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Defection or Conformism? Pro-Ottoman Sentiments in Thessalonike in the Late Fourteenth and First Third of the Fifteenth Century

Античная древность и средние века
This article examines the specifics of pro-Turkish sentiments in the urban community of Thessalonike during two Ottoman sieges of 1383–1387 and 1422–1430.
Natal’ia Eduardovna Zhigalova
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Legal Drafting in the Ottoman Period

Jurnal Ilmiah Al-Syir ah, 2019
 Ottoman Turkey is a country based on Islamic Shari'a in which all cases that will decide must refer to Islamic shari'a. The door of Ijtihad has been closed for a long time, thus opening the opportunity for the authorities to issue legal decisions after ...
M. Meirison
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
wiley   +1 more source

Contesting ‘Truth’: A Late Ottoman Response to Protestant Missionary Writings

Religions
This study delves into the polemical exchange between the 19th-century Ottoman scholar Harputlu İshak Hoca (d. 1892) and the protestant missionary Karl Gottlieb Pfander (d. 1865).
Zeynep Yücedoğru
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Captives or crooks? Pirates, impostors, and Jewish communities in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire

, 2020
In the present article, based on Ottoman and Hebrew documents, we focus on people who made up fictitious stories of captivity in order to gain a living, as well as on authorities or local Jewish communities that detected and coped with those frauds in ...
G. Karagedikli, Y. Ben-Naeh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ajams in Ottoman Printing: Iranian Book Company (sirket-i Sahafiye-i Osmaniye)

, 2020
After the second half of the 19th century, as the printing in Ottoman Empire became widespread, the number of private printing houses increased and many new actors entered into the Ottoman printing market.

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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Homer, Troy and the Turks: Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1870-1915

, 2017
The origins and date of birth of the most famous Greek poet Homer, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which are without doubt the most influential literary works in the history of Western civilization, are uncertain.
G. Uslu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

History, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
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