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Languages, Memory and Religion: The Literature of the Morisco Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Literature written by the Moriscos during their diaspora in North Africa, especially in the 17th century, offers three fundamental pillars for its analysis: the languages in which it is written, their emotional and intellectual relationship with their land of origin and their host countries, and, finally, religion.
Luis Bernabé Pons
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Abu Bakr Effendi: a report on the activities and challenges of an Ottoman Muslim theologian in the Cape of Good Hope [PDF]

, 2014
This thesis presents the religious activities of an Ottoman Islamic scholar Abu Bakr Effendi and his educational challenges at the Cape of Good Hope. Abu Bakr Effendi was a professor of canon law who was sent to the Cape by the Ottoman Caliph in order to
Genço?lu, Halim
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An Example of Neoclassical Civil Architecture in Kaleiçi, Edirne: İlhan Koman House

Art-Sanat
Kaleiçi, the initial settlement core of Edirne, holds historical significance as a dwelling place for non-Muslim communities. Distinguished from other Turkish districts by its grid-shaped (Hippodamus) settlement pattern and unique residences, Kaleiçi ...
Mesut Dündar
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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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A study of Ottoman narratives on architecture : text, context, and hermeneutics

, 2009
Selen B. MorkoçPt. I. Ottoman narratives on architecture -- Pt. II. Approaches -- Pt. III. The context : interpreting Ottoman narratives -- Conclusion -- The translation of the Selimiye Risalesi.http://trove.nla.gov.au/work ...
Morkoc, Selen Bahriye Bostan
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When Universities Turn Carceral: Between Academic Freedom and Elimination

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Gil Rothschild Elyassi
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Chosen by God: Providential Suffering and Divine Writing in the Morisco Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay reconsiders the anonymous sonnet ‘Y Dios, que a los suyos padeciendo mira’ preserved in the Prologue of MS 11/9394 S‐2 (Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia), a Morisco codex produced near Tunis between 1630 and 1650. As a key yet subtle rhetorical hinge in the text's Prologue, the sonnet establishes MS 11/9394 S‐2 within ...
Andrea Pauw
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Ottoman & Modern Architecture

, 2012
Lecture delivered by Prof.
O\u27Kane, Bernard
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
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English literature on the Ottoman Turks in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [PDF]

, 2009
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century a large and complex English literature on the Ottoman Turks developed, characterised by its diversity in form, content, opinion and context.
INGRAM, ANDERS, Ingram, Anders
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