The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18 th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

Introduction -- Reusing the work of past times and foreign lands -- The Ottoman sultan: victorious and pious -- Society and its divisions -- A world of three religions: Ottoman conquests and the ...

An ornate image of bucolic gardens inhabited by lounging Turkish poets engaged in conversation took up the screen in Schermerhorn’s eighth floor lecture hall. Though seemingly purely decorative, these ...

The emergence of an empire -- Culture: How it was created and disseminated -- The economic and social structure of the Ottoman Empire in early modern times -- Images of the world and the times -- ...

Turks’ growing fascination with the past, a phenomenon known as Ottomania, is taking a strange turn with the unveiling of a statue of an Ottoman prince taking a selfie in the Black Sea town of Amasya.

Step into the harsh realities of life in the Ottoman Empire, where power, punishment, and politics shaped a brutal existence ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Ayalon, Yaron. Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes. New York ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. While the 11th International Istanbul Biennial is showing off the ...

Turkey’s tradition of coffee-making is so ingrained that it’s protected by UNESCO. But where did the practice of cooking ...

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