Preliminary thoughts upon the policies of the Ottoman State in the 16th century Indian Ocean [PDF]
, 2013 This article aims to sketch concisely about the relationships between the Ottomans and the Portuguese pertaining to the developments in the Indian Ocean in the first half of the 16th century. The purpose of the Portuguese Kingdom to establish hegemony in
Ozay, Mehmet
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Disconsolate Suffering: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism and the Ambivalence of Humanitarian Witnessing
The Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through a close reading of Joe Sacco's seminal work of graphic journalism, Palestine, this article argues that Sacco unsettles the consoling effects of mass media by disrupting dominant narratives of difference, otherness, and spectacularized violence.
Bryant Scott
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Ottoman Spatial Organization of the pre-modern City of Medina
ABE Journal, 2018 This paper investigates the pre-modern urban development of Medina during the Ottoman reign within the framework of the Ottoman administration of the Arab provinces.
Atef Alshehri
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Alternative Paths Towards the Age of Mercantilism: Revisiting the 17th Century's Economic Crisis [PDF]
, 2011 The centuries-long history of the Ottoman Empire has been and somehow still is considered by non-Ottoman historians from a teleological approach. So challenging is the idea that the Middle East has been ruled by an independent, hegemonic State, that the ...
Costantinl, Vera
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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The Transformation of Ottoman Criminal Law in the 19th Century: The Example of Crime of Complicity
ULUM, 2019 In the XIX. century, Ottoman State has witnessed changes in many areas. Looking at the content of both the dated 1840 and the dated 1851 Penal Codes legislated in Tanzimat Era, it has seen that the transformation in criminal procedure, the judicial ...
Kübra Nugay, Abdullah Kahraman
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The libraries in the Ottoman State
, 2015 Libraries, from past to present, have played a vital role in the process of developing, preserving and passing down culture by providing the information that the society, in which they have a place, have needed. Libraries, at the same time, are the institutions which are a part of the society and reflect the features of the society. With these aspects,
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Suffragettes of the empire, daughters of the republic: women auto/biographers narrate national history (1918-1935) [PDF]
, 2007 This paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the ...
Adak, Hulya, Adak, Hülya
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Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
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