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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2025] Confronting the New. Power Dynamics among Muslims, Christians and Jews in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul
DESCRIPTION:After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans turned the city into the capital of an Islamic empire and one of the most populous and diverse cities of the early modern world. The sixteenth century was crucial in this transformation process, marked by extensive construction programs and migrations of various ethnic and religious populations from southern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa. New palaces, mosques, and markets radically altered the urban topography of the former Byzantine city, at the same time as new elites established it as the political, economic, cultural, and religious center of the empire’s diverse communities. 
Due to disciplinary boundaries, scholarship tends to deal with Istanbul’s various population groups separately. In contrast, our session brings together scholars focusing on Muslim, Christian, and Jewish perspectives to explore the complex power dynamics shaping the city’s development at the dawn of the modern era. By adopting this holistic approach, we will analyze the power negotiations occurring both within and between the city’s established and emerging communities to explain aspects of the spatial, social, and religious transformations of early modern Istanbul. Understanding power as an act of social action and drawing from a diverse corpus of material and textual sources, including documentation in Ottoman, Greek and Hebrew, we ask in individual case studies what means and strategies the contemporaries employed in order to manifest their place within urban society and topography. How far were established elites able to draw on old privileges, traditions, and local knowledge? What contributions did the newcomers make, advancing their individual cases while also changing the urban and social geography? After a five-minute introduction, we plan to present three twenty-minute papers, followed by twenty-five minutes for Q & A at the end. 
Der Beitrag Confronting the New. Power Dynamics among Muslims, Christians and Jews in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2025.
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