Foreign policy orientation of Turkey's pro-Islamist parties: A comparative study of the AKP and Refah [PDF]
, 2008 This study aims to discuss the foreign policies of the pro-Islamist parties in Turkey by comparing the party programs and policies of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) and the Welfare Party (Refah Partisi).
Dikici Bilgin, Hasret
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Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “SECULAR” Schools [PDF]
, 2000 Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous ...
Fortna, Benjamin
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An enamel-painted glass bottle from a “Turkish pit” in Buda [PDF]
, 2013 The fragments of a high quality, enamel painted, blue glass bottle with the date 1671 on its shoulder were found in the Castle District of Buda, in a huge pit dated to the period of the Ottoman occupation. The shape of the object shows eastern influences,
Katona I. +4 more
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Attitudinal orientation to party organizations in Turkey in the 2000s [PDF]
, 2008 The Turkish party system experienced a serious blow in the early 1980s, when the military government in power closed down all the former legal political parties.
Kalaycioglu, Ersin, Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin
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Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century [PDF]
, 2013 Within the context of a research project that seeks to explore new concepts and, possibly, arrive at more productive paradigms, it is interesting to observe the degree to which the study of the transfer of artefacts between the Islamic Middle East and ...
Contadini, Anna
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A general outlook on Turkish librarianship and libraries [PDF]
, 2008 Turkey has a rich book and library tradition going back centuries. This article presents an overview of Turkish libraries and librarianship by providing information specifically on the library tradition in Turkey, public and special libraries ...
Bayır, Didar +3 more
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Between a rock and a hard place: corporate elites in the context of religion and secularism in Turkey [PDF]
, 2014 Drawing on discourse analyses of 36 in-depth interviews with elite business people from Turkey, the study identifies the networking patterns of new and established business elites in the context of economic liberalization and socioreligious ...
Ali Ergur +9 more
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The 2007 elections and parliamentary elites in Turkey: The emergence of a new political class? [PDF]
, 2008 This essay analyzes the impact of the 2007 elections in Turkey on the structure of the parliamentary elites. The article begins with an examination of the recent trends in turnover rates.
Hasanov, Alim +2 more
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The iconographic transformation of the “tail of the dragon of the eclipse” into the “hunting cheetah” [PDF]
, 2018 Medieval Islamic iconography includes many depictions in which the tail of Sagittarius takes the form of the “dragon of the eclipse”. The current paper examines the gradual transformation of this imagery into that of a quadruped, eventually detached from
Fontana, Maria Vittoria
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Ethno-cultural and Religious Identity of Syrian Orthodox Christians [PDF]
, 2009 Many Middle Eastern Christian groups identify or have been identified with preIslamic peoples in the Middle East: the Copts with Ancient Egypt, the Nestorians with Assyria, the Maronites with Phoenicians and some RumOrthodoxand other Christians with pre
Donabed, Sargon, Mako, Shamiran
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