Levantines Of The Ottoman World Communities Identities And Cultures

Author : Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr, Burhan Çağlar
Publisher : Ibn Haldun University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Levantines of the Ottoman World: Communities, Identities, and Cultures by Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr, Burhan Çağlar Pdf

In this insightful volume, a range of scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines delves into the intricate world of Levantine Studies, unraveling the multifaceted history, identities, and communities that have shaped the region. Spanning the long nineteenth century until the present day, this collection offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on the Levant, challenging traditional paradigms and shedding light on previously unexplored aspects of Levantine life. Through their meticulous research and compelling narratives, the authors explore the hidden histories of marginalized populations, examine the formation of communal ties beyond conventional affiliations, and shed light on the daily complexities of Levantine life through the lens of individual experiences and microhistories. As the field has undergone shifts in focus and methodology, this volume reflects – and pushes the boundaries of – the diversity and complexity of contemporary Levantine Studies. It opens up new avenues for research and grapples with the pressing questions of our era, including the environmental and material foundations of cosmopolitan lifestyles, the sociocultural reverberations of imperialism, and the impact of global crisis on our understanding of the Levant. With its rich insights and thought-provoking analysis, Levantines of the Ottoman World: Communities, Identities, and Cultures offers a compelling and comprehensive exploration of Levantine Studies that will captivate readers, offer an indispensable resource for scholars, and spark further inquiry into this fascinating field.

Author : Burhan Çağlar,Erik Blackthorne-O'Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6256491602

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Levantines of the Ottoman World by Burhan Çağlar,Erik Blackthorne-O'Barr Pdf

Author : John Watkins,Kathryn L. Reyerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317098058

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Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era by John Watkins,Kathryn L. Reyerson Pdf

The first full length volume to approach the premodern Mediterranean from a fully interdisciplinary perspective, this collection defines the Mediterranean as a coherent region with distinct patterns of social, political, and cultural exchange. The essays explore the production, modification, and circulation of identities based on religion, ethnicity, profession, gender, and status as free or slave within three distinctive Mediterranean geographies: islands, entrepôts and empires. Individual essays explore such topics as interreligious conflict and accommodation; immigration and diaspora; polylingualism; classical imitation and canon formation; traffic in sacred objects; Mediterranean slavery; and the dream of a reintegrated Roman empire. Integrating environmental, social, political, religious, literary, artistic, and linguistic concerns, this collection offers a new model for approaching a distinct geographical region as a unique site of cultural and social exchange.

Author : Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300230215

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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 7 by Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss Pdf

Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self Between 1880 and 1918, traditions and regimes collapsed around the world, migration and imperialism remade the lives of millions, nationalism and secularization transformed selves and collectives, utopias beckoned, and new kinds of social conflict threatened as never before. Few communities experienced the pressures and possibilities of the era more profoundly than the world's Jews. This volume, seventh in The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, recaptures the vibrant Jewish cultural creativity, political striving, social experimentation, and fractious religious and secular thought that burst forth in the face of these challenges. Editors Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss capture the full range of Jewish expression in a centrifugal age--from mystical visions to unabashedly antitraditional Jewish political thought, from cookbooks to literary criticism, from modernist poetry to vaudeville. They also highlight the most remarkable dimension of the 1880-1918 era: an audacious effort by newly secular Jews to replace Judaism itself with a new kind of Jewish culture centering on this-worldly, aesthetic creativity by a posited "Jewish nation" and the secular, modern, and "free" individuals who composed it. This volume is an essential starting point for anyone who wishes to understand the divided Jewish present.

Author : Alessandro Arcangeli,Jörg Rogge,Hannu Salmi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000097917

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The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World by Alessandro Arcangeli,Jörg Rogge,Hannu Salmi Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. A synthesis of how the new cultural history has transformed the study of history, the volume is divided into three parts – medieval, early modern and modern – that emphasize the way people made sense of the world around them. Contributions cover such themes as material cultures of living, mobility and transport, cultural exchange and transfer, power and conflict, emotion and communication, and the history of the senses. The focus is on the Western world, but the notion of the West is a flexible one. In bringing together 36 authors from 15 countries, the book takes a wide geographical coverage, devoting continuous attention to global connections and the emerging trend of globalization. It builds a panorama of the transformation of Western identities, and the critical ramifications of that evolution from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, that offers the reader a wide-ranging illustration of the potentials of cultural history as a way of studying the past in a variety of times, spaces and aspects of human experience. Engaging with historiographical debate and covering a vast range of themes, periods and places, The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is the ideal resource for cultural history students and scholars to understand and advance this dynamic field.

