1. TWO TALKS ON MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS TODAY 14 November, 4:45 pm, CAS B 33 Speaker: Geoffrey Fox Title: Thunderbolt and Cross: Christian-Ottoman Relations in the Last Days of Byzantium November 16, 4:45 pm, CAS B 33 Speaker: Buket Bayrı Title: Identity Formation in Late Medieval Anatolia and the Balkans

2. Merchants, Artisans and Workers of Istanbul At the Imperial Festival of Hammams and hammam attendants

3. Silk and Spice Routes

5. Portuguese and Ottomans in the Red Sea, the Gulf, and the Indian Ocean
Goa in 1509
Hormuz 1515
Failed to take Aden, but penetrated as deep into the Red Sea (raid of Suez in 1541)
Ottomans
Egypt 1517
Aden 1538
Basra 1546

6. Traders in the Ottoman Empire
Muslim Traders from India
Especially in Hijaz, Egypt and Yemen
Indian textiles and spices
Armenian Traders from Iran
New Culfa, Isfahan
Silk
Tatars and Armenian Traders from Russia
Furs
Venetians and other Italian traders
Dalmatian coast, islands in Agean and Mediterrenean
Venetian fabrics, wine, cheese, glassware
English, French and Dutch
Iranian Silk, mohair from Ankara and woolen textiles

7. Kervansaray, from an album from 1650-60

8. from Surname-i Hümayun 1587 festivities for the circumcission of prince Mehmed

25. Surname (Book of Festivities), dating from 1582.

29. The Royal Bath, Hunername II, TSM H.1524, f.148a - 147b, ca.1589

30. Royal Bath, Album of Ahmed I, TSM B.408, f.18, ca.1610

31. Interior of a Bath, Receuil d’Estampes de Roy de Pologne, Warshaw University Library, T.171, f.208, 18th century

32. Fuzuli, Divan, 16th Century

33. Women Going to Bath,
Album Nicolas de Nicolay16th Century
Women Going To Bath,Wyts Album, Österreicheische
Nationalbibliothek,
Cod.3325, f.82,1574

34. Women and Children Going to Bath, Album, Dresden, Sachsische Landesbibliothek, J.21, 1582, 16th Century

35. Women and Children Going to Bath, Album, Bremen, Kassel Landesbibliothek, Hist 31,end of 16th Century

36. Women at Bath, Zenanname, IÜK T. 5502, f.145a, 1793

37. Three examples from
Names, physical traits and place of origin of Çemberlitaş attendants in 1752,
From Nina Ergin article, among your readings
Yakub Ahmed, black beard, Görice
İbrahim Mehmed, slight facial hair, İstarova
İsmail Halil, whitish mustache, İstarova
Bath Attendant, Album, Receuil d’Estampes de Roy de Pologne,Warshaw University Library,
T.171, f.184,18th century

38. Bath Attendant, (tellak)
Album of Ahmed I, ca.1610