Felatun Bey Und Rakim Efendi

Author : Ahmet Mithat Efendi
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815653639

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Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi by Ahmet Mithat Efendi Pdf

Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s famous 1875 novel Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrounds. Râkim Efendi is an erudite, self-made man, one who is ambitious and cultivated enough to mingle with a European crowd. In contrast, Felâtun Bey is a spendthrift who lacks intellectual curiosity and a strong work ethic. Squandering his wealth and education, he leads a life of decadence. The novel traces Râkim and Felâtun’s relationships with multiple characters, charting their romances and passions, as well as their foibles and amusing mishaps as they struggle to find and follow their own path through the many temptations and traps of European culture. The author creates a rich portrait of stratified Ottoman life through a diverse and colorful cast of characters—from a French piano teacher and an Arab nanny, to a Circassian slave girl—each deftly navigating the shifting mores of their social class. Written during the Ottoman Empire’s uneasy transition to modernity, the novel’s protagonists embody both the best and worst elements of two worlds, European and Ottoman. The novel provides readers with an elegant yet powerful appeal for progressive reforms and individual freedoms. Levi and Ringer’s fluid translation of this Ottoman classic stands as a landmark in the history of Turkish literature in translation.

Author : Ahmet Mithat Efendi
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0815610645

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Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi by Ahmet Mithat Efendi Pdf

Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s famous 1875 novel Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrounds. Râkim Efendi is an erudite, self-made man, one who is ambitious and cultivated enough to mingle with a European crowd. In contrast, Felâtun Bey is a spendthrift who lacks intellectual curiosity and a strong work ethic. Squandering his wealth and education, he leads a life of decadence. The novel traces Râkim and Felâtun’s relationships with multiple characters, charting their romances and passions, as well as their foibles and amusing mishaps as they struggle to find and follow their own path through the many temptations and traps of European culture. The author creates a rich portrait of stratified Ottoman life through a diverse and colorful cast of characters—from a French piano teacher and an Arab nanny, to a Circassian slave girl—each deftly navigating the shifting mores of their social class. Written during the Ottoman Empire’s uneasy transition to modernity, the novel’s protagonists embody both the best and worst elements of two worlds, European and Ottoman. The novel provides readers with an elegant yet powerful appeal for progressive reforms and individual freedoms. Levi and Ringer’s fluid translation of this Ottoman classic stands as a landmark in the history of Turkish literature in translation.

Author : Ga ́bor A ́goston,Bruce Alan Masters
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438110257

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Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire by Ga ́bor A ́goston,Bruce Alan Masters Pdf

Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference to the empire that once encompassed large parts of the modern-day Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe.

Author : Ahmet Mithat Efendi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6052398256

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Felatun Bey ve Rakim Efendi by Ahmet Mithat Efendi Pdf

Author : Ebru Boyar,Kate Fleet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139484442

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A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul by Ebru Boyar,Kate Fleet Pdf

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence shaken regularly by natural disasters and by the turmoil of sultanic politics and violent revolt. Its inhabitants, entertained by imperial festivities and cared for by the great pious foundations which touched every aspect of their lives, also amused themselves in the numerous pleasure gardens and the many public baths of the city. While the book is focused on Istanbul, it presents a broad picture of Ottoman society, how it was structured and how it developed and transformed across four centuries. As such, the book offers an exciting alternative to the more traditional histories of the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Ahmet Mithat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 975852321X

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Felatun bey ve rakim Efendi by Ahmet Mithat Pdf

Author : Avner Wishnitzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226257860

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Reading Clocks, Alla Turca by Avner Wishnitzer Pdf

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was increasingly assimilated into the European-dominated global economy and the project of modern state building began to gather momentum. In Reading Clocks, Alla Turca, Avner Wishnitzer unravels the complexity of Ottoman temporal culture and for the first time tells the story of its transformation. He explains that in their attempt to attain better surveillance capabilities and higher levels of regularity and efficiency, various organs of the reforming Ottoman state developed elaborate temporal constructs in which clocks played an increasingly important role. As the reform movement spread beyond the government apparatus, emerging groups of officers, bureaucrats, and urban professionals incorporated novel time-related ideas, values, and behaviors into their self-consciously “modern” outlook and lifestyle. Acculturated in the highly regimented environment of schools and barracks, they came to identify efficiency and temporal regularity with progress and the former temporal patterns with the old political order. Drawing on a wealth of archival and literary sources, Wishnitzer’s original and highly important work presents the shifting culture of time as an arena in which Ottoman social groups competed for legitimacy and a medium through which the very concept of modernity was defined. Reading Clocks, Alla Turca breaks new ground in the study of the Middle East and presents us with a new understanding of the relationship between time and modernity.

