Istanbul's Jewish Bookstores: Monuments to a Bygone Era

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-179
Author(s):  
Rifat Bali
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
Early Republican

In the Turkish cultural sphere there is very limited information available on the history of bookstores, although they are considered among the most important places of Istanbul’s cultural life. One can come across scraps of information either in recollections on Babıâli or in some memoirs devoted to the history of the rare books trade in Turkey. Traditionally the rare books trade and bookstores were mostly in the hands of Armenians, Greeks and Jews in the Ottoman Empire and early Republican years. However there is not much information available on these dealers and store owners. Not holding broader information about the three Jewish bookstores studied in this article stems from such lack of information and documentation.

HATİCE SULTAN (NEŞETÂBÂD) SARAYI GRAVÜRÜ ÖRNEKLEMİNDE DEĞİŞEN İSTANBUL KÜLTÜRÜ

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Nazlı Ece GEYİK ◽  
Musa BİLİK
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Topographic Image ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
The West ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Structure

The fact that the Ottoman Empire was an exotic and mysterious Eastern country has been an important issue that has great meaning for Western orientalist engraving artists. The natural landscape, topographic image, mosques, palaces, daily life and the Bosphorus of Istanbul which is the capital of the Empire, were important elements that lived in the engravings of many painters. After going to Europe, many of these painters turned their paintings into an album with the technique of Engraving. These albums have survived to the present day as a historical document introducing the socio-cultural life of the Ottoman Empire. 18. in the century, Sultan III. During Selim's period, there were serious changes and transformations in the cultural sense. During this period, the Ottoman palace opened its doors to Western artists, and a culture that developed under the influence of the West began to gain a place, especially in Istanbul. In this article, after briefly mentioning the history of Engraving art, information is given about the life of the Orientalist Painter Melling, who grew up under the influence of the Renaissance period in Europe and turned his face to the East. After mentioning the artist's work as a painter and architect in Istanbul, his relationship with Hatice Sultan, the sister of Sultan Selim III, and the dimensions of this relationship were evaluated. It is aimed to examine the change and transformation of the palace and the socio-cultural structure of the period through the Neşetabad Palace engraving made by Melling.

scholarly journals The history of the study of mycobiota in West Kazakhstan region

2021 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
S.A. Abiev ◽  
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T.E. Darbayeva ◽  
A.N. Sarsenova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
The West ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
West Kazakhstan

The Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) considers conservation, research and conservation as a guarantee of ecosystem sustainability. One of the most pressing problems in the Republic of Kazakhstan is the conservation of biodiversity and the rational use of biological resources. Fungi as heterotrophic organisms play a vital role in the functioning of any ecosystem. Although the fungi depend on plants, leaning towards sufficiently closed connections with certain plant communities, plant communities, in turn, are not able to exist without fungi. The study of macromycetes as components of biogeocenosis, is impossible without studying their species composition. The lack of information about macromycetes in the regions under study prevents not only the diversification and exhaustion of the study of the corresponding ecosystem and the development of a comprehensive approach to the protection of natural resources in the department. Especially limited information about the microflora of the West Kazakhstan region, the introduction of only episodic data requires a review of the history of the study of mycobiotics. This is evidenced by the materials provided in this article.

The Great Armenian Flight: Migration and Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Henry R. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Ottoman History ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

Abstract The seventeenth century was a turning-point in the cultural and demographic history of the Ottoman Empire. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, Ottoman-Armenian subjects began to flee en masse from the Celali Revolts, war with Persia, and famine in Eastern Anatolia to more secure territories in Western Anatolia, Istanbul, and Thrace. This article documents the arrival of Armenian refugees in Thrace using Ottoman Turkish court records from the coastal town of Rodosto (Tekirdağ). After describing the micro-history of an Armenian refugee crisis, this article suggests that these migrations played a catalyzing role in the rise of a distinct “Western Armenian” culture and society, which developed for the first time in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. The rise of this new society was an event of great importance in Ottoman history, as the Armenians would become a critical part of Ottoman economic and cultural life in the empire’s coastal trade cities.

Retrospectives: Uses of history of science in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
ALPER BILGILI
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science Book ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
Late Ottoman

I am a Turkish student of [the] History of Science and have been working on the subject within the last six years for the preparation of a History of Science [book] in Turkish.

Битвазапрошлое:храмсвятогоГеоргия вИзраавэпицентре церковно-политическойборьбыконцаXIXв.

2019 ◽  
pp. 256-281
Author(s):  
E.M. Kopot`
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church

The article brings up an obscure episode in the rivalry of the Orthodox and Melkite communities in Syria in the late 19th century. In order to strengthen their superiority over the Orthodox, the Uniates attempted to seize the church of St. George in Izraa, one of the oldest Christian temples in the region. To the Orthodox community it presented a threat coming from a wealthier enemy backed up by the See of Rome and the French embassy. The only ally the Antioch Patriarchate could lean on for support in the fight for its identity was the Russian Empire, a traditional protector of the Orthodox Arabs in the Middle East. The documents from the Foreign Affairs Archive of the Russian Empire, introduced to the scientific usage for the first time, present a unique opportunity to delve into the history of this conflict involving the higher officials of the Ottoman Empire as well as the Russian embassy in ConstantinopleВ статье рассматривается малоизвестный эпизод соперничества православной и Мелкитской общин в Сирии в конце XIX века. Чтобы укрепить свое превосходство над православными, униаты предприняли попытку захватить церковь Святого Георгия в Израа, один из старейших христианских храмов в регионе. Для православной общины он представлял угрозу, исходящую от более богатого врага, поддерживаемого Римским престолом и французским посольством. Единственным союзником, на которого Антиохийский патриархат мог опереться в борьбе за свою идентичность, была Российская Империя, традиционный защитник православных арабов на Ближнем Востоке. Документы из архива иностранных дел Российской Империи, введены в научный оборот впервые, уникальная возможность углубиться в историю этого конфликта с участием высших должностных лиц в Османской империи, а также российского посольства в Константинополе.

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