Ottomans and Wealth: a comparative perspective
4-7 July 2007
The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, Cambridge
www.newn.cam. ac.uk/skilliter
Wednesday, 4 - July 2007
10:00-14:00 Registration
14:00-15:00 Panel I
Religion and wealth
Chair: Margaret Malamud (New Mexico)
Gerald Hawting (SOAS), Wealth, charity and alms giving in early Islam.
Adam Sabra (Georgia), Manifesting God's blessings: wealth in Egyptian
Sufism.
15:00-15:30 Tea
15:30-16:30 Panel II
Provincial poverty and wealth
Chair: Ben Fortna (SOAS)
Leslie Peirce (NYU), Were peasants poorer? Assessing provincial wealth in
16th-century Anatolia.
Hülya Canbakal (Sabancž, Istanbul), Comparative reflections on the
distribution of wealth in 17th-century Ayntab.
16:30-18:00 Panel III
Chair: Colin Heywood (Hull)
Amina Elbendary (Cambridge), Making a living and managing poverty in late
medieval Damascus: a reading of Ibn Tawq¹s al-Ta¹liq.
Eminegül Karababa (Exeter), Origins of consumer culture in an early modern
context: Ottoman Bursa.
Virginia Aksan (McMaster) Pockets of wealth in the provinces: the
18th-century Caniklizade.
19:00 Conference Dinner
Thursday, 5 July 2007
09:00-10:30 Panel IV
Wealth, politics and power
Chair: Palmira Brummett (Tennessee)
Ebru Boyar (ODTÜ, Ankara), Profitable prostitution: state use of immoral
earnings for social benefit.
Kate Fleet (Cambridge), Paying for an island: the Venetians, the Ottomans
and Crete.
Alejandro Caneque (Durham), The circulation of wealth and power in an
economy of favour and reward: New Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries.
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-13:00 Panel V
Chair: Margaret Malamud (New Mexico)
Abdul-Karim Rafeq (The College of William and Mary), Sources of wealth and
its social and political implications in 19th-century Damascus.
Frederick Anscombe (Birkbeck, London), Wealth, poverty, justice and
injustice: Balkan revolts of the early 19th century.
Pal Fodor (The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History,
Budapest), Fur of lynx and arable field: the wealth of an Ottoman tax farmer
(1602).
Svetla Ianeva (The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History,
Sofia), Financing the state? Tax farming as a source of individual wealth in
the 19thcentury.
13:00-14.30 Lunch
Free Afternoon
Friday, 6 July 2007
09:00-10:00 Panel VI
Wealth and diplomacy
Chair: Leslie Peirce (NYU)
Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary, London), Gloriana rules the waves: cordial
exchanges between Elizabeth I and Murad III.
John Burman (Cambridge), Politics and profit: the National Bank of Turkey
revisited.
10:00-11:00 Panel VII
Coins
Chair: Colin Heywood (Hull)
Elina Screen (Cambridge), Coins and wealth: an early medieval perspective.
John-Paul Ghobrial (Princeton), Money talks: coinage and the communication
of political news in the early modern Ottoman world.
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Panel VIII
People and wealth
Chair: David Morgan (Wisconsin-Madison)
Anna Sobers (Cambridge), Slaves, wealth and fear: an episode from late
Mamluk-era Egypt.
Madeline Zilfi (Maryland), Wealth in people: slave ownership and elite
contestation in the Ottoman reform era.
Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge), People, coca, and cloth: changing ideas about
wealth in 16th-century Peru.
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Panel IX
Merchants
Chair: Julian Chrysostomides (The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway,
London)
Elizabeth Zachariadou (Crete), A ship owner on the island of Patmos at the
end of the 16th century.
James Tracy (Minnesota), Aleppo and Cairo in the silver age of Venetian
trade: Andrea Berengo and Lorenzo Tiepolo.
15:00-15:30 Tea
15:30-17:30 Panel X
Cultural wealth
I Display and narration
Chair: Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary, London)
Janet Huskinson (Open University), Desirable residences: display housing for
the living and the dead in the Roman empire.
Palmira Brummett (Tennessee), Envisioning Ottoman wealth: narrating and
mapping Ottoman "treasure" in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Rhoads Murphey (Birmingham) , Exoticism versus domesticity in the display of
wealth in the households of provincial pashas of the 17th and 18th
centuries: reflections of tereke inventories in Syria and Anatolia and a
comparison with evidence from contemporary Istanbul.
Zeynep Celik (New Jersey School of Architecture) , Defining the cultural
wealth of the Ottoman empire c. 1900: architectural heritage, diversity and
modernity in the Arab provinces.
18:00-19:30 Reception
20:00 Dinner
Saturday, 7 July 2007
9:00-10:30 Panel XI
Cultural wealth
II The book
Chair: Margaret Malamud (New Mexico)
Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge), Books, wealth and social status in
Carolingian Francia (8th and 9th centuries).
Nelly Hanna (AUC, Cairo), Literacy and legal culture in the 17th century.
Orlin Sabev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Balkan History,
Sofia), Rich men, poor men: Ottoman printers and booksellers making fortune
or needing survival (18th-19th centuries)?
10:30-11:00 Tea
11:00-12:00 Panel XII
Position and wealth
Chair: Kate Fleet (Cambridge)
Maurits van den Boogert (Leiden), Provocative wealth? The financial position
of non-Muslim beratlis in the 18th century.
Antonis Hadjikyriacou (SOAS), Provincial wealth and power: the case of
Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios, dragoman of Cyprus, 1779-1809.
12:30-14:30 Lunch
For further details please contact
Kate Fleet (khf11@cam.ac. uk) or Ebru Boyar (eb271@cam.ac. uk)
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