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Last - but not least!
The 4rth (and last...) issue of our open access journal "Aca'ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural" is out! Check it at
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Cemal Kafadar's much awaited work on Ottoman vampires (or, at least, part of it; he still promises a book-length study) is out -- and, guess what, in open access!
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I am overwhelmed by this discovery and cannot but share this with you even before publishing it:
While cataloguing the Ottoman documents of an Athonite monastery, I found a document signed by Sheikh Bedreddin while the kazasker of prince Musa - can you believe this?
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Ottoman Christians who had visited the Holy Lands (Jerusalem) were called Chatzi (Χατζή) in Greek (from el-haj/haccı). I have seen Ottoman documents render the term as ʿācī (as using hacı for a non-Muslim would be blasphemy).
Has anyone ever seen the term makdisî as a synonym ?
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Türk meslektaşlarıma ve Türk halkına en derinlerimden geçmiş olsun... Böyle felaket bir daha yaşanmasın!
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Müjde! In case you haven't noticed, Cemal Kafadar uploaded all his papers in !
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Πριν από εικοσιπέντε χρόνια, νεαροί φερέλπιδες οθωμανολόγοι, είχαμε μεταφράσει με τον Ηλία Κολοβό για να περνάει η ώρα αυτή την έκθεση ενός Οθωμανού αστυνόμου του 1915. Ε, ένα τέταρτο του αιώνα μετά καταφέραμε να την εκδώσουμε!
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Here, forthcoming: two of my articles on Ottoman ghosts and vampires merged into one and translated into Turkish.
-Kim var imiş biz burada yoğ iken-
Acaib Garaibler
@sariyannis
Marinos Sariyannis'in değerli katkılarıyla geldi.. Buyrun:)
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Halil İnalcık had said that he learnt writing only necessary and concise information without much ado by writing articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
We do so by tweeting 😎
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My book " Perceptions ottomanes du surnaturel" has received the Prix du Budget by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (France)!
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Değerli Türk okurlar, ben de varım orda 🤓
Bu yıl sizlerle buluşturacağımız birkaç eserimiz. Çok yakında Selenge'de!
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Some ideas for a "types of Ottomanist papers" meme:
-It's all about negotiation of power
-Exchange, transfer, borders and how it's all a mess
-Oh, they were reading Arabic after all
-I found a document I'd never seen in the sijils I'm studying (didn't check other sijils though)!
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Nice article and research. However, it gives the impression that these documents are unknown and unstudied. My mentor, Professor John C. Alexander (Alexandropoulos) and his students (Elias Kolovos, Phokion Kotzageorgis), but also 1/3
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If you look for Ottoman-inspired Halloween ideas, check this. Jinn, souls from the unseen world, and some creepy tales (Hint: they are not many).
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My last article, on what is (or isn't) "Ottoman Enlightenment". Open access in History Compass. Thanks
@kaohu11
!
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My new book: The Horizons, Limits, and Taxonomies of Ottoman Knowledge (Otto Spies Memorial Series, Vol. 11).
I seek to explore the Ottoman “world of knowledge” and its historical development: the way the horizons of this 1/3
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I think last night I finished the first version of my book on Ottomans and the supernatural 🤓
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Did you know that you can download a nice bunch of Ottoman philosophical, Sufi, biographical, historiography and scientific books from free? I didn't!
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My latest paper seeks to survey the use of marginal notes in Ottoman manuscripts, examining margins and marginalia not only as potential sources for the history or audience of a manuscript, but also as a structural feature of the Ottoman book culture.
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A remarkable trend in Ottoman studies: collections of short translations illustrating everyday life, identities, realities of the various social and cultural groups of the Empire. A pretty large selection of readers and textbooks is now available for teaching. I just saw a 1/2
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Yesterday, a concert of Ottoman music at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies
@IMS_Forth
Nobody expected such a crowd!
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Finally the digital part of a ghostly project is out!
website (I know there are things to mend, please have some patience)
on twitter
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A short interview on Ottoman studies in Greece and my own research.
Read our interview with 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬, Ottoman scholar and reasearch director at the 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨, on on the thriving field of
#Ottoman
Studies in Greece.
⤵️
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Here we are at last, the first issue of our GHOST journal "Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural" has been launched! Enjoy:
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, one of the last great ones of the Annales school is gone
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For those wishing to read more Ottoman vampire and ghost stories
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Not surprisingly, this tweet came from the person whose first act as President of the EU Commission was to appoint a commissioner on migration with the title of "Commissioner for Protecting the European Way of Life"...
Very concerned by the situation in Israel and Gaza.
I condemn indiscriminate attacks by Hamas on Israel.
