Date de début:
04 Avril 2011 - 18:00
Date de fin:
04 Avril 2011 - 19:00
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Conférence "Was the Ottoman Empire European? An Answer from Tunisli Hajji Ahmed"
Giancarlo Casale
« Was the Ottoman Empire European? An Answer from Tunisli Hajji Ahmed, a Sixteenth Century Political Prisoner »
Conférence en langue anglaise
Ifpo Alep
In the year 1559, the first printed world map ever composed in Ottoman Turkish was published in a print shop in the city of Venice. Its author, a certain "Tunuslu Hajji Ahmed," claimed to be a learned man from Tunis who had the misfortune of being captured by pirates, sold into slavery, and offered his freedom in exchange for help with the map. But how trustworthy is his story? Why did he write in Turkish? And what can his map tell us about the world of the sixteenth century, and the Ottomans' place within it?
Giancarlo Casale is associate professor of Islamic history and 2009-2011 McKnight Land Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota. His first book, "The Ottoman Age of Exploration," was published last year. His current research involves a comparative study of ethnographic writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman empire.