Knowledge Commons | Ottoman and Turkish Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/ottoman-and-turkish-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Ottoman and Turkish Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 76de8fad37150b3a6f0cf6d6f4c06efb Arif Camoglu deposited Gönül Ferman Dinlerse in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900461/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:49 -0400 Galib’in mesnevisindeki aşk hikayesi tahtlar, hazineler, keşifler ve ordularla bezenmiş bir emperyal düştür aynı zamanda. Sonunda kutsanan şey mistik boyutlara taşınmış mutlak sayılan siyasi otoritedir. Âşık olunan, kendisine tam bağlılığı esas bildiren, göze gelmeyen ama gözünden hiçbir şey kaçmayan bir yönetim tahayyülüdür. Bu hayalde nefs…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed8a7ab57f3cd4f3c7d6ce1c574acbb5 Arif Camoglu deposited Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896019/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:00:15 -0400 This essay reads Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)
as an entry point for an investigation of the entwinement between the
British anti-Black racial consciousness and orientalist rhetoric concerning
the Ottoman Empire. Montagu’s racially marked depictions of women in
Ottoman lands not only reveal the limits of her cap…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed364be2884a68085b6b0771ea33870 Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886343/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:01:11 -0400 While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d324daacfc0a7bec3ee279ceb018633 Nick Posegay deposited Hebrew Printing and Printers’ Colophons in the Cairo Genizah: Networking Book Trade in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862099/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:00:10 -0400 The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]

]]> 0 e482516a62d1798979ce63d0a2466184 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 16. Ziya Pasha, Reformist and/or Reactionary? Translations from the Hürriyet & Ḫarābāt in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838380/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:24:31 -0400 This working paper presents a full and annotated translation of two titles by 19th-century Ottoman author-cum-statesman Ziya Pasha: (1) a newspaper article written in exile, modern in terms of format and reformist in terms of tenor and providing an staunch and iconoclastic critique of Ottoman language and literature, and (2) the versified preface…[Read more]

]]> 0 42c50c07916049591e91ad6292be75da Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022) Foreword in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831518/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 02:25:06 -0500 The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

]]> 0 a0f9f5d88e9fd7d987da628ebe6a7a13 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 14. A Lion Walks into a Hammam... Mollā Lüṭfī (d. 1495) on Majāz/Allegory in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830238/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:24:03 -0500 A discussion of majāz or allegory that is commonly ascribed to the 15th-century Ottoman polygraph Mollā Lüṭfī and that builds on the works of al-Sakkākī and al-Qazwīnī.
The author gives two alternative overarching classifications: a linguistic vs. cognitive allegory classification, and a metaphor vs. hypallage classification that is supplemen…[Read more]

]]> 0 8eb269e7baf5d4ec4152c3d966feabb8 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 12. "The World's Richest yet Most Unfortunate Language" - Four Texts by Abdurrauf Fitrat on Uzbek Language & Literature in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788813/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:24:54 -0400 This working paper presents in full translation four texts of the Uzbek early 20th-century jadid reformist Abdurrauf Fitrat. Identifying educational reform as the main key to progress, he advocated for the emancipation and nationalisation of the Chaghatay/Uzbek language as a tool to educate the masses rather than to serve the interests of a…[Read more]

]]> 0 38fe390010d458701f9845bf4a1fd9ac Aqil Visram started the topic Open Library Courses in Islamic Studies in the discussion Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/ottoman-and-turkish-studies/forum/topic/open-library-courses-in-islamic-studies-4/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:40:08 -0400 Dear members of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies group,

Recently, the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched its inaugural Muslim superhero series, Ms. Marvel, starring Iman Vellani. According to Forbes, Ms. Marvel “is the highest scoring Disney Plus Marvel series ever.” I was very excited by this as I’m an undergraduate student at the Univers…[Read more]

]]> 985559292511ad1b2afcc04b2ea8e7e3 Astrid Menz deposited Gagauz : Gagauzca in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785684/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 02:24:04 -0400 Subject of this article is the Gagauz language, spoken by about 200,000 speakers, mainly in
the Republic of Moldova and the Ukraine. Linguistically, it is very close to Turkish but shows
several special features that have developed under the influence of Slavic languages. The
linguistic features of the Gagauz language will be examined and are…[Read more]

