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Gregg, Robert C.

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Shared Stories, Rival Tellings

34.50 EUR*

Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims

Oxford University Press Inc, 2015
ISBN 9780190231491
pages, Hardback

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BIC
BIC

201.5
Interfaith relations (HRAF)
Christianity (HRC)

MainDescription
While existing scholarship informs us about early contact between Christians, Muslims, and Jews, the nature of that interaction, and how it
developed over time, is still often misunderstood. Robert Gregg emphasizes that there was both mutual curiosity, since all three religions had
ancestral traditions and a commanding God in common, and also wary competitiveness, as each group was compelled to sharpen its identity
against the other two. Faced with the overlap of many scriptural stories, they were eager to defend the claim that they alone were God's
preferred people. In Shared Stories, Rival Tellings, Gregg performs a comparative investigation of how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim
interpreters-both writers and artists-developed their distinctive and exclusionary understandings of narratives common to their three Holy
Books: Cain and Abel, Sara and Hagar, Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Jonah and the Whale, and Mary the Mother of Jesus. Exposed in the
process are the major issues under contention and the social-intellectual forces that contributed to spirited, creative, and sometimes
combative exchanges between Muslims, Christians and Jews.
In illuminating these historical moments, and their implications for contemporary relations between these three religions, Gregg argues that
scripture interpreters played an often underappreciated role in each religion's individual development of thought, spirituality, and worship, and
in the three religions' debates with one another-and the cultural results of those debates.
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Peter R. Gillespie; Panzac, Daniel

The Ottoman Navy.

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86.29 EUR*

From the height of empire to dissolution 1572-1923.

Oxford University Press, 2016
ISBN 9780198757092
pages, Hardback

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Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Histoire - Gnralits
Sciences militaires
359.00956
Military history (HBW)
Naval forces & warfare (JWF)

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Denny, Walter B.

Iznik
The Artistry of Ottoman Ceramics
Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015
ISBN 9780500517888
pages, Hardback

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46.46 EUR*

Classification
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BIC
BIC

738.0956
Ceramic arts, pottery, glass (AFP)
Decorative arts (AFT)

MainDescription
Covering both Iznik pieces de forme and the famous Iznik tiles that decorate Ottoman imperial monuments, Iznik integrates the entire
spectrum of Iznik production, both tiles and wares, and the broader artistic tradition in which it originated. Walter B. Denny begins with a
description of the particular nature of Islamic art under the Ottoman empire, as well as the methods of the craftsmen who worked under the
imperial auspices. He then examines the links between the court style of Istanbul and the ceramic ateliers in Iznik itself, and the crucial role of
the dominant styles of the golden age of Iznik ceramics and their most famous creators, Shah Kulu and Kara Memi. The book showcases the
array of motifs floral, vegetal and figurative used on Iznik wares, looks at the relationship between non-Muslim communities and the Ottoman
empire, and closes with an examination of the rich stylistic heritage that Iznik ceramics have given to Western art. Lavishly illustrated in full
colour throughout, this is a panoramic overview of a spectacular and refined artform.
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Ahmed, Shahab

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What is Islam?

36.13 EUR*

The importance of being Islamic.

Princeton University Press, 2015
ISBN 9780691164182
pages, Hardback

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BIC
DDC

Islamologie
297
Islam (HRH)
Islam, Bbism & Bah' Faith (297)

MainDescription
What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic"
about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the
Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an analytical term? In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a
bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or that
privilege law and scripture. He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and
rendering it incoherent. What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how
Muslims have historically understood divine revelation--one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have
embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music,
and even wine drinking as Islamic.
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Arabian Drugs in Medieval Mediterranean

Medicine

106.20 EUR*

Edinburgh University Press, 2016

ISBN 9780748697816
pages, Hardback
Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture E
Classification
BIC
BIC

Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)

Medieval history (HBLC1)

MainDescription
For more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in the ancient world, from the shores of Spain in the West to China, India and
Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the East. This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as Indian and Persian) medical heritage on the evolution of
Arab medicine and pharmacology, investigating it from the perspective of materia medica - a reliable indication of the contribution of this
medical legacy. Focusing on the main substances introduced and traded by the Arabs in the medieval Mediterranean - including Ambergris,
camphor, musk, myrobalan, nutmeg, sandalwood and turmeric - the authors show how they enriched the existing inventory of drugs
influenced by Galenic-Arab pharmacology. Further, they look at how these substances merged with the development and distribution of new
technologies and industries that evolved in the Middle Ages such as textiles, paper, dyeing and tanning, and with the new trends, demands
and fashions regarding spices, perfumes, ornaments (gemstones) and foodstuffs some of which can be found in our modern-day food basket.

