Osmanlı Biladü’ş-Şamı’nda Yaşamış Olan 18. Yüzyıl Vakanüvislerinin Mekân Tahayyülleri
Journal: Osmanlı Araştırmaları
Year: 2014

This essay is about the global spatial imaginaries of seven chroniclers from the Ottoman Levant (Bilād al-Shām/Syria and Palestine) in the eighteenth century. While being unified in an Arabic-speaking Levantine identity, on the one hand, and conscious of their Ottoman affiliation, on the other, the authors came from decidedly different social, religious, and occupational backgrounds. Given the unity and diversity of the backgrounds of the authors, this essay examines the consequent tensions foun