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Historiography and History Writing by Edhem Eldem
Turcica, 52 (2021), pp. 201-307., 2021
Il y a de cela environ vingt-cinq ans, le regretté Butrus Abu-Manneh (1932-2018) publia un articl... more Il y a de cela environ vingt-cinq ans, le regretté Butrus Abu-Manneh (1932-2018) publia un article devenu célèbre sur « les origines islamiques de l'édit de Gülhane » 1. Si cet article a fait date, c'est avant tout parce qu'il allait à contrecourant de l'historiographie dominante de l'époque. À long terme, toutefois, il faut probablement lui reconnaître le mérite d'avoir eu un impact discret, presque insensible, mais en fin de compte extrêmement décisif sur la discipline, si l'on pense qu'il a fini par sérieusement remettre en question une vision plus traditionnelle Professeur, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi,
Tarih ve Toplum. Yeni Yaklaşımlar, 2022
L'Empire ottoman, collection Que sais-je?, 2022
Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire, eds. Ordinary Jerusalem (Leiden-Boston: Brill), 2018
and Hotei Publishing. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect the publication against ... more and Hotei Publishing. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect the publication against unauthorized use and to authorize dissemination by means of offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources, such as abstracting and indexing services including databases. Requests for commercial re-use, use of parts of the publication, and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s)
Le noir et le bleu. Un rêve méditerranéen, 2013
Toplumsal Tarih 338, 2022
Hiéroglossie I. Moyen Âge latin, monde arabo-persan, Tibet, Inde, 2019
Toplumsal Tarih, Sep 2013
Toplumsal Tarih, 185, May 2009
Toplumsal Tarih, 248, Aug 2014
Toplumsal Tarih, 250, Oct 2014
Toplumsal Tarih, 252, Dec 2014
Toplumsal Tarih, 253, Jan 2015
Elbise-i Osmaniye gibi bir albüm gerçekleştirme fikrinin nereden çıkmış, hangi örneklerden etkile... more Elbise-i Osmaniye gibi bir albüm gerçekleştirme fikrinin nereden çıkmış, hangi örneklerden etkilenmiş olabileceği arayışının arkasında Osmanlılara karşı belirli bir peşin hükmümüz olduğunu itiraf etmek gerekir. O da, batılılaşma döneminde Osmanlı kültürünün özgün ve yeni ürünler icat etmesinin pek muhtemel olmayıp, yaptıklarının arkasında hep batı'dan alınmış bir esin kaynağı veya model olması gerektiği fikridir. bu katı ve kesinlikle değişmez bir kural değildir, ancak Osmanlı kültürünün en büyük becerisinin özgünlükten çok uyarlama olduğunu, ama bu alanda da bazen takdire şayan bir yaratıcılık gösterdiğini düşünmekteyiz.
Toplumsal Tarih, 261, Sep 2015
Darja Reuschke, Monika Salzbrunn and Korinna Schönhärl (eds.), The Economy of Urban Diversity. Ruhr Area and Istanbul (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 2013
Toplumsal Tarih, 202, Sep 2010
Turcica, 45, 2014
Edhem ELDEM 269 DÉBUT DES LUMIÈRES OU SIMPLE PLAGIAT ? LA TRÈS VOLTAIRIENNE PRÉFACE DE L'HISTOIRE... more Edhem ELDEM 269 DÉBUT DES LUMIÈRES OU SIMPLE PLAGIAT ? LA TRÈS VOLTAIRIENNE PRÉFACE DE L'HISTOIRE DE ŞANIZADE MEHMED ATAULLAH EFENDI anizade Mehmed Ataullah Efendi (?-1826) est célèbre pour un certain nombre de faits qui le placent parmi les personnages marquants de la vie intellectuelle et scientifique ottomane du début du XIX e siècle 1 . Il est avant tout connu pour avoir été un des premiers parmi ses contemporains à s'intéresser aux progrès de la médecine occidentale et à publier des traités en partie inspirés ou traduits d'ouvrages européens. Il s'agit essentiellement d'une « pentalogie » médicale, Hamse-i Şanizade, dont seuls les trois premiers livres furent publiés de son vivant,
Toplumsal Tarih, Oct 2016
Turcica, 52 (2021), pp. 201-307., 2021
Il y a de cela environ vingt-cinq ans, le regretté Butrus Abu-Manneh (1932-2018) publia un articl... more Il y a de cela environ vingt-cinq ans, le regretté Butrus Abu-Manneh (1932-2018) publia un article devenu célèbre sur « les origines islamiques de l'édit de Gülhane » 1. Si cet article a fait date, c'est avant tout parce qu'il allait à contrecourant de l'historiographie dominante de l'époque. À long terme, toutefois, il faut probablement lui reconnaître le mérite d'avoir eu un impact discret, presque insensible, mais en fin de compte extrêmement décisif sur la discipline, si l'on pense qu'il a fini par sérieusement remettre en question une vision plus traditionnelle Professeur, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi,