]]> 0 17c001b11b0602e9ec4af7d225de8aed Özkan Karaca deposited Tarihin İz Dokunduğu ve Ses Verdiği Güzergah İpek Yolu in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783000/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 02:23:50 -0400 Tarih boyunca kentler, kültür ve medeniyetlerin doğduğu, geliştiği ve yayıldığı yerler olmuştur. Kentler, tarihsel süreçte insanların çeşitli gereksinimlerinin ürünü olarak sürekli bir gelişme göstermiştir. Bu gelişme sürecinde hem insanlığın birikiminin gelecek kuşaklara taşıyıcısı, hem de taşıdığı uygarlık birikimi ile insanoğlunun geleceğini şe…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1380945502e98ac77a52757273441bd Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 11. Sitting in on an Ottoman Madrasa Course in Rhetoric. Gürānī's Interlinear Translation-cum-Commentary of the Preface of al-Qazwīni's Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782898/ Mon, 30 May 2022 02:24:02 -0400 This working paper presents a 16th- or 17th-century Ottoman translation-cum-commentary of the preface and introduction of one of the classics of Islamicate rhetoric, al-Qazwīnī’s Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ (The Key’s Digest), a 14th-century work on rhetoric based on al-Sakkākī’s 13th-century seminal Miftāḥ al-ʿUlūm (The Key of Sciences). This part…[Read more]

]]> 0 49ed4d30d4876158e1d58c461ecd8fd6 Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782564/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:24:07 -0400 The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]

]]> 0 17b1b0373ff899dedcc30ae4c825b21e James Ryan deposited Ideology on Trial: The Prosecution of Leftists and Pan-Turkists at the Dawn of the Cold War in Turkey, 1944-1947 in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782091/ Fri, 20 May 2022 02:25:37 -0400 This article investigates the prosecution of key members of two distinct wings of the Turkish intelligentsia at the dawn of the Cold War. As Turkey emerged from World War II having maintained a delicate neutrality for nearly the entire conflict, the patterns of repression in the public sphere shifted markedly to accommodate both fears of Soviet…[Read more]

]]> 0 373a3fe4096b9409c7139e2e27013423 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 9. Sugary Gratitude, Strolling Cypresses, Clouds Pouring Grass. Ḥalīmī on Paranomasia, Simile, and Metonymy in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776605/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 02:24:05 -0400 The translation of a short treatise on paranomasia, simile, and metonymy, by the foremost Persian-Turkish lexicographer of the 15th century, Lütfu’llāh el–Ḥalīmī. The text combines a rather dense and elliptic prose style with a remarkably lucid and clear-cut typology of seven types of tajnīs, seven types of tashbīh, and nine types of majāz, ofte…[Read more]

]]> 0 9597cb5baeb1099ccad33c0899f86f1a Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 8. Rūmī's Drivel, Sayyids' Chicanery, Poets' Doggerel. Three Azerbaijani Texts by Ākhūnd-Zāde in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765718/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:24:01 -0500 In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the second centennial of Ākhūndzade's birth, three Azerbaijani texts in translation by the Molière of Azerbaijan. The texts—one poem, one letter, and one prose text—reflect Ākhūndzāde's sharp, sometimes vitriolic, take on Rūmī ’s teaching (a dangerous, incomprehensible word jumble), most poetry and po…[Read more]

]]> 0 d28c3d5bc1be325132eed32ae76d46d3 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 6. Nevāʾī's Meter of Meters. Introduction & Partial Translation in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756819/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:24:05 -0400 Are you tripping over your own feet, incapable of advancing even a single metre, when it comes to understanding the technicalities of the feet and metres of pre-modern Islamicate poetry? Then you should probably not consult Nevāʾī’s Meter of Meters, since you are better off with the works of a Wheeler Thackston or a Finn Thiesen... If, howe…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0ec36b75b62b11f0c92a031fd238de8 Patrick Hart deposited The Eye of a Stranger: Henrietta Liston’s Turkish Journals in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756615/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:26:12 -0400 Henrietta Liston, wife of a British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, recorded her travels in a private journal, now held in the National Library of Scotland. Together with academics from Bilkent University in Ankara, the Library is currently working to publish the journal for the first time. Dora Petherbridge,…[Read more]

