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Turkish literature; history and criticism.
AYNI TOPRAĞIN ÇOCUKLARI OLMAK Aidiyet hissini her daim canlı tutmamız gereken bir yer var: O yer vatandır. “Gölgende bana da bana da yer ver,” diyebilmek için o gölgeyi hak etmemiz gerekiyor, o gölgeyi var eden güneşleri. “Bir toplumun öz şiirine varabilmek çetin iştir. Önce o toplum ve o toplumun medeniyetiyle pişmek, halli hamur olmak ister… Kendini o toplum ve o medeniyete adamak ister… Hele hele, efendilik ister, çile ister… Yunus Emre’yi inceleyiniz, Müslüman Türk’e aykırı tek bir mısra bulamayacaksınız…Asırları aşabilişinin sırrı ve asıl büyüğü, asırlarca birleştirici, yüceltici oluşunun kuvveti buradadır… Biz onu da unuttuk...
"This is the first comprehensive social, intellectual and religious history of the wide-spread Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the twentieth century, claiming that they owed their survival to the internalization of the Kabbalistic "burden of silence"--
Daddy, why do they call us Dönmeh? is a collection of interviews through which the author was able to shine a light on the famous messianic movement of Sabbatai Sevi from the 17th century and which continues to survive in its multiple identities. Even if today most of the old community has disappeared, the remaining few members of this society keep fighting to preserve their traditions by telling stories about their families as well as by laying bare both their fears and hopes for the future of the Salonican. Suzan Nana Tarablus was born in Istanbul. She graduated from the Arnavutköy American College for Girls and studied American Language and Literature at Istanbul University. During the ...
This is the first study of the modern history, experience, and ethno-religious identity of the Dönme, the descendants of seventeenth-century Jewish converts to Islam, in Ottoman and Greek Salonica and in Turkish Istanbul.
Literature and social sciences; Turkey; criticism and interpretation; 20th century.
Also available as "World Biographical Index" Online and on CD-ROM
When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Sultanate was at the apex of a truly multi-ethnic society. Modernization not only brought market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power, but also new educational institutions as well as new ideologies. Thus new ideologies developed and nationalism emerged, which became a political reality when the Empire reached its end. This book compares the different intellectual atmospheres between the pre-republican and the republican periods and identifies the roots of republican authoritarianism in the intellectual heritage of the earlier period.
A collection of essays on Turkish literature that provides insights into pivotal issues of Turkish culture