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Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.
Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire
Based on a thorough examination of buildings, inscriptions, archival documents and hagiographies, this book uncovers the political significance of Bektashi shrines in the Ottoman imperial age. It thus provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the formative process of the Bektashi order, which started out as a network of social groups that took issue with Ottoman imperial policies in the late fifteenth century, was endorsed imperially as part of Bayezid II's (r. 1481-1512) soft power policy, and was kept in check by imperial authorities as the Ottoman approach to the Safavid conflict hardened during the rest of the sixteenth century. This book demonstrates that it was a combination of two...
Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul
Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer ‘Aṭā’ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book demonstrates that dreams provided biographers not only with a means to form learned communities in a politically fragile landscape but also with a medium to debate the correct career paths and social networks in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Istanbul. By adopting a comparative approach, this book engages with current scholarly dialogues about life-writing, dreams, and practices ...
The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History
The Mamluk Sultanate represents an extremely interesting case study to examine social, economic and cultural developments in the transition into the rapidly changing modern world. On the one hand, it is the heir of a political and military tradition that goes back hundreds of years, and brought this to a high pitch that enabled astounding victories over serious external threats. On the other hand, as time went on, it was increasingly confronted with "modern" problems that would necessitate fundamental changes in its structure and content. The Mamluk period was one of great religious and social change, and in many ways the modern demographic map was established at this time. This volume shows that the situation of the Mamluk Sultanate was far from that of decadence, and until the end it was a vibrant society (although not without tensions and increasing problems) that did its best to adapt and compete in a rapidly changing world.
Early Mystics in Turkish Literature
This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, one of Turkey’s leading, and most prolific, intellectuals and scholars. Using a wide variety of Arabic, and especially Turkish and Persian sources, this book sheds light on the early development of Turkish literature and attempts to show the continuity in this development between the Turks and that of Anatolia. Early Mystics in Turkish Literature addresses this topic within the context of other subjects, including Sufism, Islam and the genesis of Turkish culture in the Muslim world. This is a major contribution to the study of Turkish literature and is essential reading for scholars of Turkish literature, Islam, Sufism and Turkish history.
Bektaşiliğin Doğuşu
“Yeniçeri Ocağı’nın Osmanlı Devlet sistemindeki merkezî yeri göz önüne alınırsa, Bektaşi Tarikatı ve Osmanlı Devleti arasında ne kadar yakın ve güçlü bir bağ bulunduğu anlaşılacaktır. Öte yandan, Bektaşilik, paradoksal bir şekilde, Osmanlı dinî-siyasal kültürünün çevresine itilmiş unsurların toparlandığı bir şemsiye kimlik işlevi görüyordu. (…) Birbirine taban tabana zıt görünen bu iki işlev aynı tarikatta nasıl bir araya geldi? Bektaşi Tarikatı, bir yandan Osmanlı sisteminin dışladığı gayrimüteşerri [şeriat dışı] derviş dindarlığının birleşme ve kaynaşma platformu haline gelirken diğer yandan nasıl sistemin çekir...
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Yunus Emre
One of the most famous poets in the history of Turkish literature, Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is well-known as a Sufi saint-poet who has exerted a great influence in both the East and the West. This book is an analysis on Emre's ardent, deceptively simple, yet powerful expressions of love, the musicality of the verse, and the daring and sometimes even daunting imagery. UNESCO celebrated 1991 as the year of Yunus Emre.
Osmanlı'da Esrar ve Esrarkeşler
Hayaller Sancağının Kuru Sarhoşları: Osmanlılarda Esrar ve Esrarkeşler, kimileri için bela olan, kimileri içinse başka dünyaların kapılarını aralayan eşsiz bir sırrın Anadolu’daki ilginç serüvenini ele alıyor. Esrarın, yarattığı “kuru” sarhoşluk karşısında tahtından olmak istemeyen “sulu” sarhoşluğun müsebbibi şarapla kavgasını, Tanrı’ya dolaysız yoldan ulaşmayı arzulayan dervişler elinde ayinlerin değişmez bir parçası haline gelişini kendine konu ediyor. Toplumun her kesiminden kişiler arasına sokularak hekimler elinde ilaçken, sokaklarda akla düşman bir zehre, şairler ve edipler elinde vazgeçilmez edibi bir motife, fırsatç...
Osmanlı Zihniyetinin Oluşumu
Ali Fuat Bilkan, dönemin sadece siyasî ve dinî metinlerini değil, tarih, bilim, sanat ve bilhassa edebiyat literatürünü -sadece “yüksek” edebiyatı değil halk arasında rağbet gören edebiyatı da- inceleyerek, Osmanlı zihniyet ikliminin oluşumunu resmediyor. Osmanlı Devleti’nin, ilk evresinde, Selçuklu ve onun devamı niteliğindeki Anadolu Beylikleri’nden devraldığı mirası yeniden ürettiğini; 15. yüzyıldan sonra “özgün” bir kültürel üretimin başladığını görüyoruz. Her halükârda, arka planda Hint ve İran kültür zemininden yeşeren birikimin, Sasanî ve Timurlu devlet geleneklerinin Osmanlı zihniyet dünyasına vurduğu damga barizdir – k...
