Sufis and the Sufi Lodges in Istanbul in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Socio-Spatial Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422110252
Author(s):  
Ahmet Yusuf Yüksek
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Social Profiles

This study investigates the socio-spatial history of Sufism in Istanbul during 1880s. Drawing on a unique population registry, it reconstructs the locations of Sufi lodges and the social profiles of Sufis to question how visible Sufism was in the Ottoman capital, and what this visibility demonstrates the historical realities of Sufism. It claims that Sufism was an integral part of the Ottoman life since Sufi lodges were space of religion and spirituality, art, housing, and health. Despite their large presence in Istanbul, Sufi lodges were extensively missing in two main areas: the districts of Unkapanı-Bayezid and Galata-Pera. While the lack of lodgess in the latter area can be explained by the Western encroachment in the Ottoman capital, the explanation for the absence of Sufis in Unkapanı-Bayezid is more complex: natural disasters, two opposing views about Sufi sociability, and the locations of the central lodges.

Coerced Human Mobility and Elite Social Networks in Early Dynastic Iraq and Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-57
Author(s):  
Vitali Bartash
Keyword(s):  
Human Mobility ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Male Adult ◽  
Early Dynastic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
City State ◽  
Social Profiles

AbstractThe article provides a historical analysis of cuneiform records concerning the circulation of unfree humans among the political-cultic elite in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, ca. 2475–2300 BCE. The analysis of the written data from the Adab city-state demonstrates that the royal house used the unfree as gifts to maintain a sociopolitical network on three spatial levels – the internal, local, and (inter)regional. The gift-givers and gift-receivers were mostly male adult members of the local and foreign elite, whereas the dislocated unfree humans were heterogeneous in terms of age, gender, and the ways they lost their freedom. The author relates the social profiles of both groups to the logistics of human traffic to reveal the link between social status and forms and nature of spatial mobility in the politically and socially unstable Early Dynastic Near East.

scholarly journals The Social Place of the Portuguese Punk Scene: an Itinerary of the Social Profiles of its Protagonists

Volume ! ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 103-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Abreu ◽  
Augusto Santos Silva ◽  
Paula Guerra ◽  
Ana Oliveira ◽  
Tânia Moreira
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Social Profiles

scholarly journals From a social digital identity to an academic digital identity: Introducing ePortfolios in English language enhancement courses

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Preet Hiradhar ◽  
Jeremy Gray
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Digital Identity ◽  
Academic Needs ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Profiles ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Social Profiles ◽  
Digital Identities

Abstract: Social digital networking is a facet of living that recognizes no national borders or social boundaries and has become a way of life. This paper investigates the social networking habits of students at Lingnan University and considers how these habits can be channelled for academic purposes by introducing an ePortfolio system into their language enhancement courses. The investigation analyzed the purpose and usage of these social profiles thus forming the basis of the need for academic profiles. After considering the attitudes and motivations of students, this paper reports on the adoption of an ePortfolio platform which best suits the academic needs of students by introducing it into two important language enhancement courses. The paper thus explores students’ attitudes towards two forms of digital identities: social and academic. This process has led to arriving at an ePortfolio system that is in synch with the other digitized aspects of students’ lives. Résumé : Le réseautage social numérique est l’une des facettes de la vie qui ne connaît ni les frontières nationales, ni les démarcations sociales; cette pratique est devenue un mode de vie. Le présent article examine les habitudes de réseautage social des étudiants de l’Université Lingnan et étudie la façon dont ces habitudes peuvent être canalisées à des fins universitaires par l’introduction d’un système de portfolios électroniques dans les cours de perfectionnement des langues. L’enquête a analysé quelles fonctions ces profils sociaux remplissent et quelle est l’utilisation qui en est faite, ce qui constitue la base du besoin de profils universitaires. Après avoir examiné la réponse et la motivation des étudiants, cet article présente les résultats de l’adoption d’une plateforme de portfolios électroniques qui répond bien aux besoins des étudiants universitaires à la suite de son introduction dans deux cours importants de perfectionnement des langues. L’article utilise ainsi la réponse des étudiants à l’égard des deux formes d’identités numériques : sociale et universitaire. Ce processus a permis d’obtenir un système de portfolios électroniques qui est en phase avec les autres aspects numériques de la vie des étudiants.

