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Author : Nejat Göyünç
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Turkey
ISBN : IND:30000081531554
Turkey; history; Ottoman Empire; civilization; social conditions; politics and government; 1288-1918.
Author : Ahmed Akgunduz,Said Ozturk
Publisher : IUR Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789090261089
This book was first published in Turkish under the title Bilinmeyen Osmanlı, co-authored by Prof. Dr. Said Öztürk, and 250,000 copies were printed. I answered 290 questions whereas Öztürk answered 13 in total. He collaborated regarding source details and references as well as tirelessly proofreading and editing the book. In addition, this book was later translated into Arabic; the first edition was published by Osmanlı Araştirmalari Vakfi (OSAV), Istanbul, and the second will be published by Dār al-Shouroq in Cairo. The English version of this book has almost become a separate work from the aforementioned versions. Although the main part was translated into English by Ismail Ercan, the book needed a number of improvements and rewriting of some articles after referring to Western sources on the various subjects. Hence, I changed the title as well as the format of the book mainly for this reason. But I have indicated which articles were written by Prof. Öztürk. As preparation for this book, the questions it deals with have been discussed in academic research ever since 1983, and, in addition, hundreds of conferences have been held throughout Anatolia. As a result, over 5000 questions have accumulated in our “question desk,” submitted in written form by both readers and listeners. For example, the issue of ḥarem comes first, with 503 questions. The issue of whether the Ottoman Sulṭāns, particularly Bayezid the Thunderbolt, drank alcohol ranked second, with 276 questions. These were followed by such questions as fratricide rights and freedoms in the Ottoman state, the issue of the Sulṭāns going on pilgrimage, if Sulṭān Waḥīduddin was a traitor, etc. Needless to say, we have been inspired by similar research done in this field. This book will consist of four parts. In Part One we will deal with weighty questions on the political history of the Ottoman state and the replies to them. However, such questions are most frequently asked about each Sulṭān – even if they are related to law or economics. For instance, we will not ignore the issue of fratricide in his law when discussing Meḥmed the Conqueror and the charges of the genocide of the Kurds when it comes to Selim the Excellent. In Part Two we will deal with the questions on social life in the Ottoman state and the ḥarem. In Part Three we will look at those issues regarding the Ottoman legislative system and the organization of the state. In Part Four we will answer some questions about the economy and financial law of the Ottoman state. Unfortunately, we will not deal with all the questions we have received in all the aforesaid fields owing to insufficient space. Yet it is our view that if something cannot be achieved completely, we should not give up entirely and resign ourselves to what has been done. There are 307 differents subjects in this book; some of them as below: - War (jihād) in the Ottoman state and the legal principles of the policy of conquest in the Ottoman state - The Devşirme (Conscription) System - The allegations that the Ottoman state adhered to the Bektaşi and Aleviyye traditions during the years of its foundation until Sulṭān Selim the Excellent and that the Abdalan-ı Rum consisted of Bektaşi Babas and Alevi Dedes. - On rumors that some Ottoman Sulṭāns were addicted to alcohol and even held illegitimate carousals at the Palace. - The legality of fratricide in the Ottoman state and some claims by some historians regarding savagery and massacre for the sake of claiming the Sultanat. - There are claims that Sulṭān Meḥmed the Conqueror was sympathetic toward Christianity and corresponded with the Pope. - On the Ottoman State offering assistance to the Andalusian state that was destroyed in 1492. - Ottoman Harem. - Ottoman legal codes. - Ottoman legal system and Islamic law. - Which events sowed the seeds of hatred between Arabs and Turks, both of whom are Muslims? - The reasons for the decline and fall of the Ottoman State. - The capitulations as one reason for terminating the Ottoman State.
Author : Robert Mihajlovski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004465268
In this ground-breaking work on the Ottoman town of Manastir (Bitola), Robert Mihajlovski, provides a detailed account of the development of Islamic, Christian and Sephardic religious architecture and culture as it manifested in the town and precincts.
