The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul

The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul
Author: Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004437568

This book presents the holistic examination of the 1720 Ottoman imperial circumcision festival through a combined analysis of the hitherto unknown archival sources, contemporary narratives as well as book paintings.

A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul

A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul
Author: Shirine Hamadeh
Publisher: Brill's Companions to European
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004444928

This multi-disciplinary volume reflects the wealth of recent scholarship devoted to early modern Istanbul. It embraces manifold perspectives on the city through new subjects and questions, while offering fresh approaches to older debates, crisscrossing the socioeconomic, political, cultural, environmental, and spatial.

The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul

The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul
Author: Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan
Publisher: Ottoman Empire and Its Heritag
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004437555

Introduction -- 1. Preparing the Festival -- 2. Staging the Festival -- 3. Representing the Festival -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem

The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Author: Jane Hathaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107108292

A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.

Making Sense of History

Making Sense of History
Author: Gül Şen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2022-07-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004510419

In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle

Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires

Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires
Author: Jeroen Duindam
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004206221

This volume presents new research on royal courts from antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. It addresses the interactions of rulers and and elites at court, as well as the multiple connections between court, capital, and realm.

Turcologica Upsaliensia

Turcologica Upsaliensia
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004435859

The richly illustrated essays in Turcologica Upsaliensia tell of scholars, travellers, diplomats and collectors who explored the Turkic-speaking world while affiliated with Sweden’s oldest university, at Uppsala, and who enriched the University Library with collections of Turkic cultural heritage objects.

Mapping the Ottomans

Mapping the Ottomans
Author: Palmira Brummett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107090776

This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.

Life after the Harem

Life after the Harem
Author: Betül İpşirli Argit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108488366

The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources

The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation

The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation
Author: Wendelmoet Hamelink
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004314822

The Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.