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Instructions

avril 2016

Sarah Abrevaya Stein; Cohen, Julia Phillips

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Sephardi lives.

27.39 EUR*

A documentary history, 1700-1950.

Stanford University Press, 2014
ISBN 9780804791434
pages, Paperback / softback
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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Erasmus
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Judasme
Histoire - Moyen Orient
909.0492408
Social & cultural history (HBTB)
Jewish studies (JFSR1)

MainDescription
Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies have seen an unprecedented diversification in focus over the course of the last twenty years, yet
neither pedagogical materials nor documentary compendia have kept pace with these dramatic changes. This comprehensive documentary
reader fills the void in modern Jewish and Ottoman history, presenting a staggering array of primary sources generated by or about Sephardi
Jews in the heartland of modern Judeo-Spanish culture (Southeastern Europe and the Levant under Ottoman and post-Ottoman rule) and in
its diaspora (the United States, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and Africa). The approximately 150 sources in this edition - originally
written in fifteen languages, including Ladino, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish, French, Greek, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian,
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Yiddish, and English - have been selected carefully and specifically for students, researchers, and
general readers. Individuals researching life in the nation-states that emerged after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire will find in this
collection perspectives and selections previously inaccessible to them.At long last, this volume makes available the largely unknown works of
the individuals who drafted them, and should expand the fields of Jewish Studies, Ottoman Studies, and Middle East Studies in multiple and
crucial ways.
This edition: Pbk.
Other editions

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Mackenzie, Molly

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Turkish Athens

17.19 EUR*

The Forgotten Centuries, 1456-1832

Garnet Publishing Ltd, 1999
ISBN 9780863721434
pages, Paperback / softback
Middle East Cultures S., Bd. 17
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BIC

949.51205
European history (HBJD)

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Kaldellis, Anthony

A new Herodotos.
Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the fall of Byzantium, and
the emergence of the West.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2015

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22.82 EUR*

ISBN 9780884024019
pages, Hardback
Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
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Erasmus
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC

Histoire europenne - 1 500

tudes byzantines
949.504
Medieval history (HBLC1)

MainDescription
This companion to the two-volume Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library edition and translation of 'The Histories' by Laonikos Chalkokondyles is
the first book-length investigation of an author who has been poorly studied. Providing biographical and intellectual context for Laonikos,
Anthony Kaldellis shows how the author synthesized his classical models to fashion his own distinctive voice and persona as a historian.
Indebted to his teacher Plethon for his global outlook, Laonikos was one of the first historians to write with a pluralists sympathy for nonGreek ethnic groups, including Islamic ones. His was the first secular and neutral account of Islam written in Greek. Kaldellis deeply explores
the ethnic dynamics that explicitly and implicitly undergird the 'Histories', which recount the rise of the Ottoman empire and the decline of the
Byzantine empire, all in the context of expanding western power. Writing at once in antique and contemporary modes, Laonikos transformed
barbarian oral traditions into a classicizing historiography that was both Greek and Ottoman in outlook. Showing that he was instrumental in
shifting the self-definition of his people from Roman to the Western category of Greek, Kaldellis provides a stimulating account of the
momentous transformations of the mid-fifteenth century.
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El-Rouayheb, Khaled

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Islamic intellectual history in the

seventeenth century.

86.27 EUR*

Scholarly currents in the Ottoman empire and the Maghreb.

Cambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN 9781107042964
pages, Hardback

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Erasmus
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Histoire - Gnralits
Islamologie
956.015
Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)
Islamic studies (JFSR2)

MainDescription
For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or
mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while
modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This book is the first
sustained effort at investigating some of the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.
Examining the intellectual production of the ranks of learned ulema (scholars) through close readings of various treatises, commentaries, and
marginalia, Khaled El-Rouayheb argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and
transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory.
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Deringil, Selim

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Conversion and Apostasy in the Late

Ottoman Empire
Cambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN 9781107546011
pages, Paperback / softback

Classification
Dewey
BIC
BIC

956.015
Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 (HBLL)

26.54 EUR*

MainDescription
In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer
to schism was regulation and control, administered in the form of a number of edicts in the early part of the century. It is against this
background that different religious communities and individuals negotiated survival by converting to Islam when their political interests or their
lives were at stake. As the century progressed, however, conversion was no longer sufficient to guarantee citizenship and property rights as
the state became increasingly paranoid about its apostates and what it perceived as their 'denationalization'. The book tells the story of the
struggle between the Ottoman State, the Great Powers and a multitude of evangelical organizations, shedding light on current flash-points in
the Arab world and the Balkans, offering alternative perspectives on national and religious identity and the interconnection between the two.
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Gary Leiser

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Turkish language, literature and history.

