{"id":628,"date":"2023-05-01T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T08:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2024-07-01T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T08:40:10","slug":"fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-or-an-ottoman-traveler-in-the-new-world-1675-1683","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, or an Ottoman Traveler in the New World, 1675-1683"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the late seventeenth century, an Ottoman traveler, Ilyas (Ilyas ibn Hanna al-Mawsuli), witnessed \u201ca large nocturnal vampire\u201d in Panama\u2019s coast town named Portobelo. According to the traveler, the vampire \u201cwho fastens upon his victim while asleep and bleeds him by sucking his blood,\u201d also had wings which he used \u201csimultaneously to fan the victim and let him enjoy his sleep.\u201d The traveler proceeded to say that the vampire drained the blood from his prey \u201cuntil the victim barely awakens on account of the great loss of blood.\u201d Is this narrative implying that vampires did exist in Spanish America, or is it responding to the traveler\u2019s fantasy world? Why might an Ottoman traveler compose such stories in colonial regions far from his homeland? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With these questions in mind, I present this research project which delves into the fantasy world created by an Ottoman subject in the late seventeenth century. I primarily focus on the extraordinary stories witnessed by the traveler: fantastic beasts and creatures. Therefore, I highlight two crucial ideas. First, the colonial discourse of the traveler\u2019s experience in the New World. Second, while portraying his fantasy world, he \u201cOttomanized\u201d the Spanish Empire’s colonial domain by conveying the political structure of the Ottoman world. As a result, through his discourse on identity, representation, and memory, in this research, I will present the sentiments of an early modern traveler in the New World and, thus, connect the two topics offered at the 2nd Annual Michael Gordon Memorial History Graduate Conference\u2014historical categories (class and race), and identity (community membership, and personal individuality).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This research paper is presented at Second Annual Michael Gordon Memorial History Graduate Conference on April 28-29, 2023 in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To visit the webpage of the conference organizers, the UWM History Graduate Student Association, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To access the abstract of the presented paper, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the late seventeenth century, an Ottoman traveler, Ilyas (Ilyas ibn Hanna al-Mawsuli), witnessed \u201ca large nocturnal vampire\u201d in Panama\u2019s coast town named Portobelo. According to the traveler, the vampire \u201cwho fastens upon his victim while asleep and bleeds him by sucking his blood,\u201d also had wings which he used \u201csimultaneously to fan the victim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[253,256,261,257,254,255,260,259],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-academic","tag-early-modern-history","tag-ilyas-ibn-hanna-al-mawsuli","tag-michael-gordon-memorial-history-graduate-conferecen","tag-ottoman-traveler","tag-race-theory","tag-racialization-process","tag-university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee","tag-vampire","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torunfatihh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}