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The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire

Name: The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9781503638952
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Contributors:

Nir Shafir

Publisher:

Stanford University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Literary Criticism

Book Subcategory:

Middle East, Modern, Books & Reading

Book Topic:

Turkey & Ottoman Empire, 17th Century

Series:

Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge

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Release Date:

2024-10-08

ISBN 13:

9781503638952

Weight:

1.75 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 1.24 inches

Pages:

436

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The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing--the pamphlet, a cheap, short, and mobile text that provided readers with simplified legal arguments. These pamphlets were more than simply a novel way to disseminate texts, they made a consequential shift in the way Ottoman subjects communicated. This book offers the first comprehensive look at a new communication order that flourished in seventeenth-century manuscript culture.

Through the example of the pamphlet, Nir Shafir investigates the political and cultural institutions used to navigate, regulate, and encourage the circulation of information in a society in which all books were copied by hand. He sketches an ecology of books, examining how books were produced, the movement of texts regulated, education administered, reading conducted, and publics cultivated. Pamphlets invited both the well and poorly educated to participate in public debates, thus expanding the Ottoman body politic. They also spurred an epidemic of fake authors and popular forms of reading. Thus, pamphlets became both the forum and the fuel for the polarization of Ottoman society. Based on years of research in Islamic manuscript libraries worldwide, this book illuminates a vibrant and evolving premodern manuscript culture.

About the Author
Nir Shafir is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire

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