The Precarious Intimacy of Honor in Late Ottoman Accounts of Para-militarism and Banditry

This essay sets up a dialogue between the self-narrative of an irregular cavalryman (deli) Deli Mustafa that recounts the campaigns he took part in between 1801/2 and 1825 and the corpus of Ottoman archival sources written about Kara Feyzi, an irregular soldier (sekbân) and bandit leader who marshal...

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Main Author: Tolga Uğur Esmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient 2014-07-01
Series:European Journal of Turkish Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejts/4873
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