kouloughlis

The word Kouloughli or Kuloglu referred to children of janissaries and local women.Shuval, Tal. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-perspectives-on-turkey/article/cezayiri-garp-bringing-algeria-back-into-ottoman-history/7B979076121ECAF74A5E25B8C7F8CABF "Cezayir-i Garp: Bringing Algeria Back into Ottoman History."] New Perspectives on Turkey 22 (2000): 85-114.Spyropoulos, Yannis. [https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=42885078 "Janissaries: A Key Institution for Writing the Economic and Political History of Ottoman Muslims in the Early Modern Period."] Исторический вестник 29 (2019): 104-133.Oualdi, M'hamed. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/mamluks-in-ottoman-tunisia-a-category-connecting-state-and-social-forces/D839311F3FC42CA45857DA4E2D1A6F6A "Mamluks in Ottoman Tunisia: A Category Connecting State and Social Forces."] International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no. 3 (2016): 473-490. Some sources refer to Kouloughlis as children of any Ottoman man and a North African woman.{{Cite book|last=Amselle|first=Jean-Loup|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kP9HEX168YQC&pg=PA57|title=Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France|date=2003|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-8747-7|language=en}} It was only those from acemi ocagi or devshirme that could become Kul or Kouloughli, in fact it was a rule to not allow anyone but those from devshirme or acemi ocagi to be the “kul” of the sultan.{{what|these terms need definitions|date=March 2024}}

The title of Kouloughli went from father to child. For example Ahmed Bey of Constantine was the son of a Kouloughli, and thus he himself was a Kouloughli.{{Cite book|last=Guyon|first=Jean-Louis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8GzeHkwatgC&pg=PA283|title=Voyage d'Alger aux Ziban, l'ancienne Zebe, en 1847: avec atlas où figurent les principales oasis de cette contrée [...]|date=1852|publisher=Imprimerie du Gouvernement|language=fr}} Because of this, many Kouloughli families formed independent of native North African and Turkish ones.{{Cite book|last=Ageron|first=Charles Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQwf8Zom3RAC&pg=PA4|title=Modern Algeria: A History from 1830 to the Present|date=1991|publisher=Hurst|isbn=978-1-85065-027-0|language=en}}

According to the Turco-Libyan historian Orhan Koloğlu, throughout the 400 years of Ottoman rule in the Maghreb and more generally North Africa, the Ottoman administration ensured that Ottoman soldiers from the Odjak of Tripoli, formed at least 5% of the population in Ottoman Tripolitania.{{cite web|last=Orhan|first=Koloğlu|year=2016|title=Osmanlı'nın Türklüğünün örneği: Kuzey Afrika'daki Ocaklılar|url=http://www.turksolu.com.tr/osmanlinin-turklugunun-ornegi-kuzey-afrikadaki-ocaklilar/|publisher=Turk Solu|access-date=2016-05-15|archive-date=2016-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610231935/http://www.turksolu.com.tr/osmanlinin-turklugunun-ornegi-kuzey-afrikadaki-ocaklilar/|url-status=dead}} In other territories such as the Regency of Algiers the number of janissaries progressively got lower.{{Cite book|last=Morell|first=John Reynell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REVCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA330|title=Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social, and Natural, of French Africa|date=1854|publisher=N. Cooke|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=L'Odjak d'Alger|url=https://www.algerie-ancienne.com/Salon/Galib/7Turc/1epoque/01odjak.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040820021214/http://www.algerie-ancienne.com/Salon/Galib/7Turc/1epoque/01odjak.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 20, 2004|access-date=2021-03-27|website=www.algerie-ancienne.com}}{{rs?|date=March 2024}} During the 17th century for example, more than 12,000 janissaries were stationed in Algiers,{{Cite book|last=Plantet|first=Eugène|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TGMwaCXzu4UC&pg=PA516|title=1579-1700|date=1889|publisher=Éditions Bauslama|language=fr}} but by 1800 only 4,000 janissaries were Turks, with the majority of the janissaries being Kouloughlis and renegades, with some Algerians.{{Citation|last=Shuval|first=Tal|title=Chapitre II. La caste dominante|date=2013-09-30|url=http://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/3689|work=La ville d’Alger vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle: Population et cadre urbain|pages=57–117|series=Connaissance du Monde Arabe|place=Paris|publisher=CNRS Éditions|isbn=978-2-271-07836-0|access-date=2021-03-27}} In the Regency of Tunis, especially during the later era of the Beylik of Tunis janissaries were less used, and replaced by more modern infantry units and Mamluks.{{Cite journal|last=Oualdi|first=M'hamed|title=Mamluks in Ottoman Tunisia: A Category Connecting State and Social Forces|date=August 2016|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/abs/mamluks-in-ottoman-tunisia-a-category-connecting-state-and-social-forces/D839311F3FC42CA45857DA4E2D1A6F6A|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|language=en|volume=48|issue=3|pages=473–490|doi=10.1017/S0020743816000441|s2cid=163633671|issn=0020-7438}} Turkish-speaking Anatolians were considered ideal migrants to ensure the Turkification of the region. Furthermore, the authorities initially banned Turkish speakers from using the Arabic language;{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OX8KzQEACAAJ|title = Le problème kouloughli dans la Régence d'Alger|last1 = Boyer|first1 = Pierre|year = 1970}} this allowed the Turkish language to remain the prestigious language of the region till the nineteenth century. Koloğlu has estimated that approximately a million Ottoman soldiers from Anatolia, and the Balkans migrated to the Regency of Algiers, the Regency of Tunis, and Ottoman Tripolitania, usually from the port of İzmir. The majority of these troops arrived during the 16th and 17th century, and by the 18th and 19th century their numbers were lower.

