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Şen, Gül. "Osmanlı Donanmasında Kürek Cezası." Translated by Alptuğ Ahmet Güney. Yeni Deniz Mecmuası, no. 30 (2023): 80-85.
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Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement, ed. by Stephan Conermann, Youval Rotman, Ehud Toledano, Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2023, pp.133-166., 2023
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Ottoman Navy, rowing ships, maritime labor, galley slaves, criminals, convicts, penal system, sen... more Ottoman Navy, rowing ships, maritime labor, galley slaves, criminals, convicts, penal system, sentence to galleys ("kürek")
Gül Şen: Auf Die Galeere! [To The Galleys!], DAMALS 11 (2022): 58-63
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In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül ... more In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from history and literary studies, Şen focuses on the purpose and function of the chronicle—not just what the text says but why Naʿīmā wrote it and how he shaped the narrated reality on the textual level. As a case study on the literalization of historical material, Making Sense of History provides insights into the historiographical and literary conventions underpinning Naʿīmā’s chronicle and contributes to our understanding of elite mentalities in the early modern Ottoman world by highlighting the author’s use of key concepts such as history and time.
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The Political Administration of the Districts of Greater Syria in the Sixteenth Century, in: The ... more The Political Administration of the Districts of Greater Syria in the Sixteenth Century, in: The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century, 2, ed. by Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen (Goettingen: Bonn University Press/V&R unipress, 2022), pp. 359-378. - ISBN: 978-3-8471-1152-8
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While the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk realm in 1516-17 doubtlessly changed the balance of poli... more While the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk realm in 1516-17 doubtlessly changed the balance of political power in Egypt and Greater Syria, the changes must be seen as a wide-ranging transition process. The present collection of essays provides several case studies on the changing situation during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and explains how the reconfiguration of political power affected both Egypt and Greater Syria. With reference to the first volume (2017), this second volume continues the debate on key issues of the transition period with contributions by scholars from both Mamluk and Ottoman studies. By combining these perspectives, the authors provide a more comprehensive and nuanced picture of the process of transformation from Mamluk to Ottoman rule.
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In: Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire, ed. Stephan Conermann and Gül Sen (Bonn University Press at V&R unipress, 2020), pp. 131-163. , 2020
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Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire, 2020
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Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire, ed. Stephan Conermann and Gül Sen (Bonn University Press at V&R unipress, 2020)
Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire offers a new contribution to slavery studies re... more Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire offers a new contribution to slavery studies relating to the Ottoman Empire. Given the fact that the classical binary of ‘slavery’ and ‘freedom’ derives from the transatlantic experience, this volume presents an alternative approach, by examining the strongly asymmetric relationships of dependency documented in the Ottoman Empire. A closer look at the Ottoman social order discloses manifold and ambiguous conditions involving enslavement practices, rather than a single universal pattern. The authors of this volume examine various forms of enslavement and dependency with a particular focus on agency, i.e., the room for maneuver, which the enslaved could secure for themselves, or else the available options for action in situations of extreme individual or group dependencies. Case studies reveal a very wide spectrum of agency, especially with regard to domestic slaves. The authors discuss a multitude of questions, including the uses of legal documents. Others explore the particular situations of eunuchs, galley slaves, slave traders, enslaved populations, manumitted slaves at the palace and in ordinary households, war captives returned home, and domestic servants after the abolition of slavery. This volume presents a clearer and more nuanced picture of the practices of slavery and asymmetric dependency that evolved across the duration of the Ottoman Empire.
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In: Bethany J. Walker und Abdelkader al-Ghouz (eds.): Living with Nature and Things: Contributio... more In: Bethany J. Walker und Abdelkader al-Ghouz (eds.): Living with Nature and Things: Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods (Bonn University Press at V&R unipress), pp.49-78.
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Jordan as an Ottoman Frontier Zone in the Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries , (UHML 15), Berlin: EB-Verlag, 2018, 60 p., 2018
This study offers a reconsideration of the area covered by present-day Jordan under Ottoman rule ... more This study offers a reconsideration of the area covered by present-day Jordan under Ottoman rule during the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. Despite its political and strategic importance over the ages, the former Mamluk- and later Ottoman-ruled region has remained an understudied area eclipsed by other territories in the former Ottoman province of historical Syria. By applying a combination of approaches, putting an emphasis on ‘transition’ instead of dynastic division and considering the geographical reorientation as the ‘empire’s frontier’, the author reframes Jordan as a frontier during a transitional period and sets it into the larger picture of Ottoman provincial administration.
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in: H. Meyer/C. Schirrmacher/U. Vollmer (eds.): Die Bonner Orient- und Asienwissenschaften. 2018, pp. 233-252.
Otto Spies was a professor of the Semitic Languages and Middle Eastern Studies. He served as the ... more Otto Spies was a professor of the Semitic Languages and Middle Eastern Studies. He served as the head of the former Department of Middle Eastern and Oriental Studies and established the Department of Oriental Languages at the University of Bonn. In the post-war period, Spies, as head of the both departments contributed greatly to the further development of this field not only in Bonn but throughout Germany.
