Ottoman History Podcast

Ottoman History Podcast


Latest Episodes

Missionaries and the Making of the Muslim Brotherhood | Beth Baron
January 08, 2015

E182 | In this episode, Beth Baron discusses the …

Slavery and Manumission in Ottoman Galata | Nur Sobers-Khan
December 11, 2014

E181 | The legal and social environments surrounding slavery and manumission during the early modern period varied from place to place and profession to profession. In this episode, Nur Sobers-Khan presents her exciting research on the lives of a particul

Law and Order in Late Ottoman Egypt | Khaled Fahmy
November 20, 2014

E180 | How have the immense transformations of the nineteenth century impacted Egyptian state and society? Our guest Dr. Khaled Fahmy has devoted much of his work to the study of that very question in the realms of military, medicine, and in this episode,

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Gizli Hristiyanlar | Zeynep Türkyılmaz
November 14, 2014

E179 | Hristiyan, Müslüman, Yahudi gibi kesin hatlarla birbirinden ayrılmış kimliklerin hüküm sürdüğü çağımızın aksine Osmanlı toplumunda özellikle devlet gücünün erişmediği yerlerde bu kimlikler arasında geçişkenlik çok fazlayd

Society and Politics in Ottoman Iraq | Dina Khoury
November 06, 2014

E178 | Iraq was located on the periphery of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, as the main interface between the Ottoman and Safavid realms, it was also a region of tremendous importance for the Ottoman state. In this episode, Dina Khoury discusses her work on Otto

Saharan Jews and French Algeria | Sarah Stein
October 30, 2014

E177 | The 1870 Crémieux Decree extended French citizenship to most, but not all, of Algeria's Jewish population. The Jews of the M'zab Valley were excluded from this legislation. As Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein explains in this episode, this was due t

Osmanlı Toplumunda Çocukluk | Yahya Araz
October 26, 2014

E176 | Osmanlı'da çocukluk algısının olup olmadığı son dönem tarih yazıcılığında sıkça sorulan sorular arasındadır. Bu bölümde Yahya Araz bize çocukların sadece küçük insanlar olmanın ötesinde Osmanlı'da çocukluk tanımının

Syrian University Students and the Impacts of War | Keith Watenpaugh
October 17, 2014

E175 | The war in Syria has displaced millions of people, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and disrupted the education of countless students. In this interview, Keith Watenpaugh, a historian who has also researched the situation of Syrian students

The Life of Zabel Yessayan | Jennifer Manoukian
September 23, 2014

E174 | The late 19th century was a time of intellectual and cultural flourishing for the Armenian community in Constantinople, as a new generation of Armenian thinkers traveled to Europe to study, debated new ideas in the press, and settled on a new verna

Osmanlı’da Tütün İşçileri | Can Nacar
September 12, 2014

E173 | Ondokuzuncu yüzyılda gelişen üretim teknolojisiyle, sigaraya yönelik rağbet tütün üretiminde büyük bir artışa yol açtı. Osmanlı’nın son döneminde gerek yerel gerekse uluslararası pazarların taleplerini arza dönüştürme ça