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Author: Carter V. Findley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0195177266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho are the Turks? This study spans Central Asia, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, & Europe, to explain the origins & the history of the Turkish people up until the present day.
Author: Hugh Pope
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2006-11-01
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780715636053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHugh Pope provides a vivid picture of the Turkish people, descendants of the nomadic armies that conquered the Byzantine Empire and dominated the region for centuries.
Author: Ergun Çağatay
Publisher: Prestel Pub
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9783791335155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Written by a group of eminent scholars, it covers subjects that range from the classification of Turkic languages to religion, literature, the arts, and general lifestyle, from the inception of Turkic history documented by Runic inscriptionson the Orkhon River in Mongolia, to the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the Republic of Turkey, from the shamanistic cults of Turks in Siberia to Islam, whose standard bearers were the Ottoman Turks confronting Europe in the Balkans and the Mediterranean." - from back cover.
Author: Reuven Amitai
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9047406338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe interaction between Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. This volume explores the mulitfarious nature of nomadic society and its relations with China, Russia and the Middle East from antiquity into the contemporary world with emphasis on the Mongol and Turkish peoples.
Author: Margaret Bainbridge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1136153543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1993. From time to time the outbreak of hostilities in some part of the world or other brings to the notice of the Western media peoples of whose very existence they have previously been unaware. We may mention two such which have made headlines in 1989 and 1990: the Turks of Bulgaria and the Azerbayjanis of the Soviet Union and Iran. Too frequently, however, in interpreting such events, observers tend to attribute the conflict to the one factor which happens to be fashionable at the time; currently that factor seems to be religion. Too rarely do they observe other differences which may exist between the parties in conflict and which may in the end prove more potent; for instance, that the factor most likely to set people apart from each other as they go about their daily business may not be religion at all, but language. As an example of this, too few have pointed out that the Azerbayjanis of the Soviet Union differ from the neighbouring Armenians not only in religion but also in language, and that this contrasts with the situation over the border where the Azerbayjanis of Iran differ from neighbouring Iranians only in language, in speaking Turkic, for they share with the majority Persian population their Shi'ite Muslim faith. This volume holds a collection of essays on the Turkic people in different countries.
Author: Murat Ergin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-09-27
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9004330550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1909, the US Circuit Court in Cincinnati set out to decide “whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person”; the New York Times article on the decision, discussing the question of Turks’ whiteness, was cheekily entitled “Is the Turk a White Man?” Within a few decades, having understood the importance of this question for their modernization efforts, Turkish elites had already started a fantastic scientific mobilization to position the Turks in world history as the generators of Western civilization, the creators of human language, and the forgotten source of white racial stock. In this book, Murat Ergin examines how race figures into Turkish modernization in a process of interaction between global racial discourses and local responses.
Author: Terri Ann Ognibene
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1611178592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of misunderstood immigrants and their struggle to gain recognition and acceptance in the rural South Despite its reputation as a melting pot of ethnicities and races, the United States has a well-documented history of immigrants who have struggled through isolation, segregation, discrimination, oppression, and assimilation. South Carolina is home to one such group—known historically and derisively as "the Turks"—which can trace its oral history back to Joseph Benenhaley, an Ottoman refugee from Old World conflict. According to its traditional narrative, Benenhaley served with Gen. Thomas Sumter in the Revolutionary War. His dark-hued descendants lived insular lives in rural Sumter County for the next two centuries, and only in recent decades have they enjoyed the full blessings of the American experience. Early scholars ignored the Turkish tale and labeled these people "tri-racial isolates" and later writers disparaged them as "so-called Turks." But members of the group persisted in claiming Turkish descent and living reclusively for generations. Now, in South Carolina's Turkish People, Terri Ann Ognibene and Glen Browder confirm the group's traditional narrative through exhaustive original research and oral interviews. In search of definitive documentation, Browder combed through a long list of primary sources, including historical reports, public records, and private papers. He also devised new evidence, such as a reconstruction of Turkish lineage of the 1800s through genealogical analysis and genetic testing. Ognibene, a descendant of the state's Turkish population, conducted personal interviews with her relatives who had been in the community since the 1900s. They talked at length and passionately about their cultural identity, their struggle for equal rights, and the mixed benefits of assimilation. Ognibene's and Browder's findings are clear. South Carolina's Turkish people finally know and can celebrate their heritage.
Author: David J. Roxburgh
Publisher: Royal Academy Books
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis catalogue accompanies an exhibition devoted to the artistic & cultural riches of the Turkic-speaking peoples. Texts by leading scholars trace Turkic history & cultural development, while artefacts ranging from painting, sculpture, textiles, metalwork & ceramics reflect the artistic influences that the Turks assimilated.
Author: C. Edmund Bosworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 135188087X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a set of key articles, along with a new introduction to contextualize them, on the role of Turkish peoples in the Western Asiatic world up to the 11th century. Such topics as the geographical and environmental original milieux of these peoples in the forest zone and steppelands of Inner Asia, the formation and breakup of tribal confederations within the steppes, and the evolution of tribal structures, are examined as the background for the appearance of Turks within the Islamic caliphate from the 9th century onwards. These came first as military slaves, then as movements of peoples, such as the tribal migrations of the Oghuz, leading to the establishment of the Seljuq sultanate, whilst from within Islamic society, individual Turkish commanders were able at the same time to build up their own military empires such as that of the Ghaznavids. In this way was put in place a Turkish dominance of the northern tier of the Middle East, with attendant changes in demography and land utilisation, which was to last for centuries.
Author: Karl Heinrich Menges
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783447035330
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