Livestreaming
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Rowan Ashraf Aly:
Accessing memory: Negotiating challenges and possibilities of oral history in understanding post WWII apartment housing in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Explore indexed nüfüs defters (census records) from Ottoman archives. Click on any highlighted territory to view available records at oedemography.org

A wonderful array of paratextual features are on fine display in this massive (526 folios) 1642 Ottoman Turkish mecmū'a that encompassed an array of genres and authors, the joint work of the münādī Aḥmed Ibn Mūsā and the kātib Muṣṭafā Ibn Aḥmed (SBB Ms. or. quart. 1988):

A nice review of my latest book by Faruk Akyıldız (in Turkish)
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Capitalism Had a Beginning and Will Someday End Historian Sven Beckert on where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down.

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Mustafa Altuğ Yayla - Orta Sınıf 17. Yüzyıl Avrasya’sında Resimli Kitaplar ve "Orta Sınıfın" Yükselişi?Japonya ve Osmanlı’dan Örnekler

Illustrated books and the rise of a middle class in 17th-c. Eurasian cities. Inspiring remarks by Mustafa Altuğ Yayla

In case the link requires subscription, this is the (forthcoming) book I'm talking about:

On an Eighteenth-Century Sephardic Trade Manual from Constantinople: Binyamin Shilton’s Hoshev Mahshavot Translated and Explained What if commerce in the early modern world was not just a profession —but a science, a language, and even a form of literature?

There is a thriving literature of 18th-c. Ottoman trade manuals. We also know of a couple of Greek and Ottoman Turkish ones. A comparative study would be path-breaking for Ottoman economic (but also social and economic) history.

Merchants of Knowledge | Stanford University Press Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of ...

Meanwhile, what I'm reading these days:
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Debīrī: The 17th-Century Jewish Poet who Translated the Psalms into Ottoman Turkish Despite extensive research on Ottoman Jews, scholarly attention on their cultural activities has largely remained confined to works produced in Hebrew, Ladino, and Arabic. This article is the inaugura...

Just read this fascinating piece by Şeyma Benli. A translation of Psalms commissioned by the agha of the harem! Jewish literary and scientific (incl. occultist) production in the Ottoman context seems like the next big thing.

An important update for applicants in our MA in Ottoman history. Deadline is 27 April!
Downloadable links here: www.academia.edu/165671803/UP...

#481 - The Ottoman Empire and the Supernatural: A Dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis about the Supernatural in the Early and Middle Ottoman periods.

Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis about the Supernatural in the Early and Middle Ottoman periods.

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#481 - The Ottoman Empire and the Supernatural: A Dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis about the Supernatural in the Early and Middle Ottoman periods.

Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis about the Supernatural in the Early and Middle Ottoman periods.

convergingdialogues.substack.com/p/481-the-ot...

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Nothing like an old good Persianate miniature!

My book is now available on paperback too! And considerably cheaper (well, if ~50€ is cheap) as well.

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A wonderful and thorough research on a fascinating story, combining Ottoman microhistory at its best with masterful command of the sociopolitical framework. Kudos to Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak and to @gordiumyay.bsky.social !

From the comments I gather that my English is rather unintelligible, at least to the Turkish audience 😒I apologize for this!
(but I'm happy to read that "hocanın türkçesi ingilizcesinden daha iyiydi bence" ☺️)

Osmanlı Siyasi Düşüncesine İçeriden Bir Bakış | Konuk: Marinos Sariyannis YouTube video by Arkhé Tarih

My discussion with Eren Cerrahoğlu and Arsen Nişanyan on Ottoman political thought. Thanks to both for their highly interesting questions and remarks!

Osmanlı Siyasi Düşüncesine İçeriden Bir Bakış | Konuk: Marinos Sariyannis

I am so happy to have been invited as a keynote speaker to this magnificent event, organized bottom-up by the postgraduate students themselves. Well done for the quality of papers, the admirable hospitality, the excellent organization!

Not very plausibly, if you refer to the massacres of 40,000 Kizilbash! I think Feridun Emecen has shown convincingly that this is a posterior construct that seems to have little historical basis.

🗣️ Το προνόμιο ως σχέση:
Οθωμανικό δίκαιο, φορολογία και διαπραγμάτευση στις μονές Μεγάλου Μετεώρου και Βαρλαάμ (16ος–17ος αι.)

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Desire Before Sexuality: An Interview with Selim S. Kuru by Nilab Saeedi

Nilab Saeedi interviews Selim Kuru on Ottoman sexuality -- not to be missed!

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My new article has just been published in the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law.

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I wonder if 21st century privatization, or "state enclosure", might be compared to 17th-18th century European "land enclosure" trends, which eventually fed urbanization, industrial revolution, and the rise of Capitalism. If the analogy works, where are we headed next?

Άλλα μέτρα, που ζητούν περισσότερο κρατική υποστήριξη, προκαλούν κάποια θλίψη σε όσους εργάζονται στο ελληνικό οικοσύστημα έρευνας, αν και βέβαια η καθιέρωση προσωποπαγών θέσεων σε ERC Grantees έχει φέρει αποτελέσματα και εδώ.