Popular Protest and Political Participation in the Ottoman Empire Studies in Honor of Suraiya F

protest and political participation in the Ottoman Empire. Taking as a starting point the seminal vvork of the leading historian Suraiya Faroqhi, to whom the volume is dedicated, the contributions investigate majör aspects of popular and elite involvement in Ottoman political life from the early seventeenth century to VVorld War I.The studies deal with a wide range of topics, such as the political and judicial functions of petitions, contentious protest and revolt, factionalism, violence and erime, provincial political households, eleetions to cİty councils, commercial propaganda, and resistance to state imperatives. The contributors challenge received vvisdom and shovv the importance of the Ottoman subjects' participation in decision making and political processesdespite the restraints imposed by the imperial ideological order. Understandİng how popular protest vvorked and how common people participated in political life enables a better grasp of the social dynamics of the Ottoman Empire and opens up nevv perspeetives vvhich transcend established dichotomies.ELENI GARA CHRISTOPH K. NEUMANN M. ERDEM KABADAYI EYAL GINIO MâROPI ANASTASSIADOU-DUMONT EUNJEONG Yİ ANTONIS ANASTASOPOULOS JANE HATHAVVAY BRUCE MASTERS LINDA T. DARLING NATHALIE CLAYER VIRGINIA H. AKSAN YAVUZ KÖSE DONALD QUATAERT CHRISTOPH HERZOG