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The politics of Istanbul's Ottoman heritage in the era of globalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
History is not merely about events which remind of the past, it is also about political struggles in the present. This is particularly so in contemporary cultural markets where 'history' is increasingly produced and disseminated in a host of ...
Oncu, Ayse, Öncü, Ayşe
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Islamic Learning in Arabic-Afrikaans Between Malay Model and Ottoman Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Through the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century the Muslim community of Cape Town produced a large number of texts in various fields of Islamic learning, written in Afrikaans, a creolized variety of the language the ...
Versteegh, K. (Kees)
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Humanities in transition : liberation of knowledge in Central Asia and the potential role of the European Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Concluding this article, the importance of the rational discourse in modern classes and local forums in contemporary Central Asia should be mentioned again. The liberation of knowledge should be a permanent part of educational initiatives in this region,
Jonboboev, Sunatullo
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Gardens in the Air: A Reexamination of the Ottoman Tulip Age

open access: yes, 2013
Scholars have long considered the “Tulip Age” to be a sort of Ottoman renaissance—a golden age initiated by the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz and lasted until the Anti-Tulip Rebellion in 1730.
Fry, Rachel R.
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The Ottoman state and descendants of the prophet in Anatolia and the Balkans (c. 1500-1700) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Throughout the Islamic world those claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad (T. seyyid/serif pl. sadat/esraf) were (and are) accorded a special status.
Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya, Canbakal
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Nationalism and the rhetoric of exclusion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The late twentieth-century Serbian nationalist discourse is seen as a manifestation of the same rhetoric which was initially formulated in the period of national awakening associated with the two uprisings against the Turkish rule under Karađorđe ...
Mikula, M
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Ziya Gökalp's Idea of Cultural Hybridity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper is a reflection on the distinctiveness and scope of the ideas of Ziya Gökalp (1876-1924), who played a key role in the formation of the ideology of the Turkish Republic created in 1923.
Nomer, Nedim
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Off the Edge of the Map: The Search for Portuguese Influence on the Piri Reis Map of 1513

open access: yes, 2012
Left tattered after centuries of ware, hidden in the walls of Topkapı Sarayı, the 1513 map of the Ottoman cartographer Hacı Ahmed Muhiddin Piri has not been properly contextualized in light of Portuguese cartography of the time.
Bridges, Robert S.
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Arthur Upham Pope and his research methods in Muhammadan art:Persian carpets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper looks at the emergence of Persian carpet scholarship in the early twentieth century, and the formative role played by Arthur Upham Pope, one of the American pioneers of Iranian art studies and collecting.
Kadoi, Yuka
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Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among university female students, Gaza, Palestine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The intestinal parasites are still endemic among children, women, and men in Gaza Strip. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of intestinal parasites among young female students of Islamic University of Gaza to report the existence and ...
Abu Qassem, RR   +4 more
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