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Co-edited volumes in Turkish translation by Karl K. Barbir
Osmanlı Dünyası’nda Kimlik ve Kimlik Oluşumu: Norman Itzkowitz Armağanı, kimlik sorunsalı çerçeve... more Osmanlı Dünyası’nda Kimlik ve Kimlik Oluşumu: Norman Itzkowitz Armağanı, kimlik sorunsalı çerçevesinde, bu konuda çok sayıda eser vermiş olan Amerikalı Osmanlı tarihçisi Norman Itzkowitz’in kendisi, öğrencileri ve meslektaşları tarafından yazılmış makalelerden oluşan bir seçkidir. Seçkiye makaleleriyle katkıda bulunan Amerikalı ve Türkiyeli yazarlar arasında, kendi sahalarının dev isimleri olan Engin Deniz Akarlı, Karl K. Barbir, Cornell H. Fleischer, Jane Hathaway, Cemal Kafadar, İ. Metin Kunt, Rudi Paul Lindner, Heath W. Lowry, Scott Redford ve Vamik D. Volkan’ı sayabiliriz.
Norman Itzkowitz, A.B.D.’de tümüyle Osmanlı çalışmalarına ayrılmış en eski üniversite kürsüsüne ev sahipliği yapan Princeton Üniversitesi’nde, sabık Robert Kolej rektörü (1935-44) Walter L. Wright, Jr., ve kendi hocası Lewis V. Thomas’dan sonra bu kürsüyü işgal eden üçüncü profesördü. 2001’de emekli olana dek, Osmanlı tarihi ve psiko-tarih dallarında, Osmanlı kimlikleri çerçevesinde çalıştı; üç dilde bir düzineden fazla kitap yayınladı. Doktora öğrencilerinin yetiştirilmesine gösterdiği özen, 2007’de kendisine A.B.D.’deki Orta Doğu Çalışmaları Derneği’nin Hocalık Ödülü’nü getirdi.
Papers by Karl K. Barbir
Ottoman Rule in Damascus, 1708-1758
The American Historical Review, Apr 1, 1982
... Ottoman rule in Damascus, 1708-1758. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Barbir, Karl K. (b... more ... Ottoman rule in Damascus, 1708-1758. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Barbir, Karl K. (b. 1948, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1980. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0691052972 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century. By Christine Isom-Verhaaren. London: LB. Tauris, 2011. xiii, 274 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Map. $95.00, hard bound
Slavic Review, 2013
This book is a welcome addition to Ottoman studies but also to the history of European diplomacy.... more This book is a welcome addition to Ottoman studies but also to the history of European diplomacy. Both the title and the argument attempt to subvert outdated historiographical assumptions, especially the long-unquestioned view that the Ottoman-French alliance was "a sensational aberration from the norms of Renaissance diplomacy" (4). To the contrary, the author holds that a broader view enables one to understand the Ottomans as full participants in European diplomacy starting at least from the fall of Constantinople in 1453, long before the Reformation provided the occasion for the Ottoman-French alliance against the Habsburgs. Christine Isom-Verhaaren provides evidence for her argument from both French and Ottoman sources, and she brings a critical eye to the assertions of contemporaries as they evaluated ongoing negotiations and conflicts within the emerging European state system. She consulted over a dozen valuable documents from the Topkapi Palace archives; numerous registers of outgoing orders in the Ottoman archives; and collections of European archival materials and narrative literature (in multiple languages), the latter yielding some of her most convincing evidence.
