[Bilimsel Haber] "Manuscript Cultures of the Ottoman Empire, " June 6-7, 2014, Orient-Institut Istanbul

[Gonul Pultar]

Manuscript Cultures of the Ottoman Empire, June 6-7, 2014, 
Orient-Institut Istanbul
<https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/24934/attend-istanbul-manuscript-cultures-ottoman-empire-june-6-7-2014> 



upcoming workshop

*Manuscript Cultures of the Ottoman Empire*

June 6-7, 2014 Orient-Institut, Istanbul

*Workshop Flyer 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/srtkkwieu8bmwhq/Ottoman%20Manuscript%20Workshop,%206%20June%202014.pdf>*

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.

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.

/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 oiist at oidmg.org <mailto:oiist at oidmg.org>. For all 
other inquiries, please contact the organizer, Nir Shafir, at 
nshafir at ucla.edu <mailto:nshafir at ucla.edu>/

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

*AGENDA*

*FRIDAY – JUNE 6*

*Greetings & Welcome: 9:30-9:45*

*PANEL 1: Consumption: 9:45-11:15*

Satisfying an Appetite for Books: Ottoman Çahârkûşe Bindings –Jake 
Benson (Curator,

Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation & Dar al-Kutub Manuscript Project)

Who Read What in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul – Meredith Quinn (Harvard 
University)

Discussant: Nir Shafir (UCLA)

*PANEL 2: Authorship: 11:30-13:00*

Authenticity and Authorship: A Debate on the Authorship of Abu Hanifa's 
Fiqh al-Akbar in

Seventeenth-Century Istanbul– Aslıhan Gürbüzel (Harvard University)

A Book on how to Write a Book: “Instructions to Authors” and 
Transformations of

Authorship and Reading in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul – Nir Shafir (UCLA)

Discussant: Zeynep Altok (Bilgi Üniversitesi)

*PANEL 3: Reading: 14:30-17:00*

Visual Reading or Reading with Images? Visuality and Orality in Ottoman 
Manuscript

Culture – Tülün Değirmenci (Pamukkale Üniversitesi)

Pilgrimage to the Library: The Beytu'l-ma'mûr/Ka'ba Analogy in 
Eighteenth-Century

Ottoman Libraries – Yavuz Sezer (MIT)

“Ondan Sonra Mürşit Bir Fasl-i Menakıb Okuta”: Manuscript Culture in 
Alevi Villages –

Janina Karolewski (Universität Hamburg, Centre for the Study of 
Manuscript Cultures)

Discussant: Sooyong Kim (Koç Üniversitesi)

*SATURDAY – JUNE 7*

*PANEL 4: Circulation: 9:30-11:45*

Where Books Come From (And Where They Go): A Social History of Reading 
and Writing in

Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Lands – Helen Pfeifer (Princeton University)

Imperial Margins and Marginalia: Muftis, Scribes and the Transmission of 
Legal Knowledge in

Late Ottoman Bosnia (1775-1886) - Selma Zecevic (York University)

Canonization, Censorship, and the Ottoman Practice of Taqriz/Imza – Guy 
Burak, (New York

University)

Discussant: Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi)

*Concluding Discussion: 12:00-12:30*


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