Ottoman History Podcast
313 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 199 ratingsInterviews with historians about the history of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Visit https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/ for hundreds more archived episodes.
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George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine
July 11, 2018 04:30Episode 366 with Greg Thomas hosted by Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did a poem by Palestinian poet, Samih al-Qasim, come to be known and published under George Jackson's name, in English translation? George Jackson, a Black revolutionary writer, was incarcerated in California for more than a decade, until he was killed in 1971 by prison guards. Among the ninety-nine books Jackson had in his cell at the time of his death, one was "Enemy o...
Medicine and Muslim Modernity in China
July 01, 2018 21:22Episode 365 with John Chen hosted by Shireen Hamza and Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In the early twentieth century, Muslim modernizers all over the world were making new claims about Islam, and the Muslims of China were no exception. In this episode, we discuss the relationship of Southeast Asia to the emergence of a modern Chinese Islam. In a period often characterized in terms of non-Arab Muslims' rediscovery of the Middle East, John Chen sho...
Reading the Venetian Qur'an
June 26, 2018 11:03Episode 364 with Pier Mattia Tommasino hosted by Maryam Patton and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Today’s scholars of early modern Europe continue to explore the myriad ways in which Islam and Middle Eastern culture found its way into European society. In this episode, we unravel another thread by focusing on an anonymous, printed Italian Qur’an that appeared in Venice in 1547. The story of this first vernacular Qur’an and its accompanying bi...
Istanbul and the Ottoman Olfactory Heritage
June 22, 2018 14:05Episode 363 with Lauren Davis hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What did Istanbul's Spice Bazaar smell like in Ottoman times? In this episode, we explore the historical smellscape of this iconic market space from its early history up to the present day. Through a story about Ottoman smells and their transformations in the twentieth century, we touch on the trade routes of exotic spices, Ottoman marketing practices, and the greener, ...
Slavery and Servitude in the Ottoman Mediterranean
May 15, 2018 09:32Episode 362 with M’hamed Oualdi & Hayri Gökşin Özkoray hosted by Andreas Guidi Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Our latest podcast in collaboration with The Southeast Passage examines how slavery flourished in the Ottoman Mediterranean in the wake of growing connectivity with other world regions and territorial expansion. The discussion draws out the ambiguity between slavery and servitude in the case of the Mamluks of the Tunisian Beylik during the eighte...
Exploring the Early Modern Ottoman World
April 30, 2018 14:26Episode 361 with Max Bechtold, Haley Holmes, Matthew Nolan, Megan Rowlands, Tanya Skyba-Bartholomew, and Amber Volz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In our final episode of Season 7, we feature four student contributions on life in the early modern Ottoman world. These student podcasts come from two university courses in which the podcast medium was integral as both course material and assignment: "Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire...
Podcasting the Ottomans II
April 29, 2018 18:00Episode 360 hosted by Taylan Güngör & Zeinab Azarbadegan with Michael Talbot, Tanya Skyba-Bartholomew, Andrew Cottis, Albert Stitt, Maisie Theobald, and Megan Rowlands Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In 2017, our episode Podcasting the Ottomans took a look at Professor Dana Sajdi’s Ottoman history course at Boston College that was based primarily on episodes of the Ottoman History Podcast, and elicited student reactions to the medium. In this conversation, w...
Dervish Piety and Alevism in Late Medieval Anatolia
April 20, 2018 20:47Episode 359 with Zeynep Oktay Uslu hosted by Matthew Ghazarian and Işın Taylan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we explore the evolution of Abdal and Bektashi doctrine from the 14th to 17th centuries. The Abdals of Rum and the Bektashis were two dervish groups in Anatolia who by the 16th century would merge to become the Bektashi Sufi order. Many Bektashi beliefs and practices are also inter-connected with those of Alevi communities. By taki...
Politics of the Family in the New Turkey
April 17, 2018 16:23Episode 358 with Hikmet Kocamaner hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Discourses surrounding the family and morality have played an important role in modern political debates. In this episode, we discuss the politics of family in Turkey and its relationship to both religion and government policy. Our guest Hikmet Kocamaner discusses how the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs--the Diyanet--oversees a range of activities concerning th...
