The Calabrian Gian Dionigi Galeni, alias Uluç Ali (1518-1587), was a Christian convert to Islam who played a leading role during the political clash that opposed the Spanish Monarchy to the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean. This study, rather than focusing on his wanderings at sea as an Algerian corsair at the expense of Christian galleys and coastlines, highlights his process of socio-political assimilation into the Ottoman context. In the same way, the research emphasises how he consolidated, exercised, and maintained a high level of decision-making power at the Sublime Porte. The analysis of his political figure, which is analysed through the administrative and military positions he held in the Ottoman Empire, offers a great opportunity to explore a wide network of patronage relationships that not only facilitated his rise, but also allowed him to control the Ottoman Mediterranean policy as Kapudan Pasha (first admiral). Therefore, by using a social network analysis approach, the case of Uluç Ali becomes a unique prism to retrace the history of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean. Far from being a traditional biography that focuses on the individual, this research is presented as a study that used the individual to cast new lights on the social relationships that characterized his context. Starting from a careful examination of Uluç Ali's career, therefore, I shall enrich the understanding of a series of phenomena that defined the modern Mediterranean space, including social mobility and cross-cultural diplomacy.
LAS REDES DE PODER DEL KAPUDAN PASHA ULUC ALI: CULTURA POLITICA Y PRACTICAS DIPLOMATICAS EN EL MEDITERRANEO DEL SIGLO XVI / F. Caprioli ; coordinatore: A. De Francesco, R. Gonzalez Cuerva ; tutor: M. Rivero Rodriguez. Dipartimento di Studi Storici, 2020 Jun 26. 32. ciclo, Anno Accademico 2019. [10.13130/caprioli-francesco_phd2020-06-26].
LAS REDES DE PODER DEL KAPUDAN PASHA ULUC ALI: CULTURA POLITICA Y PRACTICAS DIPLOMATICAS EN EL MEDITERRANEO DEL SIGLO XVI
F. Caprioli
2020
Abstract
The Calabrian Gian Dionigi Galeni, alias Uluç Ali (1518-1587), was a Christian convert to Islam who played a leading role during the political clash that opposed the Spanish Monarchy to the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean. This study, rather than focusing on his wanderings at sea as an Algerian corsair at the expense of Christian galleys and coastlines, highlights his process of socio-political assimilation into the Ottoman context. In the same way, the research emphasises how he consolidated, exercised, and maintained a high level of decision-making power at the Sublime Porte. The analysis of his political figure, which is analysed through the administrative and military positions he held in the Ottoman Empire, offers a great opportunity to explore a wide network of patronage relationships that not only facilitated his rise, but also allowed him to control the Ottoman Mediterranean policy as Kapudan Pasha (first admiral). Therefore, by using a social network analysis approach, the case of Uluç Ali becomes a unique prism to retrace the history of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean. Far from being a traditional biography that focuses on the individual, this research is presented as a study that used the individual to cast new lights on the social relationships that characterized his context. Starting from a careful examination of Uluç Ali's career, therefore, I shall enrich the understanding of a series of phenomena that defined the modern Mediterranean space, including social mobility and cross-cultural diplomacy.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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