Cemal Kafadar

dört Osmanlı : Yeniçeri, tüccar, derviş ve hatun

Kim var imiş biz burada yoğ iken

Diyar-i Rumda Kültürel Cografya ve Kimlik Üzerine

Kendine Ait Bir Roma

Osmanli Devletinin Kurulusu

Iki Cihan Aresinde

Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans during the late Middle Ages. This highly original look at the rise of the Ottoman empire—the longest-lived political entity in human history—shows the transformation of a tiny frontier enterprise into a centralized imperial state that saw itself as both leader of the world's Muslims and heir to the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Construction of the Ottoman State

Between Two Worlds

Osmanlı Devleti'nin kuruluşu

İki cihan aresinde

Gülru Necipoğlu

Cornell H. Fleischer

The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, the publication of this unique inventory opens a larger conversation about Ottoman and Islamic intellectual/cultural history. The very creation of such a systematically ordered inventory of books raises broad questions about knowledge production and practices of collecting, readership, librarianship, and the arts of the book at the dawn of the sixteenth century. The first volume contains twenty-eight interpretative essays on this fascinating document, authored by a team of scholars from diverse disciplines, including Islamic and Ottoman history, history of science, arts of the book and codicology, agriculture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, occultism, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, mysticism, political thought, ethics, literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish/Turkic), philology, and epistolary. Following the first three essays by the editors on implications of the library inventory as a whole, the other essays focus on particular fields of knowledge under which books are catalogued in MS Török F. 59, each accompanied by annotated lists of entries. The second volume presents a transliteration of the Arabic manuscript, which also features an Ottoman Turkish preface on method, together with a reduced-scale facsimile.

Volume I: Essays / Volume II: Transliteration and Facsimile "Register of Books" (Kitāb al-kutub), MS Török F. 59; Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény (Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)

Halil İnalcık

Süleymân the Second and His Time

Nurhan Atasoy

Karin Ådahl

“Avcı” diye anılan Sultan IV. Mehmed’in, 1657 yılı sonbaharında, büyük bir kalabalık eşliğinde Edirne’ye ava gidişi çok büyük bir gösteriye dönüşmüş, o yıllarda İstanbul’da İsveç büyükelçisi olarak bulunan Claes Rålamb da, yaptırdığı bir dizi yağlıboya resimle bu yolculuğun ilk bölümünün bir “görsel kaydının” tarihe kalmasını sağlamıştı. Yirmi tablodan oluşan ve bugün İsveç’teki Nordiska Museet’te korunan bu neredeyse “sinematografik” kaydın sergilenebilir durumdaki on altı parçalık bölümü, sözünü ettiğimiz olaydan yaklaşık üç yüz elli yıl sonra, yeniden İstanbul’a, Pera Müzesi’ne konuk oldu. Ava meraklı bir padişah, sanatsever bir büyükelçi, adsız bir ressam ve 17. yüzyıl giysileri içinde tablodan tabloya sessizce yürüyen Osmanlılar... Avcı Mehmed’in Alay-ı Hümayunu, gerek sanatsal, gerekse tarihsel açıdan çok yönlü okumalara açık bir bilmece-sergi ve kataloğu oldu. -- Sultan Mehmed IV, remembered as Mehmed the Hunter because of his passion for hunting, departed for Edirne in 1657 on a hunting expedition with a large entourage in a display of imperial majesty that has been preserved for history as a visual document in the form of a series of oil paintings commissioned by Claes Rålamb, then the Swedish Ambassador to Istanbul. This almost cinematographic record consisting of a total of twenty paintings is preserved at the Nordiska Museet in Sweden. Sixteen of which returned to Istanbul, as the guests of the Pera Museum, nearly three hundred and fifty years after this event.

17. Yüzyılda İsveç Büyükelçisi Claes Rålamb’ın yaptırdığı tablolarla | Paintings commissioned by the 17th century Swedish Ambassador Claes Rålamb

Avcı Mehmed | Mehmed the Hunter

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