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Leslie PeirceSilver Professor
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Professor
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History
Princeton University, Ph.D. 1988
Email:
lp50@nyu.edu
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Areas of Research/Interest: early modern Ottoman history, gender, law & society, comparative empires.
Select Publications:
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Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab. University of California Press, 2003.
· Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle East Studies Association for best book, 2003; Koprulu Prize of the Turkish Studies Association for best book, 2002-2003. Turkish edition: Ahlak Oyunları ( Istanbul, 2005). |
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The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 1993).
· Koprulu Prize of the Turkish Studies Association for best book, 1993-1994. Turkish edition: Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Hukümranlık ve Kadınlar (Istanbul, 1996); Arabic edition in preparation. | “In search of the harem: sexual crime and social space in Ottoman royal law of the 15th and 16th centuries”, in E. Kermeli & O. Özel, The Ottoman Empire: Myths, Realities, and Black Holes, Contributions in Honour of Colin Imber (Istanbul, 2006)
Journal of Women’s History, Book Forum (the Journal’s first Book Forum featured Morality Tales: three commentaries on the book & author’s response), 18/1 (Spring 2006):
“Entrepreneurial success in 16th-century Aintab: The case of Seydi Ahmed Boyacı”, in A. Anastasopoulos, ed., Provincial Elites in the Ottoman Empire (U. of Crete Press, 2006). "Twentieth-century Historians and Historiography of the Ottoman Empire: The Early Centuries," Mediterranean Historical Review, 2004.
"Gender and Sexual Propriety in Ottoman Royal Women's Patronage," in DF. Ruggles, ed., Women Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies. SUNY Press, 2000.
"'The law shall not languish': Social Class and Public Conduct in 16th-century Ottoman legal discourse," in A. Afsaruddin, ed., The Hermeneutics of Honor: Negotiation of Public Space in Islamicate Societies. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999.
"Le dilemme de Fatma: crime sexuel et culture juridique dans une cour ottomane au début des temps modernes," Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Vol. 53, No. 2 (March - April 1998), 291-319.
"'She is trouble...and I will divorce her': Orality, Honor and Representation in the Ottoman Court of Aintab," in Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, Piety, ed. G. Hambly. The New Middle Ages Series, Vol. 6. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998, 267-300.
"Seniority, Sexuality, and Social Order: The Vocabulary of Gender in Early Modern Ottoman Anatolia," in Women in the Ototoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era, ed., M. Zilfi, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1997, 169-196.
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