Tarih ve Toplum. Yeni Yaklaşımlar, 2022
L'Empire ottoman, collection Que sais-je?, 2022
Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire, eds. Ordinary Jerusalem (Leiden-Boston: Brill), 2018
and Hotei Publishing. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect the publication against ... more and Hotei Publishing. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect the publication against unauthorized use and to authorize dissemination by means of offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources, such as abstracting and indexing services including databases. Requests for commercial re-use, use of parts of the publication, and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s)
Le noir et le bleu. Un rêve méditerranéen, 2013
Toplumsal Tarih 338, 2022
Hiéroglossie I. Moyen Âge latin, monde arabo-persan, Tibet, Inde, 2019
Toplumsal Tarih, Sep 2013
Toplumsal Tarih, 185, May 2009
Toplumsal Tarih, 248, Aug 2014
Toplumsal Tarih, 250, Oct 2014
Toplumsal Tarih, 252, Dec 2014
Toplumsal Tarih, 253, Jan 2015
Elbise-i Osmaniye gibi bir albüm gerçekleştirme fikrinin nereden çıkmış, hangi örneklerden etkile... more Elbise-i Osmaniye gibi bir albüm gerçekleştirme fikrinin nereden çıkmış, hangi örneklerden etkilenmiş olabileceği arayışının arkasında Osmanlılara karşı belirli bir peşin hükmümüz olduğunu itiraf etmek gerekir. O da, batılılaşma döneminde Osmanlı kültürünün özgün ve yeni ürünler icat etmesinin pek muhtemel olmayıp, yaptıklarının arkasında hep batı'dan alınmış bir esin kaynağı veya model olması gerektiği fikridir. bu katı ve kesinlikle değişmez bir kural değildir, ancak Osmanlı kültürünün en büyük becerisinin özgünlükten çok uyarlama olduğunu, ama bu alanda da bazen takdire şayan bir yaratıcılık gösterdiğini düşünmekteyiz.
Toplumsal Tarih, 261, Sep 2015
Darja Reuschke, Monika Salzbrunn and Korinna Schönhärl (eds.), The Economy of Urban Diversity. Ruhr Area and Istanbul (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 2013
Toplumsal Tarih, 202, Sep 2010
Turcica, 45, 2014
Edhem ELDEM 269 DÉBUT DES LUMIÈRES OU SIMPLE PLAGIAT ? LA TRÈS VOLTAIRIENNE PRÉFACE DE L'HISTOIRE... more Edhem ELDEM 269 DÉBUT DES LUMIÈRES OU SIMPLE PLAGIAT ? LA TRÈS VOLTAIRIENNE PRÉFACE DE L'HISTOIRE DE ŞANIZADE MEHMED ATAULLAH EFENDI anizade Mehmed Ataullah Efendi (?-1826) est célèbre pour un certain nombre de faits qui le placent parmi les personnages marquants de la vie intellectuelle et scientifique ottomane du début du XIX e siècle 1 . Il est avant tout connu pour avoir été un des premiers parmi ses contemporains à s'intéresser aux progrès de la médecine occidentale et à publier des traités en partie inspirés ou traduits d'ouvrages européens. Il s'agit essentiellement d'une « pentalogie » médicale, Hamse-i Şanizade, dont seuls les trois premiers livres furent publiés de son vivant,
Toplumsal Tarih, Oct 2016
Anatolia Moderna, I, 1991
Nous tenons à exprimer ici toute notre gratitude à Madame Cenan Sarç, petite-fille d'Osman Hamdi ... more Nous tenons à exprimer ici toute notre gratitude à Madame Cenan Sarç, petite-fille d'Osman Hamdi Bey, qui a eu l'ex¬ trême bonté de nous remettre cette correspondance d'Osman Hamdi avec son père.
Lucien de Guise, ed., Orientalist Paintings. Mirror or Mirage? From the Collection of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2022), pp. 32–41, 2022
I f Osman Hamdi Bey's painting of a young woman kneeling on a prayer rug in front of a large-form... more I f Osman Hamdi Bey's painting of a young woman kneeling on a prayer rug in front of a large-format book on a stand has previously been titled Young Girl Reading the Qur'an, this is evidently one of the frequent misnomers his works have been subjected to. Given that the painting was never exhibited in the artist's lifetime, it was never named to be catalogued. Art historians have therefore resorted to the age-old solution of giving it a name that describes the scene. Indeed, if a woman in a room decorated with tiles, a prayer rug and an incense burner is kneeling in front of an open book placed on a lectern inlaid with mother-of-pearl, is it not probable that she is reading the Qur'an?
