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Jahrgang 2021 | Heft 1
Zeitschrift für Osmanistik,

Türkei- und Nahostforschung
Journal of Ottoman, Turkish
and Middle Eastern Studies
Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Turkologie,

Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung e. V.
Stefan Rohdewald, Albrecht Fuess, Stephan Conermann:

Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian
Mobility Dynamics
Hasmik Kirakosyan, Ani Sargsyan: On the Appropriation of
Lexicographic Methods of Kemālpaşazāde’s (1468–1534)
Glossary Daḳāyiḳu l-ḥaḳāyiḳ
Robert Born: The Ottoman Tributaries Transylvania,
Wallachia, and Moldavia
Taisiya Leber: The Early History of Printing in the Ottoman
Empire through the Prism of Mobility
Veruschka Wagner: Mobile Actors, Mobile Slaves
Dennis Dierks: Mediatising Violence and Renegotiating
Commonality
Diyâr
Jahrgang 2 · Heft 1 · 2021
Inhaltsübersicht / Contents
Einleitung / Introduction
Stefan Rohdewald, Albrecht Fuess, Stephan Conermann

Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics ............................. 5
Aufsätze / Articles
Hasmik Kirakosyan, Ani Sargsyan

On the Appropriation of Lexicographic Methods of Kemālpaşazāde’s (1468–1534)
Glossary Daḳāyiḳu l-ḥaḳāyiḳ ....................................................................................................... 14
Robert Born
The Ottoman Tributaries Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia:
Reflections on the Mobility of Objects and Networks of Actors ............................................. 27
Taisiya Leber
The Early History of Printing in the Ottoman Empire through the Prism of Mobility .......... 59
Veruschka Wagner
Mobile Actors, Mobile Slaves:
Female Slaves from the Black Sea Region in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul ........................... 83
Dennis Dierks
Mediatising Violence and Renegotiating Commonality:
Bosnian Muslim Press Reporting on the Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912) ............................... 105
Rezensionen / Book Reviews
Onur İnal
On Barak. Powering Empire. How Coal Made the Middle East and
Sparked Global Carbonization .................................................................................................... 134
Soumaya Louhichi
Amit Bein. Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East. International Relations
in the Interwar Period ................................................................................................................. 137
Diyâr, 2. Jg., 1/2021

4 Inhaltsübersicht / Contents
Şeyma Benli
Enrique Jiménez and Catherine Mittermayer (eds.). Disputation Literature in
the Near East and Beyond ........................................................................................................... 141
Hülya Çelik
Robert Jones. Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505–1624) ........................................... 146
Yavuz Köse
Hans-Lukas Kieser. Talât Pascha. Gründer der modernen Türkei und Architekt
des Völkermords an den Armeniern. Eine politische Biografie ......................................................... 150
Benedikt Römer
Afshin Marashi. Exile and the Nation. The Parsi Community of India and
the Making of Modern Iran ......................................................................................................... 155
Nachruf / Obituary ................................................................................................................ 159

Veruschka Wagner
University of Bonn, Germany
veruschka.wagner@gmx.de
Mobile Actors, Mobile Slaves: Female Slaves from the Black Sea
Region in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Abstract
This contribution aims to investigate mobility in the context of Ottoman slavery. Mainly on
the basis of seventeenth-century Istanbul court records, the study deals with the question of
mobility by focusing on female household slaves in Ottoman Istanbul who originated from the
Black Sea region. With a look at the actors who surrounded them, female slaves are analysed at
different stages in their lives. These stages were marked by changes related to mobility. The en-
try as well as the exit from slavery meant a spatial and social mobility for the slave women. But
even in the time in between, slave women remained mobile through aspects such as conversion
and resale. This paper further shows that Ottoman slavery and the slave trade were part of the
Transottoman context: it can be seen that spaces of interaction were created through the con-
nections and exchanges of actors beyond the Ottoman Empire.
Key words: Slavery, mobility, Black Sea region, female household slaves, Ottoman Istanbul, Is-
tanbul court records
1. Introduction
Due to the death of her husband, Üftāde Hātūn bint ʿAbdullah came into the posses-
sion of ten slaves, as we learn from an entry in Istanbul court records from 1618. The
document informs us that all her slaves were female and of Ukrainian origin. The
document clarifying the estate of the deceased lists all slaves individually by name
and bundles them together into small groups according to value.1
This document shows us two topics relevant to this paper. First, it reflects the re-
gion from which most slaves came to the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth centu-
ry. Second, it shows that it was mainly female slaves who were employed in Istanbul
households.2 Although most Istanbul court documents illustrate that there were other
regions from which slaves came and that there were also male slaves in households,
1 İstanbul Kadı Sicilleri. Galata Mahkemesi 46, 112 [43a-1], (20 August 1617). The exact date
of the entries is not given for all documents. In some cases, even the year can only be de-
rived from the preceding and following entries. In the cases where an exact date is availa-
ble, I will mention them in the respective footnote.
2 By household I mean here not large military-administrative households, but above all
family households constituted by family members and at least one slave (other slaves or
servants may have been attached). On military-administrative households, see Hathaway
2013; for family households, see Zilfi 2004.
Diyâr, 2. Jg., 1/2021, S. 83–104, DOI: 10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-83

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Jahrgang 2021 | Heft 1

Zeitschrift für Osmanistik,

Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Turkologie,

Stefan Rohdewald, Albrecht Fuess, Stephan Conermann:

Stefan Rohdewald, Albrecht Fuess, Stephan Conermann

Hasmik Kirakosyan, Ani Sargsyan

Rezensionen / Book Reviews

Diyâr, 2. Jg., 1/2021

Nachruf / Obituary ................................................................................................................ 159

Diyâr, 2. Jg., 1/2021, S. 83–104, DOI: 10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-83

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