Mediterranean Encounters

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Interpreting Travel in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Part I: Power in Question

Chapter 1 Reading Choiseul in the Gaps of the Orientalist Archive

Chapter 2 In the Shadow of les Grands: Cassas’s Orientalist Self-Fashioning

Part II: Ottoman Culture Abroad

Chapter 3 The Translator’s Art: Mouradgea d’Ohsson, Ottoman Dragoman in Paris

Chapter 4 Miniatures in Black and White: Melling’s Istanbul

Part III: Contradictory Contact

Chapter 5 Skin of Nation, Body of Empire: Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece

Chapter 6 A Painter’s Renunciation: Delacroix in North Africa

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“A welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on representations of alterity that looks beyond the Saidian binary of an ever-authorial and authoritative West and subservient East (one that she rightfully asserts has injuriously transcended Said’s own ‘own supple thinking’). Her work also poses a powerful critique of Bernard Lewis’s Ottoman-decline paradigm in his 2002 book What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response.”

—Deniz Türker, International Journal of Islamic Architecture