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Enslaved North Africans in Europe and Their Role in Shaping the Ottoman Empire (1750s–1810s)

Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
:This essay builds on letters and petitions that enslaved North Africans in Europe conceived, signed, or wrote in various European languages, in Arabic, and to a lesser extent in Ottoman Turkish from the second half of the eighteenth century up to the ...
M'hamed Oualdi
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The Requests of Syrians in America to End the Enduring Indifference of the Ottoman Authorities

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2019
The migration of Syrians to America in the 19th and 20th centuries is a major issue which has been widely covered in both fictional and non-fictional literature. Over the same period, many Arab magazines were founded both in North and South America, or “migrated” to those countries.
P. Viviani
openaire   +4 more sources

Fear and Violence in Late Ottoman Syria: The Ismaʿilis and the School of Agriculture

Diyâr, 2020
This article explores the changing relations between state officials and the Shiʿi Nizari Ismaʿilis in early 20th-century Ottoman Syria. It examines the history surrounding the founding of the School of Agriculture in the majority Ismaʿili town of ...
Amaan Merali
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Faithful encounters. Authorities and American missionaries in the Ottoman Empire

Turkish Studies, 2019
K. Kern
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In Pursuit of Laicized Urban Administration: The Muhtar System in Istanbul and Ottoman Attitudes toward Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Nineteenth Century

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2022
The Ottoman Empire introduced the muhtar system in Istanbul in 1829, appointing lay headmen, called muhtar, to the lowest levels of urban administration: Muslim neighborhoods; Orthodox, Armenian, and Catholic parishes; and Jewish congregations.
M. Ueno
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From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco

Early Science and Medicine, 2021
This article examines the translation, circulation, and adaptation of the medical opinion of Spanish physician Nicolas Monardes (d. 1588) on tobacco in the Ottoman Empire.
Aslıhan Gürbüzel
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The Ottoman Imperial Gaze: The Greek Revolution of 1821–1832 and a New History of the Eastern Question

Journal of Modern European History, 2023
This article traces what hindsight shows to be the failure paths of the Ottoman ruling elites in dealing with the Greek revolution of 1821–1832.
O. Ozavci
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Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia's Pan-Islamic Panic

Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, 2023
This article explores the exchange of letters by Caucasus Muslims across the Russo-Ottoman border and the tsarist government's reactions to it. Between the 1850s and World War I, about a million Muslims left the Caucasus for the Ottoman empire.
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
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The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856) [PDF]

, 2010
This book analyzes the Crimean War from the Ottoman perspective based mainly on Ottoman and Russian primary sources, and includes an assessment of the War’s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society.
Candan Badem, Badem, Candan
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BETWEEN CHOLERA AND OTTOMAN ABUSES: THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF THE DANUBE AND THE QUARANTINE REGIME OF THE MARITIME DANUBE (1856–1878)

Historical Yearbook, 2022
: This paper analyses the public health policies adopted by the European Commission of the Danube (ECD), an international organisation tasked to improve navigation along the Maritime Danube. The ECD, a techno-political institution whose attributions were
C. Ardeleanu
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