Pfeifer, Helen. Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in the Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Pfeifer, Helen. Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in the Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Author(s): Christian MauderSubject(s): History, The Ottoman Empire, Book-Review
Published by: Burhan Çağlar
Keywords: Social History; Salons; Arab Provinces; Arab-Rumi Encounters; Intellectual History;
Summary/Abstract: Review of: Pfeifer, Helen. Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in the Early Modern Ottoman Lands. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022 Helen Pfeifer’s Empire of Salons employs the tools of intellectual and social history to analyze the role that salons played in the integration of the Arabic-speaking lands into the Ottoman Empire. Based primarily on Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources, Pfeifer uses the figure of the Damascus-based scholar Badr al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (1499-1577) and the members of his family and network to demonstrate that salons were of central importance to both Arabs and Rumis as they navigated the new, post-conquest realities of the 16th century.
Journal: Kadim
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 7
- Page Range: 183-186
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English