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Book The Imperial Harem

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  • Author : Leslie P. Peirce
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780195086775
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Imperial Harem written by Leslie P. Peirce and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.

Book Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age

Download or read book Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age written by I M Kunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the Ottoman empire, capturing Rhodes, Belgrade, Hungary, the Red Sea coast of Arabia, and even besieging Vienna. Patron and legislator as well as conqueror, he stamped his name on an age. These specially-commissioned essays by leading experts examine Suleyman's reign in its wider political and diplomatic context, both Ottoman and European. The contributors are: Peter Burke; Geza David; Suraiaya Faroqhi; Peter Holt; Colin Imber; Salih Uzbaran; Metin Kunt; Christine Woodhead; and Ann Williams.

Book Churches in Turkey

Download or read book Churches in Turkey written by Avni Alan and published by ASBOOK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Producing Desire

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  • Author : Dror Ze’evi
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2006-10-16
  • ISBN : 0520938984
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Producing Desire written by Dror Ze’evi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material—medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues—in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundaries of right and wrong, and imagine their sexual worlds through the set of discourses available to them. Dror Ze’evi finds that while some of these discourses were restrictive and others more permissive, all treated sex in its many manifestations as a natural human pursuit. And, he further argues that all these discourses were transformed and finally silenced in the last century, leaving very little to inform Middle Eastern societies in sexual matters. With its innovative approach toward the history of sexuality in the Middle East, Producing Desire sheds new light on the history of the Ottoman Empire, on the history of sexuality and gender, and on the Islamic Middle East today.

Book Istanbul City Guide

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  • Author : Halil Ersin Avci
  • Publisher : ASBOOK
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Istanbul City Guide written by Halil Ersin Avci and published by ASBOOK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest and most populated cities of the world, Istanbul has a unique place in world history. Located on a very strategic end of Europe in the east and the furthest point of Asia in the west, Istanbul stretches on both sides of the Bosphorus Strait where two continents meet. This guide presents this beautiful city with detailed explanations on the historic areas many of which are recorded in UNESCO World Heritage List. It is a timely prepared guide book for Istanbul, the European Capital of Culture in 2010; it is estimated that millions of tourists will be visiting the city throughout the year.

Book T  rk Etkisi ve Katk  s

Download or read book T rk Etkisi ve Katk s written by Zafer Teker and published by Godoro. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bu kitap Türklerin dünyaya, insanlığa, kültüre, sanata, bilime, teknolojiye ve uygarlığa etki ve katkılarını içermektedir. Türklerin çok sayıda imparatorluk ve devlet içeren büyük bir tarihi olduğunu, kültür emperyalizmiyle aldatılmış bilinçsiz kişiler dışında herkes bilmektedir. Ancak nerdeyse her alanda bulduğu ve bulmasa da geliştirip dünyaya yaydığı bir çok şey yeterince bilinmemektedir. Artık, 'Türkler yoğurt dışında ne buldu? Devlet kurmaktan başka ne yaptı?' diyenlere bu kitabı gösterebilirsiniz. Yazar Kitabın yazarı mühendis ve tarihçi Zafer Teker, 2000'li yılların başlarından beri projeler geliştirmekte, eğitimler vermekte, yayınlar üretmektedir. Kültür, sanat, tarih, bilim ve teknoloji alanında içerik sunan Fibiler.com sitesinin kurucusudur.

Book Istanbul City Guide  English

Download or read book Istanbul City Guide English written by and published by ASBOOK. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia

Download or read book Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia written by Başak Tuğ and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Politics of Honor, Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects’ petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tuğ demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing “discretionary authority” of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial “disorder”.

Book An Ottoman Tragedy

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  • Author : Gabriel Piterberg
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003-09-04
  • ISBN : 0520238362
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book An Ottoman Tragedy written by Gabriel Piterberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines a reinterpretation of the history of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century with an analysis of the ways history is constructed by its participants.

Book Directory of Scholarly Journals in Turkey

Download or read book Directory of Scholarly Journals in Turkey written by Metin Kozak and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly journals are the capillaries of the scientific world, ensuring the circulation of knowledge. Moreover, scholarly journals guide and indicate the scientific development in an academic field of study or in a country. Scholarly journals, which transfer and spread scientific information, are intended to properly fulfill their functions, preventing the transfer of imperfect or incorrect information to the science world. Significant issues are, therefore, inevitable in the characteristics of scientific studies in such disciplines and countries where the scholarly journals do not fulfill their functions properly. This study encompasses all scholarly journals published in Turkey in all fields of science and other disciplines. The reference questions in this study are grouped under three main categories: the contact and publication information, article evaluation, and publishing information. The number of journals in this present study totals 1,910.

Book Contemporary Turkey at a Glance II

Download or read book Contemporary Turkey at a Glance II written by Meltem Ersoy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of papers that address multiple issues of contemporary Turkish politics, presented at the “Contemporary Turkey at a Glance: Turkey Transformed? Power, History, Culture” conference. Articles on foreign policy analyze the impact of the changing dynamics in the region following the Arab Uprisings. The pressing issues of the role of the strong one party government on the transformation of political institutions and the relations between the state and the citizens, and whether there is a trend towards authoritarianism are debated. The wide range of issues extends to the formation of identity in the transnational communities, the projection of historical events, the challenges to the legal system, and last but not the least, the established categories of religion and gender.

Book The Land between Two Seas  Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300   1700

Download or read book The Land between Two Seas Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300 1700 written by Alina Payne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov) and their hinterland. Addressing the mediating role of the Balkans between East and West all the way to Poland and Lithuania, as well as this region’s contribution to the larger Mediterranean artistic and cultural melting pot, this innovative volume explores ideas, artworks and stories that moved through these territories linking the cultures of Central Asia with those of western Europe.

Book Ottoman Law of War and Peace

Download or read book Ottoman Law of War and Peace written by Viorel Panaite and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making use of legal and historical sources, Viorel Panaite analyzes the status of tribute-payers from the north of the Danube with reference to Ottoman law of peace and war. He deals with the impact of Ottoman holy war and the way conquest in Southeast Europe took place; the role of temporary covenants, imperial diplomas and customary norms in outlining the rights and duties of the tributary princes; the power relations between the Ottoman Empire and the tributary-protected principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania. He also focuses on the legal and political methods applied to extend the pax ottomanica system in the area, rather than on the elements that set these territories apart from the rest of the Ottoman Empire.

Book The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Centuries

Download or read book The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Centuries written by Aryeh Shmuelevitz and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1984 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Turkey Today

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Turkey Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roxolana in European Literature  History and Culture

Download or read book Roxolana in European Literature History and Culture written by Galina I. Yermolenko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other.