119.47 EUR*

Travelers' tales, sultans, and scholars since the eighth century.

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015
ISBN 9781138808188
pages, Hardback
Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
Classification
Erasmus
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Littrature
Histoire - Moyen Orient
956.1
Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)
Literary studies: general (DSB)

MainDescription
The twenty two essays collected in "Turkish Language, Literature and History" offer insights into Turkish culture in the widest sense. Written
by leaders in their fields from North America, Europe and Turkey, these essays cover a broad range of topics, focusing on various aspects of
Turkish language, literature and history between the eighth century and the present. The chapters move between ancient and contemporary
literature, exploring Sultan Selim's interest in dream interpretation, translating newly uncovered poetry and exploring the works of Orhan
Pamuk. Linguistic complexities of the Turkish language and dialects are analysed, while new translations of 16th century decrees offer insight
into Ottoman justice and power. This is a festschrift volume published for the leading scholar Bob Dankoff, and the diverse topics covered in
these essays reflect Dankoff's valuable contributions to the study of Turkish language and literature. This cross-disciplinary book offers
contributions from academics specialising in linguistics, history, literature and sociology, amongst others.
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Longino, Michele

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French travel writing in the Ottoman

empire.

119.47 EUR*

Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700.

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015
ISBN 9781138822658
pages, Hardback
Routledge Research in Travel Writing
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Erasmus
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Littrature et langue romanes

Histoire - Moyen Orient
840.932
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 (DSBD)
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers (DSK)

MainDescription
Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern
travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thevenot,
Laurent D'Arvieux, Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, Jean Chardin, and Antoine Galland reveal a rich corpus of political, social, and cultural
elements relating to the Ottoman Empire at the time, enabling an appreciation of the diverse shapes that travel narratives can take at a
distinct historical juncture. Longino examines how these writers construct themselves as authors, characters, and individuals in keeping with
the central human project of individuation in the early modern era, also marking the differences that define each of these travelers - the
shopper, the envoy, the voyeur, the arriviste, the ethnographer, the merchant. She shows how these narratives complicate and alter political
and cultural paradigms in the fields of Mediterranean studies, 17th-century French studies, and cultural studies, arguing for their importance
in the canon of early modern narrative forms, and specifically travel writing.The first study to examine these travel journals and writers
together, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars covering travel writing, French literature, and history.
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Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson; Browne, Edward Granville

A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume 6

Available

29.14 EUR*

Andesite Press, 2015

ISBN 9781296562755
pages, Hardback

Classification
BIC

History (HB)

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Browne, Edward Granville; Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson

A History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume 2

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Andesite Press, 2015

ISBN 9781296729554
pages, Hardback

Classification
BIC

History (HB)

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Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson

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A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume 3

29.14 EUR*

Andesite Press, 2015

ISBN 9781297737473
pages, Hardback

Classification
BIC

History (HB)

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Browne, Edward Granville; Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson

A History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume 4

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27.81 EUR*

Sagwan Press, 2015

ISBN 9781297953057
pages, Hardback

Classification
BIC

History (HB)

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Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson; Browne, Edward Granville

A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume 5

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26.48 EUR*

Sagwan Press, 2015

ISBN 9781298896155
pages, Hardback

Classification
BIC

History (HB)

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Browne, Edward Granville; Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson

A History of Ottoman Poetry

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27.81 EUR*

Palala Press, 2015

ISBN 9781342058805
pages, Hardback

Classification
BIC

History (HB)

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Murphey, Dr. Rhoades

Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800
Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2011
ISBN 9781441120083
pages, Paperback / softback

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39.81 EUR*

Classification
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BIC
BIC

256.015
Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)
Social & cultural history (HBTB)

