Kuloğlu

by Oualdi, M'hamed

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Kuloğlu (qūloghlu) means “son of a slave” or “son of a servant” in Ottoman Turkish. The word refers to first-generation male offspring of Ottoman soldiers (janissaries) and North African women from the beginning of the eleventh/seventeenth century to the fourteenth/nineteenth century, when the provinces of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli were under Ottoman rule. The Turkish word is transliterated differently in Arabic sources ( kūrūghlī/kūlūghlī; qūrūghlī/qūlūghlī ), as well as in European document…

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Kuloğlu (qūloghlu) means “son of a slave” or “son of a servant” in Ottoman Turkish. The word refers to first-generation male offspring of Ottoman soldiers (janissaries) and North African women from the beginning of the eleventh/seventeenth century to the fourteenth/nineteenth century, when the provinces of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli were under Ottoman rule. The Turkish word is transliterated differently in Arabic sources ( kūrūghlī/kūlūghlī; qūrūghlī/qūlūghlī ), as well as in European documents (e.g., kouloughli in French). Kuloğlu s were admitted to the pay-roll of the

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2950

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eng Islam

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Oualdi, M'hamed

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