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The Mongol invasions wrought many unintended consequences. The increased slave trade for eg. aided the rise of the Mamluks; the fleeing Turkmen of Anatolia set the stage for the Ottomans. In this ep we discuss Nicholas Morton's new book "The Mongol Storm" ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/mongol…

What can we learn about the late Ottoman Empire from the locusts & grasshoppers on its margins? We explore that question with longtime OHP contributor Sam Dolbee and his book "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East." ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/dolbee…

Osmanlı’da kamusal siyasetin kökenleri hangi döneme & pratiklere dayanır? Aktörleri kimlerdir ve devletle ilişkileri nasıldır? Aslıhan Gürbüzel, Osmanlı kamusal alanının oluşumunu & bu örneğin kamusal alan araştırmalarına sunduğu katkıları detaylandırıyor ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/gurbuz…

As the Ottoman state expanded in the 16th c, it extended privileges to elite families in Kurdistan. Nilay Özok-Gündoğan discusses her new book, The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire, and explains how these hereditary privileges developed and changed 👇ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/ozok.h…

The Suez Canal was one of the largest infrastructure projects in the late Ottoman world. Those workers' lives & labor transformed the canal zone; their stories, & challenges reveal the networks that knit the late-19th c. Mediterranean together from below. ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/carmin…

In our latest episode, Rashid Khalidi discusses his book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. Tune in below 👇ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/khalid…

In 1873, Nissim Shamama, a Tunisian Jew born in the Ottoman Empire, died suddenly at his palazzo in Livorno. A decade-long international dispute over his vast inheritance ensued. In 'The Shamama Case', Jessica Marglin investigates nationality on trial 👇ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/margli…

Avner Wishnitzer discusses the Ottoman nighttime and his recent book 'As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark'. Night was a time for sleep, rest, devotion, sex, crime, drinking & even revolt. He also examines his role as an activist. ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishni…

Our latest release is a 4-part series on "The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt" from World War I to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, with contributions by Alia Mossallam Ziad Fahmy Kyle J. Anderson & Andrew Simon. Listen in: ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/the-sound-of…

We speak with Maha Nassar about her first book, "Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World." Israel's Palestinian citizens were cut off from friends & family after 1948 and forged new transnational connections through literature 👇 ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nassar…

Set between elite households and a Sufi lodge, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's 1922 novel Nur Baba was a provocative take on morality, gender & love in late Ottoman Istanbul. We speak to Brett Wilson, the first to tranlsate the controversial classic to English ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nur-ba…

In 1866, a series of unexpected events led to the Ottoman imam Abd al-Rahman al-Baghdadi ending up in Rio de Janeiro. In this episode, Ali Kulez explains how he got there, and what happened when al-Baghdadi became close with Afro-Brazilian Muslims 👇rb.gy/d6vnol

Season 14 kicks off with Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky and his new book. Listen in to learn how North Caucasian refugees fleeing Russian expansion became a large segment of the Ottoman migrant (muhacir) population and, in turn, changed the nature of the Ottoman state: ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/08/hamed-…

Passports are at once momentous and mundane objects. In this episode, İlkay Yılmaz discusses their history in the late Ottoman Empire and the state's effort to manage information about identity and control people's movement. ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/yilmaz…

In the 19th-century Arab East, intellectual revival and stricter communal boundaries coexisted. Peter Hill shows how these trends converged in the life of Mikha'il Mishaqa (d. 1888), a doctor, merchant, and writer who navigated multiple faiths. Tune in: ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/peter-…

How did women shape modern Arab political thought? Longtime OHP contributor Susanna Ferguson explores this in her new book, Labors of Love, showing how 19th & 20th c. women writers addressed morality, labor & democracy through tarbiyah (child-rearing). ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/sferg.…

INCYMI, from last season: Ümit Kurt explores how economic forces, legal mechanisms, & local elites fueled the dispossession & deportation of Aintab’s Armenians during the Armenian Genocide, and examines the enduring legacies of this “economics of genocide.”ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/02/kurt.h…

In the 1890s, Ottoman Crete descended into communal violence between its Christian & Muslim inhabitants. Uğur Z. Peçe explains how this conflict, which he deems a civil war, came about, what it meant for everyday lives, and how it shaped the Empire's end. shorturl.at/nch8G

Emre Can Dağlıoğlu’nun Arapların 1915’i derlemesini ele alan bu bölüm, 1915’i Osmanlı ve sonrası Arap dünyasında düşünmenin yollarını tartışıyor; soykırımı sabit bir kırılma değil, yerel dinamiklerle genişleyen bir süreç olarak okuyan çalışmaları inceliyor shorturl.at/ZIRUR