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Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean / Gary Leiser
98. A New Look at an Old ProfessionJinn in the form of seductive womanfrom ʻAjāʾib al-makhlūqātThe image of prostitution as humanity's "oldest profession" often obscures the fact that this...
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Approaching Lebanese History // Graham Pitts
99. Archives and Sources for Modern Lebanese HistoryBsherreh from Wadi KadeshaSource: American Colonyc1900-1920 (Library of Congress)Even when writing the history of a particular geographical space,...
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Gelenekten Gelenekçiliğe: Osmanlı ve Müzik / Cem Behar
100. Music and the Making of TraditionLevni'nin Surname'sidenOver the past century, a genre of music called Turkish classical music (sanat muzikisi) emerged as a would-be revival of traditional...
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Hydropolitics and the Hajj / Michael Christopher Low
101. An Ottoman Pre-History of Saudi ‘Geological Imperialism’Water Distillation Machine Installed in Jidda (1911)Source: Kasım İzzeddin, Hicaz'da teşkilât ve ıslahat-ı sıhhiye (1330)During the...
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Child and Nation in Early Republican Turkey / Yasemin Gencer
COMING SOON ON OTTOMAN HISTORY PODCASTAPRIL 19, 2013102. Very Young TurksSource: Akbaba (10/29/1928)Following the World War I period, the founders of a new Turkish Republic sought to define and...
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Komitas: a Biographical Mixtape // Chris Gratien
103. An Ottoman TragedyKomitas Vardapet (1869-1935)in Istanbul, circa 1910The biography and intellectual legacy of Komitas Vardapet, an orphan from Kütahya who became one of the foremost Armenian...
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Neither Muslim Nor Christian / Zeynep Türkyılmaz
COMING SOON ON OTTOMAN HISTORY PODCAST APRIL 29, 2013104. Covert or Convert?Musicians of Maçka, 1950sSource: karalahana.comStories of insincere conversion under duress and secret Christians...
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Girit Müslümanlarının Ada'da Son Yılları / Melike Kara
105. Mübadeleden Önce GiritA street in Chania, Crete (1913)Source: Library of CongressYunanistan Müslümanlarına yönelik çalışmalar genellikle Mübadele ve Batı Trakya Türkleri üzerine...
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Sources for Early Ottoman History / Christopher Markiewicz
106. Inşa CollectionsResearchers focusing on the period of Ottoman history predating the establishment of what we know as the classical Ottoman bureaucracy and the earliest surviving court records...
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Türkiye'de Tarih Öğretimi / Emrah Yıldız
107. Nasıl Öğretiliyor ve Ne Eksik?Akademik tarihyazımı ne kadar çeşitli olsa da Türkiye'de tarih öğretimi çok fazla milli ideoloji çerçevesinde yapılmaktadır. Bu bölümümüzde Emrah Yıldız, 50...
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Empire in Translation: Dragomans // Emrah Safa Gürkan
COMING SOON ON OTTOMAN HISTORY PODCASTMAY 24, 2013108. Traduttore, Traditore!The Persian Envoy Mirza Mohammed Reza Qazvini atFinkenstein Castle (Francois Mulard, 1807)In the early modern...
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Osmanlı'da Siyasal Ağlar // Güneş Işıksel
109. Sokollu Mehmed Paşa KlanıHer ne kadar modern tarihyazımı tarafından bir meritokrasi olarak tanımlansa da Osmanlı İmparatorluğu adam kayırmacılıktan ve akrabalık ilişkileri etrafında örgütlenen...
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Occupy Gezi: History, Politics, Practice
110.ResistanbulTaksim Barracks (as stadium) c1930sFor over a week now, Istanbul and increasingly city centers in many parts of Turkey have witnessed the rise of an unprecedented protest movement...
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The Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman World / Denise Klein
111. The Girays and the Ottomans"Tatars travelling on the plains"Carlo Bossoli, 1856Although it was not an Ottoman province, Crimea was politically, militarily, and economically critical to Ottoman...
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Anadolu'ya Bir Göç Öyküsü // Mehtap Çelik
112. Mersin Atlılar Köyü Eski Çerkez Göçmen Evi, Atlılar Köyü (2010)Osmanlının 19. yy’da karşılaştığı en büyük sosyal ve politik meselelerden biri şüphesiz ki muhacir sorunudur. Rus devleti, eski...
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Local Autonomy and the Tanzimat / Elektra Kostopoulou
113. The Question of Late Ottoman DecentralizationTurkish official with 'sole survivor'of village of 350 in Candia, Crete (1897)Source: Library of CongressThe Tanzimat era is conventionally viewed...
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Painting the Peasant in Modern Turkey / Seçil Yılmaz
114. The Art of Nation-MakingMelahat Ekinci"Aydınlı Kadın," 1940.During the interwar period, nationalist and socialist movements throughout the world looked to the peasant as both the source and...
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"Kadı"nın Günlüğü // Selim Karahasanoğlu
115. Osmanlı'da günlükSadreddinzade günlüğünden örnek sayfalarKaynak: BOA, KK 7500, 158-159Osmanlı tarihyazımında cevabı aranan önemli bir soru da Osmanlı kültüründe günlük, anı, hatırat gibi ben...
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The Kurdish Music Industry: History and Politics / Alev Kuruoğlu
116. Kurdish Cassettes and the Anatolian UndergroundŞakiro, Dengbej PerformerThe situation of Kurdish language and culture in Turkey is one that has been very much in flux within an ever-changing...
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Sufism and the Ottoman Empire // John Curry
117. Tekkes and TariqasSufism has played an important role in Muslim spiritual, intellectual, and political life since the earliest periods of Islam's spread throughout the Middle East and North...
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