Ottomania

Reducere. From its birth in 1839, photography has participated in modernity as much as it has symbolized it. Its capacity to record and display and its claim...

Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders '...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one boo...

The Early Ottoman Peloponnese: A study in the Light of an Annotated editio princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460-1463) i...

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Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

Provides nine detailed case studies of translation between and among European and Middle-Eastern languages and between genres.Illustrations: 18 B/W...

DescriptionThe Ottoman Empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. It included the islands of Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, ...

Reducere. If you look for yourself in the past and see nothing, how do you know who you are? How do you know that you are supposed to be here?When Wyatt brin...

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This major new survey treats the most important trends during the latter years of the Ottoman Empire. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has u...

Reducere. In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trad...

Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corner...

Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many as...

Addressing the contested nature of Ottoman Sunnism from the 14th to the early 20th century, this book draws on diverse perspectives across the empi...

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Reducere. Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proxim...

Reducere. "James Rollins meets Joel Rosenberg in Terry Brennan."--Jeannette Windle, award-winning author of Veiled Freedom Diplomatic Security Service agent ...

This publication joins a series of outstanding publications on Islamic manuscripts by Sam Fogg.Publisher: Sam Fogg Rare BooksAuthor(s): Will Kwiatk...

Reducere. Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial ca...

This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth century...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Saraiya FaroqhiAuthor: Suraiya FaroqhiIn a concise and colorful style, Suraiya Faroqhi lays out the history of one of the m...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 42 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 322Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 178 x 253 x 31C...

This collection of translated primary sources for Ottoman history shows how the major institutions of Ottoman government developed, and how they fu...

Contributor(s): Author: Douglas A. HowardCovering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dissolutio...

Reducere. For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for the royal c...

In this insightful and well-constructed biography, Khaled Fahmy assesses the life of Kavalal? Mehmed Ali Pasha, the founder of modern Egypt.

PB edition of a full account of the Gallipoli campaign from the Ottoman point of view. Analysis of the defensive strategy and tactics that defeated...

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and ...

James E. Baldwin examines how the interplay of these two conceptions of Islamic law religious scholarship and royal justice undergirded legal pract...

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of modern times. From its ruin rose new countries including Syria and Turkey. This...

DescriptionThroughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a sim...

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez...

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UEmit Kurt explores causes and effects of the Armenian genocide in his hometown of Gaziantep, Turkey. He finds that local gentry and ordinary Turks...

On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as "the Conqueror, " launched the final assault against the walls of Constant...

In a world that is constantly illuminated, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. This fascinating picture of nocturna...

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jonathan ParryIllustration(s): 7 maps.Number of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 2...

In-depth history of the Palestine campaigns during the First World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Edward J EricksonIllustration(s):...

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During the last half century of its existence, the Ottoman Empire and the lands around its borders were places of constant political turmoil and un...

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for...

DescriptionAs the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving be...

Publisher: Syracuse University PressAuthor(s): Nazan MaksudyanIllustration(s): 16 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Gend...

A Times Literary Supplement and History Today Book of the Year'An astonishing and thrilling story.' Stephen GreenblattThe Ottoman Empire was a hub ...

This is a comprehensive new operational military history of the Ottoman army during the First World War. Drawing from archives, official military h...

Contributor(s): Author: Devin E. NaarTouted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans, " the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once hom...

Description During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resul...

Reducere. For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the ...

Reducere. In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects i...

Provides a nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman empire. The author discusses the changing views of the Ottoman Empire more genera...

New B-format paperback edition. A history of 600 years - an epic story of a dynasty that started as a small group of cavalry mercenaries to become ...

The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a...

This book argues that the periodic ceremonial intrusion into the everyday lives of people across the Ottoman Empire, which the annual royal birthda...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 160; 150 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 230 x 23Cover type: Hardb...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Helen PfeiferIllustration(s): 18 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingIn terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the M...

Reducere. Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With An...

Reducere. Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era...

Reducere. Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first M...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Roni WeinsteinNumber of pages: 262Collection: Anthem Intercultural Transfer StudiesPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

Reducere. The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Se...

Reducere. The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empireIn Empress of the...

Reducere. How Christendom defeated the Ottoman Turks. Historian Diane Moczar pulls back the curtain on one of the most important acts in the drama of Muslim ...

The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive history of an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, Sabbateanism.Publisher: Oxford Unive...

DescriptionFor many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insula...