B01班は、科研費基盤研究(B)「オスマン帝国における社会階層とジェンダーに関する国際共同研究」(代表：秋葉淳)と共催で以下のワークショップを開催いたします。皆様のお越しをお待ちしております。

日時：2023年3月25日 (土) 13:30~17:00

【プログラム】
13:30～13:45 Opening
13:45～14:30
Koh Choon Hwee (UCLA): “Trust, Connectivity and Empire: Nested Suretyships in the Ottoman Postal System”

This paper focuses on the mechanism of suretyships in the operations of the Ottoman postal system. It argues that in the eighteenth century, the Ottoman bureaucracy used the old mechanism of suretyship in a new way. Specifically, it began to create nested suretyships, whereby sureties for postmasters required their own guarantors in the villages. In this way, trust at the level of the village was institutionalised and systematized in order to guarantee the provisioning of Ottoman post stations all across the empire.

14:35～15:20
Tommaso Stefini (European U Institute): “Risky unions: Venetian/Ottoman marriages and contested inheritances”

During the early modern period, numerous Venetian merchants residing in Ottoman cities for many years married Ottoman Christian women and started a family. These Ottoman/Venetian marriages were usually registered before a Qadi (a Muslim judge and public notary) and, in the Venetian and other European accounts, they are called kebin marriages. In case of the death of the married Venetians, controversies over their inheritance between Venetian and Ottoman heirs were likely to occur. According to international treaties (the Capitulations, ahdname), Venetian ambassadors and consuls collected the estates of dead Venetians. However, the fact that marriages between Venetian and Ottoman women were registered in Ottoman courts gave to the Ottoman widows and the children of these unions legitimate claims over the inheritance according to Islamic law. By analyzing the practice of kebin marriages and legal disputes over the inheritance of dead Venetians, this presentation demonstrates the centrality of marriage and inheritance rights in the construction of Venetian and Ottoman sovereignty in the early modern period. On the one hand, Ottoman authorities considered Venetian merchants married to Ottoman women as “naturalized” Ottoman subjects, and protected the inheritance claims of Ottoman widows and the children of these unions. On the other hand, by appealing to the Capitulations, Venetian ambassadors and consuls rejected this “naturalization” and firmly defended the estates of all dead Venetians regardless of their marital status. 

15:50～16:35
Baki Tezcan (UC Davis): “The not-so-well-connected domains of Ottoman knowledge production: Su’udi’s The Book of Felicity and The New Report and their reception”

Following the epistemological model suggested by the late Shahab Ahmed for the Balkans-to-Bengal complex in 1350-1850, I argue that Ottoman knowledge production often operated in tandem with a hierarchical epistemology. While some authors produced for the reading (and listening) public at large, others’ works circulated around a smaller circle, sometimes not reaching the reading public at all and sometimes reaching it much later. My presentation will center on Su’udi (d. 1591), a late sixteenth-century Ottoman geographer, judge, poet, professor of law, and translator. Focusing on the two extant works of his which he produced for the Ottoman court in the early 1580s, The Book of Felicity and The New Report, I argue that geographical knowledge challenging commonly held assumptions about the world in the late sixteenth-century was not treated much differently than occult sciences the study of which was reserved for a select few.  

16:35～17:00 discussions

司会：秋葉淳（東京大学）

使用言語：英語
開催形態：一般公開/無料、対面・Zoomによるオンライン開催/要事前登録
会場：同志社大学・今出川キャンパス、徳照館２階第２共同利用室
　　　　京都市営地下鉄・烏丸線の今出川駅下車すぐ。　
　　　　キャンパスマップの12番の建物です。

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共催：科研費学術変革領域研究（A）「イスラーム共同体の理念と国家体系」（研究代表者：近藤信彰（AA研）課題番号：20H05827）/科研費基盤研究(B)「オスマン帝国における社会階層とジェンダーに関する国際共同研究」(研究代表者：秋葉淳（東京大学東洋文化研究所）課題番号：20H01322)