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Coffee's allure has rarely remained an individual affair. The sharing of a cup of coffee marks a bridge between individuals, establishing a realm of commonality between those who hold the cups. In the coffeehouses of the 16 th and 17 th century Ottoman Empire, this notion facilitated interaction, causing the rise of a Muslim subculture within these establishments. Though originally the tradition of the social cup of coffee held a place in the Sufi lodges, the social fluidity of this sect of Islam spread the appeal of the coffeehouse to the general Muslim populace. Thus, the coffeehouse transformed into an alternative public space in which the social strata of Islam blended. Following its diversified consumer group, the coffeehouse expanded its functionality past religion, becoming a commercial home for literature, entertainment, vice and political dissension. Due to these attractions, the coffeehouse brought previously private discourse and actions into the public, which countered traditional values and the social structure. The resulting anxiety from Ottoman officials created constant opposition on both a political and religious front, making the coffeehouse a threat to the social institution as well as a non-hierarchical sphere for cultural expression.
A CONSUMPTION STRUGGLE: COFFEE, BOZA AND WINE IN ISTANBUL SOCIAL LIFE FROM THE 16 TH TO THE 18 TH CENTURY, 2021
The consumption of coffee, boza and wine, which has an important place in Istanbul's social life for centuries, has been subject to restrictions in many periods. Both ulama and political authorities perceived pleasure substances and public spaces where these substances were consumed as threats. However, the prohibitions and restrictions in question were ineffective due to both economic reasons and the passive resistance of the society against the prohibitions. This study aims to examine the place of pleasure substances in social life in Istanbul during the 16th-18th century, the restrictions, and the reactions of the people against the bans by making use of the documents in the Istanbul Kadi Registries.
Jewish Social Studies 19.3 (Summer 2014)
In the second decade of the eighteenth century, a trial unfolded in the city of Prague that challenged the transnational philanthropic ties of Jews. Beginning as a dispute between a creditor from Ottoman Palestine and Prague's chief rabbi, David Oppen heim, the affair soon took on interconfessional dimensions, engaging the proprietor of Prague's coffeehouse, a Jesuit censor of Hebraica, and the agents of the Habsburg monarchy. The dispute's unfolding in the legal arena offered opportunity for polemic and created a context in which claims about Jewish loyalty, belonging, and trust worthiness could be publicly interrogated in light of conversionary agendas and juris dictional contests over the power-and control-of the printed word and of Jewish global networks.
The Rise of the Coffeehouse Reconsidered
The Historical Journal, 2004
This article offers a history of British seventeenth-century coffeehouse licensing which integrates an understanding of the micro-politics of coffeehouse regulation at the local level with an analysis of the high political debates about coffeehouses at the national level. The first section details the norms and practices of coffeehouse licensing and regulation by local magistrates at the county, city, and parish levels of government. The second section provides a detailed narrative of attempts by agents of the Restoration monarchy to regulate or indeed suppress the coffeehouses at the national level. The political survival of the new institution is attributed to the ways in which public house licensing both regulated and also legitimated the coffeehouse. The rise of the coffeehouse should not be understood as a simple triumph of a modern public sphere over absolutist state authority; it offers instead an example of the ways in which the early modern norms and practices of licensed privilege could frustrate the policy goals of the Restored monarchy.
Coffee’s Contribution to the Political Role of Coffeehouses in England During 1660-1720
Journal of Student Research
According to German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, coffeehouses had a political role—creating a public sphere for the bourgeoisie to talk about politics. Therefore, coffeehouses, or salons in France, could lead to civil revolts. However, it leads to the question that why coffeehouses prevailed over teahouses, taverns, or other kinds of public places. This study shows the traits of coffee that made it an appealing product to facilitate political engagement among people. Through 17th-and-18th-century letters and diaries, this paper focuses on coffee—the object itself, rather than coffeehouses—to argue and explain why coffee became a popular and political beverage.
Coffee was once Ḥarām? Dispelling Popular Myths regarding a Nuanced Legal Issue
Islamic Studies, 2021
This paper attempts to address many misconceptions regarding the coffee controversy, which engulfed the Muslim world in the tenth/sixteenth century. It argues that rather than there simply being an oppositional binary of scholars permitting or forbidding coffee, in fact, a number of other positions can actually be discerned in the legal debate, namely that of recommendation and disapproval. Furthermore, it argues that besides holding the balance of power insofar as being the majority position, jurists who deemed coffee to be a permissible substance resorted to a number of epistemically powerful indicators to refute the prohibitionists, such as experimentation and the testimony of numerous individuals that the drink did not intoxicate or bring about any adverse side effects. In addition, by referring to some important but oft-ignored conventions pertaining to fatwās, the author argues that not all scholars typically labelled as being prohibitionists of coffee may have deemed the drink to be forbidden. Instead, many of them simply based their answers exclusively on the information provided to them by the questioner, in accordance with the legal precept that "the jurisconsult is the prisoner of the questioner." This paper is unique in its depth and comprehensiveness as it studies all the existing scholarly views on coffee. Furthermore, it provides a detailed study of the proceedings of the Meccan Assembly. Regarding the assembly, I argue that the attending jurists actually disagreed on the drink's ruling and that the different forms of evidence provided by the prohibitionists are not persuasive from a legal viewpoint. Keywords: Meccan Assembly, experimentation, coffee, sense experience, analogy, Yasir Qadhi.