Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire

From the 15th to the 20th Century

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5538-1 (ISBN)

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Explores 5 centuries of changing attitudes toward children and childhood in the Ottoman Empire

How did adults, religious institutions and the state view children during the Ottoman Empire? This volume gathers specialists in the social history of the Ottoman Empire as a whole – in regions ranging from Anatolia through the Arab provinces to the Balkans, and from the 15th to the early 20th century – to respond to recent theoretical calls to recognise children as active agents in history. Divided into five thematic sections (concepts of childhood, family interrelationships, children outside family circles, children’s bodies, and education), the volume covers the social and political structure of the Ottoman Empire. It uses the innovative prism of children as social agents who are not only shaped by but also shape society, rather than being the passive recipients of their social environment.

Gülay Yilmaz is Associate Professor at Akdeniz University. She is author of articles in The Journal of Ottoman Studies, Belleten and Studies of the Ottoman Domain and of chapters in Bread from the Lion’s Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities (Berghahn Books, 2015) and Children in Slavery Through the Ages (Ohio University Press, 2009). Fruma Zachs is a Professor at the University of Haifa. She is author of The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in 19th-Century Beirut (Brill, 2005), co-author of Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and co-editor of Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh (I.B. Tauris, 2005).

ForewordSuraiya Faroqhi

IntroductionGülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs

1. Ottoman Childhoods in Comparative PerspectiveColin Heywood

Part I: Concepts of Childhood

2. Childhood in the Peasant Militia Registers and the Age Boundaries of AdolescenceCahit Telci

3. An Ottoman Boyhood: Child Life in the Late Eighteenth Century through the Lens of Panayis Skouzes’ AutobiographyEleni Gara

Part II: Family Interrelationships

4. Preliminary Observations on the Demographic Roots of Modern Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: Wealth, Children and Status in Ruse, Vidin and Sofia, 1670–1855İrfan Kokdaş

5. The Emotional Bond between Early Modern Ottoman Children and Parents: A Case Study of Sünbülzade's ‘Ideal’ Child (1700–1800)Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik

6. A World of Conflicts: Youth and Violence towards Parents in the Family in Rural Wallachia, 1716–1859Nicoleta Roman

Part III: Children Outside Family Circles

7. Born and Bred in Seventeenth-Century Crimea: Child Slavery, Social Reality and Cultural IdentityFırat Yaşa

8. Rural Girls as Domestic Servants in Late Ottoman IstanbulYahya Araz

9. Muslim Orphans and the Shari‘ah in Nineteenth Century Palestine: Cases from NablusMahmud Yazbak

Part IV: Children’s Bodies

10. Body Politics and Devşirmes in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Conscripted Children of HerzegovinaGülay Yılmaz

11. Pastimes for Child Breadwinners: The Sanitisation and Recreation Facilities of the Hereke Factory CampusDidem Yavuz Velipaşaoğlu

12. Beating is Heaven-Sent: Corporal Punishment of Children in the late Ottoman and Early Republican EraNazan Çiçek

Part V: Children and Education

13. Childhood and Education in Ottoman Bosnia during the Early Modern Period (mid-Fifteenth to Late Eighteenth Century)Elma Korić

14. Children’s Education in Ottoman Jewish Society (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)Ruth Lamdan

15. Women as Educators towards the End of the Nahda Period: Labiba Hashim and Children’s UpbringingFruma Zachs

GlossaryList of ContributorsIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
Zusatzinfo	9 black and white illustrations, 8 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-5538-7 / 1474455387
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5538-1 / 9781474455381
Zustand	Neuware