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Mamluk authorities and anatolian realities : Jānibak al-Ṣūfī, sultan al-Ashraf Barsbāy, and the story of a social network in the Mamluk/Anatolian frontier zone, 1435-1438 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article engages with the 838–841/1435–1437 Anatolian adventures of the Mamluk amir Jānibak al-Ṣūfī. It demonstrates how Jānibak's narrative is a remarkable story full of meanings, which enable a more nuanced understanding of Mamluk engagements with ...
Adriaenssens, Veerle   +1 more
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Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

1680-1747 Ottoman Budgets and Deficits Sustainability in a Period of Fiscal Transition: Wars and Administrative Changes [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies the sustainability of the Ottoman budget for the period from 1680 to 1747, during different sultanates and war eras. Moreover, we investigate whether the relationship between government revenues and expenditures changes in the period ...
Hakan Berument, Nuray Oguz
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Exporting the Holy Land: artisans and merchant migrants in Ottoman-era Bethlehem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article explores an aspect of Arab migration in the nineteenth century that is often retold in popular memory but rarely discussed in academic work: that of Bethlehem merchants and the “Holy Land” wares they sold.
Norris, Jacob
core   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming (Private) Rights through (Public) International Law::Readings on a ‘Strange and Painful Odyssey’ in the PCIJ Mavrommatis Case1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Straddling both the centres of (European) power and the shifting dynamics of the post-Ottoman world in a quest to guarantee private rights through public international legal redress, the PCIJ Mavrommatis case provides a rich resource for interrogating ...
Burgis-Kasthala, Michelle
core   +1 more source

Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
wiley   +1 more source

الطريقة الدرقاوية الشاذلية وانتشارها في الدولة العثمانية إستانبول ودمشق نموذجا

open access: yesTasavvuf İlmi ve Akademik Araştırma Dergisi, 2021
لم يُكتب للطريقة الشاذلية الأم ولا لفرعها الدرقاوية الانتشارُ في الدولة العثمانية كما كُتب لغيرها من الطرق الصوفية، ولكن في أواخر القرن التاسع عشر بدأنا نرى الطريقة الدرقاوية الشاذلية تظهر في عاصمة الخلافة إستانبول تحت رعاية السلطان، وفي دمشق إحدى أهم ...
İyat Erbakan
doaj  

Sipâhîzâde’nin Enmûzecü’l-Fünûn’unda Tefsir İlmi

open access: yesCumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi, 2019
İslam düşüncesinde tefsire dair birikim çok farklı şekillerde karşımıza çıkar. Bunlardan biri içinde tefsire dair bölümler barındıran enmûzec türü eserlerdir. Enmûzec türü eserlerde ele alınan ilimlerin seçimi farklı ölçütlere göre olabilmektedir.
Mehmet Çi̇çek
doaj   +1 more source

Subjectivity in contemporary visualization of reality: re-visiting Ottoman miniatures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Though Ottoman miniatures are 2D representations, they carry the potential of conveying an individual’s perception in a more detailed manner as compared to 3D perspective renderings. In a typical 2-vanishing-point perspective; objects / subjects drawn in
Germen, Murat
core   +1 more source

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