Travellers in Ottoman Lands II:
the Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond
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In memory of Anastasia Uskova, Dedication
Foreword by Aid Smajić, on behalf of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo
Introduction by Paul and Janet Starkey
Part 1. Landscapes
1. ‘The khans of Bosnia are large barns’?
A material approach to mobility in Ottoman Bosnia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
Vincent Thérouin
2. Eco-Narrative of the Balkans in the sixteenth-century chronicle Hasht Bihisht, by Idrīs Bidlīsī
Sabaheta Gačanin
3. Representation of rivers in travel literature in the German language on Late Ottoman Bosnia
Nedim Rabić and Amer Maslo
4. Counting the Ottoman Capital:
Auguste Viquesnel’s Voyage dans la Turquie d’Europe and travel writing as quantitative source
Burak Beşir Fındıklı
5. Travellers’ narratives on the Ottoman house:
filling the missing links in the evolution of structure and form
İbrahim Canbulat
Part 2. Religion and travel
6. The Mystical Aspect of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Travels:
the spiritual visions that shaped Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s path
Ibrahim Al-Khaffaf
7. Mobility among Ottoman ʿulamāʾ:
Mudarris Ḍiyā al-dīn ʿAbdullah b. Muḥammad al-Akhiskhāwī in Sarajevo
Velida Mataradžija
8. Foreign travel writers’ perceptions of religious orders in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the long nineteenth century
Omer Merzić and Vedrana Šimić
9. The ‘Millet-system’ to the Test:
religious freedom, tolerance and co-existence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bosnia as revealed in Arthur J. Evans’s 1875
travelogue Through Bosnia and Herzegovina on foot
Ines Aščerić-Todd
Part 3. European travellers from merchants to kings
10. Descriptions and images of women in the Ottoman Balkans in sixteenth-to seventeenth-century Netherlandish travelogues
Maja Perić
11. On Departing the Ottoman Empire:
the return of Peter Mundy (1597–c. 1667) from Constantinople through the Balkans to London in 1620
Jennifer M. Scarce
12. Mixing Western and Eastern medical practice in the Ottoman Empire:
the adventures of a Transylvanian doctor in Constantinople, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq (1815–1838)
Alexandru Balas
13. The Journey of His Majesty King Friedrich August of Saxony through Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro in the spring of 1838 with
Bartolomeo Biasoletto
Kristina Milković
14. Girault de Prangey and his connection to Lamartine’s Anatolian Colonisation Project
Anastasia Uskova†
Part 4. Fantasies, images and folktales
15. Mermen, revenants, unicorns:
fantastic creatures in Western travel writing on the Ottoman Empire
Doris Gruber
16. Fair Boys and Wicked Ladies:
peoples of the Balkans in the work of Enderunlu Fazıl Bey
Michael Erdman
17. En plein air:
three artist-writers and their travelling companions in Rumelia
Janet Starkey
18. Imagological models of Bosnia in pictures and words:
Heinrich Renner’s travelogue Durch Bosnien und die Herzegovina, Kreuz und Quer (1896)
Aida Abadžić Hodžić
19. An American, a Scot, and an Irishman at a Turkish coffeehouse:
tales recounted in Ottoman coffeehouses introduced to the Western World
Melike Tokay
20. The Hero's Journey out from Under the Yoke
Gemma Masson
Part 5. Imperial discourse, the rise of nations, and rapportage
21. Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer
Cristina Erck
22. Edith Durham:
Balkan traveller, anthropologist, and ‘Mountain Queen’
Paul Starkey
23. Backwardness and Otherness:
Ahmed Şerif’s Description of the Ottoman Provinces (1909–1914) and the Question of Ottoman Orientalism
Patrick Schilling
24. The Ottoman Empire and Italian imperial discourse:
how Italian literature represented Ottoman rule in Albania to legitimate its imperial ambition
Pietro Dalmazzo
25. The Balkan nations in the Italian Travelogue Mirror:
a contribution to the study of reportage (1774–1922)
Konstantin Dragaš
26. Travelogues published in Bosanska Sumejja:
magazin za žene i porodicu from 2000 to 2022
Azra Hasanović
Papers read at the seminar in Sarajevo, August 2022
Notes on contributors
Index of place names
Index of people’s names