Getting High at the Gates of Felicity

Ottoman History Podcast

English - November 30, 2018 20:40 - ★★★★★ - 195 ratings
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Episode 391

with Stefano Taglia

hosted by Taylan Güngör

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The use of stimulants, what we now refer to as recreational drugs (marijuana and hashish – esrar and haşiş), in the late Ottoman world constitutes a lens through which one can observe multiple aspects of both the history of the Ottoman Empire and its historiography in its broader sense. The life and social dynamics of those involved in drug consumption contributes to sketching a picture of the social life of the Ottoman Empire and its capital and, in this sense, helps expand a field that is somewhat limited.

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