Living in the Ottoman Realm. Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

224 | Leaving France, “Turning Turk,” Becoming Ottoman . Letter from Bonneval to his brother, June 1741, in Ligne, Mémoire sur ...

 Out of Africa, into the Palace The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch Jane Hathaway When the Venetian ambassador Ottaviano Bon wrote ...

226 | Out of Africa, into the Palace Ethiopian Eunuchs in the Ottoman Harem By the time the harem moved to Topkapı Palace in the ...

Hathaway|227 as well as European travelers’ accounts, suggests that the animist tribes of the southern and southwestern regions ...

228 | Out of Africa, into the Palace By the nineteenth century, in any case, a castrated Habashi male slave was so high priced a ...

Hathaway | 229 More outlandish is the treatise of the late seventeenth-century author Der- vish Abdullah Efendi, a former scribe ...

230 | Out of Africa, into the Palace judge Mullah Ali. A native of Ethiopia, he was enslaved at a young age and later presented ...

Hathaway|231 is rendered in what art historians might consider more “conventional” fashion, using a dark, charcoal-gray pigment. ...

Figure 16.3 El-Hajj Beshir Agha riding in procession with the chief white eunuch, from Levni, Surname-i vehbi [Book of festivals ...

Hathaway|233 charcoal gray, and his features are subtly differentiated from those of the non- African, and noneunuch, figures ar ...

Figure 16.4 El-Hajj Beshir Agha leading three of the sons of Sultan Ahmed III through the Third Court of Topkapı Palace, from Le ...

Hathaway|235 Egypt, first crossing the Bosphorus and heading east into Anatolia. They were stopped, however, near the western An ...

236 | Out of Africa, into the Palace Here, the soldiers were referring to the thirty-odd Ethiopian eunuchs who had been exiled t ...

Hathaway|237 even hyperconsciousness, of Habashi difference—often in contradistinction to a white, Venetian, Balkan, or literall ...

238 | Out of Africa, into the Palace Peirce, Leslie. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. New York: ...

 The Province Goes to the Center The Case of Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus Antonis Hadjikyriacou The dragoman of ...

240 | The Province Goes to the Center To use the position of an intermediary to make oneself almost indispensable in the mechani ...

Hadjikyriacou | 241 From “a Certain Hadjiyorgakis” to “Dragoman of Cyprus” and “Representative of the Non-Muslims” The earliest ...

242 | The Province Goes to the Center Shortly before the removal of Abdülbaki, the bishops were also stripped of their tax-colle ...

Hadjikyriacou | 243 player—to mention just a few of his capacities. Through this wide spectrum of activities, Hadjiyorgakis deve ...