Millî Saraylar. Sanat-Tarih-Mimarlık Dergisi, 2019
in birçok açıdan kendi şöhretinin kurbanı olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Bir taraftan Müze-i Hümâyû... more in birçok açıdan kendi şöhretinin kurbanı olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Bir taraftan Müze-i Hümâyûn'un müdürü ve modern anlamda Osmanlı arkeoloji ve müzeciliğinin kurucusu olarak, diğer taraftan ise uluslararası üne sahip bir ressam olarak kazanmış olduğu görünürlük, bu itibarlı konumundan önceki yıllardaki hayatının büyük ölçüde karanlıkta kalmasına neden olmuştur. Genel olarak, ama özellikle de bu dönemle ilgili kaleme almış olduğu hatırat, günlük ve yazışma türünden belgelerin azlığı bu boşluğu doldurmayı daha da güçleştirmektedir. Günümüze kadar gelebilmiş olan Paris (1860-1868) ve Bağdat (1869-1870) mektupları ve 1881' den itibaren muhtelif kişi ve kurumlarla olan yoğun yazışmaları arasında kalan on senelik sessizlik, muhtelif memuriyet ve görevlerle geçen ve oldukça istikrarsız olduğu anlaşılan bir geçiş dönemine işaret etmektedir. Oysa bugüne kadar dikkatleri çekmemiş veya hiç bilinmeyen kaynaklara müracaat ederek geleceğin Osman Hamdi Bey'inin bu "karanlık" dönemini biraz olsun açıklığa kavuşturmak mümkün gözükmektedir. 1873 Viyana Dünya Sergisi'ndeki komiserliği ve 1876' daki Bulgaristan olaylarını incelemekle görevli komisyon üyeliği gibi artık nispeten iyi bilenen görevleri dışında genç Hamdi'nin esas itibariyle memuriyette pek başarılı olamadığı, bu başarısızlığın neticesinde resme yöneldiği ve en sonunda da bu sayede saraya yaklaşarak kendine bir yol çizmeye çalıştığı ortaya çıkmaktadır. Kısacası bu inceleme, 1881' de müzenin başına getirilmesiyle bambaşka bir yön alan Osman Hamdi Bey'in yaşam ve kariyerinin bilinmeyen bazı veçhelerini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır.
Orientality: Cultural Orientalism and Mentality (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2015), 2015
The Poetics and Politics of Place. Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism, 2011
L'Orientalisme, les orientalistes et l'Empire ottoman de la fin du XVIIIe à la fin du XXe siècle, 2011
La question de l'orientalisme d'Osman Hamdi Bey remonte plus au moins à la date de la mort de l'a... more La question de l'orientalisme d'Osman Hamdi Bey remonte plus au moins à la date de la mort de l'artiste. En effet, c'est en 1911 que le célèbre critique d'art Adolphe Thalasso (1858-1919) se prononcera le premier sur la nature de l'orientalisme de celui dont, jusque-là, on se contentait généralement de souligner le talent « surprenant » du fait de son appartenance à une religion qui bannissait toute forme de représentation humaine. L'analyse de Thalasso était très politisée. Il s'agissait avant tout de prouver qu'Osman Hamdi Bey était un véritable Ottoman, voire un véritable Turc -il s'agit là des années qui suivent la révolution jeune-turque de 1908 -et que, par conséquent, il n'était pas question de le confondre avec les orientalistes occidentaux. Du coup, plus que toute considération d'ordre artistique, c'était cette qualité intrinsèque qui défi nissait l'oeuvre et la personnalité d'Osman Hamdi Bey : « Il n'est pas d'Orientaliste, je crois, qui ait poussé plus avant qu'Hamdy Bey la vérité, la variété et la science du décor. C'est là, à mon sens, la caractéristique de sa manière. Une accumulation de détails fait de chacune de ses toiles un poème d'art et de vie où le moindre accessoire est aussi méticuleusement observé et reproduit que le personnage principal qui donne son nom au tableau. L'étude est aussi scrupuleuse de ses types qui sont, tous, non seulement musulmans, mais turcs, que pour les costumes, la décoration, l'ameublement qui sont tous, également, non seulement musulmans, mais turcs. Tout chez Hamdy Bey s'inspire de l'Orient turc. À force d'art, l'artiste arrive à spécialiser ses tableaux, en en plaçant l'action non pas dans des décors extérieurs qui, forcément, rappellent la Turquie, mais en leur donnant pour cadres des décors d'intérieur qui n'appartiennent qu'à la Turquie. S'inspirant de cette esthétique, toutes ses toiles sont, essentiellement, turques et donnent, nettement, l'impression de n'avoir pu être brossées que par un artiste turc. » 1 1. A. Thalasso, L'art ottoman, les peintres de Turquie, Paris, Librairie artistique internationale, [1911], p. 21-22.
David Shankland (ed.), Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F. W. Hasluck, 1878-1920, 2004
Dimitris Keridis, ed., Θεσσαλονίκη: Μια πόλη σε μετάβαση, 1912-2012, 2015
Εάν υπάρχει οποιαδήποτε οθωμανική πόλη που να εξηγεί καλύτερα την κίνηση του 19 ου αιώνα της οθωμ... more Εάν υπάρχει οποιαδήποτε οθωμανική πόλη που να εξηγεί καλύτερα την κίνηση του 19 ου αιώνα της οθωμανικής ελίτ και, αργότερα, των μεσαίων στρωμάτων, για εκσυγχρονισμό και εξευρωπαϊσμό, αυτή μπορεί κάλλιστα να είναι η Salonica / Selanik / Θεσσαλονίκη. Πολλοί ιστορικοί έχουν επισημάνει μια σειρά από πτυχές της νεωτερικότητας, όπου η Θεσσαλονίκη φάνηκε πως έπαιξε τον ρόλο του πρωτοπόρου, σχεδόν σαν ένα πρότυπο νεωτερικότητας. 1 Η αστική ανάπτυξη είναι ίσως η πιο συζητημένη πτυχή αυτής της μετασχηματιστικής διαδικασίας, κατά την οποία η Θεσσαλονίκη δημιούργησε τη δική της νεωτερικότητα, αλλά ταυτόχρονα ωφελήθηκε από εξωτερικές κινητήριες δυνάμεις αλλαγής: την Ευρώπη, φυσικά, αλλά και το κέντρο της ίδιας της Αυτοκρατορίας. 2 Το εμπόριο, η βιομηχανία και η εκπαίδευση είναι επίσης προνομιακά πεδία νεωτερικότητας, που έχουν μελετηθεί, περισσότερο ή λιγότερο εμπεριστατωμένα, ως ο τομέας των τριών πολύπλοκων αλληλεπιδράσεων ανάμεσα στην Ευρώπη, την Κωνσταντινούπολη και τη Θεσσαλονίκη. 3 Δεν μπορεί να αποτελεί έκπληξη το γεγονός ότι, για ένα συγκεκριμένο τμήμα του τουρκικού πολιτικού φάσματος, πιο συγκεκριμένα τους κεμαλικούς κύκλους, η Θεσσαλονίκη, ως τόπος γέννησης του Μουσταφά Κεμάλ [Ατατούρκ], έχει συχνά θεωρηθεί ένα είδος μυθικού συμβόλου ή ιερού νεωτερικότητας, σχεδόν στο σημείο αλλαγής της πολύ γνωστής παλιάς έκφραση σε «ex Thessalonica lux».
Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, and Edhem Eldem (eds.), Scramble for the Past. A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (Istanbul: SALT), 2011
Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, and Edhem Eldem (eds.), Geçmişe Hücum. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Arkeolojinin Öyküsü (1753-1914), Istanbul, SALT, 2011, pp. 281-329., 2011
Toplumsal Tarih, 232, Apr 2013
Jahrbuch des deutschen archäologischen Instituts, 127/128, 2013
Meltem Doğan-Alparslan, Andreas Schachner and Metin Alparslan, eds., The Discovery of an Anatolian Empire. Bir Anadolu İmparatorluğunun Keşfi, 2017
in kardeşi ve halefi Halil Edhem Bey [Eldem]'e (1861[Eldem]'e ( -1938 ait küçük bir evrak koleksi... more in kardeşi ve halefi Halil Edhem Bey [Eldem]'e (1861[Eldem]'e ( -1938 ait küçük bir evrak koleksiyonunun içinde yer alan bir zarfta, uzun yıllar müzenin komiserliğini yapmış arkeolog Theodor Makridi'nin 1902Makridi'nin -1907 yılları arasında taşradaki muhtelif kazılardan yazmış olduğu 26 adet mektup bulunmaktadır. 1 Baalbek, Şam, Ceraş, Sayda, Ayasuluk, Rakka, İstanköy ve Samsun'dan yazılmış olanların dışında dört mektup Boğazköy'den yazılmıştır. 27 Mayıs, 23 Haziran, 21 ve 29 Temmuz tarihlerinde yazılmış olan bu mektupların arasında bir de sarı tonlarda aydınger kâğıdı üzerinde beş adet çizim yer almaktadır.
Dieter Haller, Achim Lichtenberger, and Meike Meerpohl (eds.), Essays on Heritage, Tourism and Society in the MENA Region, 2015
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2017
Very little is known about the acquisitions of the (Ottoman) Imperial Museum during the first dec... more Very little is known about the acquisitions of the (Ottoman) Imperial Museum during the first decades of its existence. As a consequence of the haphazard way in which objects were collected and the absence of any form of institutionalization, the collections inherited from this early period generally lack the most basic contextual information concerning their provenance, date of entry, and mode of acquisition. Nevertheless, historical and archival research can offer a solution to this archaeological dead-end by tapping into other available sources to fill these lacunae. The following case study reconstructs the story of three marble reliefs in the collection utilizing such documentation. Although they were thought to be from Salonika (Thessaloniki) in northern Greece, they are in fact from Ascalon (Ashkelon) in modern Israel—the product of one of the earliest campaigns carried out by an Ottoman state official to fill the newly established museum in Constantinople with antiquities. Apart from correcting later attributions and guesses, this study also proposes a critical reassessment of the nature of early Ottoman archaeological ventures and a systematic analysis of the accumulation (or not) of knowledge and scholarship on the fringes of Europe.
Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig, eds., The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Washington, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2016
Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, 2017
Éclats d’antiques. Sculptures et photographies. Gustave Mendel à Constantinople, Paris, Armand Colin, 2013, pp. 111-129., 2013
« Gustave chez les Turcs » Mendel au service du Musée impérial ottoman Edhem Eldem Le début d'une... more « Gustave chez les Turcs » Mendel au service du Musée impérial ottoman Edhem Eldem Le début d'une mission Le séjour de Gustave Mendel à Istanbul s'étendant, avec quelques interruptions, sur près d'une décennie à partir de 1904 est relativement bien documenté ; un mémoire d'étude récemment soutenu par Hadrien Nafilyan en retrace les grandes lignes grâce à une abondante documentation tirée d'archives françaises 1. Par ailleurs, les nombreux travaux-articles et catalogues-que G. Mendel lui-même a publiés pendant son séjour ottoman permettent de reconstituer en grande partie la nature de son activité et ses intérêts scientifiques pendant la période en question 2. Il est donc clair qu'il n'y a plus vraiment de mystère ni de lacune majeure concernant la mission du savant français en Orient. Cependant, cette histoire reste presque exclusivement liée à une documentation française et à un questionnement qui, lui aussi, reste très français.