Love Poems of an Ottoman Woman: Mihrî Hatun
April 12, 2018 02:15Episode 357 with Didem Havlioğlu hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What did it mean to be a woman in the intellectual world of early modern Islamic empires? In this episode, our guest Didem Havlioğlu offers one answer to this question through the life and works of Mihrî Hatun, an Ottoman woman from 15th-century Amasya whose poetry survives to this day. Mihrî was unique within the male-dominated sphere of early modern love poetry, and a...
"They Can Live in the Desert"
April 07, 2018 10:27Episode 356 with Ronald Grigor Suny hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode we talk about the history of the Armenian genocide, drawing on Ronald Grigor Suny’s 2015 monograph, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide. First, we discuss the conditions that led to these events, which affected not only Armenians but also Assyrians, Kurds, and a host of others across the empire. Wha...
Circulation de l'information dans l'Algérie coloniale
April 04, 2018 13:44Episode 355 avec Arthur Asseraf animée par Dorothée Myriam Kellou et Aurélie Perrier Télécharger Flux RSS | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Comment s’informe t-on dans l’Algérie coloniale ? Quels liens peut-on établir entre l’apparition de medias de masse, comme le cinéma ou la radio, et l’émergence d’une nouvelle forme de communauté politique dans l’Algérie de l’entre-deux-guerres ? Dans cet épisode, Arthur Asseraf décrit le paysage médiatique très diversifié et en pleine mutation de...
Dragomans and the Routes of Orientalism
March 30, 2018 09:33Episode 354 with Natalie Rothman hosted by Nir Shafir and Aslihan Gürbüzel Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Dragomans are often known as diplomatic translators, but their responsibilities and roles went much further than being mere interpreters. In this podcast, we speak with Natalie Rothman about how dragomans negotiated both linguistic space and social space across the Eastern Mediterranean. Focusing specifically on the case of Venetian dragomans, we discu...
Jerba: an Island in Time
March 28, 2018 11:26Episode 353 with Renata Holod hosted by Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud For the first time on the podcast, we discuss the role of archaeology and its potential to contribute to our knowledge of the Ottoman world. More specifically, we explore how the field of landscape archaeology can offer a better understanding of how different factors of religion, politics, and culture impacted the manipulation of territory over millenia. The large-scale e...
The Argentine Mahjar
March 16, 2018 13:53Episode 352 with Lily Pearl Balloffet hosted by Ella Fratantuono Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, over 100,000 Arabic-speaking immigrants settled in Argentina, making it the second most popular destination after the United States for participants in the mahjar, or diaspora of Arabic speaking migrants prior to World War I. In this episode, Lily Pearl Balloffet discusses transnational connections between Latin Amer...
Moriscos and Iberian Thought
March 13, 2018 07:43Episode 351 with Seth Kimmel hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In 1609 the Moriscos were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula, marking the end of a hundred year effort to assimilate as New Christians these former Muslims. In this podcast, Seth Kimmel speaks to us about the impact of these conversions and expulsions on Iberian intellectual history. We discuss how Spanish officials and scholars attempted to force Moriscos to abandon practice...
Industrial Sexualities in Twentieth-Century Egypt
March 05, 2018 19:04Episode 350 with Hanan Hammad hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yilmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we discuss the emergence of new masculinities, femininities, and visions of "good sex" in Egypt's al-Mahalla al-Kubra, a city in the Nile Delta that became one of the main centers of industrial production and manufacturing in the early twentieth century. How did men and women who came to al-Mahalla to work in the factory, run boardinghou...
States of Emergency in the Late Ottoman Empire
February 28, 2018 20:41Episode 349 with Noémi Lévy-Aksu hosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael Talbot Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Idare-i örfiyye (or örfi idare), loosely translated as a “state of emergency or siege,” was a neologism introduced in the first Ottoman constitution in 1876 to allow the suspension of ordinary legal order in Ottoman localities in case of actual or potential uprisings. While the term clearly referred to the Ottoman legal tradition, the idare-i örfiyye ...
The Republic of Arabic Letters
February 23, 2018 03:31Episode 348 with Alexander Bevilacqua hosted by Maryam Patton and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud When and how did European scholars first begin to seriously study Islam and the Arabic language? It has often been assumed that Medieval misconceptions and polemic towards Muslims were not cast off until the secularism of the European Enlightenment. In this episode, we learn that the foundations of the modern Western understanding were actually la...
