Part Two: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

 

Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403
https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/
https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/
https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/
https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html

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