330 | Connections and Questions to Consider
Chapter
Chapter 16 shares themes with several other chapters: the Ottoman imperial
harem (chapters 11 and 14), gender (chapters 11, 13, and 14), Ottoman Islamic iden-
tity (chapters 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 19), and the ideal Ottoman political identity
(chapter 12). In addition, this chapter intersects with chapters 2, 10, 13, 15, 20, 21,
and 22 in its concern with migration within, out of, and into the empire.
- What role did harem eunuchs play in Ottoman court politics?
- How much consciousness did Ottoman harem eunuchs have of their ethnic,
racial, and regional identity?
Chapter
Chapter 17 intersects with several other chapters regarding economics (chapter
10), religious conversion (chapters 4, 13, and 15), and Ottoman relations with mi-
nority religious communities (chapters 3, 4, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, and 22).
- How are the cases of more prominent power holders and intermediaries,
such as provincial notables (ayans) or Phanariot princes, different from
those at the local level? - How clear are the lines between legal, quasi-legal, or extra-legal practices in
the political, economic, or institutional activities of an Ottoman intermedi-
ary, such as Hadjiyorgakis?
Chapter
Chapter 18 shares important connections to chapters examining changes in im-
perial administration and identity (chapters 12, 16, and 17); the development,
spread, and changing notions of nationalism (chapters 15, 19, 20, 21, and 22); and
the changing nature of Ottoman imperial relations with its minority religious
populations (chapters 3, 4, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, and 22).
- What is ruler visibility and how is it related to modernity and ethnonation-
alism? - In what ways did Sultan Mahmud II and his successors reach out to their
Ottoman non-Muslim subjects, and what were the reactions of these popu-
lations?
Chapter
Chapter 19 connects to several chapters in unique ways, particularly in terms of
the construction and development of a specific Ottoman contribution to Islam
and science (see chapter 7). It connects to several other chapters in terms of the