Papers by Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics

Research paper thumbnail of Reformatorisch beeinflusster Antitrinitarismus in und zwischen den Religionen: Gelehrte Kommunikation in der ostmitteleuropäisch-transosmanischen Verflechtung

in: Cristiani orientali e Repubblica delle Lettere (XVI-XVIII sec.) / Chrétiens orientaux et République des Lettres (16e-18e s.) / Östliche Christen und die Gelehrtenrepublik (16.-18. Jh.). A cura di: Marcello Garzaniti, Vassa Kontouma, Vasilios N. Makrides, Firenze 2025, S. 50-87, 2025

Religiösen und dogmatischen Auseinandersetzungen kam in der entstehenden gelehrten Kommunikation ... more Religiösen und dogmatischen Auseinandersetzungen kam in der entstehenden gelehrten Kommunikation der Frühneuzeit zentrale Bedeutung zu. Religiöse Gelehrsamkeit konsolidierte sich im Kontext der Auseinandersetzung mit der Reformation und der damit verbundenen Konfessionsfestigungsvorgänge gerade in diesem dogmatischen Kernbereich durchaus als Teil der Res publica lit(t)eraria (einführend: Girard 2023). Im Folgenden sollen am Beispiel insbesondere antitrinitarischer Debatten Akteure, Übersetzungszusammenhänge und Netzwerke im östlichen Europa einschließlich/sowie des Osmanischen Reiches und des Islams skizziert werden. Wo auf persönlichen Beziehungen oder Kommunikation beruhende Netzwerke nicht unmittelbar nachgewiesen werden können, sind hierzu auch Beispiele der Zirkulation von Konzepten, Texten oder Argumentationsmustern zu berücksichtigen. Neben Polen-Litauen und den dortigen Muslimen sollen im Folgenden auch das unter osmanischer Obhut stehende Siebenbürgen sowie Istanbul und dortige, auch darüber hinausreichende reformatorische Netzwerke angesprochen werden: Der Text folgt damit Fragestellungen, mit denen sich das DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm 1981 "Transottomanica" (2017-2024) (Rohdewald et al. 2019) auseinandergesetzt hat.
Open Access Chapter:
https://media.fupress.com/files/pdf/24/15878/44268
Open Access the whole Book:
https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/cristiani-orientali-e-repubblica-delle-lettere-xvi-xviii-sec--chrtiens-orientaux-et-rpublique-des-le/14015

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond the Shadows of the Past? Crises in Macedonia in the Early 1900s and 2000s in a Transottoman Perspective Rohdewald

Beyond the Shadows of the Past? Crises in Macedonia in the Early 1900s and 2000s: Between Remembered Entanglement and Disconnection in a Transottoman Perspective, 2023

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The contribution aims at explaining two phases of the discourses about the historical region of Macedonia as a paradigmatic European conflict region: The constitution of it as such at the beginning of the 20th century and its re-production or re-invention thereafter, particularly in the 2000s. The article addresses the medialisation of crises in both time frames and the interlinkage of the two phases by practices of remembrance. Even if the discourses of around 1900 are re-produced in the 21st century, this does not prove the longevity of one and the same conflict, as the settings today are to a large degree different from the 1900s. For the argument invented traditions are key, with a focus on saints such as Cyril and Methodius or Clement of Ohrid, as they have played a central role in the formulation of Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian interests in the historical landscape of Macedonia. Practices of remembrance and their roles in generating space and identity and in configuring the „Oriental“ and then the „Macedonian question”, in shaping their development around 1900 as well as in framing the memories connected to this time, and their roles during the crises after 1991 up to the complication of the situation by the escalation of Russian nationalist warfare against Ukraine and it’s national practices of memory will be sketched out.

