The Imam with the Forty Keys
What is crucial from the point of view of intraneighborhood relationships is not that many of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century…
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The Imam and His Congregation
As shown by local vakıf documents of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries,5 the imam of the Kasap ƒlyas mosque…
Power and Local Administration in Kasap ƒlyas
Tanzimat and After In the Muslim mahalles of pre-nineteenth-century Istanbul, the central figure of the neighborhood community was the religious…
The Fire of 1782—Harîk-i Ekber (The Greatest Fire)
Fire started on Thursday night, the fourteenth of the moon of Ramadan 1196 a.h. (August 22, 1782), this time in…
The Fire of 1660—Ihrâk-ı kebir (The Great Burning)
On Saturday July 24, 1660, a fire that started in a timber shop near Ayakapısı, on the southern shores of…
Fire and Brimstone
Nazperver Kalfa’s decision to build her school and public fountain in 1792 precisely on the “Butchers’ Road” was no coincidence.…