Maia Wellington Gahtan and Eva-Maria Troelenberg (eds.), Collecting and Empires: An Historical and Global Perspective (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), 2018
Erald Pauw (ed.), Daheim in Konstantinopel. Deutsche Spuren am Bosporus ab 1850. Memleketimiz Dersaadet. 1850’den İtibaren Boğaziçi’ndeki Alman İzleri (Nürnberg: Pagma Verlag, 2014), pp. 59-91, 2014
Brigitte Pitarakis (ed.), İstanbul’dan Bizans’a: Yeniden Keşfin Yolları, 1800-1955. From Istanbul to Byzantium : Paths to Rediscovery, 1800-1955 (Istanbul: Pera Museum, 2021), pp. 259–73, 2021
Esther Solomon and Styliana Galiniki, eds., The Work of Magic Art. Ιστορία, χρήσεις & συμασίες του μνυμείου των Incantadas της Θεσσαλοωίκης (Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, 2021), pp. 202–21, 2021
Frustrating and infuriating as it may be, the story of the removal of the Incantadas, that famous... more Frustrating and infuriating as it may be, the story of the removal of the Incantadas, that famous portico decorated with eight sculptures carved on the two sides of four pillars, which was taken to France by the French paleographer Emmanuel Miller (1812-1886) in November 1864, is rather well known. If anything, Miller himself left a very detailed account of the event in a volume describing his expeditions to Mount Athos and the island of Thasos, published posthumously (30 October-20 November 1864. Miller 1889: 336-358). This text has been used for purely archaeological purposes, but also as a source of precious insight into the way in which this depredation was perceived by the local population (Anderson 2015: 454-456, Solomon & Galiniki 2018, El Gedi this volume). Given the amount of attention the monument and its removal have received from archaeologists and historians alike, it seems difficult to claim to bring anything new and original to the discussion. And yet, as an Ottoman historian, I have observed that if there were any serious lacunae in the documentation, they had to do with the local dimension of the event, especially regarding the attitude of government officials in Salonica and, perhaps more importantly, in the capital city of Istanbul. Indeed, while we know that Miller's mission was carried out with the permission of the Porte and, consequently, that of the governor of the city, I do not know of any concrete information on the Ottoman documentation possibly issued for this purpose. The major source of information regarding the Ottoman authorities' stand with respect to the operation is Miller's own account. Indeed, from the very start, he insisted on how cooperative the governor of Salonica had been throughout the whole process: This morning I went to see the pasha, who has been charming to me, as always. He shall give me everything I want: men, troops, carts, etc. He also
Dimitris Keridis and John Brady Kiesling, eds., Thessaloniki: A City in Transition, 1912-2012 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020), 2020
Brigitte Pitarakis (ed.), İstanbul’dan Bizans’a: Yeniden Keşfin Yolları, 1800-1955. From Istanbul to Byzantium : Paths to Rediscovery, 1800-1955 (Istanbul: Pera Museum, 2021), pp. 259–73., 2021
Irini Apostolou and Alessia Zambon (eds.), Du pillage à la conscience patrimoniale en Grèce et dans l'Empire ottoman : le rôle des Français et des autres Occidentaux (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) (Bordeaux: Scripta Receptoria 23, 2022), pp. 237–49, 2022
Dietrich Boschung, Cécile Colonna, Néguine Mathieux and François Queyrel, eds., La Belle Époque des collectionneurs d’antiques en Europe, 1850-1914 (Paris: Hermann – Musée du Louvre, 2022), pp. 10–22, 2022
Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2018
This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational p... more This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left 26 dead with another 58 wounded. Sultan Abdülhamid II, the target of the attack, remained unscathed. The Ottoman police soon discovered that Armenian revolutionaries were behind the plot and several people were arrested and convicted, among them the Belgian anarchist Edward Joris. His incarceration sparked international reaction and created a diplomatic conflict.The assassination attempt failed, the events faded from memory, and the plot became a footnote in early twentieth-century history. This book rediscovers the conspiracy as a transnational moment in late Ottoman history, opening a window on key themes in modern history, such as international law, terrorism, Orientalism, diplomacy, anarchism, imperialism, nationalism, mass media and humanitarianism. It provides an original look on the many trans- and international links between the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the rest of the world at the start of the twentieth century.
Salon Yayınları: Konya, 2020 (Önsöz ve Giriş)
Bu kitap Times tarafından ‘modern zamanların en büyük ve sansasyonel siyasi komplolarından biri’ ... more Bu kitap Times tarafından ‘modern zamanların en büyük ve sansasyonel siyasi komplolarından biri’ olarak tarif edilen olayı ele alıyor. 21 Temmuz 1905 tarihinde, İstanbul’da bulunan Yıldız Hamidiye Camisi’ndeki Cuma duasından sonra patlayan bombalı bir araç 26 kişinin ölümüne ve 58 kişinin de yaralanmasına yol açtı. Saldırının hedefi olan Sultan II. Abdülhamid olayı yara almadan atlattı. Osmanlı polisi kısa sürede olaydan Ermeni devrimcilerin sorumlu olduğunu buldular, pek çok insan tutuklandı ve yargılandı ve bunların arasında Belçikalı anarşist Edward Joris de vardı. Onun hapse atılması uluslararası bir tepkiye yol açtı ve sonuç olarak diplomatik bir karışıklık yarattı.
