Books by Gottfried Hagen
Bir Osmanlı Coğrafyacısı İşbaşında: Kâtib Çelebi’nin Cihannümâ’sı ve Düşünce Dünyası
Turkish translation of "Ein osmanischer Geograph bei der Arbeit"
Ein osmanischer Geograph bei der Arbeit. Entstehung und Gedankenwelt von Kātib Çelebis Ǧihānnnümā
Die Türkei im Ersten Weltkrieg. Flugblätter und Flugschriften in arabischer, persischer und osmanisch-türkischer Sprache eingeleitet, übersetzt und kommentiert
Papers by Gottfried Hagen
Salvation and Suffering in Ottoman Stories of the Prophets
The cycles of revelation, community reception, and redemption embodied by the prophets of Islam f... more The cycles of revelation, community reception, and redemption embodied by the prophets of Islam form the substance of Islamic salvation history, a literary form that has not received due attention in comparison to the didactic and homiletic dimensions of the tales of the prophets. This article suggests that salvation history is an almost infinitely malleable material that functions in different ways in different political and intellectual contexts, and can be harnessed to provide vastly different messages. Focusing on examples from Ottoman Turkish literature, this point is made through a close reading of the relevant section of Fuẓūlī’s martyrology, Garden of the Felicitous, in contrast with works by Ramaẓānzāde Meḥmed Paşa, Süleymān Çelebi, and Veysī. Where some salvation histories present an optimistic trajectory through political history, or an unfailing promise of divine grace, others find only violence and injustice, and a human condition determined by suffering.
Ottoman Historical Thought
A Companion to Global Historical Thought, ed. Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy, and Andrew Sartori, Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2014
Robert Dankoff, Evliya Çelebi - An Ottoman Mentality, pp. 207-248. 2nd ed. Brill, Leiden, 2006
Turkish Language, Literature, and History. Travelers’ tales, sultans, and scholars since the eighth century, ed. Bill Hickman and Gary Leiser, 170-182. London: Routledge, 2015
Roberta Sabbath, ed., Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament and Qur’an as Literature and Culture, 301-16
The extent of violence and human suffering involved in the origins of states, such as the Ottoman... more The extent of violence and human suffering involved in the origins of states, such as the Ottoman, is often trivialized or normalized in state-centric accounts such as chronicles. In this paper, other sources, especially hagiography and religious advice, is used to provide a different perspective on the fifteenth century as the formative period of the Ottoman Empire. It argues that the human experience of the time was one of meaningless suffering and chaos, and draws attention to representation of power as arbitrary (and as such illegitimate), and to an image of man as weak, greedy, and corrupt. Redemption from such a world was only possible through radical world renunciation following the heroic saints of Anatolia. In the teleological narrative of the rise of the Ottoman Empire, the fifteenth century used to appear as a stunning success story. Rising like a phoenix from the ashes after the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and the interregnum of 1402 to 1413, the Ottomans recuperated their territorial losses, consolidated their possessions, and returned to a course of rapid conquest, which did not end with the triumphal capture of Constantinople, but prepared the stage for the incorporation of the Arab Middle East and the culmination of Ottoman imperial culture in the so-called Classical Age. Such a narrative, oriented towards the power of the Ottoman state, can be found in many textbooks of Ottoman history. Yet, it merely reproduces the themes and attitudes of contemporary Ottoman historiography with its exclusive focus on the imperial dynasty and its household, while largely ignoring the experience and perspective of the population. In the birth of the state, said Jacob Burckhardt, " violence always precedes; … often, the state may have been nothing more than its systematization. " 1 He conceded: " It cannot be denied that quickly and highly developed political power of nations and individuals were only made possible by the suffering of innumerable people, " but rejecting the historian's infatuation with the triumphant state, he cautioned: " The suffering of the innumerable is treated very lightly as 'temporary' calamity; … in most cases, the origins and existence of the
Archivum Ottomanicum 18, 2000
Güney-Doğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi 12 (1982-1998, Prof. Dr. Cengiz Orhonlu Hatıra Sayısı), 1998
Legitimizing the Order: Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power, edited by Maurus Reinkowski and Hakan Karateke, 2005
Eurasian Studies II/1, 2003
Christiane Gruber and Frederic Colby, eds., Exploring Other Worlds: New Studies on the Prophet Muhammad's Ascension (Mi'raj), 2009
Essays in honour of Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, vol. I: Societies, cultures, sciences: a collection of articles, ed. Mustafa Kaçar, Zeynep Durukal, 2006
Originally published on ottomanhistorians.com, 2007
Muslim Accounts of the Dār al-Ḥarb [co-authored with Michael Bonner]
The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 4: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Robert Irwin, 2010
The order of knowledge, the knowledge of order: Intellectual life
The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 2: The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453–1603, ed. Suraiya Faroqhi and Kate Fleet, 2012
Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies, edited by Özgen Felek and Alexander Knysh, 2012
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Books by Gottfried Hagen
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