The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule
Routledge eBooks, Dec 6, 2019
International Journal of Middle East Studies, May 1, 1991
The book under review is by the author/editor of several surveys and readers on modern Islam in i... more The book under review is by the author/editor of several surveys and readers on modern Islam in its global political context and on such topics of contemporary interest as "women
Caesar E. Farah. The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830–1861. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, with the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford. 2000. pp. xxv, 816. $85.00
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 2002
No Friends but the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds: John Bulloch and Harvey Morris
Digest of Middle East Studies, Oct 1, 1993
Amy Singer. Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xvii, 201. Cloth 49.95,paper49.95, paper 49.95,paper22.95
The American Historical Review, Feb 1, 1997
Kate Fleet. European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman Empire: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 204. $59.95
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 2000
Fuad Sha'ban. Islam and Arabs in Early American Thought: The Roots of Orientalism in America. Durham, N.C.: Acorn, with the cooperation of Duke University Islamic and Arabian Development Studies. 1991. Pp. xxi, 244. $38.50
The American Historical Review, Oct 1, 1994
Ottoman Rule in Damascus, 1708-1758
Journal of The Economic and Social History of The Orient, 1985
... Ottoman rule in Damascus, 1708-1758. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Barbir, Karl K. (b... more ... Ottoman rule in Damascus, 1708-1758. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Barbir, Karl K. (b. 1948, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1980. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0691052972 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
Qaṣr Ibrīm in the Ottoman Period: Turkish and Further Arabic Documents. Martin Hinds , Victor Ménage
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Jul 1, 1996
Three. The Pilgrimage: Centerpiece of Ottoman Rule in Damascus
Two. Containment of Provincial Groups: Notables, Janissaries, and Tribesmen
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Aug 1, 2009
Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, eds., From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon, Beiruter Texte und Studien 96 (Beirut: Orient-Institut der DMG Beirut, 2004). Pp. 366
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Nov 1, 2008
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Aug 1, 1978
Reviews of Books:The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861 Caesar E. Farah
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 2002
The Historian, Mar 1, 2011
Hikmet Özdemir provides seven chapters wrapped by an introduction and an epilogue: two chapters o... more Hikmet Özdemir provides seven chapters wrapped by an introduction and an epilogue: two chapters on earlier wars (the Crimean, Russo-Turkish, and Balkan), two chapters on diseases, and three on related topics-burial of corpses, the fate of refugees (especially the Armenians, who were particularly vulnerable, along with the general civilian population), and the response of the Ottoman medical establishment. The latter chapter is easily the most fascinating, due to its use of the surprising number of surviving written accounts by members of that medical establishment, as well as the memoirs of European (mainly German) physicians. Given the number of physicians who themselves fell victim to disease-three hundred military medical officers died, two-thirds from typhus-it is important that Özdemir has found these accounts (57). He has also used the Turkish Military Archives to good effect. Özdemir raises at least three important historiographic issues: first, the reliability and quality of the evidence of military and civilian mortality; second, the problem of access to certain parts of that evidence; and third, the political implications, particularly regarding the various Ottoman nationalities, most notably the Armenians. As to the first, the fog of war certainly helped to produce contradictory figures for casualties. This was nothing new or unique to the First World War or the Ottoman Empire, but it does require more critical scrutiny. The author rightly examines casualty figures from earlier conflicts (notably the Crimean, Russo-Turkish, and Balkan Wars); but even here, there are wildly conflicting numbers-for example, those given for the Crimean War by several of the author's sources (9). One figure for total Ottoman casualties for the First World War, estimated at 3.5 million in early 1919, appears to be at variance with other statistics kept by Ottoman hospitals (121, 124). As to the second issue, concerning access to the Turkish Military archives, this reviewer hopes that these will be accessible (if they are not already) to reputable scholars, which leads to the third issue, namely the Armenian question. Özdemir concludes his book with the oblique statement that the wartime disasters of disease, death, and violence "did not afflict narrowly defined 'national' communities. Rather, the devastation of World War I . . . affected every nation that was involved in the conflict" (203). No one would dispute this statement, but many readers might wonder about the clearly political conflict involved, a conflict that continues to bedevil historical scholarship. The author's apparent desire to avoid that conflict by oblique means detracts from what is otherwise a very informative and well-documented book.
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Dec 1, 2006
Osmanlı Dünyası’nda Kimlik ve Kimlik Oluşumu: Norman Itzkowitz Armağanı, kimlik sorunsalı çerçeve... more Osmanlı Dünyası’nda Kimlik ve Kimlik Oluşumu: Norman Itzkowitz Armağanı, kimlik sorunsalı çerçevesinde, bu konuda çok sayıda eser vermiş olan Amerikalı Osmanlı tarihçisi Norman Itzkowitz’in kendisi, öğrencileri ve meslektaşları tarafından yazılmış makalelerden oluşan bir seçkidir. Seçkiye makaleleriyle katkıda bulunan Amerikalı ve Türkiyeli yazarlar arasında, kendi sahalarının dev isimleri olan Engin Deniz Akarlı, Karl K. Barbir, Cornell H. Fleischer, Jane Hathaway, Cemal Kafadar, İ. Metin Kunt, Rudi Paul Lindner, Heath W. Lowry, Scott Redford ve Vamik D. Volkan’ı sayabiliriz.
