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The Rosary and the Rose: Clergymen as Creators of Secular Poetry and Music in Early-modern Balkans

open access: yesMuzikološki Zbornik, 2015
This paper deals with the involvement of Greek clergy in secular poetry and music in early-modern Balkans. This trend began in late-16th century, and involved the production of large anthologies and treatises on Ottoman music.
John Plemmenos
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Gender Non‐Conformity in Islamic Studies and Muslim Communities Across Times and Theoretical Frameworks

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines gender diversity in Islamicate societies across historical and contemporary contexts, emphasizing the interplay between social norms, religious frameworks, and structural power. It addresses the methodological challenge of avoiding anachronistic applications of modern categories such as “gender” and “sexuality” to Muslim ...
Vanja Hamzić
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A reflection of the Ottoman Empire in the poetry of Ahmad Shawki

open access: yesJournal of Oriental Studies, 2023
Egypt is the most important region of the east-west route, the Mediterranean basin, which opens to the west. Because of its location as a gate, it has drawn the interest of major states in every century and has been the center of attention. Because of Egypt’s strategic importance in the 19th century, France and England pursued colonial interests in the
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Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 224-236, March 2026.
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann   +7 more
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Emotional Reflections of Coffee: From Massieu to Classical Turkish Poetry

open access: yesTurcology Research
Coffee, which originated in Abyssinia in the 9th century, gradually spread across the world following a goatherd’s seen of the energizing effects on his animals after they consumed coffee berries. By the 15th century, the Ottomans had adopted coffee into
İlknur Sisnelioğlu Özer
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When Spaces and Genres Intersect: An Ottoman Venus

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2021
Mehmed Celâl is among a group of writers called “the in-between generation” because they continued to produce classical poetry alongside new prose and verse forms, and his novels have a hybrid character that transcends the classical vs. modern dichotomy.
Zeynep Nur Şimşek
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
wiley   +1 more source

Love the State, but Hate (Neo)Colonialism? Discussing Sacrifice Zones and (Green) Colonialism in Political Ecology

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 1, January‐June 2026.
Short Abstract By underwriting, or ignoring, the state's integral role within the colonial model, which continued to spread and consolidated through colonialism, academic production lends itself not only to facilitating extractivism, but to further the institutionalization of sacrifice areas.
Alexander A. Dunlap
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Comparing Byzantine and Arabic poetry: Introductory remarks [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2018
Older generations of modern critics pronounced negative assessments of both Byzantine and Arabic poetry for lacking originality and creativity. Further, medieval readers of Greek and Arabic presumably could not properly understand the content of
Mavroudi Maria
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Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT How are we to understand the continuing importance of small‐scale village farming in a country like Turkey, which is undergoing an expanding process of industrialization and commodification in agriculture? There are two sides to this question: One concerns land use reconfiguration for commercial purposes, contraction of small‐scale farmland ...
Yıldız Atasoy
wiley   +1 more source

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