2025/01/28 by Sena Hatip Dinçyürek · 1 voice
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Families in Therapy and Culture #Islamic Studies and History
paper · doi:10.1080/13530194.2025.2457653
openalex publication_date 2025/01/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
This article focuses on the career of an Ottoman physician, Ahmed Arif and his endless struggle to gain the favour of Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, the Inspector General of Rumelia, in the first decade of the twentieth century. Doctor Ahmed Arif wrote a number of petitions – which constitute the main set of primary documents of this research- asking for an appointment and promotion. He supported his requests with various means and arguments; however, his appeals never achieved their intended goal. The case of this otherwise unknown doctor proved to be a notable example for late Ottoman medical history, as well as bureaucratic and personal networks in the late Hamidian period and its immediate aftermath. The time frame (1900–1910) and different locations (Rumelia and Anatolia) under question, as well as the multi-dimensional content of the primary documents, shed light on a curious episode of Ottoman History from a micro-historical perspective.