Author : Shogo Suzuki,Yongjin Zhang,Joel Quirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134545469
This book examines the historical interactions of the West and non-Western world, and investigates whether or not the exclusive adoption of Western-oriented ‘international norms’ is the prerequisite for the construction of international order. This book sets out to challenge the Eurocentric foundations of modern International Relations scholarship by examining international relations in the early modern era, when European primacy had yet to develop in many parts of the globe. Through a series of regional case studies on East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, and Russia written by leading specialists of their field, this book explores patterns of cross-cultural exchange and civilizational encounters, placing particular emphasis upon historical contexts. The chapters of this book document and analyse a series of regional international orders that were primarily defined by local interests, agendas and institutions, with European interlopers often playing a secondary role. These perspectives emphasize the central role of non-European agency in shaping global history, and stand in stark contrast to conventional narratives revolving around the ‘Rise of the West’, which tend to be based upon a stylized contrast between a dynamic ‘West’ and a passive and static ‘East’. Focusing on a crucial period of global history that has been neglected in the field of International Relations, International Orders in the Early Modern World will be interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory, international history, early modern history and sociology.
Author : Christopher Houston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181203
Can Islamism, as is often claimed, truly unite Muslim Turks and Kurds in a discourse that supersedes ethnicity? This is a volatile and exciting time for a country whose long history has been characterized by dramatic power play. Evolving out of two years of fieldwork in Istanbul, this book examines the fragmenting Islamist political movement in Turkey. As Turkey emerges from a repressive modernizing project, various political identities are emerging and competing for influence. The Islamist movement celebrates the failure of Western liberalism in Turkey and the return of politics based on Muslim ideals. However, this vision is threatened by Kurdish nationalism and the country's troubled past. Is Islamist multiculturalism even possible? The ethnic tensions surfacing in Turkey beg the question whether the Muslim Turks and Kurds can find common ground in religion. Houston argues that such unification depends fundamentally upon the flexibility of the rationale behind the Islamist movement's struggle.
Author : Alexandru Madgearu
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0810858460
The Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the "powder keg of Europe," but it is more accurately described as the "melting pot of Europe." In The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, Alexandru Madgearu discusses the ethnic heterogeneity in modern-day Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia and traces its history. Madgearu examines the historical evolution that led to the genesis of several conflicts in the Balkans. The affected areas and associated events have transformed the Balkan Peninsula into an intricate ethnic mosaic, where no single group of people has the majority. The various ethnic and religious differences these groups possess have survived the many occupations of this land over the years, whether by the Roman, Byzantine, or Ottoman Empires, and then became manifest when the modern Balkan states were created. With the dissolution of the strong outside forces once dominating the area, the Balkan states-prompted by political propaganda and nationalist ideologies-then used history to support territorial claims, defend ethnic-cleansing actions, and justify conflicts with other countries. The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula argues that the current ethnic structure is the basis for the solution of the disputes between the Balkan states and that history should be used to explain, not legitimize, the conflicts. Book jacket.
Author : Ulrike Freitag,Nelida Fuccaro,Claudia Ghrawi,Nora Lafi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782385844
Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires — Ottoman and Qajar, but also European — to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in cityscapes throughout the region.
Author : Stefanos Katsikas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190652005
Drawing from a wide range of archival and secondary Greek, Bulgarian, Ottoman, and Turkish sources, Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1940 explores the way in which the Muslim populations of Greece were ruled by state authorities from the time of Greece's political emancipation from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s until the country's entrance into the Second World War, in October 1940. The book examines how state rule influenced the development of the Muslim population's collective identity as a minority and affected Muslim relations with the Greek authorities and Orthodox Christians. Greece was the first country in the Balkans to become an independent state and a pioneer in experimenting with minority issues. Greece's ruling framework and many state administrative measures and patterns would serve as templates in other Christian Orthodox Balkan states with Muslim minorities (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Cyprus). Muslim religious officials were empowered with authority which they did not have in Ottoman times, and aspects of the Islamic law (Sharia) were incorporated into the state legal system to be used for Muslim family and property affairs. Religion remained a defining element in the political, social, and cultural life of the post-Ottoman Balkans; Stefanos Katsikas explores the role religious nationalism and public institutions have played in the development and preservation of religious and ethnic identity. Religion remains a key element of individual and collective identity but only as long as there are strong institutions and the political framework to support and maintain religious diversity.