Norman Itzkowitz, A.B.D.’de tümüyle Osmanlı çalışmalarına ayrılmış en eski üniversite kürsüsüne ev sahipliği yapan Princeton Üniversitesi’nde, sabık Robert Kolej rektörü (1935-44) Walter L. Wright, Jr., ve kendi hocası Lewis V. Thomas’dan sonra bu kürsüyü işgal eden üçüncü profesördü. 2001’de emekli olana dek, Osmanlı tarihi ve psiko-tarih dallarında, Osmanlı kimlikleri çerçevesinde çalıştı; üç dilde bir düzineden fazla kitap yayınladı. Doktora öğrencilerinin yetiştirilmesine gösterdiği özen, 2007’de kendisine A.B.D.’deki Orta Doğu Çalışmaları Derneği’nin Hocalık Ödülü’nü getirdi.
Ottoman Rule in Damascus, 1708-1758
The American Historical Review, Apr 1, 1982
... Ottoman rule in Damascus, 1708-1758. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Barbir, Karl K. (b... more ... Ottoman rule in Damascus, 1708-1758. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Barbir, Karl K. (b. 1948, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1980. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0691052972 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century. By Christine Isom-Verhaaren. London: LB. Tauris, 2011. xiii, 274 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Map. $95.00, hard bound
Slavic Review, 2013
This book is a welcome addition to Ottoman studies but also to the history of European diplomacy.... more This book is a welcome addition to Ottoman studies but also to the history of European diplomacy. Both the title and the argument attempt to subvert outdated historiographical assumptions, especially the long-unquestioned view that the Ottoman-French alliance was "a sensational aberration from the norms of Renaissance diplomacy" (4). To the contrary, the author holds that a broader view enables one to understand the Ottomans as full participants in European diplomacy starting at least from the fall of Constantinople in 1453, long before the Reformation provided the occasion for the Ottoman-French alliance against the Habsburgs. Christine Isom-Verhaaren provides evidence for her argument from both French and Ottoman sources, and she brings a critical eye to the assertions of contemporaries as they evaluated ongoing negotiations and conflicts within the emerging European state system. She consulted over a dozen valuable documents from the Topkapi Palace archives; numerous registers of outgoing orders in the Ottoman archives; and collections of European archival materials and narrative literature (in multiple languages), the latter yielding some of her most convincing evidence.
The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule
Routledge eBooks, Dec 6, 2019
International Journal of Middle East Studies, May 1, 1991
The book under review is by the author/editor of several surveys and readers on modern Islam in i... more The book under review is by the author/editor of several surveys and readers on modern Islam in its global political context and on such topics of contemporary interest as "women
Caesar E. Farah. The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830–1861. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, with the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford. 2000. pp. xxv, 816. $85.00
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 2002
No Friends but the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds: John Bulloch and Harvey Morris
Digest of Middle East Studies, Oct 1, 1993
Amy Singer. Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xvii, 201. Cloth 49.95,paper49.95, paper 49.95,paper22.95
The American Historical Review, Feb 1, 1997
Kate Fleet. European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman Empire: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 204. $59.95
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 2000
Fuad Sha'ban. Islam and Arabs in Early American Thought: The Roots of Orientalism in America. Durham, N.C.: Acorn, with the cooperation of Duke University Islamic and Arabian Development Studies. 1991. Pp. xxi, 244. $38.50
The American Historical Review, Oct 1, 1994
Ottoman Rule in Damascus, 1708-1758
Journal of The Economic and Social History of The Orient, 1985
... Ottoman rule in Damascus, 1708-1758. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Barbir, Karl K. (b... more ... Ottoman rule in Damascus, 1708-1758. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Barbir, Karl K. (b. 1948, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1980. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0691052972 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
Qaṣr Ibrīm in the Ottoman Period: Turkish and Further Arabic Documents. Martin Hinds , Victor Ménage
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Jul 1, 1996
Three. The Pilgrimage: Centerpiece of Ottoman Rule in Damascus
Two. Containment of Provincial Groups: Notables, Janissaries, and Tribesmen
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Aug 1, 2009
Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, eds., From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon, Beiruter Texte und Studien 96 (Beirut: Orient-Institut der DMG Beirut, 2004). Pp. 366
