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DOI :10.26650/iutd.756501   IUP :10.26650/iutd.756501    Full Text (PDF)

Reorienting Orientalism: Ottoman Historiography and the Representation of Seventeenth-Century French Travelogues

Andrea Duffy

Contemporary discourse on orientalism has stigmatized early modern European travelogues, leading many scholars to reject them as viable sources of Ottoman history. Yet on closer examination, the orientalist biases associated with these works come primarily from nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars, who misinterpreted and manipulated them, rather than from the sources themselves. This study investigates how and why subsequent scholarship misrepresented seventeenth-century French travelogues on the Ottoman Empire. It argues that these accounts constitute a valuable and underutilized resource for historians.

DOI :10.26650/iutd.756501   IUP :10.26650/iutd.756501    Full Text (PDF)

Oryantalizme Yeniden Yön Vermek: Osmanlı Tarihyazımı ve On Yedinci Yüzyıl Fransız Seyahatnamelerinin Tasvirleri

Andrea Duffy

Oryantalizme dair çağdaş söylem erken modern Avrupalı seyyahları lekelemiş ve bu yüzden birçok bilim insanı Osmanlı tarihinin tutarlı kaynakları olarak kendilerini göz ardı etmiştir. Bununla birlikte, daha yakından incelendiğinde, söz konusu çalışmalara yönelik yanlı tutumun, eserlerin kendisinden ziyade bunları yanlış yorumlamış ve manipüle etmiş 19 ve 20. yüzyıl bilim insanlarından kaynaklandığı görülür. Bu çalışma sonraki bilimsel çalışmaların Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine kaleme alınmış 17. yüzyıl Fransız seyahatnamelerini neden ve nasıl yanlış sunduğunu incelemekte ve bu anlatıların tarihçiler için değerli ve iyi kullanılmamış kaynaklar olduğunu öne sürmektedir.


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Duffy, A. (2021). Reorienting Orientalism: Ottoman Historiography and the Representation of Seventeenth-Century French Travelogues. Turkish Journal of History, 0(73), 53-76. https://doi.org/10.26650/iutd.756501


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