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<div class="notify-lite-wrapper">Manuscript Cultures of the
Ottoman Empire, June 6-7, 2014, Orient-Institut Istanbul
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upcoming workshop
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<p><strong>Manuscript Cultures of the Ottoman Empire</strong></p>
<p>June 6-7, 2014 Orient-Institut, Istanbul</p>
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<p><strong><a
href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/srtkkwieu8bmwhq/Ottoman%20Manuscript%20Workshop,%206%20June%202014.pdf"
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<p>What does a vibrant early modern manuscript culture
actually look like when we stop regarding it simply as
a lack of print? Over the past thirty years,
scholarship on the history of the book and reading has
raised new questions for scholars of European, East
Asian, and South Asian history, making us rethink
issues like authorship, reception, the transmission of
knowledge and more. At the same time, this literature
has some gaps, especially when it comes to
understanding earlymodern manuscript cultures.
Exploring this lacuna is particularly relevant now
that scholars have challenged the fixity
and singularity of print.</p>
<p>This workshop is a first attempt to bring together
the growing number of scholars working on the history
of the book in the Ottoman Empire to present and
discuss theoretically informed papers that also delve
deeply into historical evidence and sources. The
workshop focuses specifically on manuscripts and the
cultures and practices that allowed them to flourish.
While there have been important scholars who have
written on the topic of books and libraries in the
early modern Middle East, an engagement with the
broader literature is often missing. Similarly, there
has been some valuable works on the courtly production
of books as precious objects, but often without a
sense of reading and book production in the larger
society. To introduce new approaches, the workshop
invites participants to directly engage with the more
recent literature on the history of the book and
reading (Roger Chartier, Ann Blair, Adrian Johns,
Robert Darnton, etc.) and to use its
insights to understand how the varied manuscript
cultures of the Ottoman Empire functioned. In
particular, we would like to broaden the scope of the
inquiry and look at books and reading in the larger
society and even explore the notion that there was a
general expansion of reading, writing, and book
production in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. To do so, this workshop brings together the
perspectives of historians of the book, art
historians, historians of science, codicologists, and
others to understand the connections between the
material culture of manuscripts and their content.</p>
<p><em>This workshop focuses on discussion of
pre-circulated papers that participants will briefly
present to the audience. It is open to the public
but because space is limited, we ask those who wish
to attend to please pre-register by June 1, 2014 by
contacting Julia Aylin Kolcu at the Orient-Institut
at <a href="mailto:oiist@oidmg.org">oiist@oidmg.org</a>.
For all other inquiries, please
contact the organizer, Nir Shafir, at <a
href="mailto:nshafir@ucla.edu" rel="nofollow">nshafir@ucla.edu</a></em></p>
<p>This workshop has been made possible with the
generous support of the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the
History Department at UCLA, and the Centre for the
Study of Manuscript Cultures</p>
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<p><strong>AGENDA</strong></p>
<p><strong>FRIDAY – JUNE 6</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Greetings & Welcome: 9:30-9:45</strong></p>
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<p><strong>PANEL 1: Consumption: 9:45-11:15</strong></p>
<p>Satisfying an Appetite for Books: Ottoman Çahârkûşe
Bindings –Jake Benson (Curator,</p>
<p>Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation & Dar al-Kutub
Manuscript Project)</p>
<p>Who Read What in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul –
Meredith Quinn (Harvard University)</p>
<p>Discussant: Nir Shafir (UCLA)</p>
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<p><strong>PANEL 2: Authorship: 11:30-13:00</strong></p>
<p>Authenticity and Authorship: A Debate on the
Authorship of Abu Hanifa's Fiqh al-Akbar in</p>
<p>Seventeenth-Century
Istanbul– Aslıhan Gürbüzel (Harvard University)</p>
<p>A Book on how to Write a Book: “Instructions to
Authors” and Transformations of</p>
<p>Authorship and Reading in Seventeenth-Century
Istanbul – Nir Shafir (UCLA)</p>
<p>Discussant: Zeynep Altok (Bilgi Üniversitesi)</p>
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<p><strong>PANEL 3: Reading: 14:30-17:00</strong></p>
<p>Visual Reading or Reading with Images? Visuality and
Orality in Ottoman Manuscript</p>
<p>Culture – Tülün Değirmenci (Pamukkale Üniversitesi)</p>
<p>Pilgrimage to the Library: The Beytu'l-ma'mûr/Ka'ba
Analogy in Eighteenth-Century</p>
<p>Ottoman Libraries – Yavuz Sezer (MIT)</p>
<p>“Ondan Sonra Mürşit Bir Fasl-i Menakıb Okuta”:
Manuscript Culture in Alevi Villages –</p>
<p>Janina Karolewski (Universität Hamburg, Centre for
the Study of Manuscript Cultures)</p>
<p>Discussant: Sooyong Kim (Koç Üniversitesi)</p>
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<p><strong>SATURDAY – JUNE 7</strong></p>
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<p><strong>PANEL 4: Circulation:
9:30-11:45</strong></p>
<p>Where Books Come From (And Where They Go): A Social
History of Reading and Writing in</p>
<p>Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Lands – Helen Pfeifer
(Princeton University)</p>
<p>Imperial Margins and Marginalia: Muftis, Scribes and
the Transmission of Legal Knowledge in</p>
<p>Late Ottoman Bosnia (1775-1886) - Selma Zecevic (York
University)</p>
<p>Canonization, Censorship, and the Ottoman Practice of
Taqriz/Imza – Guy Burak, (New York</p>
<p>University)</p>
<p>Discussant: Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi)</p>
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<p><strong>Concluding Discussion: 12:00-12:30</strong></p>
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