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.

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

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

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 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

There are many textbooks and scholarly works of Ottoman and Turkish history written both by foreign and Turkish scholars. What distinguish the present work from these books is that it has been prepared by two American diplomats stationed in Turkey at the time history was in the making. Thus it gives a first hand interpretation of the last days of the Ottoman Empire, of the Turkish War of Independence, of the establishment of the Republic and of its first eight years.

This book is composed of two chapters on two different topics. In the first part, I have studied the exile days of Sultan Abdülhamid II in Salonika (1909-1912). This chapter is a narrative of the 1278 days he had spent in exile between the night of 27 April 1909 when he was taken to Salonika by train and early morning of 1 November 1912 when he was brought to the Beylerbeyi Palace I have interrupted the chronological narrative of the events, and put subsections on the Villa Alâtini where he resided in Salon

By the second half of the nineteenth century Istanbul had become an important social and political environment for many Iranian activists and politicians who had been exiled from Iran. This community formed a highly active opposition base involved in Iranian politics from abroad. Although a certain amount of background material can be found in the literature concerning this community, no significant work has yet been carried out on its impact on political, social and literary reform in Iran. The publication

Au début du XXe siècle, l'Asie Mineure occidentale, ottomane depuis cinq cents ans est une région prospère. Smyrne est la ville phare de la région ; c'est une ville moderne, ouverte sur le monde, un port dynamique où l'Occident rencontre l'Orient. La ville abrite plus de 200 000 habitants ; Turcs, Grecs, Juifs, Arméniens et Levantins y cohabitent. A Smyrne et dans les villes environnantes, chaque communauté vit dans son quartier structuré autour des lieux de culte. Les habitants, qui quelquefois n'ont pas d

The present volume consists of a selection of articles by scholars on the social and cultural situation of Turkish Jews in the last two decades. The tensions created by political events in Turkey and/or by the Israeli-Palestian conflict, the bursts of anti-Semitism which result from these tensions are some of the many aspects studied in this volume. Others aspects such as the cultural life and the cultural heritage of a demographically dwindling community are also studied. This book is indispensable for the

This is really a remarkable work, and will surely interest and delight many people who would otherwise never have known about the existence of the Donmeh. In a way, this volume has give a new life to one of the most remarkable and enigmatic groups ever to emerge in Ottoman Thessaloniki. What a lovely book... Mark Mazover, Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, Columbia University, Author of Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950. Almost a century ago, massive political and demograp

This works attempts to the reconstruct the life story of Jak Barbut, a Turkish Jewish doctor who, for several decades served with a tirelessly as surgeon general of the Istanbul State Penitentiary, the Or Ahayim Jewish Hospital and several others. Using the available sources the author brings to life the single-minded devotion of a man unanimously praised with equal parts gratitude and respect by his patients, his colleagues, and the convicts of the Istanbul Prison on whose behalf he devoted his entire prof

Taking the War of 1736-1739 between the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Russian alliance as the pivotal point, in this book Selim Güngörürler looks at the patterns of and changes in diplomatic relations, perceptions of power, and factional rivalry. By using Ottoman chronicles, histories, archival documents, and observations of Europeans as well as the relevant secondary literature, he demonstrates how the international standing of the Porte and the political references used within the Empire changed dramatica