Suikast girişimi başarısız oldu, olaylar hafızalardan silindi ve bu olay yirminci yüzyıl tarihinin başlarına dair bir dipnot olarak kaldı. Bu kitap komployu Osmanlı’nın son döneminin tarihine dair ulusal sınırları aşan bir an olarak ele alıyor ve uluslararası hukuk, terörizm, Oryantalizm, diplomasi, anarşizm, emperyalizm, milliyetçilik, kitle iletişim araçları ve hayırseverlik gibi modern tarihe dair konulara bir pencere açıyor. Yirminci yüzyılın başlarındaki Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ile Avrupa ve dünyanın geri kalanı arasındaki uluslararası bağlara dair orijinal bir bakış sunuyor.
Çeviren: Derya Dinç
Redaksiyon: Berna Kamay
Mediterranean Historical Review, 2009
In early 1926, the Royal Consulate of Egypt in Smyrna, back under Turkish rule since 1922, kept a... more In early 1926, the Royal Consulate of Egypt in Smyrna, back under Turkish rule since 1922, kept a detailed register of individuals considered as 'unwanted,' who had to be kept from entering into Egypt. Rather meticulously kept in (sometimes faulty) French -the very few entries in English proved that despite obvious British influence, the French language still made more sense -this registre des indésirables consisted of short individual entries identifying and describing each ex-or potential criminal whom the consular employees were supposed to spot. In the worst cases, the entry could be reduced to a name and surname, perhaps followed by a nationality. In the best, the individual would be described in as much detail as possible, with a profession, a criminal record, a physical description, an evaluation of his/her criminal potential, present status, and, a frontal and lateral headshot. A basic statistical breakdown of the sample reveals that some 130 were considered a 'danger to public safety' (dangereux à l'ordre public), while another 51 were simply deemed 'indésirables.' From a purely professional perspective, the dominant category was that of the 'unemployed' (41 sans travail), followed closely by the vagrants (vagabonds, 26). There were, however, other 'professional' categories that were used to qualify these persons' occupation. Thieves came first (24), followed by the specialized pickpockets (20), drug dealers -generally hashish and cocaine -(19). Smugglers in general (4), arms smugglers (3), swindlers (5), unspecified bandits (5), and former convicts (5) constituted the rest of the criminal sample.
Omar Carlier and Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach (eds), Le Corps du leader. Construction et representation dans les pays du Sud (Paris: L’Harmattan), 2008
Zeynep Çelik and Edhem Eldem, eds., Camera Ottomana. Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914, Istanbul, Koç University Press, 2015
Sophie Basch (ed.), Portraits de Victor Bérard, 2015
Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 2016
Markus Ritter and Staci G. Scheiwiller, eds.,The Indigenous Lens? Early Photography in the Near and Middle East. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018
Archiv Orientální, 2020
Please submit your manuscripts via aror.orient.cas.cz.
Bahattin Öztuncay, ed., I. Dünya Savaşı'nda İttifak Cephesinde Savaş ve Propaganda. Propaganda and War. The Allied Front during the First World War (Istanbul: Vehbi Koç Vakfı, 2014), pp. 68-106, 2014
Toplumsal Tarih, 33, Sep 1996
Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée. Oral et écrit dans le monde turco-ottoman, 75-76, 1995
Archiv Orientalni 88, 2020
War has always been a catalyst for innovation in the Ottoman Empire, even in the unlikely field o... more War has always been a catalyst for innovation in the Ottoman Empire, even in the unlikely field of iconography. World War I was such an episode, further exacerbated by the alliance with Germany, a major producer of wartime propaganda. This contribution retraces the development of state symbolism in the Ottoman Empire throughout the nineteenth century, especially with respect to medals and decorations, before focusing on the production of images and symbols during World War I. Particular attention is given to one specific case-that of the Ottoman War Medal, dubbed the "Iron Crescent" by the Germans, the creative design of which still remains unexplained and undocumented despite its truly iconic nature. Keywords Ottoman history | World War I | war medals | Ottoman medals and decorations | state symbolism | propaganda | military iconography * This text was delivered as a keynote lecture on September 7, 2019 on the occasion of the international conference "Fighting under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War." It has been edited for publication, with the addition of footnotes. The author wishes to thank the editors and two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions.
Aca'ib vol. III, 2022
We thank Crete University Press for their invaluable help in publishing this volume.
Şehzade’nin Sıra Dışı Dünyası. Abdülmecid Efendi (Istanbul: Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, 2022), pp. 42–59, 2022
Resim 3: Le Pèlerin dergisinin 23 Mart 1924 tarihli sayısının kapağında "Jön Türkler tarafından g... more Resim 3: Le Pèlerin dergisinin 23 Mart 1924 tarihli sayısının kapağında "Jön Türkler tarafından görevden alınan" Abdülmecid Efendi'nin "oğlu ve iki eşiyle" İsviçre'ye sürgüne gitmek üzere sarayı terk etmesi. Edhem Eldem Koleksiyonu.
