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ASK Newsletter No. 21/April 2018

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Prof. Dr. Amina Elbendary The Bourgeois Trend in Late Medieval Arabic Discourse

Raffaele Ranieri The Wheel Thrown Pottery in the Southern Bilad-al-Sham (cc. XII-XIII): Production and Distribution. The Case Study of Shawbak (Southern Jordan)

Daisy Livingston Archival Practices in Mamluk Egypt (c. 1250-1517). Documents and Archives at the Center and Periphery in a Diverse Literate Society

Dr. Josef Zenka Autograph Manuscripts of Andalusi Immigrants

Table of Contents

t Current Fellows

t Previous Events

t Upcoming Events

t Upcoming Event (BCDSS)

t Publications

t Imprint

Dr. Alessandro Rizzo Mamluk Diplomatic Instruments Guarantying Mobility to European Emissaries and Merchants

Nicolò Pini Extended Families, Tribal Ties and Movement of People in the Mamluk Period: Spatial and Socio-economic Structures in Creating, Shaping, and Maintaining the Rural and Urban Built Environment

Current Fellows


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Previous Events

Lectures (Venue: Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg “History and Society during the Mamluk Era, 1250- 1517”, Heussallee 18-24) 5/2/2018 – Otto Spies Memorial Lecture, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Prof. Dr. Johann Büssow (Tübingen) “Middle Eastern, Islamic, or Ottoman? Empirical Findings and Local Voices on Individual Socialisation and Politics in Late Ottoman Gaza” 15/2/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 19/2/2018 – Fellows' Seminar, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dr. Stephen McPhillips (Bonn) “The Social Archaeology of the North Jordan Valley. Perspectives from Ṭabaqat Faḥl” 22/2/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 26/2/2018 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dr. Gül Sen (Bonn) “Naʿīmā Muṣṭafā (d.1716): An Ottoman Bureaucrat-Historian Between Aleppo and the Peleponne” 1/3/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 8/3/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00-12:00 p.m. 13/3/2018 – Otto Spies Memorial Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dr. Jan Schmidt (Leiden) “How a German Orientalist Got Involved in the Young Turk Movement in Cairo in 1908 - a Lost Volume of Karl Süssheim's Diary Found Again”

22/3/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 9/4/2018 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dr. Aleksandar Shopov (Munich) “Buying Soap and Selling Wheat: Farm Inventories from a Mid Sixteenth-Century Farm Estate Near Istanbul” 16/4/2018 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dr. Evrim Binbas (Bonn): “Contractual Political Ideas in the Timurid Period” 19/4/2018 – Fellows' Seminar, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Prof. Dr. Bethany Walker (Bonn) “Rural Revival in Late Mamluk Palestine: What We are Learning from Farmsteads and Terraced Fields” 26/4/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 30/4/2018 – Fellows' Seminar, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Nur Özdilmac (Bonn) “Heraldry and ‘Material Culture’ during the Mamluk Period in Egypt and Syria”


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Upcoming Events

Lectures (Venue: Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg “History and Society during the Mamluk Era, 1250- 1517”, Heussallee 18-24) 3/5/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 7/5/2018 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Ambassador (ret.) Dr. Mordechay Lewy “The Apocalyptic Abyssinian: The Genesis and Transfer of an Early Islamic Motif to Europe During the 5th Crusade and Its Impact on the of Horn of Africa in Latin World Maps” 14/5/2018 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dr. Arjan Post (Utrecht) “The Journey of a Taymiyyan Sufi: Sufism Through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311)” 17/5/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 24/5/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 28/5/2018 – Fellows’ Seminar, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Prof. Dr. Amina Elbendary (Bonn) “Lives and Miracles: Representations of Coptic and Muslim Saints in Medieval Egypt” 4/6/2018 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dr. Camilo Gómez-Rivas (UC Santa Cruz/Marburg) “Sanctuary, Refuge, and Displacement in the Maghrib During the Reconquista” 7/6/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 11/6/2018 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. PD Dr. Felix Hinz (Paderborn)

“25 Current Views on the Crusades in Russia, Turkey, the Western and the Arab World” 14/6/2018 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 22/6/2018 – Otto Spies Memorial Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Prof. Dr. Klaus Kreiser (Bamberg) “Selling the Ottomans or the Turkish Cultural Offensive” 19/7/2018 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Prof. Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser (University of Zürich) “Before Atatürk: Talaat Pasha, Founder of Post-Ottoman Turkey” 23/7/2018 – Fellows' Seminar, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Prof. Dr. Bethany Walker & the participants in the Archeological Field School Tall Hisban present preliminary research results of the excavation

Summer Break July 24th– August 24th

Jordan Field School Itinerary for 2018 Season June 20-July 16 (Petra Extension July 16-20) Schedule & Itinerary The schedule consists of a 5-day work week, dedicated to field work during the mornings, afternoon labs for pottery washing and reading and artifact processing, and three evening lectures per week. The tours are held during the weekends (Friday to Saturday).


