Halcyon Days in Crete XII Symposium "The Janissaries: Socio-Political and Economic Actors in the Ottoman Empire (17th-Early 19th Centuries)"
The Department of Ottoman History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies has organised since 1991 eleven International Symposia of Ottoman History in Rethymno under the title “Halcyon Days in Crete”. The symposia take place every three years with the participation of a number of renowned Ottomanists from around the world. They constitute the only standing international symposia of Ottoman studies held in Greece. This year's symposium will be organized in the framework of the ERC-funded project "JaNet: Janissaries in Ottoman Port-Cities: Muslim Financial and Political Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean" under the title "The Janissaries: Socio-Political and Economic Actors in the Ottoman Empire (17th-Early 19th Centuries)."
JaNet aspires to create an innovative entanglement of military, social, political, and economic history which has the potential to change our current perception of the early modern Mediterranean and the role of Islam in it. JaNet investigates the economic and sociopolitical role of the Janissaries in the 18th and early 19th centuries through their examination as a complex of interconnected networks in the Mediterranean. By studying the Janissary corps, the project brings forward a radically new historical analysis concerning, on the one hand, the role of Muslims in the Ottoman and wider Mediterranean commercial economy – a role largely ignored by the bibliography – and, on the other, the processes that led to the creation of diasporas and the dissemination of people and ideas among various Muslim communities in the area.
Conference Details:
Halcyon Days in Crete XII Symposium "The Janissaries: Socio-Political and Economic Actors in the Ottoman Empire (17th-Early 19th Centuries)"
Institute for Mediterranean Studies (FORTH)
January 12-14, 2024
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