The Contours of a Local Identity
It was a chilly November day of the year 1494 (Safer 900 a.h.). ƒlyas slowly climbed the steep hill toward…
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Sources and Issues Interviews and Personal Narratives
A small number of in-depth interviews have also been conducted with elderly inhabitants of Kasap ƒlyas. Nine of them were…
Sources and Issues Other Written Sources
Quantitative data and sources for the pre-nineteenth-century Istanbul population are difficult to come by. The available estimates, most of them…
Sources and Issues Quantitative Data
Quantitative Data (Late Ottoman Censuses) Two other important Ottoman archival sources have been delved into, for the purposes of this…
Sources and Issues
What is known of the demographic structures and the social relationships within the capital-city of the Ottoman Empire, especially in…
Fluidity and Imprecision suite
The Bekir Paœa mescit, as a building, had stood the test of time for about two and a half centuries. However, at no point in time had it succeeded in giving its name to a neighborhood independent from the Kasap ƒlyas mahalle from which it was supposed to have emerged. Was the congregation of the small seaside mosque too small or too poor and/or was the initial endowment and incomes of the waqf insufficient for the upkeep of an imam? Why didn’t the “new” neighborhood expand beyond its initial area? Why didn’t it annex new groups of streets and people?