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Field School Objectives The Field School is based on excavations at Tall Hisban, a multi-component Tell Site in Central Jordan with a medieval castle, situated in the Madaba Plains. Launched 50 years ago, this is the longest running foreign-led archaeological project in the Middle East as well as one of the oldest and most prestigious Field Schools in the region. This course is a formal archaeological Field School – with field, lab, and classroom components in Jordan. It provides hands-on training in archaeological excavation and post-season object analysis techniques. The students will participate in several projects related to site presentation, architectural preservation, and community outreach which are running concurrently with the excavation. In 2018, the 50th anniversary of the Tall Hisban project is celebrated and numerous public celebrations are planned. Even though there are no formal prerequisites to participate in the Field School, students are strongly encouraged to

have taken some Middle Eastern courses or Archaeology. Some training in Arabic language is recommended but not required. It can be understood that all students have an interest and respect for Middle Eastern cultures and are commitment to active research. The weekend excursions add to the program by visiting some of the most important archaeological and cultural sites as well as most beautiful natural wonders of Jordan. See also: http://www.madabaplains.org/ Prof. Dr. Bethany J. Walker

Upcoming Event (BCDSS)

New Perspectives on Slavery:

The Ottoman Empire

International Conference

University of Bonn, 28–30 June 2018

Organized by Stephan CONERMANN

Gül ŞEN

Venue Günnewig Hotel Bristol Bonn

Prinz-Albert-Str. 2 53113 Bonn

Queries

Wencke UHL [email protected]

0228-73 62964

https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies aims to promote research on the various forms of dependency. It questions the classical binary of ‘slavery’ and ‘freedom’ derived from the transatlantic experience. In the interest of developing alternative approaches the focus is on transcultural and interdisciplinary research, particularly in relation to non-European pre-modernity as an alternative frame of reference.


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The Center is happy to be able to organize a special conference on slavery issues in the Ottoman world and bring together researchers from the field, thus to stimulate international cooperation. We consider agency a useful tool to analyze asymmetric dependency structures on various levels of the Ottoman social order. By agency we understand the room for maneuver or options for action in situations of extreme individual or group dependency. We strongly recommend to build on the comprehensive scope of a previous initiative Mediterranean Slavery Revisited 500–1800 (edited by Stefan Hanß and Juliana Schiel, 2014). Based on a 2012 conference, it addresses the semantics, practices and transcultural perspectives as well as first considerations of agency. Until then, practices of slavery in the Mediterranean had often served as a negative foil to the transatlantic counterpart. With its explicitly exclusive and more granular focus on the various dimensions of the Mediterranean forms of servitude, the interest shifted to opening a horizon for transcultural comparative analysis via interdisciplinary dialogue. The conference aims to continue the work of the initiative that is to go beyond the normative and universalizing model of slavery. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire as a research field deserves special attention for various reasons. One, it connects to neighboring dominions, from Central Europe to the Black Sea region and beyond. Second, with the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, it encompasses the two water surfaces which played a crucial role in enslavement practices and the slave trade. Third, the Ottoman Empire spans the longest time frame of any empire between the 14th–20th centuries. Last, but not least, the abundance of sources available warrants a more detailed investigation of the topic. The state of research demonstrates a predominance of certain subjects: domestic slavery with a focus on female slaves; courtly slaves, again with an emphasis on women and/or eunuchs and their power. The most recent

publications on Ottoman slavery by Suraiya Faroqhi Slavery in the Ottoman World: A Literature Survey (2017) and the forthcoming study by Ehud R. Toledano Ottoman and Islamic Enslavement from a Global Perspective: Theory, Methodology, Practice (2018) illustrate the recent move beyond these classical topics for the entire period of Ottoman rule. JUNE 28, THURSDAY

Opening

9:30 Stephan CONERMANN and Gül ŞEN

Keynote Lectures

10:00 Ehud R. TOLEDANO (University of Tel Aviv) Enslavement in Ottoman and Other Muslim-Majority Societies: Where We Are, Where We Are Going

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Suraiya FAROQHI (University of Munich/Ibn Haldun University) Slavery in the Ottoman and Mughal Empires Compared

Panel 1: Legal Perspectives Chair: Johann BÜSSOW

12:00 Joshua M. WHITE (University of Virginia) Freedom Suits and Contested Enslavement in the Ottoman Empire (16th-18th Centuries)

13:00 Yehoshua FRENKEL (Haifa

University) Slaves at 17th Century Jerusalem's Sharʿi Court Hall

14:00 Lunch Break


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Panel 2: The Power of the Chief Eunuchs Chair: Linda T. DARLING

15:00 George H. JUNNE, Jr. (University of Northern Colorado) Chief Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: Their Roles and Accomplishments

16:00 Jane HATHAWAY (The Ohio University) The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch as Commissioner of Illuminated Manuscripts: The Slave as Patron, Subject, and Artist?

