By Francois Georgeon, Frédéric Hitzel

Lately, there was an elevated curiosity within the examine of the concept that of time within the Ottoman Empire. Many latest reports excited about the technical points, e.g. the degree of time, and the tools to do that (like clepsydras, water clocks, hourglasses, and sundials stumbled on at the facades of mosques and medreses). different facets have been ignored, just like the a variety of Ottoman experiments with time and the Ottomans' conceptions of time. This collective quantity addresses numerous of those forgotten points of the political, social and cultural modalities of time within the Ottoman Empire.

By E. Kalaycioglu

Turkey is a pivotal country whose household political, monetary, and social advancements have very important implications around the globe. the following a number one Turkish political scientist complements figuring out of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages alongside secular-religious traces, ethnicity, and social category. This paintings makes a speciality of how the method of urbanization and industrialization has ended in social mobilization and inhabitants routine from villages into the towns and the way festival to manage the nation and its networks of patronage has made politics contentious and fragmented. Intertwined with Turkey's family political and fiscal dynamics are the impacts of family members, together with tensions, with vital exterior actors.

By Elizabeth Sirriyeh

'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641 to1731) was once the main impressive scholarly Sufi of Ottoman Syria. He was once considered as the major non secular poet of his time and as a great commentator of classical Sufi texts. on the well known point, he has been learn as an interpreter of symbolic desires. furthermore, he performed a vital function within the transmission of the lessons of the Naqshabandiyya within the Ottoman Empire, and he contributed to the eighteenth-century Sufi revival through his disciples. This pioneering e-book analyzes vital facets of al-Nabulusi's paintings and areas him within the ancient context.

By Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Humphrey Davies

Notwithstanding Egypt was once governed by means of Turkish-speakers via many of the interval from the 9th century till 1952, the effect of Turkish tradition there is still under-studied. This e-book offers with the interval from 1805 to 1952, within which Turkish cultural styles, unfold via reforms in line with these of Istanbul, can have touched extra Egyptians than ever sooner than. An exam of the books, newspapers, and different written fabrics produced in Turkish, together with translations, and of the presses concerned, finds the increase and decline of Turkish tradition in executive, the army, schooling, literature, song, and daily life. the writer additionally describes the upsurge in Turkish writing generated by way of younger Turk exiles from 1895 to 1909.
Included is a CD containing appendices of intensive bibliographic details touching on books and periodicals published in Egypt in this interval.

By Cyril Mango, Gilbert Dagron

From its origin, the town of Constantinople ruled the Byzantine global. It used to be the seat of the emperor, the centre of presidency and church, the focal point of trade and tradition, via a ways the best city centre; its wishes when it comes to offers and protection imposed their very own common sense at the improvement of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has typically been handled when it comes to the walled urban and its speedy suburbs. during this quantity, containing 25 papers added on the twenty seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine reports held at Oxford in 1993, the viewpoint has been enlarged to surround a much broader geographical environment, that of the city’s eu and Asiatic hinterland. inside this framework a number of interconnected themes were addressed, starting from the naked must haves of existence and defence to fabricate and export, communications among the capital and its hinterland, tradition and inventive manifestations and the position of the sacred.

By John Freely

The as soon as fabulous, now ruined, towns that cluster alongside the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey are reminders of a civilization that produced the 1st Hellenic enlightenment, giving start to Homer, Herodotus, and the 1st philosophers of nature. John Freely brings this really good civilization to existence as he recounts the epic tragedy of the Greeks in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan struggle and culminating with the interval after the Turkish struggle of Independence. For heritage buffs, tourists, and someone attracted to Greek tradition, Freely’s firsthand event of this tradition and quarter coupled together with his ardour for storytelling are a successful blend.

By Tuncay Zorlu

By Yaron Ayalon

This booklet explores the heritage of average failures within the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them at the nation, communal, and person degrees. Yaron Ayalon argues that non secular obstacles among Muslims and non-Muslims have been a ways less important in Ottoman society than normally believed. additionally, the emphasis on Islamic rules and the presence of Islamic symbols within the public area have been measures the kingdom took to augment its attractiveness and political capital - occasional discrimination of non-Muslims used to be just a derivative of those measures. This examine sheds new gentle on flight and behavioral styles in line with coming near near failures by way of combining historic proof with stories in social psychology and sociology. utilising an process that combines environmental and social historical past with the psychology of failures, this paintings asserts that the dealing with of such failures used to be the most important to either the increase and the autumn of the Ottoman Empire.

By A. Nuri Yurdusev

This ebook offers a common knowing of Ottoman international relations with regards to the fashionable foreign procedure. The origins of Ottoman international relations were traced again to the Islamic culture and Byzantine internal Asian historical past. The Ottomans appeared international relations as an establishment of the trendy foreign approach. They confirmed resident ambassadors and the fundamental associations and constitution of international relations. The e-book concludes with a assessment of the legacy of Ottoman international relations.

By Markus Dressler

Within the overdue Eighties, the Alevis, at the moment considered principally assimilated into the secular Turkish mainstream, started to assert their distinction as they by no means had ahead of. The query of Alevism's origins and its relation to Islam and to Turkish tradition grew to become a hugely contested factor. based on the dominant realizing, Alevism is a part of the Islamic culture, even though situated on its margins. it really is additional assumed that Alevism is intrinsically regarding Anatolian and Turkish tradition, wearing an historic Turkish historical past, major again into pre-Islamic relevant Asian Turkish pasts.

Dressler argues that this information concerning the Alevis-their demarcation as "heterodox" yet Muslim and their prestige as vendors of Turkish culture-is in truth of particularly fresh origins. It used to be formulated in the advanced old dynamics of the overdue Ottoman Empire and the 1st years of the Turkish Republic within the context of Turkish nation-building and its aim of ethno-religious homogeneity.