Author : Diana Darke
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500777534
A richly illustrated guide to the Ottoman Empire, 100 years since its dissolution, unravelling its complex cultural legacy and profound impact on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. At its height, the Ottoman Empire spread from Yemen to the gates of Vienna. Western perceptions of the Ottomans have often been distorted by Orientalism, characterizing their rule as oppressive and destructive, while seeing their culture as exotic and incomprehensible. Based on a lifetimes experience of living and working across its former provinces, Diana Darke offers a unique overview of the Ottoman Empires cultural legacy one century after its dissolution. She uncovers a vibrant, sophisticated civilization that embraced both arts and sciences, whilst welcoming refugees from all ethnicities and religions, notably Christians and Jews. Darke celebrates the culture of the Ottoman Empire, from its aesthetics and architecture to its scientific and medical innovations, including the first vaccinations. She investigates the crucial role that commerce and trade played in supporting the empire and increasing its cultural reach, highlighting the significant role of women, as well as the diverse religious values, literary and musical traditions that proliferated through the empire. Beautifully illustrated with manuscripts, miniatures, paintings and photographs, The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy presents the magnificent achievements of an empire that lasted over 600 years and encompassed Asian, European and African cultures, shedding new light on its complex legacy.
Author : Mehmet Hakan Özyurt
Publisher : Mehmet Hakan Özyurt
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
My name is “Mehmet Hakan Özyurt”. I am the writer and also “The Seagull” of this book, covering my three individual-unpublished books, “The Seagull in Desert”, “The Seagull in Noah’s Ark” and “The Seagull in Mhakoz”. When you read you will see, they are very well completing, each other. Due to that, I decided to put them together, under a cover book, like my other one, to serve you. But this time, with my full name and own picture. I believe that, this format is useful and interesting. When needed, they can also be published individually, with their pictures and contents. Anyway, having said that let me introduce my books. First, the first and also the main one. After years of patience, dedication and effort, I’ve finally produced “The Seagull in Desert”. Its interesting and meaningful name came from a poem, written for me. It then became a “Great Odyssey”, never seen before, to reach the answer “Whether the Seagull is in Desert, or not”. It started on 19 March 1976 which was my 17th. Birthday, reached its pioneer words in early years of new millennium, and then its first version in 2010, by doing many revisions. After 41 years of this long journey, I stopped it on 19 March 2017, at the end of its Part 2. During my journey, I faced many dreams, mysteries, science fictions, and also, places, environments, persons, creatures and other things. As a nonnative candidate writer, with insufficient and maybe unattractive English, needs professional edition. I tried to do my best while writing this book, took hundreds of A-4 pages with tens of different topics. They inevitably came to surface, as a result of my writing style, which can be described as, jumping from branch to branch. I tried to organize them into subsequent paragraphs and dialogues, as much as I could. I made quite many revisions on that. They caused me, not only delay to meet you, my readers, but also erode its naturality. They also caused me, reduce time I must allocate, to my family. So here, I would like to convey all my bests to, my lovely wife, daughter and son. While looking for that answer with this Odyssey, which then became “Hakway, the way of Hakan”, I kidnapped by a “Flying Carpet”, journeyed to mysteries, fought against dragons of King Agamemnon, toured around the world, discovered the center of the Sun, traveled in Universe, met with invisibles, and came back to the World. I with my light, like “Diogenes of Sinope”, did many things to get a clue, output or something useful for reaching that answer. I took my enlightenment to every possible place, environment, event and creature; exist in this Endless Heavenly Body (EHB). ”Inşallah/With the help of The Creator”, at the end of this long journey, hope to reach it, with the help of your enjoy, interest, patience and support. In April 2017, I started to write “The Seagull in Noah’s Ark”, which can be considered as a part of this long journey. I completed it in 2020, by doing many revisions. It became a short book on “Turkish-Armenian Relations in the History”, produced in light of detailed depictions of those cartoons, not included in this book which only has old and new pictures of the writer, of my study, which I made years ago. The Seagull, its important content and dialogues made contribution, to this valuable production. To me, if published, it will be a great asset for the history, and all related sides that show interest to the subject. If I can, I plan to write a new book related with that subject, and based on a scenario shortly given in this book. After some time I started to write the third one of my “The Seagull in………........” series. It was including my life in “Golden Cage” years, together with scenarios, which might be useful for movie makers to transfer these words, to movies. I was planning to put it, as a third one into the cover book. But then, I surprisingly changed my mind, and made it, as “Part 3 of the first book”. I continued to write its new sections, with this logic, and of course, also hope to find that answer, I was looking for in this long journey. I completed that part, so the book and cover book, in August 2021. In May 2022, I had chance to e-publish two in one cover book “The Seagull in Desert and Noah’s Ark”, with a GGKEY number, from an internet platform of a worldwide company. With this motivation, I decided to continue my book production and started to write my new book “The Seagull in Mhakoz”. I quickly finished it, with the help of my “Invisible Seagull” again, came from planet “Mhakoz” located in EHB. With this occasion I would like to thank to this creature, which then became my book friend. By the way, I must say that, Mhakoz is another short form of my full name, like MHÖ or MHO in English, as is been in “Ozyurt”. In November 2022, I completed this new book, covering my three books, by making some changes inputs, outputs and corrections on its other two books, as much as I could. I made paragraphs in beginning of the book shorter, with more highlightings. When you read you will see, the book part 1 inevitably made up of mostly paragraphs, while rest in dialogues. Hope to write new books, continue to production and do useful things. During this long journey, in January 2012, I also bought a webpage, having the same name with my first book, put its some content and wrote something. Finally, I would like to say that, my cover book picture tells many things. It, together with this preface and section names in the content, give some indications, on this book. It can include, some interesting and also different historical, social and global things, which need some level of intellectuality. After this long introduction, if ready, time to read the book. I hope, you like it.