Author : Suzan Girginkaya Akdağ,Mine Dinçer,Meltem Vatan,Ümran Topçu,İrem Maro Kırış
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030718077

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The Dialectics of Urban and Architectural Boundaries in the Middle East and the Mediterranean by Suzan Girginkaya Akdağ,Mine Dinçer,Meltem Vatan,Ümran Topçu,İrem Maro Kırış Pdf

This edited volume informs readers about changing norms and meanings of borders and underlines recent scenarios that shape these borders. It focuses mainly on the Mediterranean and Middle East regions through the following questions: What are the social, cultural, philosophical, political, economic and aesthetic reasons for spatial segregation within contemporary territories and cities? In the world of globalization and networks, what are the new limitations of space? What are the alienating differences between interior and exterior, private and public, urban and rural, local and global, and real and virtual? Are spatial definitions and divisions more likely to be weakened (if not totally erased) by effects of globalization and mobility, similar to the dissolution of borders between countries? Or are local practices and measures likely to become more apparent with emerging trends such as sustainability and identity? Authored by international scholars, all chapters are arranged under four main parts: Urban and Rural, Global and Local, Physical and Sensual, Real and Virtual. Hence, different concepts and definitions of borders along with varying methods and tools for questioning their essence in architectural and urban spaces will be introduced. For example, in the rural and urban context, environments, settlements-housing, landscape, transformation, conservation and development; in the global and local context, styles, identity, universal design, sustainability, globalization and networks, mobility and migration; in the physical and sensual context, design studies and methodologies, environmental psychology, aesthetic reasoning, sense of place and well-being, and in the real and virtual context, realities, tools and communities are the main themes of the chapters. This book will be an essential source for professionals, scholars, and students of architecture and urban design with a view to understanding multidisciplinary perspectives in designing borders as well as the dialectical relationship between borders and space.

Author : Yasmine Shamma,Suzan Ilcan,Vicki Squire,Helen Underhill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031120855

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Migration, Culture and Identity by Yasmine Shamma,Suzan Ilcan,Vicki Squire,Helen Underhill Pdf

This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement. It explores how homes are made, remade, lost, revived, expanded and contracted through experiences of migration, to ask what it means to make a home away from home. We draw together a wide range of perspectives from across multiple disciplines and contexts, which explore how old homes, lost homes, and new homes connect and disconnect through processes of homemaking. The volume asks: how do spaces of resettlement or rehoming reflect both the continuation of old homes and distinct new experiences? Based on collaborations with migrants, refugees, practitioners and artists, this book centres the lived experiences, testimonies, and negotiations of those who are displaced. The volume generates appreciation of the tensions that emerge in contexts of migration and displacement, as well as of the ways in which racial categories and colonial legacies continue to shape fields of lived experience.

Author : Pál Ács,Pál Fodor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783112209301

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Identity and Culture in Ottoman Hungary by Pál Ács,Pál Fodor Pdf

Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist György Hazai. The series deals with all aspects of Turkic language, culture and history, and has a broad temporal and regional scope. It welcomes manuscripts on Central, Northern, Western and Eastern Asia as well as parts of Europe, and allows for a wide time span from the first mention in the 6th century to modernity and present.

Author : Elizabeth H Shlala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351859554

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The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt by Elizabeth H Shlala Pdf

Law and identification transgressed political boundaries in the nineteenth-century Levant. Over the course of the century, Italo-Levantines- elite and common- exercised a strategy of resilient hybridity whereby an unintentional form of legal imperialism took root in Egypt. This book contributes to a vibrant strand of global legal history that places law and other social structures at the heart of competing imperial projects- British, Ottoman, Egyptian, and Italian among them. Analysis of the Italian consular and mixed court cases, and diplomatic records, in Egypt and Istanbul reveals the complexity of shifting identifications and judicial reform in two parts of the interactive and competitive plural legal regime. The rich court records show that binary relational categories fail to capture the complexity of the daily lives of the residents and courts of the late Ottoman empire. Over time and acting in their own self-interests, these actors exploited the plural legal regime. Case studies in both Egypt and Istanbul explore how identification developed as a legal form of property itself. Whereas the classical literature emphasized external state power politics, this book builds upon new work in the field that shows the interaction of external and internal power struggles throughout the region led to assorted forms of confrontation, collaboration, and negotiation in the region. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and readers of Middle East, Ottoman, and Mediterranean history. It will also appeal to anyone wanting to know more about cultural history in the nineteenth century, and the historical roots of contemporary global debates on law, migration, and identities.

Author : Gabriel R. Ricci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351301107

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Travel, Tourism, and Identity by Gabriel R. Ricci Pdf

Travel, Tourism and Identity addresses the psychological and social adjustments that occur when people make contact with others outside their social, cultural, or linguistic groups. Whether such contact is the result of tourism, seeking exile, or relocating abroad, the volume's contributors demonstrate how one's identity, cultural assumptions, and worldview can be brought into question. In some cases, the traveller finds that bridging the social and cultural gap between himself and the new society is fairly easy. In other cases, the traveller discovers that reorienting himself requires absorbing a new cultural history and traditions. The contributors argue that making these adjustments will surely enhance the traveller's or tourist's experience; otherwise the traveller or tourist will be at risk of becoming a marginalized figure, one disconnected from the society that surrounds him. This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series features a collection of essays on travel and tourism. The essays cover a range of topics from historical travels to modern social identities. They discuss ancient travels, contemporary travels in Europe, Africa and sustainable eco-tourism, and the politics of tourism. Essays also address experiences of Grenada's "Spice Island" identity, and the effects of globalization and migrations on personal identity.

