Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.By Way of Introduction:Decline,its Discontents and Ottoman Cultural History Dana Sajdi 2.Saadabad:The ‘Tulip Age ’ and Ottoman -Safavid Rivalry Can Erimtan 3.The First Ottoman Turkish Printing Press: Success or Failure? Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih) 4.Nahils ,Circumcision Rituals and the Theatre State Babak Rahimi 5.Janissary Coffee Houses in Late Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Ali Çaksu 6.The Heart ’s Desire:Gender,Urban Space,and the Ottoman Coffee House Alan Mikhail

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'Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee' offers a critical exploration of a range of definitive cultural phenomena of the Ottoman 18th century, including the coffee house, print culture, imperial architecture, royal pageantry and festivals.

About the Author

Dana Sajdi is Assistant Professor of Middle East History at Boston College. She completed her PhD at Columbia University.

Reviews

'Insightful engagement with the byways of Ottoman sociability and aesthetics, will amply reward the attention of a broad readership of cultural and gender historians as well as area specialists...The collection is a rarity in Ottoman studies thanks to its relatively tight temporal focus and the fresh methodologies and perspectives that it advances.' Madeline Zilfi, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland