Patrons, Painters, Women In Distress: The Changing Fortunes of Nevʿizade Atayi and Üskübi Mehmed Efendi in Early Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Images of Ottoman women in verse and manuscript painting that have long been interpreted as realistic representations of their everyday life stand in stark contrast with how women are represented, addressed, and pigeonholed in religious books of conduct. While no distinction is made between the elite and commoners in these depictions of pleasurable outdoor activities, the regular, routine roles that the women played in the family and society disappear from sight. In light of a rare but well-known court scene showing women in public space and at a real trial of 1582, appended in all illustrated copies of Nevʿizade Atayi’s Ḫamse , I discuss the specifics of the legal opinion with which Pir Mehmed Efendi was associated, and how the trial was recollected in Istanbul’s literate circles after more than a century. Whether the production of the five illustrated Ḫamse s in the first quarter of the eighteenth century was a concerted effort on the part of a specific group of artists, both Istanbulites and Inner Asians, is discussed in the second part of the article.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".