]]> 0 553344c0cb45f5e87b388acb8181000b James Ryan deposited "A Turk Named O'Brien": Bedtime Stories of the Early Turkish Republic from the Memoirs of Sevim Sertel O'Brien in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754498/ Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:23:49 -0400 This article examines the unpublished memoirs of Sevim Sertel O'Brien, a journalist and daughter of prominent journalists and intellectuals Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel. The memoirs, written in English and told as bedtime stories to O'Brien's Turkish-American children in the 1950s and 1960s, provide a unique lens on the early history of the Turkish…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b44e1d5cd03928cc9b815227efc6441 James Ryan deposited "'Unveiling' The Tramway": The Intimate Public Sphere in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754495/ Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:23:42 -0400 With the introduction of the horse-drawn tramway in 1871, the citizens of Istanbul were forced to reckon with a new type of public space—the crowded confines of the tramcar. This article focuses on the removal of a curtain that separated men and women on public transit in 1923, analyzing the discourses that shaped the decision and the way in w…[Read more]

]]> 0 de1688f75611877162943bfe697fe094 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 5. Enderūnlu Ḥasan-i Yāver's Poetry's Artistry, or How to "Turn Words into Licit Magic" in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750086/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:27:16 -0400 Purportedly in response to a request by his unnamed beloved one, the late 18th-century Ottoman poet Ḥasan-i Yāver wrote Poetry’s Artistry, a 441-verse mathnawī that offers some hands-on advice for trying one’s hand at poetry. As tashbīh, jinās, kināya, taḍādd, taḍmīn, ilmām, iltifāt, tardīd, ishtibāh, tawriya, īhām, takhmīs, tarkīb-band,…[Read more]

]]> 0 656720912a4519f8cabcb1d4bdfe00de Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733900/ Mon, 05 Apr 2021 02:23:43 -0400 This conference, co-organized by the Istanbul Research Institute
and Pera Museum, through local and international collaborations, seeks to offer new
insights on the complex layers of Istanbul’s urban landscape. It brings together innovative
studies in the fields of environmental history, political ecology, and critical art studies t…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4a64b1730a23ce712aa266048762fb7 A. Hilal Ugurlu deposited Philanthropy in the Form of a Hair Strand: Sacred Relics in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lands in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723058/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 02:24:24 -0500 From the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the caliphal status and the legitimacy of the Ottoman sultans were constantly and increasingly challenged. One of the most effective and powerful tools that they utilized in order to strengthen their diminishing image in the eyes of their subjects was the re-appropriation of sacred places, either by…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5949f72765877d85f74528525830dc4 Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited "Foreword." YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020) in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721114/ Thu, 31 Dec 2020 02:23:51 -0500 "Foreword." YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020): 3

]]> 0 8b01765db534ca3ebd94158e36a29790 Eldar T. Hasanov deposited The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey: The Role of Socio-Psychological Factors in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715351/ Tue, 03 Nov 2020 02:23:56 -0500 The factors behind the rise of Islamism in Turkey remain the subject of intense scholarly debate. There are remarkable relationships between the rise of Islamism and preceding changes in population dynamics in Turkey. Rapid urbanization and large-scale migration of Kurds and other ethnic minorities from the east of the county to major cities in…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c6cabff960f8d1f7796ac5864208b82 Stacy Fahrenthold deposited “Claimed by Turkey as Subjects”: Ottoman Migrants, Foreign Passports, and Syrian Nationality in the Americas, 1915–1925 in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713536/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 02:24:14 -0400 Unofficial Description: In Arab American studies, it's long been understood that Syrian immigrants became "legally white" in 1915's George Dow v United States. This access to whiteness was critical in getting access to US citizenship. However, US laws governing Syrian racial status also bore implications beyond the US context. Starting with Dow…[Read more]

]]> 0 029a5990b1c0c363f07b9e3dcfd4a702 Ceyda Elgul deposited Lives in Turkish: A Database of Biography in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1709588/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:24:56 -0400 "Lives in Turkish" is an ongoing research project held at Boğaziçi University Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies. We trace the journey of life-writing in Turkish, collect metadata and visuals about biographical publications and biography subjects introduced to the Turkish reader since the early 1800s. Our aim is to propose a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 d251b9228bff7e22e6b624c0774d8599 Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited CfP: Cities on Fire: Environmental History of Urban Conflagrations in Early Modern and Modern Periods in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1709460/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 02:24:01 -0400 Papers focusing on the urban environmental history of fires are invited for a panel to be submitted to
the European Society for Environmental History conference, which will be held at the
University of Bristol in July 2021.

