Search Results - "Ottoman Empire"

An 'Islamist' intellectual in the late Ottoman Empire: Ali Suavi by Deniz, Numan

“…Contrary to the general tendency in intellectual history, where a past intellectual is usually portrayed as having a coherent thought system with minor…”
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The second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformation in the early modern world / Baki Tezcan by Tezcan, Baki

“…"Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan's book proposes a radical…”
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Was there a ‘consumer revolution’ in the Ottoman Empire? by Ceylan, Pınar

“…Whether the ‘democratization’ of consumption during the early modern period was specifically a characteristic of the European economic shift or observable in…”
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The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It by Faroqhi, Suraiya

“…In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan - the perceived successor to the Caliphs - supreme…”
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Schoolgirls-cum-carpet weavers: the role of the market in public girls' schools in the late Ottoman Empire by Cora, Yaşar Tolga

“…Starting from the last years of the nineteenth century, various public girls' schools began to include a course on the craft of carpet weaving to their curriculums in the Ottoman Empire…”
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Sixteenth‐Century French Travelers to the Ottoman Empire: The Impact of Travels in the Ottoman Empire on Guillaume Postel's and Philippe Canaye's Views of the Reformation by Isom‐Verhaaren, Christine

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The Ottoman Empire and the Imperial Turn by Mikhail, Alan, Philliou, Christine M.

“…As a polity that existed for over six centuries and that ruled on three continents, the Ottoman Empire is perhaps both the easiest and hardest empire to compare in world history…”
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The Ottoman Empire and the emergence of its 'Irish Question' by Şiviloğlu, Murat R.

“…The Ottoman Empire and Ireland seem an unlikely pair in every respect. In the secondary literature, the paths of the two countries never converge…”
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Caravan Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire: the ʿAqīl Network and the Institutionalization of Overland Trade by Petriat, Philippe

“…Abstract Building on recent works on Central Asia and using Ottoman, Arabic and European sources, this article challenges the idea that caravan trade was…”
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A Venetian Secretary's Expertise. Marcantonio Donini and his Three Dialogues… on the Ottoman Empire and ‘Turkish’ Affairs by Chmiel, Piotr

“…This article presents a text on the Ottoman Empire left by Marcantonio Donini – a career secretary with the Venetian diplomatic service, sent three times to Constantinople/Istanbul…”
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Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century by Aydın-Düzgit, Senem, Rumelili, Bahar, Topal, Alp Eren

“…In this article, we conceptualize and demonstrate how historical International Relations (IR) can be employed to critically engage with the populist uses of…”
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Environment and urbanism in the Ottoman Empire: İstanbul Medeniyet University; Republic of Turkey Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation; project advisor, Mehmet Genç; project manager, Fehmi Yılmaz; project coordinator, Orhan Işık; graphic design, Selman Ecirli, art director, Murathan Küçükali; correction, Fuat Uçar by Genç, Mehmet, Yılmaz, Fehmi, Işık, Orhan, Ecirli, Selman, Küçükali, Murathan, Uçar, Fuat

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Edgar Whitaker: A British Journalist in the Ottoman Empire by Çağlar, Burhan

“…), extending from London to the Ottoman Empire, while giving particular focus on his adventurous journey as a publisher since under his editorship The Levant Herald contributed to the formation…”
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WHERE 'İLM-İ ḤĀL MEETS CATECHISM: ISLAMIC MANUALS OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF CONFESSIONALIZATION by Terzioglu, D.

“… A parallel development that is much less known is the proliferation of Turkish 'ilm-i hal literature in the central lands of the Ottoman empire after the mid sixteenth century…”
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The Unionist presence in the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1912 by Zürcher, Erik Jan

“…This article investigates the way the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, which was essentially an organisation with roots in the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire and in the…”
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Illustrations of Hernia Surgery in the Early Period of the Ottoman Empire by Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu by Doğan, Fatih, Tutak, Fatma Nilay

“…Background Imperial Surgery (Cerrahiyyetü’l- Haniyye), penned by Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (C.E. 1385–1468), is an impressive medical book that was written in…”
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Maskilic families in the Ottoman Empire by Karkason, Tamir

“…This article analyses the character of Maskilic families in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century…”
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House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth‐century Edirne by Karagedikli, Gürer, Tunçer, Ali Coşkun

“…This study uses a new dataset of 2,246 notarial deeds of house sales from one of the major cities of the Ottoman Empire, Edirne, covering the period from 1720 to 1814…”
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War, Risk, and Gold: The Turkish War of Independence and Ottoman Empire by Hanedar, Avni Önder

“…After the end of the First World War in November 1918, the Allies were involved in a military campaign in the Ottoman lands, leading to a national resistance…”
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Montenegrins in the Ottoman Empire as ‘Enemy Aliens’ during World War I (1914–1918) by Özcan, Uğur

“…With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Ottoman Empire and Montenegro, which no longer shared a border due to the shifted territories following the Balkan Wars (1912–13…”
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