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In: An Iridescent Device: Premodern Ottoman Poetry, ed. by Christiane Czygan / Stephan Conermann... more In: An Iridescent Device: Premodern Ottoman Poetry, ed. by Christiane Czygan / Stephan Conermann (Goettingen: Bonn University Press at V & R unipress, 2018), pp. 89-110.
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In:The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteen... more In:The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century, ed. by Stephan Conermann /Gül Şen (Goettingen: Bonn University Press at V & R unipress, 2017), pp. 13-32
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The essays in this volume discuss continuity and change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām during the six... more The essays in this volume discuss continuity and change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām during the sixteenth century, examining to what extent Egypt and Greater Syria were affected by the transition from Mamluk to Ottoman rule. The topic is explored in a variety of areas: diplomatic relations, histories and historiography, fiscal and agricultural administration, symbolic orders, urban developments, local perspectives, and material culture. To rethink the sixteent century from a transitional perspective und thus overcome the conventional dynasty centrism in research Mamlukists and Ottomanists are brought together to shed light on the remarkable sixteenth century, so decisive for the formation of early modern Muslim empires.
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In: Stephan Conermann / Gül Şen: The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century (Goettingen: Bonn University Press at V& R unipress, 2017), pp. 329-344, 2017
The former Mamluk viceroy and therefore vehement opponent of Selīm I. (r. 1512-1520) Jānbirdī al-... more The former Mamluk viceroy and therefore vehement opponent of Selīm I. (r. 1512-1520) Jānbirdī al-Ghazālī later became the sultan’s loyal governor of Damascus. When Selīm I. died in 1520, Jānbirdī al-Ghazālī refused to obey Selīm’s successor. Al- Ghazālī serves as an example of the challenge to sovereignty in the period of transition from Mamluk to Ottoman rule in Bilād al-Shām. This chapter takes a closer look at the narrative strategies applied in the treatment of Jānbirdī’s persona and his rebellion by taking into consideration the literary qualities which provide insight into the accounts’ political function. The main work Tabaḳāt ül-memālik ve derecat ül-mesālik of Celālzāde Muṣṭafā (1490-1597), historian and bureaucrat, is of special interest since it gives us the most comprehensive written description of the reign of Süleymān I as well as of al-Ghazālī’s 1521 rebellion against the Ottomans.
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In: Stephan Conermann (ed.), Wozu Geschichte? Historisches Denken in vormodernen historiographischen Texten (Berlin: EB Verlag, 2017), pp. 169-194., 2017
This chapter deals with universal history as a genre and with the concept of history in the m... more This chapter deals with universal history as a genre and with the concept of history in the most well-known Ottoman universal history of the sixteenth century, Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī’s Künh ül-Aḫbār. The question at stake is how rule is narratively organized in this work. The author Muṣṭafā ´Ālī, was himself as administration official, litterateur, and historian, part of the functional elite and, thus, also part of the system of political rule.
His universal history reflects his personal as well as the collective historical consciousness of his time. Within the framework of a universal history, Ottoman history is linked to the history of the cosmos, the history of early Islam, and the history of previous dynasties. The result is a reconfiguration of a history which had, up to then, only been set in the context of a dynastic history and is now embedded in a universal context. In the analyzed chapter of the Künh ül-Aḫbār the persona – here, the sultan as office-holder – is responsible for his actions. So, it is not about the human being but rather about the representative of his functional group. Accordingly, a sultan–in this case Selīm–is formed in an ideal-typical way.
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Gül Şen: Auf Die Galeere! [To The Galleys!], DAMALS 11 (2022): 58-63
Link to the Journal:
https://www.wissenschaft.de/magazin/damals-aktuelles-heft/aufstieg-der-habsburger/
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His universal history reflects his personal as well as the collective historical consciousness of his time. Within the framework of a universal history, Ottoman history is linked to the history of the cosmos, the history of early Islam, and the history of previous dynasties. The result is a reconfiguration of a history which had, up to then, only been set in the context of a dynastic history and is now embedded in a universal context. In the analyzed chapter of the Künh ül-Aḫbār the persona – here, the sultan as office-holder – is responsible for his actions. So, it is not about the human being but rather about the representative of his functional group. Accordingly, a sultan–in this case Selīm–is formed in an ideal-typical way.
Gül Şen: Auf Die Galeere! [To The Galleys!], DAMALS 11 (2022): 58-63
Link to the Journal:
https://www.wissenschaft.de/magazin/damals-aktuelles-heft/aufstieg-der-habsburger/
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[Please consult the published version for correct page numbers]
Link to the publisher:
http://www.v-r.de/de/the_mamluk_ottoman_transition/t-0/1087084/
His universal history reflects his personal as well as the collective historical consciousness of his time. Within the framework of a universal history, Ottoman history is linked to the history of the cosmos, the history of early Islam, and the history of previous dynasties. The result is a reconfiguration of a history which had, up to then, only been set in the context of a dynastic history and is now embedded in a universal context. In the analyzed chapter of the Künh ül-Aḫbār the persona – here, the sultan as office-holder – is responsible for his actions. So, it is not about the human being but rather about the representative of his functional group. Accordingly, a sultan–in this case Selīm–is formed in an ideal-typical way.
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