Author : Hasan Baktir
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838261324

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The Representation of the Ottoman Orient in Eighteenth Century English Literature by Hasan Baktir Pdf

Inspired by the growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir examines the representation of the "Ottoman Orient" in 18th century English literature, taking a new perspective to achieve a comprehensive understanding and investigating different aspects of the interaction between the Ottoman Orient and 18th century Europe.A number of questions continue to arise in the wake of Said's 1978 landmark study, "Orientalism". How monodirectional was the flow of power in such representations? To what extent did the travelling observer also participate and become influenced by the phenomena he tried to depict without attachment? What variety of motivations lay behind the desire to know and represent the Oriental other -- was it simply a question of political control? Or were there deeper, more enigmatic factors at play -- sexuality, existential affirmation, even utter idiosyncrasy? How various and diverse was the Western response to the East -- can we discern degrees of sympathy, knowledge, and difference in the various Orients offered to us by the canonical and non-canonical figures of 18th century English letters? Baktir's study provides answers to many aspects of these questions, through a detailed examination of very different texts.Baktir does not completely reject Said's argument that European writers created a separate discourse to represent the Orient; rather, he shows us that there was also a dialogic and negotiating tendency which did not make a radical distinction between the East and the West. Relying his argument on 18th century pseudo-oriental letters, oriental tales, and oriental travelogues, Baktir demonstrates that the representation of the Ottoman Orient in 18th century English literature differs essentially from earlier centuries because a developing critical and liberal spirit established a negotiation between the two worlds. In this book, he indicates how the critical and inquisitive spirit of the age of Enlightenment interanimated Oriental and European cultures.

Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190240943

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The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora by Hasia R. Diner Pdf

"The reality of diaspora has shaped Jewish history, its demography, its economic relationships, and the politics which that impacted the lives of Jews with each other and with the non-Jews among whom they lived. Jews have moved around the globe since the beginning of their history, maintaining relationships with their former Jewish neighbors, who had chosen other destinations and at the same time forging relationships in their new homes with Jews from widely different places of origin"--

Author : Michael L. Budde
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532607097

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Scattered and Gathered by Michael L. Budde Pdf

This volume takes its title from the first-century Christian catechism called the Didache: “Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills . . . gathered together and became one, so let Your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth.” For Christians today, these words remain relevant in an era of massive human movements (voluntary and coerced), hybrid identities, and wide-ranging cultural interactions. How do modern Christians live as both a “scattered” and “gathered” people? How do they live out the tension between ecclesial universality (catholicity) and particularity (distinctive ways of being church in a given culture and context)? Do Christians today constitute a “diaspora,” a people dispersed across borders and cultures that nonetheless maintains a sense of commonality and mission? Scattered and Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora explores these questions through the work of fourteen scholars in different fields and from different corners of the world. Whether through reflections on Zimbabweans in Britain, Levantines in North America, or the remote island people of Chiloé now living in other parts of Chile, they guide readers along the winding road of insights and challenges facing many of today’s Christians.

Author : Borna Ahadi
Publisher : Borna Ahadi
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lebanon: The Breeding Ground for Middle East Hostilities by Borna Ahadi Pdf

"In the heart of the Middle East lies a nation at the centre of a seemingly endless cycle of conflict and strife. Lebanon, once praised for its vibrant culture, diverse population, and picturesque beauty, has become synonymous with the devastation and turmoil that have plagued the region for decades. 'Lebanon, The Breeding Ground for Middle East Hostilities' is a meticulously researched and powerfully written account of Lebanon's pivotal role in shaping the geopolitical landscape of the Arab world. From the Palestinian struggle to the rise of Hezbollah, from the civil war that tore the nation apart to the proxy battles waged by regional powers, this book offers an unflinching look at the complex web of politics, religion, and violence that has defined Lebanon's recent history. Through vivid storytelling and incisive analysis, the author traces the roots of Lebanon's conflicts and explores the far-reaching consequences of the wars fought on its soil. The book sheds light on the experiences of the Lebanese people, who have endured unimaginable suffering and displayed remarkable resilience in the face of adversity. 'Lebanon, The Breeding Ground for Middle East Hostilities' is not only a compelling history of a nation at the crossroads of conflict but also a cautionary tale about the human cost of war and the urgent need for peace and reconciliation in the region. This book is essential for anyone seeking to understand the complex and often tragic history of the Middle East and Lebanon's role in shaping its destiny. As the region continues to grapple with the fallout of past conflicts and the challenges of building a more stable and prosperous future, 'Lebanon, The Breeding Ground for Middle East Hostilities' offers a timely and important perspective on one of the most critical and consequential stories of our time."

Author : Christine Isom-Verhaaren,Kent F. Schull
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253019486

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Living in the Ottoman Realm by Christine Isom-Verhaaren,Kent F. Schull Pdf

Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English translation for the first time. These materials are examined with new methodological approaches to gain a deeper understanding of what it meant to be Ottoman. Designed for use as a course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions for further reading.