Civilians on all sides must be protected.
Violence must end now.
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Call for applications for the M.A. Program in Ottoman History, organized by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH!
Deadline 20 May 2024, info
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My discussion with Sergei Zotov on Ottomans, the supernatural, vampires and more.
An discussion on the Ottomans and the supernatural in the journal EastEast
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A piece I wrote (in French) about an account of a janissary who claims to have been a prisoner in late 17th-c. France. I try to show that the ms. is a fake, fabricated (probably) by the French intelligence, and to seek the possible motives of the forgery.
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Ottoman History podcast: Cemal Kafadar Between Past and Present, Part 2
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I can hardly think of any book more influential in Ottoman studies than Abou-El-Haj's "The Formation of the Early Modern State". He laid the grounds for the whole "early modernity" discussion of Ottoman history - and he set an example on the need to discuss Ottoman social class.
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This seems to be our own Ottoman Menocchio - not because this poor guy was any near the miller's materialist theories, but because of the richness of the material and the microhistorical depth of the study.
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What is in your opinion the most underestimated and unduly neglected book in Ottoman studies, in, let's say, the last fifty years?
(I have already my choice and will post it tomorrow)
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Actually, almost every monastery in the Balkans (all the way to Crete) has one or two (or many more) such firmans, waiting to be discovered!
(And usually, their hüccet collections are even more interesting)
Bulgarian scholars discover a previously unknown Ottoman firman, allowing for a church in Viden village (then Karagitli), near Stara Zagora to be rebuilt. The sultan's order stipulates the size and structure, as well as forbids local authorities to tax the population additionally
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Occult beliefs and practices in the Ottoman Empire before the Tanzimat: Call for a post-doctoral fellowship, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Greece
Please RT!
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A great and long-due Festschrift for, arguably, the most influential* Ottomanist of our era (and my role-model!).
*(or one of the two most influential Ottomanists; wouldn't be fair to forget Suraiya Faroqhi)
Crafting History: Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar (Forthcoming soon)
Edited by Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yaycıoğlu
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Stay tuned: A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul, outstandingly edited by Shirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem Kafescioğlu. Forthcoming in Brill in October. Yours truly in magnificent company!
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My review of A. Gürbüzel, Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Public Sphere, 1600-1700, in Journal of Islamic Studies, 2024.
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-A completely new way to say things we already know about the Ottoman state structure
-Surprise! Ottoman society was highly gendered!
-Another way Wittek was wrong
-This colleague actually stole my ideas
-The whereabouts of the naib of Köyceğiz during summer 1743
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Τhe Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH accept applications for their joint two-year English-language M.A. Program in Ottoman History.
Deadline 15 June 2022.
Please RT!
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So excited about this! Check the program and I'm sure you'll be excited too:
Our international symposium will take place on 14-17 January. You can register in advance:
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-New figures from Tapu Tahrir; feel free to interpret
-A post-modern analysis of the space after "hükm ki" in Mühimme Defters
-See, I really can re-write the conclusions chapter of my PhD in yet another way
-[random word] of the Sultans
-Global dimensions of Ottoman [random word]
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Fellow Ottomanists, lend me your ears! Thanks to this article I discovered this unique source, Bülgatü’l-Ahbâb by Balıkesirli Râsih (d. 1731). Supposed to be a compendium of manners, similar to Mustafa Ali's Neva'idü'l-mefâis, it contains an unbelievable amount of
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Son olarak Sadık Yazar, Osmanlı dünyasında vampirlerle ilgili malzemenin sanıldığından çok daha fazla olabileceğini işaret eden bir eseri, Balıkesirli Râsih’in Bülgatü’l-Ahbâb’ını (1730) ele alıyor.
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Long 🧵on
@ERC_Research
grants
As an ERC grantee I am proud of our success, from which my research, my career and my institution benefit greatly; and we all know the immense boost an ERC project means for one’s career and scientific life, minimizing as 1/8
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Both the original tweet and most, if not all comments are so blatantly anachronistic
The Ottoman millet system remains one of the best ways to organize a genuinely plural society, arguably superior to the liberal solution
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This (stamped?) pattern is found in an Ottoman hammam in Thessaloniki. Does anyone recognize it? Seems a bit like geomancy (reml) signs.
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The
@ERC_Research
Starting Grants are out!
Congratulations to the one Ottomanist in the list, Christopher Markiewicz with his project on Islamic Endowments (Waqf) and State Formation in the
Ottoman Empire (1450-1650)! 1/2
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Time for our Halcyon Days in Crete XII Symposium!
