...Greece, in Byron’s work and life, seems so central, so symbolically tied to ideas of freedom and commitment, that it is easy to forget how marginal Greece was in the Europe of Byron’s time. Byron’s East is an anomalous composite, framed by four elements: the imperial force of the Ottoman Empire...

... Constantinople Islam medreses theological schools Mehmet II Sultan mosaics Ottoman Empire Whittemore Thomas and Hagia Sophia Atatürk Mustafa Kemal CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi Danıştay administrative court endowment vakıf Erdoğan Emine Muhammad Prophet politics secularism Ćurčić Slobodan...

...The chapter examines the Ottoman Empire’s multilingual press in Armenian, Arabic, Greek, Kurdish, Ladino, and Ottoman Turkish languages and scripts. It reveals how following the 1908 Constitutional Revolution and the lifting of censorship laws, hundreds of periodicals and newspapers sprang up...

... in the early twentieth century: The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 71. Also see   Zeynep Tarım Ertuğ , ‘İmaret’, in Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 22 (Istanbul: Türkiye Diyanet...

... sentiments were expressed across Europe. Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine such a global response to a single building. It is similarly difficult to fathom the political impact Christianity had across Europe and America in the late Ottoman Empire, as deeply entrenched religious attitudes colored...

...Albert Hourani once questioned the conventional wisdom of a “lifeless and decaying Muslim society” in the Ottoman Empire before the impact of the West. Yet, does the modern history of Muslim peoples only start with the impact of the West? Drawing from classical and revisionist historians...

...This conceptual chapter frames the turn of the twentieth century at the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire as an ‘age of rogues’, when the shaky foundations upon which the modern Balkans, Middle East and Caucasus were forged. By building on the example of the imperial and revolutionary setting...

...This chapter discusses the history of the minaret in the vast region stretching east and west from Iran, including the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, and India. The process by which the tower came to be attached to the mosque, associated with the call to prayer, and then later regarded by Muslims...

...By the turn of the ninth/fifteenth century to the eleventh/seventeenth century, the Halveti group expanded dramatically. This expansion was triggered by several factors, among which is the increased interest among Anatolian Turkish Muslims and the rise of the Ottoman Empire. This chapter provides...

...As the most direct heir to the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Republic enjoys a particular position among its fellow post-imperial states. This chapter examines the dynamic of legacy between empire and republic through the lens of sovereignty. It argues that despite its strong, sometimes extravagant...

... or unconscious role as mediators between the Ottoman Empire and Catholic Europe. biographies biographers Heyberger Bernard Mediterranean Mediterranean ports migration migrants mobility Ottoman Empire Period persecution Propaganda Fide Catholic missions missionaries Eastern Middle Eastern Christianity...

...A study of Islamic law and political power in the Ottoman Empire’s richest provincial city What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists’ law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the purview...

...This book explores the rise and decline of the Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, focusing on a prominent noble family based in the Palu emirate—a fortified town on the eastern frontier of the empire. It offers a comprehensive analysis...

...This introductory chapter discusses the influence of the Ottoman Empire in the everyday lives of English Christians. It looks at the conversion to Islam, which is believed to transform a person's earthly identity and damn the soul, and also served as easier access to monetary wealth and sexual...

...For the population of the Ottoman Empire, the death of the long-lived Sultan Süleymān ushered in a period of growing instability. Worsening the social and religious tensions of the age was the impending arrival of the Muslim millennium in 1000/1591, and the political and economic tensions unleashed...

... historical categorizations. In doing so, I would not only be challenging nationalist histories which had dominated the study of Balkan revolutionaries, but also re-assert the central roles played by such entrepreneurs of violence in the construction of identities in Southeastern Europe. Ottoman Empire...

... Ministry of Culture and Tourism Turkey neyzenbaşı chief neyzen Ongan Emin Özhan Ahmet semazens sema dancers Turkish Sufi Music and Folklore Research and Preservation Foundation Ungay Hurşid Üsküdar Music Society zikr dhikr sema Whirling Dervishes Sufism Ottoman Empire European travellers...