Parts of the hatt-ı hümayuns drawn on the margin of some documents (takrirs, fermans etc.) were occasionally cut out from the original documents and stored separately. ?e hatt-ı hümayuns addressed to the grand viziers drawn ...

This study investigates the duties of the financial director of Haleb during the second half of 16th century, through an examination of imperial edicts and financial accounts. After an assessment of the transition process ...

Japonya’da XIX. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında Batılılaşma ve modernleşme hareketleriyle başlayan ilmi tarih araştırmaları, üniversitelerde Batı Tarihi, Doğu Tarihi ve Japon Tarihi olmak üzere üç branşa ayrılmıştır. Çin ...

In contrast to most other Ottoman politicians of his time, he kept diaries, which are almost exclusively political in character, and his diaries and other papers survived in bulk, if not in their entirety. I edited his ...

Constitutionalism in this study refers to political ideas and actions, normative values and legal structures as well as restrictive mechanisms and compactual agreements of constitutional import, produced within the Ottoman ...

The experience presented by the author in his report call up a need, when one encounters another culture, to learn some words of the language of the respective culture in order to ease or try to overcome the feeling of ...

Many contemporary scholars consider the rise of Sufism to be one of the main features of the post-classical Islamic thought. As John Walbridge notes, “mysticism was a phenomenon for philosophers to explain, but eventually ...

Hafıza üzerine söylenenlere göre, bir imgenin toplumun ortak belleğinde ya da kolektif hafızada yaşayabilmesi için basitleştirilmesi ve üzerinde anlaşılan biçimlere dönüştürülmesi gerekiyordu. Bu sebeple de sözlü kültürde ...

This paper relies on two premises in tackling a theme common to all papers in this volume. First, modernity is a complex, historically salient phenomenon, which consists of a ‘bundle’ of parallel economic, political, and ...

This article examines three provincial intermediaries in Cyprus during the closing decades of the eighteenth century. It considers these cases as examples of some of the groups of Ottoman subjects who came to benefit in ...