The Bible and Modern Standard Arabic
February 16, 2018 03:05Episode 347 with Rana Issa hosted by Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What are the origins of the Arabic language, and what are its foundational texts? Most writers of lexicons of the Arabic language center the Arabian peninsula and the Quran. In this episode, we discuss an alternative narrative put forth in the nineteenth century by an Arab Christian writer, Buṭrus al-Bustānī. Rana Issa explores the passages in al-Bustānī's lexicon of the Arab...
The Gardens of Mughal Kashmir
February 12, 2018 10:53Episode 346 with Jan Haenraets hosted by Nir Shafir and Polina Ivanova Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Over the course of the seventeenth century, Kashmir became a valley adorned with gardens as Mughal emperors and nobles built garden after garden across the valley floor and mountainous landscape. In this episode, we speak with landscape architect and preservation specialist Jan Haenaerts on his research into the history of these gardens. We discuss not only...
Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria
February 09, 2018 00:51Episode 345 with Will Hanley hosted by Taylor M. Moore Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Will Hanley transports us to the gritty, stranger-filled streets of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, as we discuss his book, Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria. We explore how nationality—an abstract tool in the pages of international legal codes—became a new social and legal category that tangibly impacted ...
A Half Century of Occupation
February 05, 2018 17:04Episode 344 with Gershon Shafir hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War and the start of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights. Gershon Shafir discusses why this occupation has lasted for so long in the West Bank and how “the Occupation” has differed from earlier forms of settler colonialism in Israel-Palestine. In particular, we focus o...
Disillusionment in Morocco’s February 20 Movement
January 26, 2018 16:00Episode 343 with Taieb Belghazi & Abdelhay Moudden hosted by Graham Cornwell Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How do we assess fizzling protest movements? How do social scientists account for difficult-to-quantify facets of political engagement like emotion and momentum? In this episode, we discuss ihbat, or disillusionment, in the failures of Morocco’s February 20th movement. Part of the Arab Spring movements across the region, the coalition of groups that ...
Emek Cinema: Contesting Istanbul's Urban Development
January 23, 2018 09:53Episode 342 with Selcen Coşkun Lorans Tanatar Baruh and Seda Kula Say hosted by Nilay Özlü, Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we discuss the history of Beyoğlu's Emek Cinema from its construction in 1884 to its 2013 destruction, which sparked major opposition among Turkish intellectuals, writers, researchers, members of the film industry, and lovers of cinema and of Beyoğlu, many of whom fought to keep...
Hats and Hijabs in Algeria and Turkey
January 17, 2018 18:23Episode 341 with Sara Rahnama hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yilmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we explore debates about aesthetics, headwear, and dress in interwar Algeria and Turkey. Why did hats and hijabs generate so much debate among Algerian thinkers, both men and women? How did expectations about what men would wear on their heads carry different political connotations than similar debates about women's head coverings? This...
Hürrem Sultan or Roxelana, Empress of the East
December 12, 2017 16:39Episode 340 with Leslie Peirce hosted by Suzie Ferguson and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we explore the life and times of Roxelana, also known as Hürrem Sultan, a slave girl who became chief consort and then legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I (r. 1520-1566). We trace Roxelana's probable beginnings and the possible paths that took her to Istanbul, asking how she rose above her peers in the Old Palace to become a favored ...
The Tanzimat in Ottoman Cappadocia
December 03, 2017 15:10Episode 339 with Aylin de Tapia hosted by Susanna Ferguson, Seçil Yilmaz and Ella Fratantuono Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we consider the story of the Tanzimat reforms from the perspective of rural Cappadocia, a region in central Anatolia now famous as a tourist destination. In the nineteenth century, Cappadocia was home not only to the Muslim subjects who made up the majority of Anatolia's population but to a large population of Orthod...
The Lyrical Archive of al-Andalus
November 27, 2017 04:38Episode 338 with Anna C. Cruz hosted by Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The history of al-Andalus has a special place in Arabic poetry -- as well as in American hiphop. al-Andalus, a name for the Iberian peninsula when under the political rule of Muslim dynasties, has remained a symbol of loss, exile and memory, centuries after the last Muslim king lost power. In this episode, Anna Cruz explores this phenomenon through Arabic poetry by Abd al-W...
