#Istanbul culture, history & architecture goes beyond #Ottomanhistory. There's much more to see, like this #ArtNouveau tomb built for sheikh at start of 20th cent. Visit it with my #Istanbul50UnsungPlaces guidebook, without paying for a taxi or a guide amzn.to/3zfDA8I
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Sharia in the Ottoman Empire did not mean erasing Christian and Jewish courts. It meant layered legal authority.
Pluralism wasn’t modern liberal equality. It was negotiated coexistence.
History resists slogans. 🕌
#OttomanHistory #ReligiousPluralism #Brewminate
#Istanbul culture, history & architecture goes beyond #Ottomanhistory. There's much more to see, like this #postmodernmosque. Visit it with my #Istanbul50UnsungPlaces guidebook, without paying for a taxi or a guide amzn.to/3zfDA8I
Yok Artık! - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #4thTo20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #EuropeanHistory #RomanImperialHistory #BarbarianHistory #ByzantineHistory #TurkishHistory #OttomanHistory #AnatolianHistory #HistBookChat
Dictionaries and laptops are on the desk, and books are on the bookshelves in the background.
From our work yesterday: 10 pages of transliteration and translation still left for final checking. Pretty challenging syntax at times. Still: 18th c. manuscripts.
#ottomanhistory
Hezarfen Hüseyin Efendi (d. 1691) describes the vessels of the Ottoman fleet and and their crews. For example: Galley: Between the stern and the bow (2 bodostima) of a galley the length used to be 41.69 m. ... Source: from my article "Galley Slaves and Agency: The Driving Force of the Ottoman Fleet" p.137.
An Ottoman galley
Hezarfen Hüseyin Efendi (d. 1691) describes the vessels of the Ottoman fleet and and their crews.
Source: from my article "Galley Slaves and Agency: The Driving Force of the Ottoman Fleet" p.137.
#maritimehistory #ships #ottomanhistory
Cariye referred to ensl9ved women in the Ottoman Empire who served in domestic roles or as concubines within elite households, particularly the imperial harem. It reflected gendered slav8ry, hierarchical training, and social control.
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#IslamicLaw
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"Two galleons are built here each year." (from the 18th c. manuscript)
On the Naval Arsenal in Saint Petersburg in 1772.
#MaritimeHistory #OttomanHistory
Map. Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean and the Black Sea. Kitāb-ı Baḥriye (Book of Navigation) by Pīrī Reʾīs (d. 1554 CE). This is a seventeenth- century edition. Walters Ms. W.658, fol. 63b. Reproduced with permission of The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The image is taken from: Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen, "Introduction: A Transitional Point of View." In:The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century, edited by Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen (Goettingen: V & R unipress, 2017), pp. 13-32 (here: 32).
Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea from Kitāb-ı Baḥriye (Book of Navigation) by Piri Reis (d. 1554), Ottoman cartographer and grand admiral
#maritimehistory #Ottomanhistory #maps #earlymodern
This is how I work on Ottoman Turkish with Claude (and Gemini) to visually capture, transliterate, translate, extract named entitities, and contextualise C19th and early C20th Ottoman Turkish documents. generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-th... #Ottomanhistory @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
Many thanks Dr Sen. I would be delighted to send you further documentation, and if you have test printed (or well structured bureaucratic handwritten text) similar to the following documents we could test them together @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social @justagalandadog.bsky.social #Ottomanhistory
May be of interest #Ottomanhistory @guel-sen.bsky.social @sariyannis.bsky.social @elifbengusuarik.bsky.social
Exciting exhibition!
"The dagger’s story is rooted in a time when England’s court was acutely aware of the rising power of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566)."
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Exciting!
#OttomanHistory #MaritimeHistory
A pile of dictionaries sits on a desk; bookshelves are visible in the background.
2025, #1:
Our indispensable companions in 2025:
📚All these dictionaries are necessary when working on premodern Ottoman Turkish texts. Especially amazing:
📕J. T. Zenker: Dictionnaire turc-arabe-persan (1866)
📕Tarama Sözlüğü, 8 vols. ed. by Cem Dilçin, TTK (1963)
#readings #OttomanHistory
We are editing the translation of an 18th- century manuscript.
This is a late 18th-century manuscript written in Ottoman-Turkish.
