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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783112209080
035 _a(DE-B1597)566663
035 _a(OCoLC)1198930515
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSobers-Khan, Nur
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSlaves Without Shackles :
_bForced Labour and Manumission in the Galata Court Registers, 1560-1572 /
_cNur Sobers-Khan.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (384 p.)
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aStudien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker ;
_v20
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tTable of Contents --
_tList of Figures --
_tList of Tables --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tA Note on Transliteration --
_tChapter 1: Laying the Groundwork --
_tChapter 2: The Corpus of Texts --
_tChapter 3: Categorising the Origins of Slaves --
_tChapter 4: The mukātaba Contract and Maritime Slave Labour --
_tChapter 5: Identification or Subjugation? --
_tChapter 6: Conclusion --
_tAppendix: Individual Slave Manumission Contracts --
_tBibliography
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Modern / General.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783112209080
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783112209080
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