Arkadiusz Blaszczyk is a historian specializing on the history of the northern Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period and works as a scientific assistant at the University of Gießen.Dr Robert Born is an art historian specializing on Eastern Europe and works as a research fellow at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe in Oldenburg.Prof. Dr. Albrecht Fuess lehrt seit 2010 Islamwissenschaft am Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien der Universität Marburg.Dr Florian Riedler is a historian with a focus on the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. At present, he is the scientific coordinator of the priority program Transottomanica at the University of Leipzig..Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald lehrt seit 2013 Südosteuropäische Geschichte an der Universität Gießen.Arkadiusz Blaszczyk is a historian specializing on the history of the northern Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period and works as a scientific assistant at the University of Gießen.Dr Robert Born is an art historian specializing on Eastern Europe and works as a research fellow at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe in Oldenburg.Dr Florian Riedler is a historian with a focus on the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. At present, he is the scientific coordinator of the priority program Transottomanica at the University of Leipzig..

This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility - as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement and translation - involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. The volume shows how objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their own social meaning and materiality changed in these processes.

This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility-as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement, and translation-involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, the contributors hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.