The twenty-six chapters of this volume have their origins in a three-day seminar organised by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction with the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, with additional support from Cornucopia magazine. This multi-disciplinary event attracted a wide range of participants from around the world, including Europe, the United States of America, the Balkans, Türkiye and other parts of the Middle East.
This volume has a special focus on the Balkans and Anatolia, as seen and described by travellers from both within and outside the region. Much still remains to be learned about travellers in the Ottoman Balkans, who can shed valuable light on the topics of Christian-Muslim and East-West relations, and the transition from the Ottoman Empire to successor nation-states in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The chapters cover a variety of subjects, with sections on landscapes; religion and travel; European travellers from merchants to kings; fantasies, images and folktales; and imperial discourse, the rise of nations, and reportage. Contributors to the book are specialists from a range of academic disciplines, who draw on a wide selection of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies.
Preface: Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo Aid
Smaji
An Introduction to Travellers in Ottoman Lands II: the Balkans, Anatolia and
Beyond Paul and Janet Starkey
Part 1: Landscapes
1 The khans of Bosnia are large barns? A material approach to mobility in
Ottoman Bosnia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century Vincent
Thérouin
2 Eco-Narrative of the Balkans in the sixteenth-century chronicle Hasht
Bihisht, by Idrs Bidls Sabaheta Gaanin
3 Representation of rivers in travel literature in the German language on
late Ottoman Bosnia Nedim Rabi and Amer Maslo
4 Counting the Ottoman Capital: Auguste Viquesnels Voyage dans la Turquie
dEurope and travel writing as a quantitative source Burak Beir Fndkl
5 Travellers Narratives on the Ottoman House: filling the missing links in
the evolution of structure and form brahim Canbulat
Part 2: Religion and Travel
6 The Mystical Aspect of Ibn Baas Travels: the spiritual visions that
shaped Ibn
Baas path Ibrahim Al-Khaffaf
7 Mobility among Ottoman ulam: Mudarris iy al-dn Abdullah b. Muammad
al-Akhiskhw in Sarajevo Velida Mataradija
8 Foreign travel writers perceptions of religious orders in Bosnia and
Herzegovina during the long nineteenth century Omer Merzi and Vedrana
imi
9 The Millet-system to the test: religious freedom, tolerance and
coexistence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bosnia as revealed in Arthur J.
Evanss 1875 travelogue Through Bosnia and Herzegovina on foot Ines
Aeri-Todd
Part 3: Travellers from Diplomats, Merchants and Physicians, to
Photographers, Botanists and Kings
10 Descriptions and images of women in the Ottoman Balkans in sixteenth- to
seventeenth-century Netherlandish travelogues Maja Peri
11 On Departing the Ottoman Empire; the return of Peter Mundy (1597c. 1667)
from Constantinople through the Balkans to London in 1620 Jennifer Scarce
12 Mixing Western and Eastern medical practice in the Ottoman Empire: the
adventures of a Transylvanian doctor in Constantinople, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt
and Iraq (18151838) Alexandru Balas
13 The Journey of His Majesty King Friedrich August of Saxony through Istria,
Dalmatia and Montenegro in the spring of 1838 with Bartolomeo Biasoletto
Kristina Milkovi
14 Girault de Prangey and his connection to Lamartines Anatolian
Colonisation Project Anastasia Uskova
Part 4: Fantasies, Images and Folktales
15 Mermen, revenants, unicorns: fantastic creatures in Western travel writing
on the Ottoman Empire Doris Gruber
16 Fair Boys and Wicked Ladies: peoples of the Balkans in the work of
Enderunlu Fazl Bey Michael Erdman
17 En plein air: three artist-writers and their travelling companions in
Rumelia Janet Starkey
18 Imagological models of Bosnia in pictures and words: Heinrich Renners
travelogue Durch Bosnien und die Herzegovina, Kreuz und Quer [ Criss-cross
through Bosnia and Herzegovina] (1896) Aida Abadi Hodi
19 An American, a Scot, and an Irishman at a Turkish coffeehouse: Tales
recounted in Ottoman coffeehouses introduced to the Western World Melike
Tokay
20 The Heros Journey out from Under The Yoke Gemma Masson
Part 5: Imperial Discourse, the Rise of Nations, and Rapportage
21 Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer Christina Erck
22 Edith Durham: Balkan Traveller, Anthropologist, and Mountain Queen
Paul Starkey
23 Backwardness and Otherness: Ahmed erifs Description of the Ottoman
Provinces (19091914) and the Question of Ottoman Orientalism Patrick
Schilling
24 The Ottoman Empire and Italian imperial discourse: How Ottoman rule in
Albania was represented in Italian literature to legitimate its imperial
ambitions Pietro Dalmazzo
25 The Balkan nations in the Italian Travelogue Mirror: a contribution to the
study of reportage (17741922) Konstantin Draga
26 Travelogues published in Bosanska Sumejja: magazin za ene i porodicu from
2000 to 2022 Azra Hasanovi
Papers read at the Seminar Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the Balkans,
Anatolia and Beyond held at of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of
Sarajevo, Sarajevo, on 24-26 August 2022
Contributors
Index
Dr Ines Aeri-Todd is a Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Cultures, and Head of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK She has special interests in Middle Eastern, and particularly Ottoman, cultural and religious history, especially Sufism and Ottoman dervish orders, conversions to Islam, and interfaith relations in the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Europe.
Dr Aid Smaji is a professor of psychology at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo. He graduated in Psychology (2002) and Islamic Studies (2001); obtained his master's degree at the International Islamic University in Malaysia, and received his PhD in 2010 at the Department of Psychology at the University of Sarajevo.
Dr Janet Starkey formerly worked at KISR, Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Middle East; at the British Museum, London and the Oriental Museum, Durham; and as a lecturer in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies at Durham University, UK. Following her retirement from Durham, she lectures for the u3a in the Scottish Borders.
Professor Paul Starkey is Emeritus Professor at Durham University, UK and was the first Chair of ASTENE. A specialist on Arabic literature and culture, he is Chairman of the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature and until 2018 was Vice-President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES). In summer 2021 he was the recipient of the BRISMES Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies.
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