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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...
Kaya Şahin's book offers a revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–66). By examining the life and works of a bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa, Şahin argues that the empire was built as part of the Eurasian momentum of empire building and demonstrates the imperial vision of sixteenth-century Ottomans. This unique study shows that, in contrast with many Eurocentric views, the Ottomans were active players in European politics, with an imperial culture in direct competition with that of the Habsburgs and the Safavids. Indeed, this book explains Ottoman empire building with reference to the larger Eurasian context, from Tudor England to Mughal India, contextualizing such issues as state formation, imperial policy and empire building in the period more generally. Şahin's work also devotes significant attention to the often-ignored religious dimension of the Ottoman-Safavid struggle, showing how the rivalry redefined Sunni and Shiite Islam, laying the foundations for today's religious tensions.
This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history, but suggests a way of conceiving of borders and space that goes beyond a school map of states. Its subject is the struggle among differing spatial logics, or mental maps. It is concerned with the meaning that state borders hold for people, but recognizes that such meaning varies and is contested by other social formations. To what degree do state borders encase the mechanisms that make the decisive rules governing people's lives and to what extent do they give way to other rulemakers? To what extent do states circumscribe the communities to which people feel attached and to what extent do they intersect with other communities of belonging? These essays home in on the struggles and conflicting demands on people, given that state borders are not automatically pre-eminent and that other spatial logics demand attention.
This book examines Turkish and Balkan nationalism, arguing that the legacy of the Ottomon millet system which divided the Ottoman population into religious compartments called millets, shaped Turkey’s understanding of nationalism during the interwar period.
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Turizm anılarıdır, bunlar. Keşke bir imkan olsa da tüm yetişkinleri bebek/çocuk gibi saf ve temiz hale getirebilsek. Belki bunun bir çaresi; turizm. Gezdikçe okutur, okudukça gezdirir ve sizi öyle bir hale getirir ki dünyaya uzaydan bakmaya başlarsınız. Ufkunuz açıldıkça, açılır...
Der Grund f r das Interesse an Zentralasien sind die Bodensch tze in dieser Region, die f r die Machtstellung der Weltm chte entscheidend sind. Nach dem Fall der Mauer in Berlin 1989 und dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion 1991, erkl ren die zentralasiatischen Turkrepubliken ihre Unabh ngigkeit. Als Startschuss f r das Great Game gilt der Untergang der Weltmacht Sowjetunion. Die neuen souver nen Staaten Zentralasiens versuchen sich im Schatten Russlands zu entwickeln. Neben Russland sind die am Great Game teilnehmenden Akteure USA, China und die EU von gro er Bedeutung. Au erdem spielen die T rkei und der Iran, als Regionalmacht, eine wichtige Rolle. Es dauert bis zum 11. September 2001 bis ei...
This work addresses the Islamic notion of Holy War and its interpretation and application by the Ottoman Empire against Roman Principalities in the 15th to 18th centuries. Inextricably connected to Islamic law, the objectives of Islam's Holy War are starkly distunguished from those of mere war with the sword, where military actions are determined by political interests and economic gain.
سلطان الأدباء نجيب فاضل (1904-1983م) ومجموعة مختارة من قصصه القصيرة نجيب فاضل مفكرٌ وأديبٌ تركيٌّ بارع، وكاتبٌ أسلسَ له القلمُ قياده، فأمتعَ الجماهيرَ بفنّه، وأروى عطشَ القرّاء بإحساسه وذائقته الأدبية. عاصرَ الأيام الأخيرة من عمر الدولة العثمانية، وشهد انهيارها وتفكُّكَها، وما صاحب ذلك من حروب وأزمات مجتمعيّة وأنظمة مختلفة متعاقبة تمخّضت عن ولادة الجمهورية التركية بثوبها الجديد... وه...