]]> 0 5519cf3ae1ffdb91e12c2814fbb4095b Troy E. Spier deposited The Great Crime: An Aintab Diary in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674251/ Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:28:31 -0500 This real-life memoir chronicles the journey of Arousiag Magarian over a four year period as she struggles to survive during the Armenian Genocide (1915-1919). Originally written in a small notebook in Armenian, the authors (Arpi Poladian and Troy E. Spier) have translated and prepared for the reader a version in literary English that hopes to…[Read more]

]]> 0 65fd8e3eb87c1b5875a0a32a312b8967 Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 1 (2019) - Foreword in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674013/ Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:25:39 -0500 Rising on the shoulders of the İstanbul Araştırmaları Yıllığı / Annual of Istanbul Studies, the relaunched YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies is now peer-reviewed. Thanks to a reformed advisory board, whose expertise covers all periods and disciplines in the study of Istanbul’s past and present, the journal now sets a much higher academic…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9d4dc1333b4faeb15969858c01f3762 Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Doğanın “Kozmopolis”i: Terkos Suyolu Boyunca Kentliler, Köylüler ve Hayvanlar in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1671354/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 16:25:32 -0500 2019'da yayımlanan “Nature’s ‘Cosmopolis’: Villagers, Engineers, and Animals along Terkos Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul.” In The Seeds of Power: Explorations in the Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Onur Inal and Yavuz Köse, 155-183 (Winwick: The White Horse Press, 2019) makalemin, kısaltılarak Türkçe'ye çev…[Read more]

]]> 0 7792b8513a13efd38aa065b1b57b70d3 Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Hafıza-i Beşer: Osmanlı Yazmalarından Hikâyeler | Memories of Humankind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668579/ Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:25:51 -0400 The opening text for the exhibition Hafıza-i Beşer: Osmanlı Yazmalarından Hikâyeler | Memories of Humankind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts, organized by the Istanbul Research Institute, open between October 18, 2019 - July 25, 2020.

Sergi Küratörü/Exhibition Curator
K. Mehmet Kentel

Danısmanlar/Advisors
M. Baha Tanman, Selim S.…[Read more]

]]> 0 c20b8d64003262da6b3c183411a11e52 Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Assembling ‘Cosmopolitan’ Pera: An Infrastructural History of Late Ottoman Istanbul in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660568/ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:26:37 -0400 The abstract of my doctoral dissertation, which I defended on December 2018 at the University of Washington, with distinction.

]]> 0 4fc23ae428b86cf251c19ba5e23c1a99 Koca Mehmet Kentel posted an update in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies: The journal of İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü is being […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643666/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:30:06 -0400 The journal of İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü is being relaunched as a peer-reviewed, open-access journal with a wonderful and diverse advisory board, an article prize, and a new name: YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies.

Please share the announcement widely with your colleagues and students, consider submitting articles and book reviews, and k…[Read more]

]]> 0 26eace4389eef5282846f5e9b701e427 Stacy Fahrenthold deposited Arab Labor Migration in the Americas, 1880–1930 in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641501/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:08 -0400 Between 1880 and 1924, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another, Arab migrants entered the manufacturing industries of the settler societies they inhabited, including industrial…[Read more]

]]> 0 9753a32d41b3e808a4d616e52fad5d5f Astrid Menz deposited Türkeitürkische kontrafaktische Konditionalkonstruktionen in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635443/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:27:17 -0400 On counterfactual conditional clauses in Turkish

]]> 0 753ceaac422f56626953cdc60807c765 Astrid Menz deposited Türkiye Türkçenin ağızlarında örnekseme (yakıştırma) yoluyla oluşan biçimbirimsel özellikler in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635441/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:26:48 -0400 On morphological features in Turkish dialects of Northeast Turkey developed by analogy.

]]> 0 e5f449c3491c54d66fa8f45b4d263cab Astrid Menz deposited The idioms and dialogues in the Grammaire turque ou méthode courte & faciles pour apprendre la langue turque (1730) in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635439/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:26:19 -0400 On an Ottoman grammar book from 1730 written by a French Jesuit. The article focuses on the question whether the Ottoman language material given in Latin script reveals information on the state of the ongoing morphophonological changes from early Ottoman to modern Turkish.