Author : Laurent Mignon
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644695814

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Uncoupling Language and Religion by Laurent Mignon Pdf

This book is an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two “others.” The first part of the book examines the contributions of non-Muslim authors, the “others” of modern Turkey, to the development of Turkish literature during the late Ottoman and early republican period, focusing on the works of largely forgotten authors. The second part discusses Turkey as the “other” of the West and the way authors writing in Turkish challenged orientalist representations. Thus this book prepares the ground for a history of literature which uncouples language and religion and recreates the spaces of dialogue and exchange that have existed in late Ottoman Turkey between members of various ethno-religious communities.

Author : Monica M. Ringer,Etienne Charrière
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780755616664

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Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity by Monica M. Ringer,Etienne Charrière Pdf

Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project, the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman space, yet was adopted as a didactic tool to model and generate new forms of Ottoman citizenship. Essays in this book explore the appropriation of the novel as a literary genre and its deployment in the late Ottoman cultural project of constructing an Ottoman modernity. Analyzing key texts and authors, from the works of Ahmet Midhat Efendi to Mizanci Murad and Vartan Pasha, among others, the book's chapters explore the novel genre as far more than a case of importation of Western and non-Ottoman cultural productions, but rather as a vehicle for the cultivation of indigenous modern subjectivities.

Author : Jane Hiddleston,Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501360114

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Multilingual Literature as World Literature by Jane Hiddleston,Wen-chin Ouyang Pdf

Multilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature, particularly the conceptions of world, global and local, reflecting on the ways that multilingualism opens up the borders of language, nation and genre, and makes visible different modes of circulation across languages, nations, media and cultures. The contributors to Multilingual Literature as World Literature examine four major areas of critical research. First, by looking at how engaging with multilingualism as a mode of reading makes visible the multiple pathways of circulation, including as aesthetics or poetics emerging in the literary world when languages come into contact with each other. Second, by exploring how politics and ethics contribute to shaping multilingual texts at a particular time and place, with a focus on the local as a site for the interrogation of global concerns and a call for diversity. Third, by engaging with translation and untranslatability in order to consider the ways in which ideas and concepts elude capture in one language but must be read comparatively across multiple languages. And finally, by proposing a new vision for linguistic creativity beyond the binary structure of monolingualism versus multilingualism.

Author : Deniz T. Kilinçoğlu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317524946

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Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire by Deniz T. Kilinçoğlu Pdf

Is it possible to generate "capitalist spirit" in a society, where cultural, economic and political conditions did not unfold into an industrial revolution, and consequently into an advanced industrial-capitalist formation? This is exactly what some prominent public intellectuals in the late Ottoman Empire tried to achieve as a developmental strategy; long before Max Weber defined the notion of capitalist spirit as the main motive behind the development of capitalism. This book demonstrates how and why Ottoman reformists adapted (English and French) economic theory to the Ottoman institutional setting and popularized it to cultivate bourgeois values in the public sphere as a developmental strategy. It also reveals the imminent results of these efforts by presenting examples of how bourgeois values permeated into all spheres of socio-cultural life, from family life to literature, in the late Ottoman Empire. The text examines how the interplay between Western European economic theories and the traditional Muslim economic cultural setting paved the way for a new synthesis of a Muslim-capitalist value system; shedding light on the emergence of capitalism—as a cultural and an economic system—and the social transformation it created in a non-Western, and more specifically, in the Muslim Middle Eastern institutional setting. This book will be of great interest to scholars of modern Middle Eastern history, economic history, and the history of economic thought.

Author : Cemil Aydin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231510684

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The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia by Cemil Aydin Pdf

In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eurocentric global polity in the age of high imperialism. Aydin compares Ottoman pan-Islamic and Japanese pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He looks at when the idea of a universal "West" first took root in the minds of Asian intellectuals and reformers and how it became essential in criticizing the West for violating its own "standards of civilization." Aydin also illustrates why these anti-Western visions contributed to the decolonization process and considers their influence on the international relations of both the Ottoman and Japanese Empires during WWI and WWII. The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia offers a rare, global perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization. Aydin's approach reveals the epistemological limitations of Orientalist knowledge categories, especially the idea of Eastern and Western civilizations, and the way in which these limitations have shaped not only the contradictions and political complicities of anti-Western discourses but also contemporary interpretations of anti-Western trends. In moving beyond essentialist readings of this history, Aydin provides a fresh understanding of the history of contemporary anti-Americanism as well as the ongoing struggle to establish a legitimate and inclusive international society.

Author : Ahmet Midhat Efendi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9752445160

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Felatun Bey Ile Rakim Efendi by Ahmet Midhat Efendi Pdf

Author : Sylvia Kedourie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135229535

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Turkey by Sylvia Kedourie Pdf

This volume aims to shed light on Turkish political issues. The discussions range over national and international politics, democracy and freedom of the press, voting patterns, official control of indigenous music, and conditions in industrial estates.

Author : Sevket Pamuk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004492271

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Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey by Sevket Pamuk Pdf

For the first time, the continuity of Ottoman culture in contemporary Turkey is discussed, by a group of well-known scholars of Ottoman-Turkish history and society. The insightful essays provide not only original knowledge, but also new interpretations concerning ethnicity and state involvement in identity creation.