{"product_id":"the-ottoman-world-of-sports-refashioning-bodies-men-and-communities-in-late-imperial-istanbul-hardback-9781477332863","title":"The Ottoman World of Sports; Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul (Hardback) 9781477332863","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ottoman World of Sports\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRefashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMurat C. Yildiz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477332863, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 February 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 58 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.74 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Weaving together the stories of an extraordinary array of individuals and clubs from late Ottoman Istanbul, \u003ci\u003eThe Ottoman World of Sports\u003c\/i\u003e opens a window into a shared culture of physical exertion and competition that traversed the divides of religion, language, social class, and neighborhood. Its vivid descriptions of the endeavors of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish sports enthusiasts, reporters, and players alike is the result of painstaking research in a staggering, multilingual collection of archives, many of which Yıldız exposes to readers for the first time.\" - Julia Phillips Cohen, author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Murat Yıldız provides a fascinating description and analysis of the emergence of sports as a shared imperial project, which simultaneously served as a site for ethnic mobilization for Ottoman Turkish, Armenian, Jewish, and Greek sports aficionados and athletes. The material from diverse sources echoes the multivocality of the empire and at the same time it indicates the emergence of a shared bodily culture. Furthermore, the book contextualizes this emerging imperial culture in other modern projects in late Ottoman Istanbul.\" - Tamir Sorek, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Ottoman World of Sports\u003c\/i\u003e stands as both the definitive study of the development of modern sports in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire and a vivid portrayal of late Ottoman cosmopolitanism as manifested in its capital, Istanbul. Yıldız brings to life the Ottomans’ complex visions of community and intercommunality through the prism of sporting culture. Meticulously researched across a multiplicity of archives (many previously untapped), written with elegance, and dazzlingly illustrated, the book has an appeal that goes beyond students of social history and popular culture to general readers with an interest in the history of sport in the non-Western world.\" - Hasan Kayali, author of \u003ci\u003eImperial Resilence: The Great War's End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revision of the history of modern sports in late Ottoman Istanbul, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews created a shared sports culture that was simultaneously global, imperial, and local.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The history of sports in Turkey is deeply contested. Over the decades, journalists, pundits, non-professional historians, and everyday people have offered competing narratives about the origins of modern sports in the late Ottoman Empire. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ottoman World of Sports\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how Istanbul’s Muslims, Christians, and Jews-gymnastics teachers, football coaches, weightlifters, journalists, athletes, and fans-created a gendered and class-stratified civic project that promoted athletics as a source of fun, beauty, and moral education. Influenced by the emerging global vogue for organized sports, all boys from the expanding middle class of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imperial capital were expected to exercise and compete on the playing field in order to develop into moral men. Yet even as the embrace of modern athletics transcended ethno-religious divisions, it did not erase them. Drawing on a wide range of archival research in multiple languages, historian Murat Yıldız shows that sportsmen created new communal boundaries in team affiliations, fandom, and sports media. Adeptly reconstructing Istanbul’s imperial culture as it was experienced more than a century ago, \u003ci\u003eThe Ottoman World of Sports\u003c\/i\u003e recovers a lived imperial culture whose defining features were shaped by its multiethnic, multireligious, and multilingual sportsmen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Note on Transliteration and Translation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Abbreviations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pregame. “\u003cbr\u003eYou Can Write the History of Sports in Turkey Right Here . \u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. “\u003cbr\u003eSports in Our City”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. “\u003cbr\u003eGymnastics Is Not a Game”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. “\u003cbr\u003eLong Live Our Gymnastics Club”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. “\u003cbr\u003eSports Nut”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. “\u003cbr\u003eMy Dear, You’\u003cbr\u003ere Going to Be Both an Inspector and a Founder”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. “\u003cbr\u003ePraise Be to God, Sports Enthusiasm Has Awakened in Our Country”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. “\u003cbr\u003eOh My, There Is a Spectacle”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 7. “\u003cbr\u003eThese Brave Young Men with Solid Biceps Are the Hope of the Future Generation”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 8. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Name of the Ottomans Will Be Held High”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Overtime. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Unconventional State of Affairs”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640467943704,"sku":"9781477332863","price":37.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ottoman-world-of-sports-refashioning-bodies-men-and-communities-in-late-imperial-istanbul-hardback-9781477332863","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}