Izmir & Thessaloniki: from Empire to Nation-State
November 23, 2017 16:44Episode 337 with Kalliopi Amygdalou hosted by Michael Talbot Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the late Ottoman period, the diverse and vibrant Aegean ports of Izmir (Smyrna) and Thessaloniki (Salonica) experienced rapid growth and transformation through the increased interconnection of the Mediterranean world and the rise of maritime trade. But in the tumultuous final decade of the Ottoman period, both cities witnessed political and demographic upheav...
Medicine Along the Musk Route
November 04, 2017 14:29Episode 336 with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim hosted by Taylor Moore and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did people in Tibet view the Islamic World, and vice versa? How did a figure like Galen travel from Ancient Greece, through the Islamic World, and end up as a founding father in Tibetan medical history? In this episode, we speak to Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim about the exchange of knowledge, and especially medicine, between these regions. We discuss object...
Arab Feminism in Periods of Transition
October 08, 2017 15:31Episode 335 with Marilyn Booth & Nova Robinson hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we uncover histories of feminist writing and activism in the Modern Middle East, asking how women's textual production and activism changed over the twentieth century and looking at new directions in research on the history of women and feminism in the region. In the first half of the episode, Marilyn Booth introduces u...
Spies of the Sultan
September 25, 2017 14:26Episode 334 with Emrah Safa Gürkan hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Along with new maritime networks, information stiched together the empires of the early modern period. One component of the growing networks of information in the increasingly connected space of the Mediterranean world was espionage. As we learn in our latest conversation with Emrah Safa Gürkan about his new book Sultanın Casusları (Spies of the Sultan), the Ottoman ...
Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean
September 15, 2017 23:39Episode 333 with Joshua White hosted by Chris Gratien, Susanna Ferguson, and Taylor Moore Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Pirates are usually imagined as outlaws. But as the history of the early modern Mediterranean demonstrates, the line between illegal raiding and legitimate maritime violence was blurry, easily crossed, and often a moving target. In this episode, we talk to Joshua White about his book Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean. We conside...
History, Diaspora, and Politics
September 10, 2017 14:07Episode 332 with Evyn Lê Espiritu, Margaux Fitoussi, and Kais Khimji hosted by Shireen Hamza and Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Migration has long been a driving force in the history of global and transnational connections. In this episode, we explore the politics of diaspora surrounding different migrant communities in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond with three student guests. First, we discuss the little-known history of Vietname...
Migrants in the Late Ottoman Empire
September 01, 2017 18:37Episode 331 with Ella Fratantuono hosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Though it is often ignored among the many histories of the great migrations of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire experienced the arrival of millions of migrants over the course of its last decades. The migrant or muhacir was therefore not just a critical demographic component of both Ottoman cities and the countryside but also part of and subject to...
Muslim Origins in South Asia
August 25, 2017 01:45Episode 330 with Manan Ahmed Asif hosted by Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud When did Muslims first come to the South Asian subcontinent? The answer to this question has formed a crucial part of nationalism in both India and Pakistan, where the story begins with the conquest of Sind by Muhammad ibn Qasim in 712 AD. In this episode, we speak with Manan Ahmed Asif about his book, A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia,...
Islam in West African History
August 22, 2017 02:19Episode 329 with Ousmane Kane hosted by Shireen Hamza and Abdul Latif Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this interview, we explore the early history of Islam in West Africa with Professor Ousmane Kane, who has mapped out the networks of Islamic learning in the region. We discuss intellectual history, the curricula of madrasas and a day in the life of a 16th-century student in Sankore. We then turn to the role of language in West African Muslim intellectual...
Intellectual Currents in Early Modern Islam
August 19, 2017 23:44Episode 328 with Khaled El-Rouayheb hosted by Shireen Hamza and Abdul Latif Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The seventeenth century, contrary to popular belief, was a time of great originality and change for scholars in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb. In this interview, Khaled El-Rouayheb debunks the many myths of intellectual decline by showing how the intellectual production changed in tandem with major migrations across the Islamic world. We start wi...
Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History
July 25, 2017 12:36Episode 327 with contributions by Zeynep Çelik, Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen, Mehmet Kentel, Michael Talbot, Murat Yıldız, Burçak Özlüdil Altın, Seçil Yılmaz, Burçin Çakır, Zeinab Azerbadegan, Dotan Halevy, Chris Gratien, and Michael Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Visual sources such as photographs, maps, and miniatures often serve as accompaniment or adornment within works of Ottoman history. In this episode, we feature new work t...