Dec. 30 / Day 2 of the joint working session: exhausted but satisfied with closing the year 2025 with a "typical" work of the Ottoman studies. Unfortunately, we could not finalize all edits for the final publication, but hopefully very soon.
#history #OttomanHistory #research
The cover page of the edited volume: The Ottoman Monuments in Greece Revisited: A Tribute to Machiel Kiel, edited by Paschalis Androudis, Aikaterini Markou, and Dimitris Loupis. Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2025. 51 contributions, 761 pages.
🎉This monumental coll. volume will be available soon: The Ottoman Monuments in Greece Revisited: A Tribute to Machiel Kiel, edited by Paschalis Androudis, Aikaterini Markou, a. Dimitris Loupis. Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2025.
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New blog post - Guest Blog - Elizabeth Titzel Visits Palestine. www.amymittelman.com/guest-blog-e... #palestine #ottomanhistory
![In June 1648, during the Ottoman siege of Crete. This passage describes the blocking of the Dardanelles, a tactic frequently applied by the Venetians, and the resulting shortage of supplies from Istanbul for the Ottoman units that were already stationed on a part of the island.
This quotation is taken from "Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Chronicle of Naima" by Gul Sen. It says: The governors’ ships came with only dried words and brought no piece of food or ammunition. [They] said, “The rusks for our enslaved galley slaves will last for only three days. What shall we give them after that?” And they hoped to obtain food [supply] from Crete.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wndqpdlapjwhnnln5du2dqyg/bafkreibhdl32y67azpshxszskty6rbrcfcjzpnvvnksojkegrztoeoz3v4)
In June 1648, during the Ottoman siege of Crete. This passage describes the blocking of the Dardanelles, a tactic frequently applied by the Venetians, and the resulting shortage of supplies from Istanbul for the Ottoman units that were already stationed on a part of the island. This quotation is taken from "Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Chronicle of Naima" by Gul Sen. It says: The governors’ ships came with only dried words and brought no piece of food or ammunition. [They] said, “The rusks for our enslaved galley slaves will last for only three days. What shall we give them after that?” And they hoped to obtain food [supply] from Crete.
June 30, 1648, during the Ottoman siege of Crete. Galley slaves need food..
#maritimehistory #navalhistory #ottomanhistory
The Mariner's Mirror Podcast of the Society for Nautical Research:
🔗shows.acast.com/f547f9fb-a077-4e85-b19a-...
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Damascus streets always look like they’re holding a thousand whispered stories — empires passing, families staying, stone remembering everything. 1899 feels close when the light hits like this. Time folds in the Levant. #OttomanHistory #Syria
The Karamanlides stay haunting the archives — Greek in faith, Turkish in tongue, writing their mother’s prayers in Greek letters. A whole hybrid world that nationalism later broke on purpose. Empires fall; the people they erased still whisper. #OttomanHistory #Anatolia
Really looking forward to this. Especially, to seeing any parallels with the Ottoman Navy and its material culture in the Early Modern period.
#OttomanHistory #earlymodern #maritimeHistory #blueskybooks
Cover illustration: Upper left: The title page of the second volume of the Historiae Osmanidarum (Plenck). Upper right: The introduction to the Tārīḫ-i Naʿīmā in MS Ragıp Paşa 996. Below: A detail view showing sultan Selīm III’s private library, including the Tārīḫ-i Naʿīmā. Author: Gül Şen Title: Making sense of history : narrativity and literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na’ima Published: by Brill in Leiden, The Netherlands Publication date: July 25, 2022.
This is my second book: Making Sense of History:
Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 390 pp.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
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#earlymodern #OttomanHistory
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Our researcher Enise Şeyda Kapusuz defends her #PhD thesis on modernization, photography, and women in late Ottoman Istanbul between the #1910s and the #1920s 👉 loom.ly/qZZ8dEo
📚🎓 #GenderHistory #OttomanHistory
Three photos of Machiel Kiel. In the third photo he is together with his wife Hedda Reindl-Kiel Kiel. The photo was taken by the author Gül Sen in Sofia 2018.
Machiel Kiel during a field work in the 1970s
From my "Machiel Kiel: A Memoir." Kadim 10 (October 2025): 283-289.
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