MainDescription
Is it possible to identify the 'essence' of Ottoman kingship? And if so, what were the core motivating principles that governed the dynasty over
its 600 year lifespan and how continuous and consistent were they? Following the death of the dynasty's eponymous founder Osman in 1324,
35 successors held the throne. Despite the wide range of character traits, dispositions and personal preferences, they led the expansion,
stagnation and eventual collapse of the empire. Rhoades Murphey offers an alternative way of understanding the soul of the empire as
reflected in its key ruling institution: the sultanate. For much of the period of centralized Ottoman rule between ca. 1450 and 1850 each of the
dynasty's successive rulers developed and used the state bureaucratic apparatus to achieve their ruling priorities, based around the palace
and court culture and rituals of sovereignty as well as the sultan's role as the head of the central state administrative apparatus. Sovereignty
was attached to the person of the sultan who moved (with his court) both often and for prolonged stays away from his principal residence.
In the period between 1360 and 1453 there were dual capitals at Bursa and Edirne (Adrianople) and even after 1453 several Ottoman sultans
showed a preference for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent - held by the Ottomans, western contemporaries and
modern analysts alike to be the pinnacle and paragon of Ottoman kingship - spent far more time away from his residence at the Topkapi
Palace than in it. This book explores the growing complexity of the empire as it absorbed cultural influences and imperial legacies from a
wide diversity of sources each in turn engendering a further interpretation of existing notions of kingship and definitions of the role and
function of the ruler.
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El-Rouayheb, Khaled

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Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic

World, 1500-1800 (1 Volume Set)

26.54 EUR*

ReadHowYouWant.com Ltd, 2011

ISBN 9781459627451
pages, Paperback / softback

Classification
BIC

Society & culture: general (JF)

MainDescription
Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre - modern Arab - Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic - visible and tolerated on
one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El - Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic
assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self - evident fact to which a particular culture reacts with some degree of tolerance or
intolerance. Drawing on poetry, biographical literature, medicine, dream interpretation, and Islamic texts, he shows that the culture of the
period lacked the concept of homosexuality.
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Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri

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Science among the Ottomans.

50.31 EUR*

The cultural creation and exchange of knowledge.

University of Texas Press, 2015
ISBN 9781477303597
pages, Hardback

Classification
Erasmus
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC

Histoire - Moyen Orient

Histoire des sciences
509.560903
History of science (PDX)

MainDescription
Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and
technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. "Science among the
Ottomans" challenges this widely accepted Western image of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as backward and
impoverished.In the first book on this topic in English in over sixty years, Miri Shefer-Mossensohn contends that Ottoman society and culture
created a fertile environment that fostered diverse scientific activity. She demonstrates that the Ottomans excelled in adapting the inventions
of others to their own needs and improving them. For example, in 1877, the Ottoman Empire boasted the seventh-longest electric telegraph
system in the world; indeed, the Ottomans were among the era s most advanced nations with regard to modern communication
infrastructure. To substantiate her claims about science in the empire, Shefer-Mossensohn studies patterns of learning; state involvement in
technological activities; and Turkish- and Arabic-speaking Ottomans who produced, consumed, and altered scientific practices. The results
reveal Ottoman participation in science to have been a dynamic force that helped sustain the six-hundred-year empire.

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Thornton, Thomas; Nagel, Tilman

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The History of Islamic Theology

48.45 EUR*

Markus Wiener Publishing Inc, 2006

ISBN 9781558762039
pages, Paperback / softback
Princeton series on the Middle East
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Dewey
BIC
BIC

297.209
Islam (HRH)
History of religion (HRAX)

MainDescription
A study of Islam. Using the Koran and other primary sources, Tilman Nagel delves deeply into Islamic history as he traces the development
of Islamic doctrine. He explores the centrality of the Koran in Islamic theology and examines its canonization process and the central themes
of its message. The work goes on to explore the relationships between such Islamic sects as the Sunni and the Shiite, and the two types of
Islamic theological literature: the hadith, an oral report or story, and the "kalam", a genre that "develops theological and metaphysical
statements". The author also examines Islamic monotheism; the development of Islamic philosophy in the Middle Ages and its relation to
theology; and the relationship between Islam and Gnosticism. Although the focus of the book is on the 9th to the 12th centuries, Nagel
demonstrates the ways in which Muslims have carried these beliefs into the modern world.
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Firat, Begum Ozden

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Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature

82.30 EUR*

Contemporary Readings of an Imperial Art

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2015
ISBN 9781780763910
pages, Hardback
International Library of Visual Culture
Classification
Dewey
BIC
BIC

751.770956
History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400 (ACK)
Painting & paintings (AFC)

MainDescription
The dominant form of Ottoman pictorial art until the eighteenth century, miniatures have traditionally been studied as reflecting the sociohistorical contexts, aesthetic concerns and artistic tastes of the era within which they were produced. Begum Ozden Fyrat proposes instead a
radical re-reading of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century miniatures in the light of contemporary critical theory, highlighting the viewer's
encounter with the image. Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature employs contemporary concepts such as the gaze, frame/framing, reading
and re-reading, drawing on thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze to establish the vibrant cultural agency of
miniature paintings. With analysis that illuminates both the social and political situations in which these miniatures were painted as well as
emphasising the miniature's contemporary relevance, Firat presents an important new re-imagining of this art form.
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Wharton, Alyson

The architects of Ottoman Constantinople.

The Balyan family and the history of Ottoman architecture.
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2015
ISBN 9781780768526
pages, Hardback
Library of Ottoman Studies

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82.30 EUR*

Classification
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Erasmus
Dewey
BIC

Architecture - Ans 500 1900

Art oriental/musulman
720.956
History of architecture (AMX)

MainDescription
The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans
throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for some of the most famous Ottoman buildings in
existence, many of which are regarded as masterpieces of their period - including the Dolmabahce Palace (built between 1843 and 1856),
parts of the Topkapi Palace, the Ciragan Palace and the Ortakoy Mosque. Forging a unique style based around European contemporary
architecture but with distinctive Ottoman flourishes, the family is an integral part of Ottoman history. As Alyson Wharton's beautifully
illustrated book reveals, the Balyan's own history, of falling in and out of favour with increasingly autocratic Sultans, serves as a record of
courtly power in the Ottoman era and is uniquely intertwined with the history of Istanbul itself.
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Faroghi, Suraiya

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A cultural history of the Ottomans.

33.19 EUR*

The imperial elite and its artefacts.

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2016
ISBN 9781784530969
pages, Hardback

Classification
Erasmus
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Art oriental/musulman
Histoire - Moyen Orient
956.015
Social & cultural history (HBTB)
Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)

MainDescription
The Ottoman Empire was more than a center of military and economic activity; it was a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and
objects remaining from all corners of this vast empire tell us a great deal about the everyday concerns of the Ottomans. In this book, Faroqhi,
a leading historian on the Ottoman Empire, has selected the most revealing, surprising and striking examples of the artefacts which illuminate
the lesser-known cultural and artistic world of the Ottomans. Each image reproduced in full color is deftly linked to the latest historiography,
and the social, political and economic implications of her selections are never forgotten. In Faroqhi's hands, the objects become ways to learn
more about trade, gender and socio-political status. They open an enticing window onto the variety and color of everyday life; from the
Sultan's court, to the peasantry and slavery. Amongst its luxuriant faiences and etchings, its sofras and carpets, "A Cultural History of the
Ottomans" is essential reading for all students of the Ottoman Empire and its material culture."
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Carr, Mike

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Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 12911352

Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2015
ISBN 9781843839903
pages, Hardback
Warfare in History, Bd. v.41
Classification
Dewey
BIC
BIC

940.192
Crusades (HBWC)
European history (HBJD)

79.65 EUR*

MainDescription
The period from the fall of Acre until the end of the Crusade of Smyrna signified a dramatic shift in crusade impetus, as expeditions to liberate
the Holy Land were superseded by those aimed at reducing the maritime power of the Turks in the Aegean. With this shift in impetus came a
change in participation, as the members of the merchant republics of Venice and Genoa, together with the Frankish states in the Aegean,
began slowly to replace the chivalry of western Europe as the most suitable leaders of a crusade. This resulted in a subtle alteration in how
the papacy aimed to justify a crusade and encourage involvement from the merchant crusaders who were vital for its success. Drawing on a
wealth of previously unexplored sources, including those related to crusading and also those recording trade between Christians and
Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean, this book analyses the changing Latin perceptions of the Greeks and Turks during the period, the
nature of the military response to the threat posed by the Turks in the Aegean and the relationship between the papacy and the merchant
crusaders.
In its investigation of the complex interplay between mercantile objectives and crusading ideals, it sheds revealing insights into the
complexities of crusading in the later Middle Ages. Mike Carr is Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh.
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Popov, Vesselin; Marushiakova, Elena

Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire

Available

15.92 EUR*

University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001

ISBN 9781902806020
pages, Paperback / softback
Interface Collection, Bd. v. 20/22
Classification
Dewey
BIC
BIC

956.00491497
Social groups (JFS)
Asian history (HBJF)

MainDescription
The Roma presence in the European part of the Ottoman Empire - the Balkans - is centuries old and it is not by accident that this regions has
often been called the second motherland of the Gypsies. From this region Gypsies moved westwards taking with them inherited Balkan
cultural models and traditions. This book explores the history, ethnography, social structure and culture of the Gypsies in the Ottoman
Empire. It is based on archival sources, mainly detailed tax registers, special laws, guild registers and court documents. Notes on Gypsies in
books by foreign travellers are also included.
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Karidis, Dimitris N.

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Athens from 1456 to 1920.

46.46 EUR*

The town under Ottoman rule and the 19th century capital city.
Archaeopress, 2014
ISBN 9781905739714
pages, Paperback / softback

Classification
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Histoire europenne - 1 500 1 900

949.505
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 (HBLH)
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 (HBLL)

MainDescription
Few people are aware that shortly after 1456, when Athens yielded without fighting to the bitter end, she had become one of the bigger
Balkan towns within the Ottoman Empire. The limited area confined within the boundaries of the late Roman fortification walls soon
developed into a town of thirty-six mahalles. A thorough analysis of the town/country relationship within the Ottoman feudal system of
production in general, and as related to Athens in particular, reveals the dynamic conditions of urban development. Athens shared many of
the characteristics of prosperity based on specific modes of appropriation of surpluses and patterns of division of labour between town and
countryside. Strange though it might seem, it was only after the middle of the 17th century, when land-tenure conditions changed and Athens
was heading towards decline, that an Ottoman character as such could be detected in its built environment, although Christians still strongly
outnumbered Muslim citizens. That being so, the presence at that time in Athens of representatives of the European Enlightenment,
hypnotized by the myth of its artistic and cultural treasures, did not affect the general conditions of development.
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Kurt Franz; Wolfgang Holzwarth

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Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent

Areas in the Islamic Period

98.00 EUR

Reichert, L, 2015
ISBN 9783895009204
396 pages, Hardback
Nomaden und Sesshafte; 18
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Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Histoire - Moyen Orient

939.4-956
Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)
Military history (HBW)

MainDescription
The papers in this anthology shed light on the political and military role and importance of nomadic groups in Iran and adjacent areas, using
historical case studies that cover the tenth to nineteenth centuries. Some offer detailed historical snapshots, while others span several
centuries. They have in common a concern to explore the relationships and balance of power between settled people and nomadic groups in
changing circumstances.
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Oney, Gonul; Turkoglu, Inci; Unal, Rahmi

Early Ottoman Art. Legacy of the Emirates

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19.78 EUR*

Museum Ohne Grenzen (Museum with No Frontiers), 2014

ISBN 9783902782205
pages, Paperback / softback

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BIC
BIC

Travel tips & advice: general (WTD)

Travel & holiday guides (WTH)

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Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Rachida Chih; Rdiger Seesemann

Sufism, literary production, and printing in

the Nineteenth century.
Ergon Verlag, 2015
ISBN 9783956500435
pages, Paperback / softback
Mitteilungen zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der islamischen
Welt (MISK); 37
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Erasmus
Erasmus
Dewey
Dewey
DDC

Histoire du livre
Islamologie
002.09
297
Islam, Bbism & Bah' Faith (297)

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68.00 EUR

MainDescription
In eighteen chapters covering Muslim regions and countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe, this collective volume examines the interface
between Sufism, literaryproduction and printing during the long nineteenth century. The contributions, written by leading specialists in the
field, shed light on the various ways in which Sufis engaged with printing and analyse the effects the new technology had on their literary
production. The four sections of the book, From Manuscript to Printing, Literary Genres and Doctrinal Debates, Transmission and
Dissemination, and New Religious and Political Challenges at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, trace the itinerary of Sufi literature during
the period in question. Employing a wide range of theoretical and methodological tools, the authors explore the transformations Sufism
underwent at the threshold of modernity. They show how Sufism was able to thrive in its confrontation with the multiple challenges posed by
changing social and political structures, the emergence of Islamic reformism, and the introduction of new technologies.
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Dadoyan

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The Fatimid Armenians. Cultural and

political inter- action in the Near East.

