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The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades
In this comprehensive analysis of Arabic poetry during the period of the crusades (sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries), Osman Latiff provides an insightful examination of the poets who inspired Muslims to unite in the jihād against the Franks. The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword not only contributes to our understanding of literary history, it also illuminates a broad spectrum of religiosity and the role of political propaganda in the anti-Frankish Muslim struggle. Latiff shows how poets, often used by the ruling elite to promote their rule, emphasised the centrality of Islam’s holy sites to inspire the Muslim response to the occupation and later reconquest of Jerusalem, and expressed some surprising views of Frankish Christians.
The Homoerotics of Orientalism
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of analysis that reveals how the cultural exchanges between Middle East and West have always been reciprocal and often mutual, amatory as well as bellicose. Whether examining European accounts of Istanbul and Egypt as hotbeds of forbidden desire, juxtaposing Ottoman ...
Turkey
From its earliest days, the dominant history of the Turkish Republic has been one of national self-determination and secular democratic modernization. The story insisted on total rupture between the Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish state and on the absolute unity of the Turkish nation. In recent years, this hermetic division has begun to erode, but as the old consensus collapses, new histories and accounts of political authority have been slow to take its place. In this richly detailed alternative history, Christine M. Philliou focuses on the notion of political opposition and dissent—muhalefet—to connect the Ottoman and Turkish periods. Taking the perennial dissident Refik Halid Karay as a subject, guide, and interlocutor, she traces the fissures within the Ottoman and the modern Turkish elite that bridged the transition. Exploring Karay’s political and literary writings across four regimes and two stints in exile, Philliou upends the official history of Turkey and offers new dimensions to our understanding of its political authority and culture.
Strukturelle Zwange, personliche Freiheiten
Der vorliegende Band zum Gedenken an die Hamburger Turkologin Petra Kappert konzentriert sich auf das Thema gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche. Das breite Spektrum der Beiträge spannt einen zeitlichen Bogen von den Anfängen des osmanischen Reiches bis in die Gegenwart, reicht räumlich von Persien an den Kaukasus bis ins heutige Berlin und bietet auch thematisch eine beeindruckende Vielfalt, die von geschichtlichen über sprachgeschichtliche, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge bis hin zu rechtsphilosophischen, soziologischen und politischen Untersuchungen reicht.
Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire
Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history.
A Common Rationality
"The present volume reflects some of the research by members of the 'Mu°tazilite Manuscript Project Group' who met during two workshops in Istanbul ... in July 2005 andin June 2006"--Introd.
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire
A wide-ranging study of the critical roles that women played in the history of the Mongol conquests and empire.
