Osmanlı’da Bilginin ‘Gezgin’ Ağı: Suraiya Faroqhi’nin “Osmanlı Kültürü ve Gündelik Yaşam Ortaçağdan Yirminci Yüzyıla” Kitabının Değerlendirilmesi

This study is about the information and communication networks in the daily life of the Ottoman Empire in Suraiya Faroqhi's study of “Ottoman Culture and Everyday Life from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century” published in 1997 by Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları. Faroqhi draws the framework of a mobile network within the everyday life of the Ottoman Empire in her book, which is composed of three parts in the framework of the culture formation, arts and cultural exchange chapters. In this everyday life, information travels in multiple ways between women, men, neighbors, muslim judges, merchants, travelers, pilgrims, dervishes and ruling classes. Faroqhi also pointed out the importance of places in information circulation and sharing among communication subjects. In this context, she also highlighted how they have contributed to the mobility of the network, such as houses, markets, hospitals, prisons, bakeries, conventions, mosques, libraries and so on. Faroqhi established Ottoman ‘s analysis of everyday life through contrasts of urban - rural, high culture - folk culture, riches - poor and more of the same. According to these analyzes in Faroqhi's work, it can be said that the information and communication networks in the daily life of the Ottoman Empire draw a versatile, mobile portrait. As a result, it can be said that Faroqhi set out a framework for the daily life of the Ottoman Empire, set out from concrete data, and extended this framework through subjects and spaces, and contributed significantly to the literature in the field.