Although the term "köleoğlu" implied the term "son of", the Turkish population in North Africa was not solely made up of men. Indeed, Ottoman women also migrated to the region, although in much lower numbers than men. There also existed Kouloughlis born of North African men, and Turkish women, such as Ibn Hamza al-Maghribi, an Algerian mathematician.{{Cite web|title=ابن حمزة المغربي|url=http://www.alargam.com/maths/2/16.htm|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://www.alargam.com/maths/2/16.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2007-06-15|access-date=2021-06-26|website=archive.wikiwix.com}} Moreover, the offspring of Turkish men and North African women would have included females too. Up until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, many upper-class women in Libya were of Turkish origins. This Turkish elite held a deep kinship for the Ottoman state, which increased further during the Italo-Turkish War in favour of the Ottoman state.{{Harvnb|Khalidi|1991|loc=xvii}}.

The majority of Turkish-speaking Ottoman Muslims adhered to the Hanafi school of Islam, in contrast to the majority of the North African subjects, who followed the Maliki school.{{Harvnb|Kia|2011|loc=153}}. Today the Hanafi school is still followed by the descendants of Turkish families who remain in the region.{{Harvnb|Jacobs|Morris|2002|loc=460}}. Traditionally, their mosques are in the Ottoman architectural style and are particularly identifiable from their Turkish-style octagonal minarets.

Words and expressions from the Turkish language, to varying degrees, are still used in most varieties of the Maghrebi derjas and spoken Arabic in North Africa and the Middle East. For example, in Algeria an estimated 634 Turkish words are still used today in Algerian Arabic.{{Harvnb|Benrabah |2007|loc=49}} Approximately 800 to 1,500 Turkish loanwords are still used in Egyptian Arabic, and between 200 and 500 in Libyan and Tunisian Arabic.{{Harvnb|Prochazka|2004|loc=191}}. Turkish loanwords have also been influential in countries which were never conquered by the Ottomans, such as in Moroccan Arabic. Furthermore, the Turks also introduced words from the Persian language to the region, which were originally borrowed for the Ottoman Turkish language.{{Harvnb|Abu-Haidar|1996|loc=119}}.

The majority of Turkish loanwords in Arabic are used for private life (such as food and tools), law and government, and the military.

Ottoman rule left a profound influence on the cuisine of North Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans. Even today, many dishes produced in different countries throughout these regions are derived from the same name, usually a variation of a Turkish word (such as baklava or dolma).{{Harvnb|Kia|2011|loc=225}}.

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The capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (Istanbul), was the central location where specialists in art, literature, and the scientists from all over the provinces would gather to present their work. Hence, many people were influenced here and would borrow from the masterpieces they came into contact with. Consequently, the Arabic language adopted several technical terms of Turkish origin as well as artistic influences.{{Harvnb|İhsanoğlu|2003|loc=111}}.

The cultural interaction between the Arabs and Turks influenced the music of the Arab provinces significantly. New maqamat in Arabic music emerged (i.e. Makam, a Turkish system of melody types), such as al-Hijazkar, Shahnaz and Naw’athar, as well as technical music terminologies.

The Turks introduced the Karagöz puppet show, which concerns the adventures of two stock characters: Karagöz (meaning "black-eyed" in Turkish) and Hacivat (meaning "İvaz the Pilgrim"). Evening performances of the show are particularly popular during Ramadan in North Africa.{{Harvnb|Box|2005|loc=27}}.

• Turkish minorities in the former Ottoman Empire
• Turks in Algeria
• Turks in Egypt
• Turks in Libya
• Turks in Tunisia
• Maghrebis
• Tunisian people
• Pied-Noir
• Arab-Berber

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