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Fighting the Minor Evils: Slavery and the Diverse Lives of Abolitionism in the Ottoman Empire (2024)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

The Work of the American Protestant Missionaries on Muslim Evangelization and Their Perceptions and Interactions with Muslim Turks during the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period in Turkey (1878-1929) (2023)
Thesis
Liu, L. The Work of the American Protestant Missionaries on Muslim Evangelization and Their Perceptions and Interactions with Muslim Turks during the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period in Turkey (1878-1929). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The American missionary activities in late Ottoman society profoundly changed the Middle East landscape. At the American Historical Association’s Conference in 1968, the American missionaries were addressed as “the invisible men of American history”,... Read More about The Work of the American Protestant Missionaries on Muslim Evangelization and Their Perceptions and Interactions with Muslim Turks during the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period in Turkey (1878-1929).

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)
Journal Article
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

Shiny Things and Sovereign Legalities: Expropriation of Dynastic Property in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic (2019)
Journal Article
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.

The uncertainties of freedom : The second constitutional era and the end of slavery in the late Ottoman Empire (2016)
Journal Article
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.