[Bilimsel Haber] New Book: "Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz"

[Onur Inal]

Dear Colleagues,

The Center for Turkish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
announces the publication of "Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman
World: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz," edited by Baki
Tezcan and Karl K. Barbir

You may order the book from the University of Wisconsin Press website at
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/4551.htm

'Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World" is a collection of
articles authored by the students and colleagues of Norman Itzkowitz,
Emeritus 
Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Prof. Itzkowitz
received the Middle East Studies Association Mentoring Award in 2007.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements

Norman Itzkowitz as a Historian and a Mentor
Baki Tezcan

Norman Itzkowitz - A Representative List of Publications

Eighteenth Century Ottoman Realities
Norman Itzkowitz

Introduction
Karl K. Barbir

PART I - THE PRE- AND EARLY OTTOMAN PERIODS

Words, Books, and Buildings in Seljuk Anatolia
Scott Redford

Bapheus and Pelekanon
Rudi Paul Lindner

Religious v. Ethnic Identity in Fourteenth-Century Bithynia: Gregory Palamas
and the Case of the Chionai
Ruth A. Miller

The Role of the Bursa Palace in Preparing Bread for the Ottoman Sultans 
Heath W. Lowry

PART II - THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEETH CENTURIES

Shadows of Shadows: Prophecy in Politics in 1530s Istanbul 
Cornell H. Fleischer

A Prince Goes Forth (Perchance to Return)
Metin Kunt

Dispelling the Darkness: The Politics of ?Race? in the Early 
Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire in the Light of the Life and Work of
Mullah 
Ali Baki Tezcan

The Exalted Lineage of Ridvan Bey Revisited: A Reinterpretation of the
Spurious Genealogy of a Grandee in Ottoman Egypt 
Jane Hathaway

PART III - THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES

Janissaries and Other Riffraff of Ottoman Istanbul: Rebels without a Cause? 
Cemal Kafadar

One Marker of Ottomanism: Confiscation of Ottoman Officials' Estates 
Karl K. Barbir

The Institution of the Ottoman Embassy and Eighteenth-Century Ottoman
History: An Alternative View to Göçek
Berrak Burçak

Conflict and Collaboration: Rethinking Kurdish-Armenian Relations in the
Hamidian Period, 1876?1909
Janet Klein

Daughters and Fathers: A Young Druze Woman's Experience (1894?1897) 
Engin Deniz Akarli

PART IV - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In Pursuit of Elusive Glory: Enver Pasha's Role in the Pan-Islamic and the
Basmachi Movement 
Suhnaz Yilmaz

Marshal Fevzi Çakmak's Family and Education: A Formation Process 
Nilüfer Hatemi

Our Women Treasures: Early Republican Turkish Women and Their Public
Identity 
Ipek K. Yosmaoglu

On Kemal Atatürk's Psychoanalytic Biography
Vamik D. Volkan

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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Deniz Balgamis, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Center for Turkish Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of History
4255 Humanities Building
Madison, WI 53706
USA