The Prince’s Extraordinary World. Abdülmecid Efendi (Istanbul: Sakıp Sabancı Museum, 2022), pp. 42–59, 2022
by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, forcing Sultan Vahideddin to flee the country, while at... more by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, forcing Sultan Vahideddin to flee the country, while at the same time vacating the caliphate. Abdülmecid Efendi was thus elected Caliph on November 19th and received his oath of allegiance (biat) on November 24th. (Figures 1 and 2) However, he enjoyed this title only for a brief period, as the caliphate was in turn abolished on 3 March 1924 with a law proposed in the Grand National Assembly, immediately followed by the decision to exile the remaining members of the Ottoman dynasty. The following morning, at dawn, he was secretly escorted from Dolmabahçe Palace to Çatalca, where he boarded the Simplon Express. (Figure 3) Thus began Abdülmecid Efendi's exile along with his son Ömer Faruk Efendi (1898-1969) and daughter Dürrüşehvâr Sultan (1914-2006), in the small Swiss town of Territet, near Montreux. 1 (Figure 4) Although the caliphate played an undeniably significant role in Abdülmecid Efendi's life, 2 it can be misleading to interpret his youth on the basis of this later period. It should be remembered that the prince's investiture was made possible by a series of coincidences. Only a few years before 1922, in early 1915, Abdülmecid Efendi was fourth in line to the Ottoman throne, then occupied by Sultan Reşad. The very same year, with the death of Murad V's son Selahaddin Efendi at age fifty-four, he moved up to third in the line of succession. The following year, his elder brother Yusuf İzzeddin Efendi committed suicide at age fifty-nine, bringing Abdülmecid Efendi to second position behind Vahideddin Efendi. Two years later, with Sultan Reşad's death on 2 July 1918 and Vahideddin Efendi's accession, Abdülmecid Efendi became crown prince and direct heir to the throne. In other words, envisioning Abdülmecid Efendi as the future sultan, or caliph, before these consecutive and untimely deaths, is a typical example of teleology, or using hindsight to interpret history. It would be more reasonable to consider him here not with these prospective titles but simply as yet another prince who lived through the last decades of the Ottoman
Çağlar Keyder and Anna Frangoudakis (eds), Ελλάδα και Τουρκία. Πορείες Εκσυγχρονισμού οι Αμφίσημες Σχέσεις τους με την Ευρώπη, 1850-1950, 2008
Mohammed Gharipour and İrvin Cemil Schick, eds., Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World, 2013
Leyla Dakhli (ed.), Le Moyen-Orient (fin XIXe-XXe siècle) (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2016), 2016
Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters, eds., Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire (New York: Facts on File), 2009
Anatolia Moderna, II, 1992
Death in Istanbul. Death and its Rituals in Ottoman-Islamic Culture, 2005
Bir Allame-i Cihan. Stefanos Yerasimos (1942-2005), 2012
B ugün genellikle herhangi bir yaratıcılıktan yoksun olduğundan dolayı burun kıvrılan ve sadece a... more B ugün genellikle herhangi bir yaratıcılıktan yoksun olduğundan dolayı burun kıvrılan ve sadece aslın kullanılamadığı ortam veya miktarlarda onun sadık bir görüntüsünü vermekle mükellef görülen "kopya" ya da "suret" olgusu, geleneksel Osmanlı kültüründe bazen çok daha "asil" bir konumda, hatta kültürün vazgeçilmez bir unsuru ve aracı olarak kullanılmaktaydı. Bunun herhalde en belirgin örneğini edebiyat metinlerinin istinsahı oluşturuyordu. Matbaanın yokluğunda -ve kullanılmaya başlamasından sonra bile uzun süren emekleme döneminde-yazı yoluyla bilginin aktarımının tek yolunu oluşturan istinsah, kökünden de anlaşılacağı gibi, nüsha çıkarmaktan, yani kopyalamaktan başka bir şey değildi. Ancak, günümüzde baskın bir şekilde kullanılan metin kopyalama tekniklerinin -matbaa, teksir, fotoğraf, fotokopi, tarama vs.-aksine, istinsah ister istemez daha "esnek" bir niteliğe sahipti. İstinsahın altında aslına sadakat ilkesi her ne kadar yatıyor idiyse de, müstensihin dikkati, kabiliyeti, hat becerisi, bilgisi, hatta keyfine göre kopyanın aslının şeklinden uzaklaşmasına, bazen de içeriğinin bile değişmesine neden olabiliyordu. Başka bir deyişle, istinsah türündeki geleneksel kopyalama yöntemleri, Batıda geliştirilen "modern" kopyalamanın katılığından uzak, değişiklik, sapma, tahrif, türetme, yorum gibi serbestilere çok daha açık yöntemler olarak gelişmişti.
Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée. Oral et écrit dans le monde turco-ottoman, 75-76, 1995
Virginia Aksan and Daniel Goffman (eds) The Early Modern Ottomans. Remapping the Empire, pp. 233-255.
