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Unseating “State” and “Archive”: Mobility and Manipulation in Past Environments and Present Praxis

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Heather Ferguson
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Abstract

These concluding reflections assess how the contributors to this special issue intervene in key assumptions that shape the current field of archival studies. As the “archival turn” gains ground, forms of Euro- and state-centrism reappear in scholarship otherwise innovative in its attention to the textual remnants of the past. Here, instead, we explore the methodological stakes involved in defining both the “archive” and the historical power brokers who created and preserved a documentary record in pursuit of their varied social, cultural, economic, and political projects. The essay points to the resurgence of culturalist and civilisational indices for comparative archivistics, and follows the arguments collected in this issue to assert by contrast the often uneven and uneasy regional, administrative, and procedural definitions at work within preserved records. Identifying “mobility” as both a methodological tactic and a historical process, this conclusion presents a fluid rather than fixed textual landscape and presents an alternative frame for investigating preservationist practices.

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periodisationarchivalityEurasiaOttoman mühimmerecord keeping
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Itinerario , Volume 44 , Special Issue 3: Beyond the Islamicate Chancery: Archives, Paperwork, and Textual Encounters Across Eurasia , December 2020 , pp. 591 - 608
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Heather Ferguson received an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas, Austin, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. After a two-year postdoctoral position at Stanford University, she joined the faculty at Claremont McKenna in 2011 and is now an Associate Professor of Ottoman and Middle Eastern History. Heather is an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 2014–2015, for her book project entitled The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses (Stanford 2018). Her second book project, supported by an NEH summer stipend and an ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, is titled Sovereign Valedictions: “Last Acts” and Archival Ventures in Ottoman and Habsburg Courts. Her research focuses broadly on comparative early modern empires, categories of sovereignty and power, linkages between archives and state governance, as well as on legal and urban transformations around the Mediterranean. She serves as editor of the Review of Middle East Studies, and associate editor for the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.

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Fodor, Pál. “The Grand Vizieral Telhis: A Study in the Ottoman Central Administration 1566–1656.” Archivum Ottomanicum 15 (1997): 137–88.Google Scholar
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Messick, Brinkley. Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mitchell, Colin Paul. The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
al-Musawi, Muhsin J. The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nussdorfer, Laurie. Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Peacock, A. C. S., et al. , eds. The Frontiers of the Ottoman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Połczyński, Michael. “The Relacyja of Sefer Muratowicz: 1601–1602: Private Royal Envoy of Sigismund III Vasa to Shah ‘Abbas I.” Turkish Historical Review 5:1 (30 April 2014): 59–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Raman, Bhavani. Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rothman, Natalie. Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Sekulic, Ana. “From a Legal Proof to a Historical Fact: Trajectories of an Ottoman Document in a Franciscan Monastery, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.” Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient 62:5 (2019): 925–62.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stoler, Ann. Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
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Ursinus, Michael. “Petitions from Orthodox Church Officials to the Imperial Diwan, 1675.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 18 (1994), 236–47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wakako, Kumakura. “Who Handed over Mamluk Land Registers to the Ottomans? A Study on the Administrators of Land Records in the Late-Mamluk Period.” Mamluk Studies Review 18 (2014): 279–98.Google Scholar
Walsham, Alexandra. “Focus: The History of Archives and the History of Science,” ed. Yale, Elizabeth. Isis 107:1 (2016): 74–120.Google Scholar
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