Ottoman Istanbul After Dark | Avner Wishnitzer

Ottoman History Podcast

E556 | What did the nighttime mean in the early modern Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Avner Wishnitzer discusses his recent book As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark (also available in Turkish translation by Can Gümüş as Gece Çökerken). He explains how the night was a time for sleep, rest, devotion, sex, crime, drinking, and even revolt. He also talks about the challenges of past sensory states, the influence of the late Walter Andrews on his work, and, finally, the relationship between his work as a historian and his work as an activist. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html Avner Wishnitzer is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His work focuses mainly on the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire. He is the author of Reading Clocks Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He is currently working on a history of Ottoman imagination in the long nineteenth century and his historical novel, New Order (in Hebrew), is coming out very soon Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power is out now with Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 556 Release Date: 12 December 2023 Recording location: Nashville and Tel Aviv Sound production by Sam Dolbee Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Big Road of Burravoe," "Chiaroscuro" Images and bibliography courtesy of Avner Wishnitzer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html