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Agents, Ambassadors, and Imams: Ottoman-British Transimperialism in the Cape of Good Hope, 1862–1869

Journal of World History, 2023
:This article examines Ottoman and British collaborative efforts to intervene in and transform Muslim religious and cultural affairs in the Cape of Good Hope from 1862 to 1869. It focuses on how the Ottoman sultan reinstated the Ottoman Empire's prestige
Fredrick Walter Lorenz
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Between demolition and (un)intended conservation: the approach of the Ottoman state to the Istanbul city walls in the light of the nineteenth-century archival documents

Journal of Architectural Conservation, 2022
City walls have played a significant role in the history of many cities in both Europe and Anatolia in the Middle Ages. Following the development of war technology, the city walls lost their importance as defensive structures, which led to changes in the
Elif Acar Bilgin   +1 more
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Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500–1630

, 2023
This editorial book takes Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as its center and ex-amines how different diplomatic cultures in- teracted with one another in the period between c. 1500-1630.
evvelin kimesne bilmeye, A. Bîlgîn
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George Franghia (b. 1856): a forgotten farsighted Ottoman engineer’s contribution to the development of the province of Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period

Middle Eastern Studies, 2022
This article traces the career of the Greek Orthodox Ottoman engineer George Franghia, who served for a decade and a half at the end of the nineteenth century as the engineer of the District of Jerusalem. Franghia, a brilliant and prolific engineer whose
Y. Ben-Bassat
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Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands. Helen Pfeifer (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022). Pp. 320. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780691195230

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2022
local holy man, Abu al-Gaith al-Quachach, whose following briefly concerned Ottoman officials (relations between local authorities and the saint were marked by conflict and familial relations as they both married into the same elite families).
D. Yıldırım
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From Borderlands to Boundary Lines: Mapping on the Edges of the Ottoman Empire

Imago mundi, 2022
The evolution, nature and characteristics of boundary mapping in Central and Eastern Europe were distinctive, especially considering the imperial borders of states neighbouring the Ottoman Empire.
Mirela Altic
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