Gauging inequality among pastoralists

Focaal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (45) ◽  
pp. 46-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Binomial Series ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Social Profiles ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Relative Concept

Poverty is a relative concept that is most meaningful within the context of social inequality in a particular culture. Among pastoralists in east Africa, often with mixed economies and herds that tend to fluctuate erratically over time, the problem of assessing poverty and wealth can be resolved by examining profiles of polygyny to provide a comparable index of wealth. Several profiles are examined in relation to a mathematical model based on the binomial series, with an emphasis on its social rather than mathematical implications. These series are especially apt because they closely follow the distribution of wives in a substantial sample of African societies, and they reveal different types of balances between competition and conformity associated with age and with status. The purpose of this essay is to redefine the problem of poverty in terms of the social profiles of inequality, leading toward a comparative analysis between cultures.

scholarly journals The Class of London 2012: Some Sociological Reflections on the Social Backgrounds of Team GB Athletes

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Smith ◽  
David Haycock ◽  
Nicola Hulme
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Elite Sport ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Profiles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Backgrounds

This rapid response article briefly examines one feature of the relationship between social class and elite sport: the social backgrounds of the Olympians who comprised Team GB (Great Britain) at the 2012 London Olympics Games, and especially their educational backgrounds, as a means of shedding sociological light on the relationship between elite sport and social class. It is claimed that, to a large degree, the class-related patterns evident in the social profiles of medal-winners are expressive of broader class inequalities in Britain. The roots of the inequalities in athletes’ backgrounds are to be found within the structure of the wider society, rather than in elite sport, which is perhaps usefully conceptualized as ‘epiphenomenal, a secondary set of social practices dependent on and reflecting more fundamental structures, values and processes’ ( Coalter 2013 : 18) beyond the levers of sports policy. It is concluded that class, together with other sources of social division, still matters and looking to the process of schooling and education, whilst largely ignoring the significance of wider inequalities, is likely to have a particularly limited impact on the stubborn persistence of inequalities in participation at all levels of sport, but particularly in elite sport.

The Social Profiles in the Colossian Debate

1997 ◽  
Vol 19 (66) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Van Broekhoven
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Social Profiles

Qui a le droit d’étudier le genre et comment ? Réflexions sur le point de vue situé et la catégorisation du sexe à partir d’une enquête par méthodes mixtes sur les trans’

2021 ◽  
pp. 075910632199572
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Beaubatie
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refusal To Participate ◽  
The Right ◽  
Social Profiles

Who Has the Right to Study Gender and How ? Reflections on the Situated Point of View and the Categorisation of Sex Based on a Mixed Method Study of Trans People. Trans people are often reticent when it comes to research. Looking back over a mixed method study, this article analyses the causes of this phenomenon. There are two main reasons for trans people’s distrust. The first relates to expert opinion and more specifically the point of view of professional experts, insofar as trans people have often already been objectivized by non-trans medical and legal experts. The second concerns the categorisation of sex. Some people do not recognise themselves in the man/woman binary applied by professional experts. However, the trans population is heterogeneous: criticism and refusal to participate were more common with certain social profiles than others, varying according to sex assigned at birth, age, generation, and level of education. By paying attention to this plurality, this article provides avenues for allowing researchers to navigate the trans field and also contributes to reflections on the situated point of view and the categorisation of sex in the social sciences.

scholarly journals ¿Bandoleros o resistentes? La guerrilla morisca en el reino de Granada a comienzos del siglo XVIBanditry or resistance? Moorish guerrilla warfare in the Kingdom of Granada at the beginning of the 16th century

2016 ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Rafael G. Peinado Santaella
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Profiles

RESUMEN Como fácilmente puede colegirse del mismo, el título de este trabajo plantea al mismo tiempo una pregunta y su respuesta. Esta, como he tratado in extenso en un libro reciente, se inclina por el segundo de los términos contenidos en aquella. Pero, a decir verdad, el mérito de la precisión terminológica se remonta a autores que escribieron sobre el tema mucho tiempo atrás, lo que no ha impedido que las palabras resistencia y resistente hayan quedado arrinconadas por otras como bandolerismo, bandidismo, bandidaje y bandoleros, o para decirlo mejor, por ese vocablo de difícil precisión cronológica como es el de monfíes, que, a partir de 1526, se impuso a gazíes. Después de recordar, a modo de breve estado de la cuestión las principales aportaciones o sugerencias que se han hecho al tema del llamado “bandolerismo morisco”, analizaré los perfiles sociales de los protagonistas de la resistencia y de sus víctimas, los escenarios donde la practicaron de manera preferente y cómo fue reprimida.   PALABRAS CLAVES: Reino de Granada, moriscos, resistencia, Historia Social, represión social   ABSTRACT The title of this piece raises a question and suggests responses. This present study leans towards the latter of the two. The credit for this terminological precision must go to authors from the distant past. However, this has not prevented words like resistance and resistors from giving way to others related to banditry or to be more precise monfíes, which after 1526 replaced gazíes. After recalling the principal contributions or suggestions that have been made to the topic of so called “Moorish banditry”, I will analyze the social profiles of the protagonists of the resistance and of their victims, the places where they practiced it and how it was suppressed.   KEYWORDS: Kingdom of Granada, moriscos, resistance, social history, social repression

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