Research paper thumbnail of Rohdewald, Stefan. Approaches to Polish-Lithuanian / Belarusian and Ukrainian History before 1800 in the Context of Local, Regional and Transregional Entanglements

Approaches to Polish-Lithuanian / Belarusian and Ukrainian History before 1800 in the Context of Local, Regional and Transregional Entanglements, in: Das historische Litauen als Perspektive für die Slavistik Verflochtene Narrative und Identitäten Herausgegeben von Monika Bednarczuk und Marion Rutz, 2022

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In this short essay I explore the multilingual1 and multireligious character of the multi- national Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern period. This state was home not only to significant Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish communities, but also to notable numbers of Armenians and Muslims. I set my study in the context of developments in historiography, which – in general works at least – has only recently turned its attention towards the abovementioned aspects of the the Early Modern Com- monwealth, even though they permeated all aspects of society. This applies, as I will show, on multiple scales, from individual cities4 through the regional level to the trans- regional. The primary focus of this study will be on the way historical research has ap- proached Poland-Lithuania, and in particular the Grand Duchy, and what imaginaries it has thus constructed. At the same time, or even more, this short piece is an outline of a prospective new approach drawing on a transregional and Transottoman perspective, influenced by the ongoing transnational turn in historiography. While historiography has played a key role in influencing current debates on memory cultures, I will only briefly touch upon those here.
This paper outlines some of the far-reaching, transregional connections that shaped Poland-Lithuania, thus pointing towards new research questions that recognition of this could inspire. Indeed, Poland and Lithuania, as well as the partitioned territories that joined the Russian Empire, should always be considered in both their local and trans- regional contexts,5 and thus in their interconnections with Rusʹ, Ruthenia, Muscovy and the Petersburg Empire, as well as with the northern Black Sea region, the Ottoman Empire and Persia.

Research paper thumbnail of CfP (!): Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Shared History and Its Global Implications A conference to mark the conclusion of the Priority Program Transottomanica (DFG SPP 1981) and discuss new avenues of future research

Call for Papers: Conference Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives, 2022

Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Shared History and Its Global ... more Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Shared History and Its Global Implications
A conference to mark the conclusion of the Priority Program Transottomanica (DFG SPP 1981) and discuss new avenues of future research.
29 Feb–1 March 2024, Leipzig

At the end of 2023, the DFG Priority Program Transottomanica will draw to a close. We want to mark the end of the program with a conference that will reflect on Transottomanica’s outcomes and discuss new avenues of research.
In the past six years, Transottomanica conducted research on mobility dynamics and their spatial and societal consequences in all their dimensions between Eastern Europe and the Middle East from the early modern period to the twentieth century. We started from the observation that to date, social and (trans)cultural ties between Poland-Lithuania, Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Persia have not been the subject of systematic historical research. Therefore, the program focused on societal ties and communication practices in the context of a large transregional migration society, which emerged as a consequence of large scale mobility between these dominions. This approach promised to change our understanding of globalized European and Asian histories in a transcontinental context. Instead of constructing “one” new region, our “post-area studies” approach allowed us to look beyond the established area containers and focus on concrete contexts and fields of social interaction with different spatial and social ranges unified by the lens of mobility: Our focus was on reciprocal processes of migration, knowledge circulation, travel, trade and mobility of entire societies between Muscovy and then the Russian Empire, Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire and Persia, always including military dynamics. In the program’s publication series, we proposed a research perspective in an introductory volume (2019) and gathered preliminary results in three more volumes: Knowledge on the Move (2021), Transottoman Matters (2022), Transottoman Biographies (forthcoming 2023).
The conference will give opportunity to the working groups and research projects assembled in the program to discuss their results. Moreover, the event wants to open the horizon again and invite researchers with a similar approach to reflect on their relationship with Transottomanica. This can include a critical assessment of common concepts, a reflection on difficulties and avenues of future research that would productively enlarge and deepen the Transottoman approach.
Unfortunately, as our research developed, so did (not only) military entanglements between the Middle East and Eastern Europe, involving e.g. Syria, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia and Azerbaijan: We are not least interested in discussing Transottoman, transregional perspectives on today’s shared history across the continents.

