Eldem, Edhem

Office Hours

Fall 2024: Wednesdays, 9:00 - 11:00 AM

Education

PhD Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I, 1989

Interests and Research

Edhem Eldem is a historian of the Ottoman Empire, who has taught at the Department of History of Boğaziçi University, at Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia. The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the École Normale Supérieure and has held the International Chair of Turkish and Ottoman Studies et the Collège de France. He has been a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Among his fields of interest are the Levant trade in the eighteenth century, Ottoman funerary epigraphy, the development of an urban bourgeoisie in Istanbul, the history ofthe Imperial Ottoman Bank, the history of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, the history of photography in the Ottoman Empire, late-nineteenth-century Ottoman first-person narratives and biographies, Westernization and the Tanzimat, and Orientalism.

His publications include French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (1999); A History of the Ottoman Bank (1999); The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul (1999, with D. Goffman and B. Masters); Pride and Privilege. A History of Ottoman Orders, Medals and Decorations (2004); Death in Istanbul. Death and its Rituals in Ottoman-Islamic Culture (2005); Consuming the Orient (2007); Un Ottoman en Orient. Osman Hamdi Bey en Irak (1869-1871) (2010); Le voyage à Nemrud Dağı d’Osman Hamdi Bey et Osgan Efendi (2010); Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (2011, with Z. Bahrani and Z. Çelik); Camera Ottomana. Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914 (2015, with Z. Çelik); L’Empire ottoman et la Turquie face à l’Occident (2018); L’Alhambra. À la croisée des histoires (2021); L’Empire ottoman (2022); The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History (2024).

Courses

HIST 4721 - Archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman lands in the long 19th century (Wednesday, 4:10-6:00 PM, 329 Uris)
HIST 4736 - Ottoman Westernization and Orientalism in the long 19th century (Wednesday, 12:10-2:00 PM, 311 Fayerweather)