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The Kurdish Janus: The intersocietal construction of nations

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 718-733, April 2023., 2023
Abstract Existing accounts of Kurdish nationalism can be mapped onto the main theories of nationalism, that is, primordialism, ethnosymbolism and modernism. These theories, however, suffer, respectively, from essentialism, circularity and aporia, manifest in their common inability to digest the Janus‐like character of nations, that is, their display of
Kamran Matin, Jahangir Mahmoudi
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Minorities or citizens in the Middle East? Locating the ‘minority question’ in the intersecting histories of collective national belonging and state‐building

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 295-310, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This article contributes to the growing scholarship on minority politics in the Middle East by arguing that if minorities are socially or politically constructed then the meaning and implications of minority terminology requires greater historical contextualisation.
Elizabeth Monier
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Property as sovereignty in micro: the state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 769-787, September 2022., 2022
Abstract This article shows that landed property can be an exercise of state sovereignty in micro. I argue that property tightly relates to statehood and that the concept of ‘community’ offers us a lens with which to investigate that relation. Property's ‘communal’ character in Cyprus often transcends individual rights to ownership. A house belongs not
Theodoros Rakopoulos
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Bir Katl Davası Işığında Cebel-i Lübnan’da Tanzimat Hukukunun Dürzî Kimliğine Yansıması

Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2020
Osmanlı yönetiminin Tanzimat’ı ilanı, temelde merkezileşmeyi öngörmekle birlikte modern bir Devlet kurma çabasını da temsil ediyordu. Bu nedenle Kasım 1839’da ilan edilen ferman, bir anlamda Devletin iç ve dış kontrolünün zayıflığının 18.
Tuba YILDIZ
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Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “SECULAR” Schools [PDF]

, 2000
Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous ...
Fortna, Benjamin
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Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art

Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 518-544, June 2022., 2022
The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is ...
Mary Roberts
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Radical Secularism and Worldview Dilemmas in Countering Sectarianism in Lebanon

Negotiation Journal, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 477-500, Summer 2022., 2022
Through an analysis of Lebanon, this article investigates the secularism dilemma, namely, that secularism often leads to the politicization of religion and a high risk of conflict. Although this is the case in Lebanon, Lebanese political activists and youth movements advocate for secularism as the only alternative to the present consociational ...
Lars Erslev Andersen
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Vows as contract in Ottoman public life (17th-18th centuries) [PDF]

, 2009
Starting sometime in the seventeenth century, vows (nezir, Ar. nadhr) began to be used in the central lands of the Ottoman Empire as a means to seal contracts of a public nature.
Canbakal, Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya
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Mooring Mobilities, Fixing Flows: Towards a Global Urban History of Port Cities in the Age of Steam

Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 350-374, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This article critically surveys the current historiography of port cities, which have recently attracted a lot of interest, particularly from global historians of the 19th and early 20th century. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger recent and older trends in the discipline.
Lasse Heerten
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Mardin in the Post-Tanzimat Era: Heritage, Changes and Formation of an Urban Landscape

Journal of ethnic and cultural studies, 2018
This paper discusses how Tanzimat Reforms (1839-1876) transformed the architectural landscape of Mardin at the end of the 19 th century. Ottoman presence and authority in the urban landscape was symbolised by modern secular bureaucratic buildings such as
Birgül Açıkyıldız Şengül
semanticscholar   +2 more sources