Published in March 2025, ‘Ottoman Fake: An Essay on Forgers, Bureaucrats, and Philologists (18th–20th Centuries)’ by Marc Aymes uncovers a shadowy world of forged coins, fake diplomas, counterfeit medicines, and forged titles—where the Ottoman state’s battle to separate truth from deception shaped its very foundations and exposed the fragile line between power, knowledge, and fraud.
Book Summary:
“Coins, notes, fats, oils, soda waters, teas and wines, dyes and medicines, diplomas, certificates, patents and titles… Fakes were everywhere in the late Ottoman world. Did anyone care?
As this book shows, calls to “discriminate the true from the fake,” a founding motto of philological practice from the 16th century onwards, prompted many encounters between forgers and bureaucrats in the late Ottoman world.
Each tells a different story about how fakes occurred. Quoted and translated in full, reports of these forgery affairs shed new light on Ottoman state-society relations. They show that the taming of the fake has been crucial to the reforming of the state.”
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2025 年 3 月出版的《奧斯曼偽造：關於偽造者、官僚和語言學家的論文（18 至 20 世紀）》由馬克·艾姆斯 (Marc Aymes) 撰寫，揭露了一個充斥著偽造硬幣、假文憑、假藥和偽造頭銜的陰暗世界——奧斯曼帝國為區分真相與欺騙而進行的鬥爭並揭露了其權力基礎，欺騙性與欺騙的真相與欺騙而進行性鬥爭。
本書概要：
「硬幣、紙幣、油脂、油、蘇打水、茶和葡萄酒、染料和藥品、文憑、證書、專利和頭銜……奧斯曼帝國末期，假貨隨處可見。有人在乎嗎？
如本書所示，「辨別真偽」這一自16世紀以來語言學實踐的創始座右銘，引發了奧斯曼帝國晚期偽造者和官僚之間的多次衝突。
每個故事都講述了假貨誕生的不同故事。這些偽造事件的報告被全文引用和翻譯，為奧斯曼帝國的國家與社會關係提供了新的見解。它們表明，打擊假貨對於國家改革至關重要。 」
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