]]> 0 5931701e634558a7beb1380e14361223 Astrid Menz deposited Türkçenin Yazımına Yeni Bir Yaklaşım: Sesbilimsellik Mitinin Sorgulanması in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635437/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:25:50 -0400 Article on Turkish orthography and its acquisiton

]]> 0 77d91c6915a19717880deda7425a12ad Stacy Fahrenthold deposited Making nations, in the Mahjar: Syrian and Lebanese long-distance nationalisms in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, 1913-1929 in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631008/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:25:27 -0500 This dissertation traces the emergence of transnational political institutions among Arabophone Ottoman emigrants living in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and analyzes the development of a long-distance nationalist politics among emigrant activists during and after World War I. Using socially-produced primary materials written and…[Read more]

]]> 0 97c7e06d44ceca994adc8d593b317594 Astrid Menz deposited İran-Azericesinde ve Gagavuzcada Dil Ilişkisinden Kaynaklanan Yapısal Benzerlikler in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624829/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:29:00 -0500 On structural similarities in Azeri of Iran and Gagauz due to contact with Indo-Iranan languages

]]> 0 ace147590717315c6c85e1b5994384bc Astrid Menz deposited Doğu Grubu Ağızlarında –miş ve imiş. in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624827/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:28:29 -0500 On an isogloss of the Eastern Turkish dialects

]]> 0 5b8e19f13429d7ffe67be287003782fd Astrid Menz deposited Erzurum Ağzında Ermenice Ödünç Sözcükler in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624825/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:27:59 -0500 On Armenian loanwords in the Turkish dialects of Erzurum

]]> 0 479f11419207410a3dffeb3c9071cd9c Astrid Menz deposited Gagauzca’da Alıntı Sözcükler in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624823/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:27:27 -0500 On loanwords in Gagauz, a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Moldovs, the Ukraine and Bulgaria.

]]> 0 6acbc033cfaf16243b798b7b1238e431 Astrid Menz deposited On complex sentences in Gagauz in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624822/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:27:27 -0500 Article on several syntactic characteristics of Gagauz complex sentences, which developed under the influence of the dominant Slavic languages.

]]> 0 340bb559b9e7903f29f3deea393fc3ce Astrid Menz deposited Slav Dillerinin Gagauzcaya Etkisi in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624820/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:26:56 -0500 Article on the influence of the Slavic languages Bulgarian and Russian on Gagauz, a Turkish dialect spoken in the Republic of Moldova, the Ukraine and Bulgaria.

]]> 0 04f2ab85928576880dae035ead82bf1c Astrid Menz deposited Analytic modal constructions in Gagauz in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624818/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:26:26 -0500 Due to language-contact phenomena Gagauz shows significant deviations from Turkic patterns, most obvious on the syntactic level. In what follows, I will deal with a set of modal constructions expressing volition, necessity, ability and possibility. Expressions for volition and necessity are formed in Gagauz analytically using the same lexical and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cef0a6b8bb7392ddd7179464bd61108 Astrid Menz deposited The dialects of Erzurum: Some remarks on adverbial clauses in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624816/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:25:53 -0500 This article aims to describe some types of adverbial clauses in the dialects of Erzurum.
For this purpose I have investigated published and unpublished material collected in the
region between 1966 and 1980. I concentrated on converb forms and clause patterns that
are unusual from the viewpoint of Standard Turkish. The converb forms are either…[Read more]

]]> 0 106ce87134b27445d21aee87babfa68d Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Caricaturizing “Cosmopolitan” Pera: Play, Critique, and Absence in Yusuf Franko's Caricatures, 1884–1896 in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1618988/ Sat, 22 Sep 2018 16:25:26 -0400 This article explores a unique series of caricatures made between 1884 and 1896 by Yusuf Franko Kusa, a high-ranking Ottoman bureaucrat and a vener- ated member of n-de-siècle Pera’s high society. Yusuf Franko’s hitherto unstudied caricatures were comparable to contemporary European caricatures in style, but their subject matter was very loca…[Read more]

]]> 0 104a2d379512ac374a71fb0ba898c1d4 Stacy Fahrenthold deposited An Archaeology of Rare Books in Arab Atlantic History in the group Ottoman and Turkish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615180/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:27:49 -0400 Part of a larger roundtable series on Arab American histories for the Journal of American Ethnic History.

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