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Fighting the Minor Evils: Slavery and the Diverse Lives of Abolitionism in the Ottoman Empire (2024)
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Karamursel, C. (2024). Fighting the Minor Evils: Slavery and the Diverse Lives of Abolitionism in the Ottoman Empire. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 56(4), 610-626. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743825000017

Historians have long argued that abolitionism, as a distinct political project, never fully took root in the Ottoman Empire. While anti-slavery measures emerged from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, they are often seen as state-imposed responses t... Read More about Fighting the Minor Evils: Slavery and the Diverse Lives of Abolitionism in the Ottoman Empire.

Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire (2023)
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Karamursel, C. (online). Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Gender and History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12755

This article traces the ways in which the newly inaugurated Turkish Republic dealt with such institutional and legal ‘relics’ as the imperial harem, slavery and polygamy, that it inherited from its immediate, largely undesirable imperial past, condem... Read More about Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire.

Book review: As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark. Avner Wishnitzer (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). (2023)
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Karamursel, C. (2023). Book review: As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark. Avner Wishnitzer (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Arab studies journal, 31(1/2),

Book review: Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Giancarlo Casale (ed.)(Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). (2023)
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Karamursel, C. (2023). Book review: Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Giancarlo Casale (ed.)(Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). Critical Inquiry,

Book review: Life After the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. Betül İpşirli Argıt (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). (2022)
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Karamursel, C. (2022). Book review: Life After the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. Betül İpşirli Argıt (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). International Journal of Middle East Studies, 54(1), 180-182. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743821001124

Roundtable Panel—Ussama Makdisi’s Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (Contributor) (2022)
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Karamursel, C. Roundtable Panel—Ussama Makdisi’s Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (Contributor)

Shiny Things and Sovereign Legalities: Expropriation of Dynastic Property in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic (2019)
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Karamursel, C. (2019). Shiny Things and Sovereign Legalities: Expropriation of Dynastic Property in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 51(3), 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743819000382

This article probes the legal expropriation of dynastic property in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. Focused on the period from Abdülhamid II's deposal in 1909 to the decade immediately following the abolition of the caliphate in 1... Read More about Shiny Things and Sovereign Legalities: Expropriation of Dynastic Property in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic.

Transplanted slavery, contested freedom and vernacularization of rights in the reform era Ottoman Empire (2017)
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Karamursel, C. (2017). Transplanted slavery, contested freedom and vernacularization of rights in the reform era Ottoman Empire. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 59(3), 690-714. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417517000226

The uncertainties of freedom : The second constitutional era and the end of slavery in the late Ottoman Empire (2016)
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Karamursel, C. (2016). The uncertainties of freedom : The second constitutional era and the end of slavery in the late Ottoman Empire. Journal of Women's History, 28(3), 138-161. https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2016.0028

Taking the constitutional revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire as its point of departure, this article traces the constitutional regime’s emancipatory efforts and failures through a series of claims made by slaves (a majority of whom were women)... Read More about The uncertainties of freedom : The second constitutional era and the end of slavery in the late Ottoman Empire.

Ottoman slavery as a tool for historical analysis: a review of recent literature (2014)
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Karamursel, C. (2014). Ottoman slavery as a tool for historical analysis: a review of recent literature. New Perspectives on Turkey, 50, 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0896634600006634