Coffee & Cannabis
July 20, 2017 13:05Episode 326 with Casey Lurtz & Lina Britto hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Commodities, their circulation, and their consumption have long been favorite topics of cultural and economic historians alike. In this episode, we build on the historiography of commodities by studying further the social and political context of two particular commodities: coffee and marijuana. Our guests, Casey Lurtz and Lina Britto, have each studied these ...
Ports and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora
July 18, 2017 08:17Episode 325 with Sebouh Aslanian hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud A perennial question in Ottoman history is why printing was not fully adopted in the Middle East for the production of books until the late nineteenth century. Armenians, however, did start to print their books as early as the sixteenth century. In this episode, Sebouh Aslanian explains this rather sudden shift by telling the story of how the twin traumas of the Celali Reb...
Genetics and Nation-Building in the Middle East
July 15, 2017 14:54Episode 324 with Elise Burton hosted by Shireen Hamza, Chris Gratien, and Maryam Patton Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Genetics have emerged as a new scientific tool for studying human ancestry and historical migration. And as research into the history of genetics demonstrates, genetics and other bioscientific approaches to studying ancestry were also integral to the transformation of the very national and racial categories through which ancestry has come...
Kemalism and the Making of Modern Turkey
July 06, 2017 07:53Episode 323 with Erik-Jan Zürcher hosted by Andreas Guidi and Elif Becan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this collaboration with The Southeast Passage, we discuss the emergence of the Turkish nationalist movement under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the establishment of a sovereign Republic of Turkey in 1923. As our guest Prof. Erik-Jan Zürcher notes, Kemalism can be studied both as a political transformation from armed struggle to a one-par...
Shared Histories of the Ottoman East
July 01, 2017 08:35Episode 322 with Yaşar Tolga Cora & Dzovinar Derderian hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud This episode examines historical approaches to Armenians, Kurds, and Turks in the eastern provinces of Ottoman Anatolia. "Shared history" has been offered up as a corrective to the existing historiography's nationalist and often exclusionary approaches, but what does writing a "shared history" actually look like? Yaşar Tolga Cora and Dzovi...
The Sounds of Islamic Berlin
June 26, 2017 21:26Episode 321 with Peter McMurray hosted by Nir Shafir and Huma Gupta Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What is the aural possibility of Islamic life in European cities today? This special episode begins with a ten-minute segment from an audio composition crafted by our guest, musicologist Peter McMurray, from recent field recordings and ethnographies he conducted among various Turkish communities in Berlin. As the discussion progresses we weave in and out of t...
Ottoman New York
June 24, 2017 14:30Episode 320 featuring Bruce Burnside & Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The distance between the shores of the Ottoman Empire and New York City may be great, but, as this episode suggests, a great many connections exist between these places, too. This episode explores both the everyday lives of those hailing from the Ottoman domains over several centuries in the Big Apple, as well as the perceptions New Yorkers and Americans more generally had of t...
Inclusion and Exclusion in Islamic Modernist Thought
June 22, 2017 20:14Episode 319 with Teena Purohit hosted by Shireen Hamza and Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The rise of Islamic modernist movements from the 19th century onward brought two potentially contradictory processes. On the one hand, Muslim thinkers began to imagine an increasingly global Muslim community unified by identity that might transcend many of the communal and political divisions of the day. On the other hand, in seeking to delineate the par...
Indian Ocean Connections
June 21, 2017 17:46Episode 318 with Nidhi Mahajan & Jeffery Dyer hosted by Chris Gratien and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Long before European contact with the Americas forged transoceanic networks and connections in the Atlantic and Pacific, the Indian Ocean served as a maritime space that connected the many states, economies, and communities of its vast basin stretching from East Africa to Southeast Asia. In this multi-part episode, we follow this maritime ...
Beekeeping in Late Ottoman Palestine
June 19, 2017 17:51Episode 317 with Tamar Novick hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The history of late Ottoman Palestine and the changes in settlement, agriculture, economy and politics that occurred there remain a subject of great interest for historians of the Middle East. In this episode, our guest Tamar Novick introduces a new approach to that history using the lens of ecology. We explore changes in late Ottoman Palestine through enivoronment and ...