
Privileges and Nobility in Ottoman Kurdistan
with Nilay Özok-Gündoğan hosted by Sam Dolbee | As the Ottoman state expanded in the sixteenth century, it extended a number of privileges to elite families in Kurdistan. In this episode, ...
20 Sep 20230s

Environment and Empire in the Ottoman Jazira
Samuel Dolbee hosted by Chris Gratien and Reem Bailony | What can we learn about the late Ottoman Empire from the histories of its would-be margins? In this episode, we explore that questio...
31 Maj 20230s

The Ottoman Empire and Eastern World Orders
with Ayşe Zarakol hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What did the international system look like before the rise of the West? What was the place of the Ottomans within it? How did the Ottoman...
20 Maj 20230s

Kantika: from History to Fiction, a Sephardic Journey
with Elizabeth Graver hosted by Brittany White | Elizabeth Graver grew up knowing her grandmother Rebecca was from the Ottoman Empire and that her tumultuous, meandering life journey, like...
13 Maj 20230s

Tax Administration in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Linda Darling hosted by Sam Dolbee | In this episode, Linda Darling discusses the history of tax administration in the early modern Ottoman Empire, and how attention to it can open up a bro...
5 Apr 20230s

Arab-Ottoman Imperialists at the End of Empire
with Mostafa Minawi hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What did it mean to be Arab during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire? What did it mean to be Arab and invested in continuation of t...
28 Mars 20230s

What is Islamic Art?
with Wendy M. K. Shaw hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What is an image in Islam? Is its permissibility the main preoccupation of Islamic discourses? In this episode, Wendy M.K. Shaw revisi...
3 Nov 20220s

Vernacular Photography in Early Republican Turkey
with Özge Calafato hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What can family and individual studio photographs tell us about social life in the early Republic of Turkey? In this episode, Özge Calafa...
11 Okt 20220s





















