Adoption, Blood and Culture in the Middle East [PDF]
, 2012 This is an unpublished presentation given at the 1998 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Panel on Fictive Kinship).
Lindholm, Charles
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Two Different Cases in the Ottoman Police Department: The Story of British Police Inspector Mr. Nolan and the Murder of Captain Butterworth [PDF]
, 2011 International Review of Turkology (ISSN:1308-0105) 4 (7), 21-32 (Date: December 2011)
Kocatürk, Önder
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Islamic public administration tradition : historical, theoretical and practical dimensions [PDF]
, 2017 This article addresses the question of whether a distinctive Islamic public administration exists. Three arguments are made to demonstrate that it has a long and distinct history, although sharing commonalities with some Western traditions.
Samier, Eugenie
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, 2013 Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press. © Cambridge University Press 2001.
Morkot, Robert
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'Mamlukisation' between social theory and social practice: an essay on reflexivity, state formation, and the late medieval sultanate of Cairo [PDF]
, 2015 This working paper is a reflexive essay that tries to think with and beyond one of the basic assumptions upon which the field of late medieval Syro-Egyptian ‘Mamluk’ studies is built: the idea that all late medieval Syro-Egyptian objects of study are by ...
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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ALBANIAN SOLDIERS IN THE OTTOMAN ARMY DURING THE GREEK REVOLT AT 1821 [PDF]
, 2013 Ottoman Army organization had started to deteriorate from the mid-17th century.Military failures made the social and economic problems worse. In this situation,alternative potentials in the empire appeared because of the increasing militaryneeds of the ...
Ali Fuat Orenc
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The Sasanian Tradition in ʽAbbāsid Art : squinch fragmentation as The structural origin of the muqarnas [PDF]
, 2016 Islamic architecture presents a three-dimensional decoration system known as muqarnas. An original system created in the Near East between the second/eighth and the fourth/tenth centuries due to the fragmentation of the squinche, but it was in the fourth/
Carrillo, Alicia
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An Index of Nayrūz Occurrences in Abbasid Literary Sources. [PDF]
, 2016 This volume is the result of a two-years research project, focusing on an exhaustive indexing of all edited Arabic sources mentioning the Iranian festival of Nayrūz (Nawrūz) in the Abbasid age (750-1258 CE).
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Old patterns, new meaning : the 1845 hospital of Bezm-i Alem in Istanbul [PDF]
, 2005 This paper discusses the history of an 1845 Ottoman hospital founded by Bezm-i Alem, mother of the reigning sultan Abdülmecit I (reigned 1839-1856), embedded in the medical and political contexts of the Middle East in the nineteenth century.
Shefer, Miri
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THE ROAD TO VIENNA: HABSBURG AND OTTOMAN STATECRAFT DURING THE TIME OF GRAND VIZIER KARA MUSTAFA PAŞA (1676-1683) [PDF]
, 2015 This dissertation comparatively analyzes Habsburg and Ottoman decision-making and statecraft during the time of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Paşa (1676-1683).
Yilmaz, Yasir
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