This year, with the topic "The Janissaries: Socio-Political and Economic Actors in the Ottoman Empire (17th-Early 19th Centuries)"
January 12-14, 2024
For program and live streaming links, see the link:
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For the 16th-c. Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi, jinn were associated to certain animals, but could not coexist with others, including sheep. And he relates a story about a herd of sheep in Anatolia who *ate* some jinn!
In Islamic cosmology, the universe is populated by angels and the earth is the home of humans and jinn alike. A race of intelligent, shape-shifting invisible beings, the djinn/jinn have a unique relationship to animals.
A thread-
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My Greek-speaking account was recently involved in a heated discussion on Ottoman realities. Conclusion: we professional historians have been too much and for too long involved in high academia, neglecting and snubbing the general public. This is what we get, now.
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Our survey of Greek Ottoman studies (with Eleni Gara and Phokion Kotzageorgis), "Ottoman studies in Greece: a reflective gaze", has just been published in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain 5 | 2021 (online)
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Today I discovered this interesting conversation of Claude Lévi-Strauss with a couple of astrologers.
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And for more, today I received the proofs!
And that's the end of it. In the 17th or 18th century, the cities fade away into the realm of fiction. Disenchantment, development of geography, influence of the ever-present Illuminationism, or all these together must have played their role.
But, what a story!
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Online Book Launch: Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840 - 1940 Papastefanaki, Leda, and M. Erdem Kabadayı, eds. (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020)
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A paper on Ottoman Crete as a node in population movements and commercial exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean (in Greek).
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My latest article, open access.
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We're making a name for ourselves
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A fascinating thematic issue on the concept of Ottoman "early modernity" (your humble slave participates as well)
JOTSA’s Spring issue (Vol. 7, no. 1, 2020) is out!
We are very excited to share our latest issue with you, which is now accessible on JSTOR:
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Better late than never!
Yours truly wrote about the social context of Ottoman occultism: I tried to trace different attitudes against the occult and link them with specific Sufi brotherhoods and social groups.
The 3rd issue of our open access journal "Aca'ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural" is out!
Contributions by Aslı Niyazioğlu,
@sariyannis
, Edhem Eldem,
@amila295
and Kathi Ivanyi.
Check it at
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Just saw the complete proofs. This will be an instant classic (and I don't refer to my chapter)!
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Did you know that the Kariye mosque/Mone tes Choras has a date in Arabic digits? Check the picture on the doorway. It is ٦٨١١ or 6811, in Byzantine reckoning 1302/3, and according to Elizabeth Zachariadou it commemorates the wedding of a Byz. princess to the Mongol Khan Ghazan.
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This is an immensely interesting text. Fascinating insights into early 18th-c. Sufi thought, sacred geography, family life, even political events (the Köprülü viziers, the 1688 revolt).
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A unique source for those interested in early Ottoman Istanbul, now completed
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Certainly I don't feel a key figure but thanks anyway 🙏
Marinos Sariyannis
@sariyannis
, one of the key figures in Ottoman history of political thought, will be the guest of Oxford Centre for Intellectual History)
@OxfordCIH
with his speech on "Ottoman Political Thought before the Tanzimat Reforms (c. 1839)" on 13 November at 17:00.
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Trying to prepare a decent paper for our Halcyon Days symposium...
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@ayayciog
Zavallı adam orada sürgün olunmuştu, "ıtlak fermanı" gelince gürültü dolayısıyla "itlaf fermanı" diye duymuş, kalp krizinden ölmüş...
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new publication, to be added to N. Vatin - E. Borromeo "Les Ottomans par eux-mêmes" and H. Karateke - H. Anetshofer "The Ottoman World":
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The beginning of a review by Gottfried Hagen in the last issue of Archivum Ottomanicum offers some food for thought:
"Every generation of Ottoman historians has their paradigmatic figure, genre, or source text. The opening of the Ottoman archives in the 1950s produced (1/4)
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@ayayciog
YÖK'un ulusal tez merkezinde "sulhname" ararsan, Derya Deniz'in 2016 tarihli bir Yüksek Lisans tezi var, "Reisülküttab Rami Mehmed Efendinin Sulhnamesi (Vekâyi'-i Musâlaha) tahlil ve metin". Danışmanı Fikret Yılmaz'mış.
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For ages now I have this dream of drawing a genealogical tree of Ottomanist scholarship, to supplement my hobby of collecting scholarly feuds.
Yeni Kitap Değerlendirmesi:
YOLDAŞLAR, Özgün Deniz. “Seyfi Kenan & Selçuk Akşin Somel, Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity: In Memory of Metin Kunt”. Osmanlı Araştırmaları, c. 62, sy. 62, 2023.
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Insights into Janissary Networks, 1700-1826. A splendid special issue on the history of the Janissaries, edited by my colleague Yannis Spyropoulos. Open access!