Having said this, we invite papers on
conceptually similar approaches such as Area Studies, Crossroads or Transregional Studies, Mobility or Migration Studies;
comparisons with/on the conceptual rivalries of partially related/overlapping (trans)epochal area studies concepts such as the Ottoman or Mediterranean World, Indian Ocean World, Eurasia, MENA or (South) Eastern Europe, Silk Roads, Caspian or Black Sea and Balkan Studies, Persianate, Islamicate, the Orthodox Commonwealth etc. seen from a meta, post-area studies, i.e. Transottoman, perspective;
hitherto less or unexplored topics in Transottoman settings from the past to the 21st century such as visuality, disease, climate, environment and animals, music, new materialism, assemblage, memory, post- and neo-imperial, post- and decolonial perspectives, imagined geopolitics, contemporary literary studies, etc.;
studies on long distance mobility dynamics or transregional shared history across and/or well beyond Transottomanica, e.g. connecting India with Europe, or Africa with Russia;
global histories of Transottoman localities, e.g. Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Iranian, Albanian, Greek, Armenian, Crimean Tatar Glocal history in and beyond Transottomanica etc.;
any conceptually instructive case study discussing Transottoman perspectives.

Please send a short proposal (abstract) and an academic CV by 15 April 2023 to: [email protected].

Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verz... more Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über https://dnb.de abrufbar.

Adeligkeit, Fernhändler und Luxuswaren in transosmanischen Mobilitätsdynamiken vor 1800

Der Beitrag zeigt am Beispiel von Fernhändlern und deren situativer Teilhabe an lokalen und überr... more Der Beitrag zeigt am Beispiel von Fernhändlern und deren situativer Teilhabe an lokalen und überregionalen Formen von Adeligkeit oder insgesamt sozialen Eliten-gerade auch durch den kompetenten Zugriff auf in entsprechend kompatiblen Regimes of Value geschätzte Waren-, wie gerade Angehörige von Sondergruppen, die in unterschiedlichen politischen Herrschaftsgebieten gleichermaßen vertreten waren, vor Ort und transimperial an zentralen Vergesellschaftungsprozessen mitwirkten. Mit diesem und weiteren Argumenten wird insgesamt für die Überwindung der Vorstellung weitgehend isolierter, prioritär von politischen Grenzen definierten Gesellschaften durch die Wahrnehmung migrationsgesellschaftlicher Zusammenhänge im transkontinentalen Kontext plädiert.

Research paper thumbnail of Diyar 2021 1 Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics: Contents of the Special Issue

Diyar. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, 2021

Stefan Rohdewald, Albrecht Fuess, Stephan Conermann: Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-P... more Stefan Rohdewald, Albrecht Fuess, Stephan Conermann:
Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics 5
Hasmik Kirakosyan, Ani Sargsyan: On the Appropriation of Lexicographic Methods of Kemālpaşazāde’s (1468–1534) Glossary Daḳāyiḳu l-ḥaḳāyiḳ 14
Robert Born: The Ottoman Tributaries Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia:  Reflections on the Mobility of Objects and Networks of Actors 27
Taisiya Leber: The Early History of Printing in the Ottoman Empire through the Prism of Mobility  59
Veruschka Wagner: Mobile Actors, Mobile Slaves: Female Slaves from the Black Sea Region in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul 83
Dennis Dierks: Mediatising Violence and Renegotiating Commonality: Bosnian Muslim Press Reporting on the Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912) 105

https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-5/transottomanica-eastern-european-ottoman-persian-mobility-dynamics-jahrgang-2-2021-heft-1

Research paper thumbnail of Florian Riedler, Stefan Rohdewald: Migration and Mobility in a Transottoman Context

Radovi : Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest Filozofskoga fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2019

Florian Riedler, Stefan Rohdewald: Migration and Mobility in a Transottoman Context, in: Radovi –... more Florian Riedler, Stefan Rohdewald: Migration and Mobility in a Transottoman Context, in: Radovi – Zavod za hrvatsku povijest 51 (2019) 1, 201-219 in the special issue: Between Europe and Middle East: Migrations and Their Consequences in Southeast Europe and Anatolia in Transimperial and Intercultural Context, ed. by Vjeran Kursar, pp. 201-219. Open Access: https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=18790&fbclid=IwAR1zIpUBC9s1KRQVJ2IIMtsr6inpMhC2hqipP_CyIedltgS7UOxrfeQ8-ts&lang=en
Recent research in historical migration studies has the potential to revise our under- standing of Early Modern societies and states. The research program Transottomanica focuses on the historical entanglement between the Middle East and Eastern Europe by examining migration processes from a transregional and transimperial perspective. In the Early Modern period, various types of migration, especially from and across inter-imperial buffer zones such as the northern Black Sea region, the Caucasus, and the Balkans, connected the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Merchants, refugees and slaves not only created an overarching migration society, especially in the cosmopolitan cities, for transregional migration was also visible in the self-description and identities of imperial elites. The effects of inter-imperial migration, which was ingrained in societal and identitarian structures, can be followed until the early 20th century.

