- nal organization of the Festschrift. The editors would like to express their grati- tude for his support. Another colleague to be mentioned is Tülay Artan, who contributed to this project by providing ideas that were crucial to shaping the project as well as by proof reading. We would like to thank Artan for her kind and generous assistance. Finally, we would especially like to thank Franca de Kort and Maurits H. van den Boogert, who professionally handled the whole process of manuscript preparation at Brill with patience, and Selina Cohen of Oxford Publishing Services who meticulously read and elegantly proofread the manuscript. In addition, we owe special thanks to Lloyd Cabasag and his team for dili- gently undertaking the process of the final design of this book. - 9789004442351 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 02:02:37PM via free access Acronyms AEK Âtıf Efendi Kütüphanesi, Istanbul AIHK Afyon Gedik Ahmet Paşa İl Halk Kütüphanesi AMKT Ankara Milli Kütüphane AO Archivum Ottomanicum AOH Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae ATUK Erzurum Atatürk Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi AUB American University of Beirut BRL British Library, London C. DH Cevdet Dahiliye CETOBAC Centre d’Études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies) C. EV Cevdet Evkaf CFHB Corpus Fontium Historiae (Corpus of Byzantine History Sources) CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique (French National Centre for Scientific Research) CUP Cambridge University Press CUPR Committee of Union and Progress DIA Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi DBIA Dünden Bugüne İstanbul Ansiklopedisi DOA Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Osmanlı Arşivi EBAL Études balkaniques EBR Encyclopaedia Britannica. 11th edition ECS Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi EI2 Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd edition EIE National Research Institute, Athens EU European Union FORTH Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas HC History Compass HR House of Representatives HUP Harvard University Press IA İslam Ansiklopedisi İE. TCT İbnülemin