The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul

Festivity and Representation in the Early Eighteenth Century

Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-43755-5 (ISBN)

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This book presents the holistic examination of the 1720 Ottoman imperial circumcision festival through a combined analysis of the hitherto unknown archival sources, contemporary narratives as well as book paintings.

The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul offers the first holistic examination of an Ottoman public festival through an in-depth inquiry into different components of the 1720 event. Through a critical and combined analysis of the hitherto unknown archival sources along with the textual and pictorial narratives on the topic, the book vividly illustrates the festival’s organizational details and preparations, its complex rites (related to consumption, exchange, competition), and its representation in court-commissioned illustrated festival books (sūrnāmes).

To analyze all these phases in a holistic manner, the book employs an interdisciplinary approach by using the methodological tools of history, art history, and performance studies and thus, provides a new methodological and conceptual framework for the study of Ottoman celebrations.

Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan, Ph.D. (2017), Boğaziçi University, Department of History, published articles on early modern Ottoman history and art history, and recently co-edited a special journal volume on Ottoman celebrations and festivals.

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

1The Reign of Ahmed III and the 1720 Festival

2Historiographical Framework

3Previous Research on Ottoman Festivals

4This Book

1Preparing the Festival

1In Search of Utensils

1.1Borrowing From Court Institutions and Purchasing From the Market

1.2Borrowing Utensils From Officials and City Dwellers

2Food Provisioning

3Making Nahils and Candy Gardens

3.1Officials, Merchants, and Craftsmen Working Together

4Registering the Names of Uncircumcised Boys and Performers

4.1Boys Registered for the Circumcision

4.2Performers Registered for the Festival

2Staging the Festival

1Food-Related Events

1.1Distribution of Food Allowances

1.2Donations Through Food

1.3“They Ate His Food, Drank His Sherbet”: Imperial Banquets

2Spectacles on Land and Sea

2.1Marvelous Shows Enacted

2.2Some Events as Performances

2.3Guild Parades

3Gifting

3.1Monetary Gifts to Attendants and Performers

3.2Robes of Honor to Dignitaries and Officials

3.3Providing Circumcision and Clothing for Boys

3.4A Piece of Jewelry or a Simple Candlestick: Obligatory Gifts Presented to the Sultan

3Representing the Festival

1Commissioning Process of the Illustrated Sūrnāmes

1.1Supervision of the Project

1.2Painters Working for the Illustrated Sūrnāmes

1.3The 1720 Festival Paintings in the Ottoman Book Painting Tradition

2Iconography and Image-Making

3Narrating the 1720 Festival in Imagery

3.1Serial Images of Processions and Guild Parades

3.2Narrating the Public Celebrations of the 1720 Festival in Imagery

Conclusions

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ; 71
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; Turkish, Ottoman
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	589 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-43755-X / 900443755X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-43755-5 / 9789004437555
Zustand	Neuware