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 ...

Still, geography mattered. Even in the absence of spatial visualization techniques to orient the imagination, and a modern state apparatus to condition the citizens into a collective identity that is territorially bound, ...

This paper will therefore examine how the author inscribes his place in Ottoman society as he describes his long journey and adventures from the eastern Anatolian frontier west to the Rumeli frontier as an itinerant Ottoman ...

The Portuguese conquered Ceuta in 1415 and retained control of the city until 1580 when Philip II of Spain claimed all Portuguese lands. When Piri Reis presented his Kitab-ı Bahriye to Süleyman in 1526 he used the term ...

In the eighteenth century the embassies and trading houses of France, England, Venice, and other European powers shared space on the steep hills of Galata and Pera, separated only by the waters of the Golden Horn from ...

Before examining Ahmed Vâsıf ’s philosophy of history, it will be useful to say a word about his life and work.4 Born in Baghdad in the 1730s, Vâsıf entered state service around the year 1768 and began a career of no small ...

The current paper will deal with an intellectual who became famous in Ottoman cultural history as the founder of the first Ottoman-Turkish printing house (1726). He was a Hungarian-born Protestant (allegedly Unitarian), ...