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Nov 1, 2008
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Aug 1, 1978
Reviews of Books:The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861 Caesar E. Farah
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 2002
The Historian, Mar 1, 2011
Hikmet Özdemir provides seven chapters wrapped by an introduction and an epilogue: two chapters o... more Hikmet Özdemir provides seven chapters wrapped by an introduction and an epilogue: two chapters on earlier wars (the Crimean, Russo-Turkish, and Balkan), two chapters on diseases, and three on related topics-burial of corpses, the fate of refugees (especially the Armenians, who were particularly vulnerable, along with the general civilian population), and the response of the Ottoman medical establishment. The latter chapter is easily the most fascinating, due to its use of the surprising number of surviving written accounts by members of that medical establishment, as well as the memoirs of European (mainly German) physicians. Given the number of physicians who themselves fell victim to disease-three hundred military medical officers died, two-thirds from typhus-it is important that Özdemir has found these accounts (57). He has also used the Turkish Military Archives to good effect. Özdemir raises at least three important historiographic issues: first, the reliability and quality of the evidence of military and civilian mortality; second, the problem of access to certain parts of that evidence; and third, the political implications, particularly regarding the various Ottoman nationalities, most notably the Armenians. As to the first, the fog of war certainly helped to produce contradictory figures for casualties. This was nothing new or unique to the First World War or the Ottoman Empire, but it does require more critical scrutiny. The author rightly examines casualty figures from earlier conflicts (notably the Crimean, Russo-Turkish, and Balkan Wars); but even here, there are wildly conflicting numbers-for example, those given for the Crimean War by several of the author's sources (9). One figure for total Ottoman casualties for the First World War, estimated at 3.5 million in early 1919, appears to be at variance with other statistics kept by Ottoman hospitals (121, 124). As to the second issue, concerning access to the Turkish Military archives, this reviewer hopes that these will be accessible (if they are not already) to reputable scholars, which leads to the third issue, namely the Armenian question. Özdemir concludes his book with the oblique statement that the wartime disasters of disease, death, and violence "did not afflict narrowly defined 'national' communities. Rather, the devastation of World War I . . . affected every nation that was involved in the conflict" (203). No one would dispute this statement, but many readers might wonder about the clearly political conflict involved, a conflict that continues to bedevil historical scholarship. The author's apparent desire to avoid that conflict by oblique means detracts from what is otherwise a very informative and well-documented book.
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Dec 1, 2006
Identity and identity formation in the Ottoman world: a volume of essays in honor of Norman Itzkowitz
"Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World" is a collection of articles auth... more "Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World" is a collection of articles authored by the students and colleagues of Norman Itzkowitz. The contributors include Engin Deniz Akarly, Karl K. Barbir, Cornell H. Fleischer, Jane Hathaway, Cemal Kafadar, Y. Metin Kunt, Rudi Paul Lindner, Heath W. Lowry, Scott Redford, Vamyk D. Volkan, and others.Norman Itzkowitz was professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University until his retirement in 2001, and published more than a dozen books in three languages focusing on Ottoman history and psychobiography. In recognition of his exceptional contributions to the education and training of his students in Middle East and Ottoman studies, Itzkowitz received the Middle East Studies Association Mentoring Award in 2007.
Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World is a collection of articles authored by the ... more Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World is a collection of articles authored by the students and colleagues of Norman Itzkowitz. The contributors include Engin Deniz Akarli, Karl K. Barbir, Cornell H. Fleischer, Jane Hathaway, Cemal Kafadar, Metin Kunt, Rudi Paul Lindner, Heath W. Lowry, Scott Redford, Vamik D. Volkan, and others.
Norman Itzkowitz was Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University until his retirement in 2001, and published more than a dozen books in three languages focusing on Ottoman history and psychobiography. In recognition of his exceptional contributions to the education and training of his students in Middle East and Ottoman studies, Itzkowitz received the Middle East Studies Association Mentoring Award in 2007.
A review of T.J. Gorton's Renaissance Emir