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DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores a link between Evliya Çelebi’s frequent r
 eferences to the myth of Queen Kaydafe and Ahmedi’s late fourteenth-centur
 y İskendername (Book of Alexander)\, and it unveils the complex and unexpe
 cted ways in which Ahmedi adapted and radically changed the age-old Alexan
 der Romance. In Ahmedi’s telling\, Queen Kaydafe stands in for Candace\, w
 hose confrontation with Alexander appears in every version of the Romance\
 , East and West. Yet Ahmedi’s İskendername is the first work where the sto
 ry’s universal “happy ending” turns into a tragedy\, fatal to Kaydafe/Cand
 ace. Digging through layers of earlier and later texts\, Eldem’s investiga
 tion reveals how Ahmedi came up with this innovative—and misogynist—twist 
 and laid the foundation for a new and original version of the story\, whic
 h would spread throughout Ottoman culture and literature at least until th
 e end of the nineteenth century.Edhem Eldem (PhD Université de Provence\, 
 Aix-Marseille I\, 1989) is a historian of the Ottoman Empire\, and the Sak
 ıp Sabancı Visiting Professor in the history department at Columbia Univer
 sity. He has taught in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University an
 d at Berkeley\, Harvard\, Columbia\, the École des Hautes Études en Scienc
 es Sociales\, the École Pratique des Hautes Études\, and the École Normale
  Supérieure. In addition\, he has held the International Chair of Turkish 
 and Ottoman Studies at the Collège de France\, and he has been a fellow at
  the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His fields of interest include the Lev
 ant trade in the eighteenth century\, Ottoman funerary epigraphy\, the dev
 elopment of an urban bourgeoisie in Istanbul\, the history of the Imperial
  Ottoman Bank\, the history of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire\, the his
 tory of photography in the Ottoman Empire\, late nineteenth-century Ottoma
 n first-person narratives and biographies\, Westernization and the Tanzima
 t\, and Orientalism.His publications include French Trade in Istanbul in t
 he Eighteenth Century (1999)\; A History of the Ottoman Bank (1999)\; The 
 Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo\, Izmir and Istanbul (1999\, wi
 th D. Goffman and B. Masters)\; Pride and Privilege. A History of Ottoman 
 Orders\, Medals and Decorations (2004)\; Death in Istanbul. Death and Its 
 Rituals in Ottoman-Islamic Culture (2005)\; Consuming the Orient (2007)\; 
 Un Ottoman en Orient. Osman Hamdi Bey en Irak (1869–1871) (2010)\; Le voya
 ge à Nemrud Dağı d’Osman Hamdi Bey et Osgan Efendi (2010)\; Scramble for t
 he Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire\, 1753–1914 (2011\, 
 with Z. Bahrani and Z. Çelik)\; Camera Ottomana. Photography and Modernity
  in the Ottoman Empire\, 1870–1914 (2015\, with Z. Çelik)\; L’Empire ottom
 an et la Turquie face à l’Occident (2018)\; L’Alhambra. À la croisée des h
 istoires (2021)\; L’Empire ottoman (2022)\; The Alhambra at the Crossroads
  of History (2024).
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: When Alex Met Candy
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