Transnational Ottomanities: Global Networks and Peripheral Identities

Dear Colleagues,

Recent scholarship has challenged traditional center–periphery models of Ottoman history by drawing attention to the agency of provincial actors, complexity of regional networks, and multiple identities that shaped Ottoman societies. Of particular interest are works investigating the ways that provincial elites, local communities, religious institutions, commercial groups, intellectual circles, administrative actors, workers, women, and other marginalized or underrepresented groups engaged with networks that transcended imperial boundaries while remaining embedded in local contexts. The concept of “transitional Ottomanities” draws attention to how Ottoman identities were produced, negotiated, and transformed through networks from the eighteenth to early twentieth century. We invite contributions that examine how Ottoman subjects, communities, and institutions engaged with global, regional, and local networks. Of particular interest are works investigating the ways that provincial elites, local communities, religious institutions, commercial groups, intellectual circles, administrative actors, workers, women, and other marginalized or underrepresented groups engaged with networks that transcended imperial boundaries while remaining embedded in local contexts.

We welcome contributions that address questions such as the following:

• How were Ottoman identities constructed, maintained, or transformed in transnational contexts?
• In what ways did migration, trade, diplomacy, education, and communication create new forms of Ottoman connectivity?
• How did peripheral communities participate in and shape global networks?
• How did individuals and groups navigate multiple loyalties and affiliations across imperial, national, religious, ethnic, and regional boundaries?
• How did provincial elites and institutions mediate between local interests and broader imperial or global developments?

We encourage submissions from scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and related fields, as well as comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed contributions.

Prof. Dr. Yonca Köksal Özyaşar
Guest Editor

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• Ottoman Empire
• identities
• networks
• transnational connections
• provinces