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Call for applications will be issued by the end of March!
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Kariye camii/Mone tes Choras is going to become a mosque again today under Erdoğan's regime. And I remembered this:
Did you know that the Kariye mosque/Mone tes Choras has a date in Arabic digits? Check the picture on the doorway. It is ٦٨١١ or 6811, in Byzantine reckoning 1302/3, and according to Elizabeth Zachariadou it commemorates the wedding of a Byz. princess to the Mongol Khan Ghazan.
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First day was splendid, and the other three promise to be so as well!
Our international symposium will take place on 14-17 January. You can register in advance:
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New life goal: when I retire I'll start writing an old-style long essay on global history, taking advantage of all the social media debates I've participated in. No footnotes.
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Impressed to read in Giritli Aziz Efendi's Muhayyelat (1796) a description of the enthronement of the jinn king: all jinn are asked whether they accept his kingship, and the hero, by virtue of his possession of Salomon's seal, certifies the acceptance in a ferman-like document.1/
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As a student I was a bit lazy and somehow unreliable, and my professor and mentor, John Alexander (a man who grew up and graduated in the USA) used to say jokingly that I was "fey". I did not know the word at the time, now I remembered it, looked it up and, well, am proud of it🤓
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Erdoğan's version of autocratic democracy (or whatever) begins to have serious competition from the other side of the Aegean: riot police arresting students in the campus of Thessaloniki University (my alma mater, by the way); a prisoner at the verge of dying from a 1/2
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The GHOST project is near its end and here is our last conference next week!
Lots of fascinating presentations on Ottoman occultism and knowledge of nature. Yours truly will talk on “The Ottoman Hermes: notes on the reception of the Hermetic tradition in Ottoman scholarship”.
Join us for the last GHOST conference, on November 16-18!
"Knowing and controlling nature in Ottoman culture: scientific and occultist approaches in a global perspective"
See the link for program (EET) and registration info.
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My short review of Liana Saif
@MaslamaQ
Mat Melvin-Koushki
@mmelvink
Francesca Leoni
@simurgh74
and Farouk Yahya
@FaroukCat
marvelous book.
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I am pretty sure the reference to the crossing of the Bering Strait is not to be found in the original.
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I only once met Metin Kunt, but we had exchanged a lot of e-mails while preparing the Halcyon Days in Crete IX conference where he was to preside. The short text he eventually sent for the proceedings is perhaps the last piece he published: a five-pages admirable survey of >>
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The gap between Arabists and Ottomanists (not so much between Persianists and Ott.'s) is still visible. Very few scholars of intellectual history are capable of reading Arabic+Ott.Turkish or at least willing to use sources from both languages. Not to mention Greek, Armenian etc.
3.Although Dallal’s book uncovers many unexplored sources, discussed several important questions with authority, it reminds me the old days, when Islamic & Ottoman studies walked on separate paths which did not even cross and Islamicists & Ottomanists were unaware of each other.
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What I learnt today: Evliya Çelebi was clean-shaven.
(Dankoff, An Ottoman Mentality, p. 116).
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>> are supposed to be tolerated because "God looks fairly upon Turkish peasants, Christian sailors or Jewish artisans" (reʿayā-yı Etrāk yāhud mellāḥān-ı Urūm veyāhud eṣnāf-ı Yahūdī).
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Some days ago I penned some thoughts on Paul Wittek. Here is an insightful piece on his archenemy, Franz Babinger, by Christoph K. Neumann:
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A marvel, the joy of every Ottomanist from student to scholar, and even of every curious reader. Just look at the contents!
Yours truly is glad to have contributed - thanks, Hakan and Helga!
The Ottoman World edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Helga Anetshofer - Paperback - University of California Press. 2021.
(ı contributed with the cover image)
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Lots of thanks to
@ThinkersGarden
for this wonderful opportunity to share some thoughts and results about the GHOST project!
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Valentina Izmirlieva, “The Title Hajji and the Ottoman Vocabulary of Pilgrimage,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 28/29 (2012–13): 137–6 at 140
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Ebced as cryptography - I didn't know that!
@Mar_Musa
This is called "hatt-ı şeceri" [tree font] ,which has been widely used in Ottoman turkish texts/manuscripts. Simply , there are 8 clauses . Each branch on the right side of the tree resembles which cluase, and the branch on the left side indicates which letter of that clause
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Looking at the proofs of my forthcoming article in Turcica: my take on history of emotions, in which I try to seek if indifference, bewilderment or fear vis-à-vis the supernatural, as seen in pre-Tanzimat literature, can tell us something about a change of attitude.
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