All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of Kinship
| The risk any generalization contains notwithstanding, it can be suggested that one of the most conspicuous features in the space stretching from the Indian sub-continent to Egypt in the period 1100-1800 was the prevalence of the military patronage states, which were ruled by Turkic-speaking or Mongol-speaking elites and dynasties. One of the most fundamental notions, on which the functioning of these states was based, was the perpetual attempt to rule via a one-generational elite and thus to limit the scope of elites that have consequential roots in the ruled societies. To make a certain leap, this reality gave birth to the elite political household, which was the most basic structural unit of the military-administrative elites of these states. This paper will propose that within certain temporal and spatial confines the elite political household can be seen as an alternative to kinship in terms of social relations and as an alternative to the family in terms of socio-political structures. Using the late medieval Mamluk Sultanate as background, the paper will focus on the early-modern Ottoman state. The method of analysis will combine a structural characterization of the household on the one hand, with a more speculative attempt to understand how contemporary Mamluks and Ottomans experienced the household as a community. Attention will be paid to the ruling households, both Mamluk and Ottoman, for in them the tension between kinship relations and patronage ones was especially poignant and consequential.
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