DFG Call for Projects. Zweite Phase SPP Transottomanica 2020-2023, 2019

DFG Call for Projects. Zweite Phase SPP Transottomanica 2020-2023

Transottomanica Contents vol. 1, 2019

Transcontinental mobilities Borgolte Transottomanica , 2019

Vom Problem europäischer Identität zur Erforschung transkontinentaler Mobilität. Schwerpunktprogr... more Vom Problem europäischer Identität zur Erforschung transkontinentaler Mobilität. Schwerpunktprogramme von 2005 und 2017 im Vergleich. Michael Borgolte in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Introduction.Transottoman Mobility Dynamics, 2019

Introduction.Transottoman Mobility Dynamics..Conermann.Fuess.Rohdewald Einführung: Transosmanisc... more Introduction.Transottoman Mobility Dynamics..Conermann.Fuess.Rohdewald
Einführung: Transosmanische Mobilitätsdynamiken. Mobilität als Linse für Akteure, Wissen und Objekte in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Mobilities/Migration in a Transottoman Society Rohdewald in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess Transottomanica , 2019

Mobilities/Migration in a Transottoman Society Rohdewald in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann... more Mobilities/Migration in a Transottoman Society Rohdewald  in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Wissenszirkulation Neue Zugänge zur Geschichte des Wissens in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess Transottomanica, 2019

Wissenszirkulation Neue Zugänge zur Geschichte des Wissens in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann... more Wissenszirkulation Neue Zugänge zur Geschichte des Wissens in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Trade and Objects Albrecht.Fuess. , 2019

Trade and Objects Albrecht.Fuess. in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess Transot... more Trade and Objects Albrecht.Fuess. in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Transottoman Mobility Dynamics. Suraiya Faroqhi / Denise Klein / Markus Koller, 2019

Transottoman Mobility Dynamics. Suraiya Faroqhi / Denise Klein / Markus Koller Transosmanische M... more Transottoman Mobility Dynamics.  Suraiya Faroqhi / Denise Klein / Markus Koller
Transosmanische Mobilitätsdynamiken: Akteure – Wissen – Waren 
in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Polish-Ottoman Entanglements Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg Stefan Rohdewald in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken Perspektiven und Forschungsstand, 2019

Polish-Ottoman Entanglements Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg Stefan Rohdewald in Stefan Rohdewald, Steph... more Polish-Ottoman Entanglements

Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg Stefan Rohdewald
in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Russian-Ottoman Entanglements. Thomas Bohn. Christoph Witzenrath.Transottomanica. in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken Perspektiven und Forschungsstand, 2019

Russian-Ottoman Entanglements. Thomas Bohn. Christoph Witzenrath.Transottomanica. in Stefan Rohde... more Russian-Ottoman Entanglements. Thomas Bohn. Christoph Witzenrath.Transottomanica. in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Iranian Indian Ottoman Interactions. Christoph Werner in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken Perspektiven und Forschungsstand, 2019

Iranian Indian Ottoman Interactions. Christoph Werner in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, A... more Iranian Indian Ottoman Interactions.  Christoph Werner in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand

Ottoman Arabic Iranian Entanglements.Transottomanica. Albrecht Fuess. in: in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken Perspektiven und Forschungsstand, 2019

Ottoman Arabic Iranian Entanglements.Transottomanica. Albrecht Fuess. in: in Stefan Rohdewald, St... more Ottoman Arabic Iranian Entanglements.Transottomanica. Albrecht Fuess. in: in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand