This research traces the histories of the Ahrida and Mayor Synagogues in Istanbul, and the Great Synagogue in Edirne against the background of interrelated questions on architecture, identity, memory/ history, power, and cultural difference. Established in the 15th, 17th and 19th centuries respectively, all three buildings were left idle when their neighborhoods were abandoned by Jews in the mid-20th century. Following the 1980s however - and after several decades of decay - they were selected from among Tu

This book is a study of the Ottoman military and diplomatic involvements in Iran during the critical years that followed the collapse of the Safavid dynasty. Contrary to the image of an Empire that followed largely passive and defensive policies in the early eighteenth century, this study will reveal that the Ottoman Empire was remarkably proactive in this period. The Ottomans under the political leadership of Damat İbrahim Pasha (d. 1730) designed their Iranian policies during the 1720s with a distinct awa

This book is a study of the Ottoman military and diplomatic involvements in Iran during the critical years that followed the collapse of the Safavid dynasty. Contrary to the image of an Empire that followed largely passive and defensive policies in the early eighteenth century, this study will reveal that the Ottoman Empire was remarkably proactive in this period. The Ottomans under the political leadership of Damat İbrahim Pasha (d. 1730) designed their Iranian policies during the 1720s with a distinct awa

This is the third in a series of edited volumes narrating the life stories of Turkish Jews who immigrated to foreign countries and built their new lives there. The preceding volumes have been published in 2016 and 2017. This volume comprises nine different stories from ten Turkish Jews who now live in Israel (three), Australia (one), Canada (one), and the United States (five). This volume is a collective effort to save the memoirs of Turkish Jews who now live in their new homelands.

Nükhet Kardam grew up in Istanbul in the 1960s and 1970s and left Turkey to study international relations in Canada. As she continued to live and work abroad, her ties to Turkey grew stronger rather than weaker over the years. Thus, she embarked on a mysterious journey to explore her grandfather Dr. Kilisli Rıfat's life.Her grandparents, Dr. Kilisli Rıfat, a well-known medical doctor, author, bureaucrat and professor, and his wife Nazire, the daughter of an Ottoman pasha, were subjects of the multicultural

Tombstones have many memories to share about the past. For these reasons, they must be made to speak, and their sayings must be carefully recorded... Known today mainly as a holiday destination, the Aegean town of Bodrum also hosted a small but important Jewish community in its past. This book catalogues the only remaining physical traces of this community in a small, neglected cemetery. Written by Siren Bora and translated and photographed by C. M. Kösemen, this study includes detailed images of all surviv

The study of ij?zah tradition, its history and its impact is somehow neglected by both Muslim and non-Muslim researchers and scholars alike. This significantly unique tradition of the Muslim educational system has a long history as it emerged and developed parallel to Islamic education itself, and was in practice for more than a millennium. However, after adapting the new educational system during the late 19th century and throughout 20th century until the present, the tradition of granting ij?zah drastical

This research is aiming to focus on the challenge of power between France and the Holy See in front of the Sublime Porteb for representing and protecting the Catholic Subjects in the 19th and 20th centuries, the establishment and development of the French Protectorate in the Ottoman lands, its abolishment and the diplomatic attempts of the Apostolic Delegates for being recognized by the Ottoman &Turkish authorities as the representative of the Pope, until the reciprocal appointment of ambassadors in 196

For more than nine decades, citizens of Turkey have argued over what Turkey is and what it means to be Turkish. Rather than give a particular answer, this collection of essays looks at various figures from modern Turkish history who have sought to define Turkey or pushed back against the definitions that others sought to impose on them. The protagonists of these essays include Rauf Orbay, a contemporary of Atatürk but ultimate enemy of the republic; Yilmaz Güney, an award-winning director and escaped convic

This book aims to be a collective biography of Joseph Niego and Lea Mitrani, two Ottoman Jews, whose lives spanned a sixty-year period of profound changes for Ottoman Jewry. Born in Edirne, Joseph and Lea were educated in the schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. Subsequently, they were sent to Paris in order to be trained as teachers and be sent back to help regenerate Ottoman Jews through a Western-style education. After their marriage, Joseph was appointed director of the agricultural school Mik

The present volume is a collection of selected documents from the American National Archives concerning the anti-Greek riots which occurred on September 6-7, 1955 in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. The events were a terrible blow both to the Greeks living in Turkey and to the economy and prestige of Turkey. Schools, shops, cemeteries belonging to Greeks both in Istanbul and Izmir were looted and devastated. The documents of this volume give a concise and vivid image of what happened during those two days with t

After the proclamation of the Tanzîmât Edict, the government wanted to re-arrange the city. To this end, the Building and Expropriation Regulations that determined how modern city planning would be made as of 1840 were published. It was clearly stated that the government would base expropriations made to expand roads, allotment of burnt areas again, determination of construction rules, and opening the areas where reconstruction was not allowed to settlement,in essence all new urban development activities on

In contemporary studies of Ottoman literature, a two-layered scheme is used which divides Ottoman literature into two parts, ?folk' literature and ?court' literature. In these studies, the oral is totally attributed to folk literature, while court literature is considered entirely written. However, these two ways of producing, transmitting, and consuming literature, the oral and the written, have always existed together, nourishing and transforming each other. This thesis challenges the constructed binary

This book is an investigation into how the etiquette books of the early Republican period attempted to shape society in terms of classand gender issues. The analysis of the books, which are important tools to ?civilize society in both the public and private domains, is important because of their effects on the different dimensions of the period's discourse around citizenship. Through etiquette codes, the ideal citizen who would constitute the new privileged class of the Republic was to be constructed in acc

World War I deeply altered the lives of Muslim Ottoman women. The Ottoman Army consisted only of Muslim men and war caused the death of one and a half million Muslim Ottoman men. The heavy losses of the Ottoman army meant that every day more and more dependants lost their breadwinners. When the breadwinner had gone to war, was wounded or died at the front; the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers they had left behind were faced with two options: to find work and make a living, or to starve to death... On 1

This work is an analysis of the life of Ömer Ziyâeddin Dağıstânî (1849-1921) and two of his political works, which he completed as a Sufi scholar (âlim). Throughout his life, he served in various parts of the Ottoman Empire as well as occupying various positions such as mufti of a regiment (alay müftüsü), deputy judge (nâib), professor (müderris), and Naqshbandi sheikh. He wrote two political works during the Second Constitutional Period: Hadis-i Erbaîn fî Hukuki's-Selâtîn and Mir'ât-ı Kânûn-i Esâsî. This s

This book explores the life and ideas of the eminent liberal journalist, Ahmed Emin (Yalman)'s changing perceptions of the other in the Armistice Period (1918-1923) and beyond. Throughout the work, Ahmed Emin's perception of non-Muslim Ottomans, non-Turkish Muslims and the Western powers, as well as these perceptionsthe changes in are all analyzed through both qualitative and quantitative methods and based on content analysis. In addition to his editorials, published in the two newspapers Vakit and Vatan in

Konstantinopol Djudyo retrata la vida Djudia durante la epoka de transformasyon del Imperio Otomano a la moderna Republika de Turkiya. La ovra representa las doz generasyones anteriores de Estambol Djudyo. Las konsejas semi biografikas son sovre los antepasados Kohen, Benshoam, Levi i Romano. El livro inkluye fotografias de los arshivos de la famiya Kohen. Eyos fueron las ultimas jenerasyones ke bivyeron avlando Djudeo-Espanyol. Pudyeron preservar suz lengua maternala asta ke los trokamyentos provokados por

This book aims to demonstrate how the Italian nationalist ideas were a catalyst to the creation of national unity and freedom to the Turkish people, prompting a drive for freedom that originated from the élite and moved to the masses in a top-down manner. The conspiracy ideas particularly of Giuseppe Mazzini, one of the greatest figures in the Italian national struggle, gave strong impetus to the birth of the pre-republican Young Turks. Giuseppe Garibaldi permanence in Turkey, his contacts with the Italian

The milestone reforms of the Ottoman Empire are the Tanzimat, the First and Second Constitutions. The Tanzimat Charter made Ottomanism the dominant ideology, paved the way for secularisation and led to the cultivation of an illuminated youth idealizing the concepts of equal citizenship, freedom and constitution. Consequently, it both contributed to the intellectual accumulation of the Ottoman intelligentsia and formed the basis of their political opposition. The first intellectual opposition, Young Ottomans