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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Representations of the Ottoman Empire in the West: Abdülhamid II’s Portrait in the French Press

open access: yesReligions
This article examines representations of Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II in the French press. Analyzing these representations will help one to better understand the Western perceptions of the Ottoman Empire and the Orient.
Selim Argun, Hatice Rumeysa Dursun
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Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
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The Functions of Care (Timaar) System and the Causes of Its Collapse in Ottoman Empire [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ اسلام, 2011
Care system was considered as the basis of official, governmental and financial system of Ottoman Empire. The development as well as the importance of domain in Ottoman government is apparent due to the position of most of their conquests inside the ...
Seyed Masood Shahmoradi, Kiyumars Azimi
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The Interest-Free Instruments Used for Public Borrowing in the Ottoman Empire and Medieval Europe: A Comparative Perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Finance, 2023
Borrowing is not only a practice of individuals and corporations, but the states also borrow to afford their expenditures. Similar to individuals, the states have borrowed since ancient times. Most of such loans have been at interest.
Cem Eyerci
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Islamic Sharia and Non-Muslim Citizens in Kanunname During Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire

open access: yesWalisongo: Jurnal Penelitian Sosial Keagamaan, 2019
The tolerant spirit of Islam has inspired Ottoman rulers to adopt policies relating to non-Muslim citizens. The leadership crisis in the Ottoman Empire and the Western interests through capitulation have changed judicial system in the empire, including ...
Meirison Alizar, Qasim Muhammadi
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Evaluating the Copies of Şikârî’s Karamannâme

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2023
Many sources are used to obtain information about history. The oral and written resources from civilizations, such as inscriptions, dictionaries, and literary works, are all important for getting an idea about the past.
Mizan Coşkun Özgür
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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