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New Arabic Records From Cairo on Supernovae 1181 and 1006
ABSTRACT The remnant of the historical supernova SN 1181 is under discussion: While the previously suggested G130.7+3.1 (3C58) appears too old (3000–5000 year), the unusual star IRAS00500+6713 with a surrounding nebula (Pa‐30) has an expansion age not inconsistent with a SN Iax explosion in ad 1181 under the assumption that neither acceleration nor ...
J. G. Fischer +3 more
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This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Ismâil Safâ’s Concept of Poetry and Moderates
İsmâil Safâ is mostly considered in Servet-i Fünûn literature and named as one of Servet-i Fünûn poets. In fact, he is neither the successor of ancient poetry nor the imitator of the new poetry. His thoughts in his criticism books and applications in his
Arif Yılmaz
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A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi
ABSTRACT This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the imperial harem, to narrations of an empire under strain.
Emma Kalb
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ZWEIGS SAMMLUNG | SAMMLUNG ZWEIG: LITERARY PROVENANCE AND THE STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTIONS IN BRITAIN
ABSTRACT Libraries and archives increasingly have to face questions concerning the origins and transmission paths of their holdings. Based on acquisition records as well as private and institutional correspondence, this article traces the history of book and autograph collections formerly owned by Austrian writer and collector Stefan Zweig which are ...
Stefanie Hundehege
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How does religion influence an emerging nationalism? Evidence from the Kurdish context in Turkey
Abstract Based on qualitative interviews with 66 Sunni Muslim Kurdish elites, this study reveals that Kurdish Islamic circles in Turkey are not monolithic, homogeneous or fixed. Some willingly or unwillingly maintain their Islamic identity as a primary reference point for self‐consciousness, motivation for collective action and political aspirations ...
Muttalip Caglayan
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Mahremî’nin Şehnâme’sinde Mardin Kalesi’nin Fethi
Mardin Kalesi tarih boyunca yüksek bir tepeye konumlanmış yapısıyla erişilmezliği, sağlamlığı ve ele geçirilmesinin zorluğuyla dikkat çekmiş ve adından söz ettirmiştir.
Esma Şahin Öztaş
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The Poetry Fatwas on Tobacco and Coffee in Ottoman
Osmanlı toprakları 16. yüzyılla birlikte farklı birçok mesele ile karşılaşmış ve bu meselelerin hükümleri Osmanlı müftülerince verilen fetvâlarda ortaya konulmuştur. Ele alınan meselelerin en önde gelenleri tütün ve kahve olup bunlara dair verilen hükümler birbirinden farklı olabilmiştir.
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Postlude: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire
Rumi has been much appreciated as a Sufi poet throughout the Persianate World, from Bukhara and India to Iran itself. But today it is much less widely understood that Rumi’s legacy had no institutional basis in any of these countries. Through the Mevlevi Order of Dervishes this legacy had its center in the Seljuq and Karamanid states, and then the ...
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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