Modern Muslim education in Istanbul during the Tanzimat Era [PDF]
This book chapter surveys the development of state as well as private modern Muslim schools in Istanbul between 1774 ...
Somel, Selcuk Aksin +1 more
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An Ottoman gentleman observing İzmir at a time of change: Evliya Çelebi on the Road, 1670-1 [PDF]
Izmir was the ‘mushroom city’ of the seventeenth-century Ottoman world: while a small town in the late 1500s, by the end of the seventeenth century, the city may have been home to nearly 90,000 people.
Faroqhi, Suraiya
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Old patterns, new meaning : the 1845 hospital of Bezm-i Alem in Istanbul [PDF]
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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Which came first, the Zajal or the Muwaššaḥa? Some evidence for the oral origins of Hispano-Arabic Strophic poetry [PDF]
Up to this point, I have summarized some theoretical arguments, derived from certain structural features of the texts at hand, to suggest why the zajal might antedate the muwaššaḥa, from which the latter could be derived.
Monroe, James T.
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Portions of the English version of the report sent by Captain Fazil Bey [Fazıl Bey] on 30 December 1918, to the Ministries of Interior and Justice, the Grand Vizierate and the Office of the Speaker, which contains the perpetrators.
Guerguerian, Krikor
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Bosna’nın Asi Kapudanı: Hüseyin Kapudan (1802-1834) [PDF]
Bu makalede yerel bir Bosna beyi olan Hüseyin Kapudan’a odaklanmakta ve ona, merkezi otoriteye karşı duracak gücü veren 19. yüzyıl Bosna’sının dinamikleri analiz edilmektedir. İlk olarak Hüseyin Kapudan’ın aile geçmişini incelemekte ve Bosna’nın küçük
Sel Turhan, Fatma
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The rise of the Köprülü family: the reconfiguration of vizierial power in the seventeenth century [PDF]
This dissertation traces the rise to power of the Köprülü dynasty of grand viziers, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, and Fazıl Ahmed Pasha by examining their relationship with the dynasty and their household connections.
Bekar, C.
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A critical approach toward Cevdet Pasha's understanding of reform: grandviziers, sultans, and society in the context of tezakir and maruzat [PDF]
This thesis aims to reassess the reliability of Ahmed Cevdet Pasha’s Tezakir and Maruzat as the substantial primary sources of the Tanzimat period and go beyond the understanding of the ‘incontestability’ of Cevdet Pasha’s writings. Being originally from
Sancak, Betul, Sancak, Betül
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Architecture as a reflection of social structure : a reminiscience of the Sulaymaniye Complex of Istanbul [PDF]
Physical and spatial structure including the hierarchy of spaces and linkages becomes a window into understanding human social relations which governed by social practices of its time.
Abd. Latip, Nurul Syala +4 more
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Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition [PDF]
Shows how the interactive, confrontational practice of courtly arts shaped imperial thought in the Middle Ages A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of ...
England, Samuel
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