Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir
Author: Boeschoten
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9004660747
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Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir
Author: Evli̇ya Çelebi̇
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789004081659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588-1662)
Author: Evliya Çelebi
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780791406403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Dankoff has culled passages from Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels that deal directly with the life and times of Çelebi's patron, Melek Ahmed Pasha, an outstanding seventeenth-century military and administrative leader. Çelebi's account is sensitive to all the currents of his age and reflects them in his narrative. His wry comments and observations extend from the intimate details of daily life, and the attitudes of the lower classes, to the deeds of the mighty, the ideals of the age, and the fate of the empire. He concentrates on the later phase of Pasha's career, beginning with his appointment as Grand Vizier in 1650. Because Çelebi was Pasha's confidant as well as his protege, there is a level of intimacy, almost a psychological portrait, quite unusual in Ottoman and Islamic literature. The narrative highlights the private side of this public figure -- his weaknesses as well as his heroics; his religious life and domestic affairs -- in particular, his relations with his two successive wives, both sultanas or princesses.
Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915
Author: Joost Jongerden
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-08-03
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9004225188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915, offers new perspectives on the political conflicts and violent events that shaped the history of the region.
Evliya Çelebi in Bitlis
Author: Dankoff
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9004660755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1655 and 1656 Evliya Celebi found himself three different times in the eastern Anatolian town of Bitlis, the center of a quasi-independent Kurdish khanate having a long and tumultuous relationship with the Ottoman state. The account of Evliya's adventures in Bitlis, including a major expedition against the khan mounted by Evliya's patron Melek Ahmed Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Van, forms a coherent narrative which deserves to be studied on its own. The centerpiece of the book is a critical edition of three long extracts, amounting to forty-three folios of the autograph ms., form volumes IV and V of the Seyahat- name, along with an annotated English translation on facing pages. The introduction discusses the narratological, historical, and linguistic aspects of the text, and there is a complete index of proper names.
Kurdish Culture and Society
Author: Lokman I. Meho
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-02-28
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0313016801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnique, timely, and up-to-date, this volume is the first comprehensive bibliography on Kurdish culture and society. Compiled to help students, educators, researchers, and policy makers find relevant information with ease, the book includes more than 930 items in four major languages--Arabic, English, French, and German. This work covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, art, communication, demography, travel, economy, education, ethnicity, health, journalism, language, literature, migration, music, religion, social structure, urbanization, and women's studies. The volume includes books and book chapters, journal articles, Ph.D. dissertations, conference papers, articles in dictionaries and encyclopedias, and important Web sites. Essays provide an overview of Kurdish society as well as surveys of Kurdish life in Syria, the former Soviet Union, Europe, and Lebanon. An invaluable guide for researchers interested in the Kurds and Kurdistan, this book will aid in the location of information that is highly diverse and scattered. With its focus on a timely subject, this book fills a major gap in the bibliographic literature.
Approaching Ottoman History
Author: Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-12-09
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521666480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuraiya Faroqhi's scholarly contribution to the field of Ottoman history has been prodigious. Her latest book represents a summation of that scholarship, an introduction to the state-of-the-art in Ottoman history. In a compelling exploration of the ways that primary and secondary sources can be used to interpret history, the author reaches out to students and researchers in the field and in related disciplines to familiarise them with these documents. By considering both archival and narrative sources, she explains why they were prepared, encouraging her readers to adopt a critical approach to their findings, and disabusing them of the notion that everything recorded in official documents is necessarily true! While the book is essentially a guide to a complex discipline for those about to embark upon their research, the experienced Ottomanist will find much that is original and provocative in its sophisticated interpretation of the field.
Armenian Loanwords in Turkish
Author: Robert Dankoff
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9783447036405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Making of Modern Turkey
Author: Ugur Ümit Üngör
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-03
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0199655227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a novel perspective on the establishment of the Turkish nation state and highlights how the Young Turk regime, from 1913 to 1950, subjected Eastern Turkey to various forms of nationalist population policies aimed at ethnically homogenizing the region and including it in the Turkish nation state.
Kurdish Awakening
Author: Ofra Bengio
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0292758138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKurdish Awakening examines key questions related to Kurdish nationalism and identity formation in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The world's largest stateless ethnic group, Kurds have steadily grown in importance as a political power in the Middle East, particularly in light of the "Arab Spring." As a result, Kurdish issues—political, cultural, and historical alike—have emerged as the subject of intense scholarly interest. This book provides fresh ways of understanding the historical and sociopolitical underpinnings of the ongoing Kurdish awakening and its already significant impact on the region. Rather than focusing on one state or angle, this anthology fills a gap in the literature on the Kurds by providing a panoramic view of the Kurdish homeland's various parts. The volume focuses on aspects of Kurdish nationalism and identity formation not addressed elsewhere, including perspectives on literature, gender, and constitution making. Further, broad thematic essays include a discussion of the historical experiences of the Kurds from the time of their Islamization more than a millennium ago up until the modern era, a comparison of the Kurdish experience with other ethno-national movements, and a treatment of the role of tribalism in modern nation building. This collection is unique in its use of original sources in various languages. The result is an analytically rich portrayal that sheds light on the Kurds' prospects and the challenges they confront in a region undergoing sweeping upheavals.