0.00 EUR

Brill, 1997
ISBN 9789004108165
pages, Hardback
Islamic history and civilization; 18
Classification
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Histoire europenne - 1 500

956.62
Islamic studies (JFSR2)
Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)

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Guo, Li

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The performing arts in medieval Islam.

99.00 EUR

Shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo.

Brill, 2011
ISBN 9789004210455
pages, Hardback
Islamic History and Civilization; 93
Classification
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC

Art oriental/musulman
791.5309621609022
Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre (ASZM)

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Zimonyi, Istvn

Muslim sources on the Magyars in the

second half of the 9th century.
The Magyar chapter of the Jayhani tradition.
Brill, 2015
ISBN 9789004214378
pages, Hardback
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 4501450; 35

Available

135.00 EUR

Classification
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Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Histoire europenne - 1 500

Islamologie
943.901
European history (HBJD)
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 (HBLC)

MainDescription
The Jayhni tradition contains the most detailed description of the Magyars/Hungarians before the Conquest of the Carpathian Basin (895).
Unfortunately, the book itself was lost and it can only be reconstructed from late Arabic, Persian and Turkic copies. The reconstruction is
primarily based on the texts of al-Marwazi, Ibn Rusta and Gardizi. The original text has shorter and longer versions. The basic text was
reformed at least twice and later copyists added further emendation. This study focuses on the philological comments and historical
interpretation of the Magyar chapter, integrating the results in the fields of medieval Islamic studies, the medieval history of Eurasian steppe,
and the historiography of early Hungarian history.
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Christ, Georg L.K.A.

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Trading conflicts.

155.00 EUR

Venetian merchants and mamluk officials in late Medieval Alexandria.

Brill, 2012
ISBN 9789004221994
pages, Hardback
The Medieval Mediterranean; 93
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Dewey
BIC

Histoire europenne - 1 500

382.09453110621
European history (HBJD)

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Ozel, Oktay

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The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman

Anatolia.

115.00 EUR

Amasya 1576-1643.
Brill, 2016
ISBN 9789004309715
pages, Hardback
Ottoman Empire & its Heritage; 61
Classification
Erasmus
Dewey
BIC
BIC

Histoire - Moyen Orient

939.4-956
Middle Eastern history (HBJF1)
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 (HBLH)

MainDescription
Did the seventeenth-century crisis visit the Ottoman Empire? How can we situate the explosion of rural violence and the rebellions of the
turn of the seventeenth century in the Anatolian countryside? 'The collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia' provides the reader with a
fresh and innovative perspective on the long scholarly debate over the question of decline in early modern Ottoman history. It offers a new
agenda, new type of source material, and a new methodology for the study of demographic crisis.Through a systematic examination of littleknown detailed avr?z registers, Oktay zel demonstrates in detail the mass desertion of rural settlements, the destruction of agricultural
economy, and the resulting collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia at the turn of the seventeenth century
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Elbendary, Amina

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Elbendary, Amina

Crowds and sultans.

54.83 EUR*

Urban protest in late medieval Egypt and Syria.

The American University in Cairo Press, 2016
ISBN 9789774167171
pages, Hardback

Classification
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Dewey
BIC
BIC

Histoire - Moyen Orient

962.024
African history (HBJH)
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 (HBLC)

MainDescription
During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249-50 faced a series of sustained economic and
political challenges to its rule, from the effects of recurrent plagues to changes in international trade routes. Both these challenges and the
policies and behaviors of rulers and subjects in response to them left profound impressions on Mamluk state and society, precipitating a
degree of social mobility and resulting in new forms of cultural expression. These transformations were also reflected in the frequent reports
of protests during this period, and led to a greater diffusion of power and the opening up of spaces for political participation by Mamluk
subjects and negotiations of power between ruler and ruled.Rather than tell the story of this tumultuous century solely from the point of view
of the Mamluk dynasty, Crowds and Sultans places the protests within the framework of long-term transformations, arguing for a more
nuanced and comprehensive narrative of Mamluk state and society in late medieval Egypt and Syria. Reports of urban protest and the ways
in which alliances between different groups in Mamluk society were forged allow us glimpses into how some medieval Arab societies
negotiated power, showing that rather than stoically endure autocratic governments, populations often resisted and renegotiated their
positions in response to threats to their interests.This rich and thought-provoking study will appeal to specialists in Mamluk history, Islamic
studies, and Arab history, as well as to students and scholars of Middle East politics and government and modern history.
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