17:00 Coffee break

Panel 3: The Slave Trade Chair: Christoph WITZENRATH

17:30 Zübeyde GÜNEŞ-YAĞCI (Balıkesir University) The Most Difficult Aspect of Trade: Human Trafficking and Slave Traders in Ottoman Istanbul

18:30 Veruschka WAGNER (University of Bonn) Slaves of the Black Sea Region in 17th Century Istanbul

19:30 Reception Dinner JUNE 29, FRIDAY

Panel 4: Ransoming and Manumission Chair: Suraiya FAROQHI

09:00 Betül İPŞiRLi -ARGIT (Marmara University) Manumitted Female Palace Slaves and Their Material World

10:00 Rinaldo MARMARA (Episcopal Conference of Turkey) Ransoming Activities by the Jesuits in 18th Century Istanbul

11:00 Coffee Break

Panel 5: Organisation of Coerced Labor Chair: Jane HATHAWAY

11:30 Gül ŞEN (University of Bonn) The Driving Force of the Ottoman Fleet: Galley Slavery as Sustaining Mechanism According to the Chronicle of Naʿīmā

12:30 Gülay YILMAZ-DiKO (Akdeniz University) Devshirme Recruits as Unfree Laborers in 16th Century Istanbul

13:30 Lunch Break

Panel 6: Abolition and its Consequences Chair: Jeff EDEN

14:30 Johann BÜSSOW and Sarah BÜSSOW-SCHMITZ (University of Tübingen) Domestic Servants in Late Ottoman Palestine After the Abolition of Slavery: First Considerations on Semantics and Agency

15:30 Behnaz MIRZAI (Brock University) Ottoman Slavery Political Agency and Legal Discourse in Iran

16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 Departure from the hotel to the museum


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Otto Spies Memorial Lecture

18:00 12th OSML: Linda T. DARLING (University of Arizona) The Syrian Janissaries in the Sixteenth Century, or, How Conquering a Province Changed the Ottoman Empire Venue: Bundeskunsthalle (museum), Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4

JUNE 30, SATURDAY

Panel 7: Central Asian Connections Chair: Ehud R. TOLEDANO

09:00 Jeff EDEN (Cornell University) Agents of Insurrection: Comparing Rebellion Among Ottoman and Central Asian Slaves

10:00 Christoph WITZENRATH (University of Bonn) Agency in Muscovite Archives: Returned Ottoman Slaves Negotiating the Moscow Administration

11:00 Coffee Break

Panel 8: The Crimean Khanate Chair: Yehoshua FRENKEL

11:30 Natalia KRÓLIKOWSKA-JEDLIŃSKA (Warsaw University) The Role of Circassian Slaves in the Domestic and Foreign Policy of the Crimean Khanate in the Early Modern Period

12:30 Fırat YAŞA (Sakarya University)

Violence against Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Crimea: A Darker Side of Life in a Slave-Owning Society

13:30 Lunch Break

14:30 Closing Statement: Stephan CONERMANN

15:00 Discussion & Conclusions 16:30 Optional sightseeing tour in

downtown given by Dorothée KREUZER


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Publications

Mamluk Studies Review Volume XX (2017) – Open Access Journal Contributions from the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg "History and Society during the Mamluk Era, 1250-1517" at the University of Bonn. To download the individual articles please use the following link: https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/handle/11417/727 Content: t Introduction by Bethany Walker t Donald Presgrave Little, 1932–2017 by

Sami G. Massoud t The Occultist Encyclopedism of ʿAbd

al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī by Noah Gardiner

t Recasting al-Bayḍāwī’s Eschatological Concept of Bodily Resurrection: Shams al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī and Aḥmad al-Ījī in Comparative Perspective by Abdelkader Al Ghouz

t Between Beirut, Cairo, and Damascus: Al-amr bi-al-maʿrūf and the Sufi/Scholar Dichotomy in the Late Mamluk Period (1480s–1510s) by Torsten Wollina

t Theft, Plunder, and Loot: An Examination of the Rich Diversity of Material Reuse in the Complex of Qalāwūn in Cairo by Iman Abdulfattah

t The Turbah of Sitt Sutaytah: A Funerary Foundation for a Mamluk Noblewoman in Fourteenth-Century Damascus by Ellen Kenney

t Did the Mamluks Have an Environmental Sense? Natural Resource Management in Syrian Villages by Bethany Walker, Sofia Laparidou, Annette Hansen, and Chiara Corbino

t Book Review: Tsugitaka Sato, Sugar in the Social life of Medieval Islam (Mohamed Ouerfelli)

t Book Review: Central Eurasia in the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Peter B. Golden, edited by István Zimonyi and Osman Karatay (Patrick Wing)

t Book Review: Daisuke Igarashi, Land Tenure, Fiscal Policy, and Imperial Power in Medieval Syro-Egypt (Albrecht Fuess)

t Book Review: Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World (Robert Irwin)

t Book Review: Julien Loiseau, Les Mamlelouks XIIIe-XVIe siècle (Yehoshua Frenkel)

Imprint Publisher: Responsible Editors: Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg (ASK) Prof. Dr. Stephan CONERMANN and Heussallee 18 – 24 Dr. Abdelkader AL GHOUZ 53113 Bonn/ Germany Layout: Jan HÖRBER, Wencke UHL phone: +49 (0)228/ 73 62 941 fax: +49 (0)228/ 73 62 964 ASK-Newsletter is a quarterly publication, e-mail: [email protected] free of charge. ASK is a Center for Advanced Studies

funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). www.mamluk.uni-bonn.de