Cambridge Türkiye Tarihi III: Geç Osmanlı İmparatorluğu 1603-1839

Cambridge History of Turkey #3

by Suraiya Faroqhi, Fethi Aytuna (Translator)

Cambridge Türkiye Tarihi’nin “klasik” Osmanlı’nın son dönemine (1603-1839) hasredilmiş olan üçüncü cildinde III. Mehmed’in ölümüyle Tanzimat’ın ilanı arasında geçen iki asrı aşkın o sürede olan bitene bakılıyor. Avrupa’yla ilişkiler özellikle öne çıkarılıyor ve Osmanlı’da dini-siyasi cemaatler, kadınlar, kırsal yaşam ve sanat gibi hususlar her yönüyle değerlendiriliyor. Bu cildin esas meselesini ise döneme damgasını vurmuş ama bugüne dek hak ettiği ilgiye mazhar olmamış bir husus teşkil ediyor: İstanbul’da konumlanan yönetici seçkinlerle taşralı tebaa arasındaki uçurum ve bu uçurumun doğurduğu çatışma.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

720 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 2006

About the author

Suraiya Faroqhi was born in Berlin to a German mother and Indian father in 1941. She studied at Hamburg University and she came to Istanbul through a university exchange program when she was 21. At Istanbul University, she became a student of Ömer Lütfi Barkan. She completed her master's degree in Hamburg and between 1968-1970 she studied English Language Teaching at Indiana University-Bloomington. After her post-doctorate, she worked as English Lecturer at METU. She retired from METU in 1987 and from München Ludwig Maximillan Universität in 2005.

A turning point in her life came in 1962-63, when she took the opportunity to go to Istanbul University on a fellowship as an exchange student. Subsequently she became a student of Ömer Lüfti Barkan, one of the founding fathers of Ottoman history and an editor of Annales. When she first read Fernand Braudel at Barkan’s insistence, she “had the feeling that’s the sort of thing I wanted to do.” She wrote her doctoral thesis at Hamburg on a set of documents that a late 16th-century vizier submitted to his sultan discussing Ottoman politics at the time.[1]

She is regarded as one of the most important economic and social historians of the Ottoman Empire working today. Professor Faroqhi has written substantially on Ottoman urban history, arts and crafts, and on the hitherto underrepresented world of the ordinary people in the empire. She is well known for her distinctive approach to Ottoman everyday life and public culture. She has published numerous books and articles in the field of pre- modern Ottoman history.