Author : Malissa Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755647699
Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its “classical” articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code. The book demonstrates that well before the nineteenth century the tradition of Ottoman land tenure law had developed an indigenous form of property right that would remain intact in the Land Code. In addition, the rising consensus of the jurists that the sultan was the source of the land law paved the way for the wider legislative authority that the Ottoman state would increasingly assert in the Tanzimat period of reform. Demonstrating the profound and ongoing adaptation of a legal tradition that was at once both Ottoman and Islamic, it revises our understanding of the relationship between the modern Islamic world and its early modern past, and what kind of intervention was represented by reform in the 19th century.
Author : Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000329452
Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture brings together eleven articles by distinguished historian Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. The book addresses multiple issues related to the histories of science and culture during the Ottoman era. Most of the articles contained in this volume were the first contributions to their respective topics, and they continue to provoke discussion and debate amongst academics to this day. The first volume of the author’s collected papers that appeared in the Variorum Collected Studies (2004) dispelled the negative opinions towards Ottoman science asserted by scholars of the previous generation. In this new volume, the author continues to explore and develop the paradigm of scientific activities and cultural interactions both within and beyond the Ottoman Empire. One of the topics examined is the attitude of Islamic scholars towards revolutionary notions in Western science, including Copernican heliocentrism and Darwin’s theory of evolution. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Ottoman history, as well as those interested in the history of science and cultural history. (CS1098).
Author : Dogan Gurpinar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857723123
The Ottoman Empire maintained a complex and powerful bureaucratic system which enforced the Sultan's authority across the Empire's Middle-Eastern territories. This bureaucracy continued to gain in power and prestige, even as the empire itself began to crumble at the end of the nineteenth century. Through extensive new research in the Ottoman archives, Dogan Gurpinar assesses the intellectual, cultural and ideological foundations of the diplomatic service under Sultan Abdulhamid II. In doing so, Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy presents a new model for understanding the formation of the modern Turkish nation, arguing that these Hamidian reforms- undertaken with the support of the 'Young Ottomans' led by Namik Kemal- constituted the beginnings of modern Turkish nationalism. This book will be essential reading for historians of the Ottoman Empire and for those seeking to understand the history of Modern Turkey.
Author : Bruce Masters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107033634
This book discusses the role of Arabs in the Ottoman Empire for the four centuries that they were its subjects. The conventional wisdom was that the Arabs were a subject people who resented or, at best, were indifferent to their Ottoman overlords. This book argues that two social classes - Sunni religious scholars and urban notables - were willing collaborators in the imperial enterprise, and without whose support the Ottoman Empire would not have ruled the Arab lands for as long as they did.
Author : Cihan Yuksel Muslu,Cihan Yüksel Muslu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857735805
Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks - historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and Syria. Cihan Yüksel Muslu traces the intertwined stories of these two dominant Sunni Muslim empires of the early modern world, setting out to question the view that Muslim rulers were historically concerned above all with the idea of Jihad against non-Muslim entities. Through analysis of the diplomatic and military engagements around the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, Muslu traces the interactions of these Islamic super-powers and their attitudes towards the wider world. This is the first detailed study of one of the most important political and cultural relationships in early-modern Islamic history.