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Freitag, Ulrike ; Lafi, Nora:
Daily life and family in an Ottoman urban context : Historiographical stakes and new research perspectives.
In: The History of the Family.
Vol. 16
(2011)
Issue 2
.
- pp. 80-87.
ISSN 1081-602X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisfam.2011.02.002
Abstract in another language
The Ottoman history of the family and of everyday life is presently experiencing deep theoretical and methodological renewals. Following the discovery of new archival resources, and the application of new questionings to previously known resources, the field is the object of an intense research investment. The horizon of expectation has enlarged, as renewed interpretations on tradition, Islam and their influence on everyday life, family, communal, urban and gender relations are the object of intense speculations in the contemporary intellectual panorama. The object of this article, conceived as an introduction to a thematic issue of the journal guest-edited by the authors, is first to draw a panorama of the existing literature on everyday life in an Ottoman context, with an attention to the successive methodological approaches and theoretical elaborations of which the field has been the support of, and then to identify the main stakes for today's research. The authors also argue that, in the present international panorama of research on those themes, not only is the Ottoman Empire an interesting application field for innovative methods, but might also be at the heart of a deep renewal, with at stake the discussion of the heritage of culturalist visions of history and of paradigms such as center/periphery relations and modernization.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair Islamic Studies > Chair Islamic Studies - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nora Lafi |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 900 History and geography > 900 History |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2025 11:44 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2025 11:44 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/94247 |