Reconstructing a town from its court records [Elektronische Ressource] : Rodosçuk (1546 - 1553) / vorgelegt von Özlem Sert Sandfuchs

Özlem Sert Sandfuchs

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• Publié par: ludwig-maximilians-universitat_munchen
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 29
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Reconstructing a Town
from its Court Records
Rodosçuk (1546-1553)


Özlem Sert Sandfuchs
















München 2008
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Reconstructing a Town
from its Court Records
Rodosçuk (1546-1553)


Özlem Sert Sandfuchs






Dissertation
an der Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften
der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München



vorgelegt von
Özlem Sert Sandfuchs
aus Hakkari/ Türkei



München, im Januar 2008
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Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Suraiya Faroqhi
Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Ralf Elger
Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 04.02.2008


4Table of Contents

Preface........................................................................................................................................ 7
List of Abbrevetions................................................................................................................... 8
A Note on Transliteration........................................................................................................... 9

Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 10
The Ottoman Town .......................................................................................................... 10
The “Golden Age” and Decline Theory........................................................................... 15
The Common People........................................................................................................ 19
Sixteenth-century Rodosçuk ............................................................................................ 25
Sources ............................................................................................................................. 29
Literature .......................................................................................................................... 31

PART I: The Quarters .............................................................................................................. 33
Drawing the Portrait of the Town .................................................................................... 34
Climate..... 38
Starting Points .................................................................................................................. 41
Streams..... 57
The Market (Bazaar)........................................................................................................ 62
Non-Muslim Quarters ...................................................................................................... 64

PART II: The Inhabitants......................................................................................................... 69
Chapter I: The Centre at the Harbour....................................................................................... 72
a. The Çavu ş Hüseyin Quarter ......................................................................................... 73
b. The Cami-i Cedid Quarter............................................................................................ 87
c. The Abdi Hoca Quarter ................................................................................................ 98
d. The Dizdarzade or Dizdaro ğlu Quarter...................................................................... 105
e. Conclusion I: What is a quarter? A Redefinition of the quarter in an Ottoman town 110
Chapter II: The Centre at the Market ..................................................................................... 114
a. The Orta Cami (Kürkçü Sinan or Kürkçüo ğlu) Quarter............................................. 114
b. The Cami-i Atik Quarter 116
c. The Karayazıcı Quarter .............................................................................................. 141
d. The Ibrahim Bey Quarter ........................................................................................... 147
e. The Hacı Isa Quarter .................................................................................................. 149
f. The Papa Yorgi Frengi Quarter................................................................................... 154
g. The Papa Hartofilakos Quarter 159
h. Conclusion II: How does a new neighbourhood appear?........................................... 161
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CHAPTER III: Outskirts of the Town ................................................................................... 164
a. The Ni şancı Canpa şao ğlu Quarter.............................................................................. 165
b. The Cennet Hatun Quarter ......................................................................................... 175
c. The Yunus Bey Quarter.............................................................................................. 178
d. The Şeyh Memi Quarter............................................................................................. 180
e. The Hacı Musa Quarter 180
f. The Nebio ğlu Quarter ................................................................................................. 184
g. The Çaklu Ramazan Quarter ...................................................................................... 187
h. The Papa Piskopos Quarter ........................................................................................ 188
i. The Sebgi Hoca bin Şah Veli Quarter......................................................................... 191
j. Other Quarters............................................................................................................. 192
k. Conclusion III: Which class plays which role in the formation of the town?........... 195

Conclusion.............................................................................................................................. 197

Appendices........ 201

Bibliography........................................................................................................................... 209


6Preface
This work is a product of a dream that began in Munich City Museum (Münchner
Stadtmuseum), where visitors have the opportunity to take a computer-simulated journey back
to centuries long passed. Through painstakingly detailed research, historians have
reconstructed the history of Munich and created a virtual tour of the centre of the city, making
the streets, squares and government buildings visible again. When I visited this museum, I had
just started reading through the earliest dated qadı court records of the Mediterranean town of
Rodosçuk. Inspired by my “virtual” tour of Munich, I decided to implement a similar project
thfor the town of Rodosçuk in the middle of the 16 century.
After a large amount of preparatory work, only using the court records I was finally
able to sketch a simple preliminary draft-map of the boundaries of Rodosçuk as they exisited
some 450 years ago. Then I visited the site of Rodosçuk, which is now the city of Tekirda ğ, in
order to verify the map I had drawn. I had successfully sketched the image of the town, which
I had never visited, and this increased my enthusiasm for the project.
After more research, using a present-day map of the city as a background, I produced
than even more detailed map showing the location of the different quarters of 16 -century
Rodosçuk. This map was the outcome of a “data-base study” method. The first part of my
thesis, describes this new approach to the study of Ottoman towns, which I refer to as the
“neighborhood data-base method”. In the second part of my thesis, I illustrate how this
method can contribute to our understanding of urban life in the Ottoman lands by bringing the
historian closer to the role of people in the formation of a town.
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List of Abbrevetions
CIEPO Comite International des Etudes Preottomanes et Ottomanes
1 EI Encyclopedia of Islam, first edition
2EI , second edition
1İA İslam Ansiklopedisi (Milli E ğitim Bakanlı ğı)
2İA İslam Ansiklopedisi (Diyanet Vakfı)
ICUIT The Proceedings of International Conference on Urbanism in Islam
İFM İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi Mecmuası
IJMES International Journal of Middle East Studies
JESHO Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
PLP Prosographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit
R ŞS Rodosçuk Şeriye Sicilleri (Rodosçuk Qadı Court Records)
TT Tapu Kadastro Genel Müdürlü ğü Ar şivi
TTK Türk Tarih Kurumu
TV Türkiye Ekonomik ve