Anne-Marie Moulin and Yeşim Işıl Ulman, (eds.), Perilous Modernity. History of Medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East from the 19th Century Onwards, Istanbul, Isis, 2010, pp. 191-207, 2010
Chotzakoglou and Eliades (eds.), Η Ζωη μετα Θανατον - Life after Death (Nicosia: Society of Cypriot Studies, 2017), pp. 225–35, 2017
Απαγορεύεται απολύτως, χωρίς γραπτή άδεια του εκδότη η καθ' οιονδήποτε τρόπο ή καθ' οιοδήποτε μέσ... more Απαγορεύεται απολύτως, χωρίς γραπτή άδεια του εκδότη η καθ' οιονδήποτε τρόπο ή καθ' οιοδήποτε μέσον (ηλεκτρονικό, μηχανικό ή άλλο) αντιγραφή, φωτοανατύπωση και εν γένει αναπαραγωγή, εκμίσθωση ή δανεισμός, μετάφραση, διασκευή, αναμετάδοση στο κοινό σε οιαδήποτε μορφή και η εν γένει εκμετάλλευση του συνόλου ή μέρους του έργου. All rights reseved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information retrieval system without permission from the publisher.
Francine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga (eds.), The Power of Symbols. The Alhambra in a Global Perspective (Bern: Peter Lang, 2018), 2018
This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processi... more This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. Bibliographic information published by die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at ‹http://dnb.d-nb.de›.
Winning Peace. The End of the First World War: History, Remembrance and Current Challenges (Berlin: German Federal Foreign Office), 2019
İlkay Baliç and Danae Mossman (eds), Ayşe Erkmen. Plan B, Istanbul, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2011, pp. 49-120., 2011
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Charlotte Trümpler and Matthias Wagner K, Picknick-Zeit (Frankfurt: Walther König, 2017), 2017
Alt-Üst, 10, 2013
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New York Times/International Herald Tribune, 2013
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 8/1 (Summer 2021), pp. 243–60., 2021
Anna Frangoudaki and Çağlar Keyder (eds), Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey. Encounters with Europe, 1850-1950, 2007
This series provides a forum for Greek and Turkish social scientists and historians to promote ac... more This series provides a forum for Greek and Turkish social scientists and historians to promote academic dialogue between them and the wider, international community of scholars. Each volume focuses on a specific theme that reflects current academic debates on issues of major theoretical importance and seeks to contribute to these debates through analyses based on Greek and Turkish experiences.
Kostas Kostis (ed.), Modern Banking in the Balkans and West-European Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1999
Financial History Review, 6/1 (April, 1999)
Alfa. Maghreb et sciences sociales. Biographies et récits de vie, 2005
Alfa. Maghreb et sciences sociales. Biographies et récits de vie, 2005
John A. Consiglio, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva and Gabriel Tortella, Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean. A Historical Perspective, 2012
Ton de Graaf, Joost Jonker and Jaap-Jan Mobron (eds.), European Banking Overseas, 19th-20th Century, 2002
Architectural Design, 2010
Architectural Design, 2010
Architectural Design, 2010
François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin, After Orientalism. Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-appropriations (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2014), 2014
It may seem like an exaggeration to claim that Turkey and the Turks-a loose definition of a notio... more It may seem like an exaggeration to claim that Turkey and the Turks-a loose definition of a notion encompassing the last period of the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey-were spared much of the weight of the Orientalist discourse so strongly criticized by Edward Said. Indeed, there is little doubt that most of the Orientalist tropes were used over and over again to describe the culture, the history, the society, and the political environment of this region of the globe. Yet there are a number of reasons that can be invoked to suggest that Turkey, as defined above, was better-or perhaps more accurately, lesstreated by Orientalist scholarship, literature or art. For one thing, the greater familiarity of the West with the Ottomans, compared to some more remote, 'exotic,' and later discovered peoples of the East, made them less likely to attract the attention of essentialist discourses. The gradual shift of European interest, from the eighteenth century on, towards newer horizons, especially India, China and Japan, combined with the fact that this shift would be accompanied by the creation of the first western colonial dominions in the East, was essential in pulling the gaze of Westerners away from Ottoman lands. Not that the Ottoman Empire would ever disappear from European visions of the Orient; but its survival as an old, familiar and still independent polity on the fringes of Europe made it much less a target of the kind of Orientalist enquiry that would characterize the treatment of subject peoples in colonial India1 and Egypt, in the French colonies of North Africa, and of the peoples of faraway (and semicolonized) China or of exotic Japan.2 As for the European-dominated territories of sub-Saharan Africa-the lands and peoples 'without history'-they were almost exclusively relegated to ethnographic and anthropological study.
Oriente Moderno, XVIII, 1999
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Studi Settecenteschi, 29-30, 2014
Claudia Ulbrich and Richard Wittmann (eds.), Fashioning the Self in Transcultural Settings: The Uses and Significance of Dress in Self-Narratives, 2015
Oriente Moderno, XVIII, 1999
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
European Review 13/3, 2005
Edhem Eldem and Socrates Petmezas (eds.), The Economic Development of South-Eastern Europe (1830-1914), 2011
Suraiya N. Faroqhi (ed.) The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 3, The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839, 2006
Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi, eds., Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century, 2018
Edhem Eldem and Sophia Laiou (eds.), Istanbul and the Black Sea Coast. Shipping and Trade (Istanbul: ISIS, 2018), 2018
Zeynep İnankur Armağanı, 2020
Lucienne Thys-Senocak, ed., Of Vines and Wines. The Production and Consumption of Wine in Anatolian Civilizations through the Ages, 2017
V. Milletlerarası Türkiye Sosyal ve İktisat Tarihi Kongresi, 1990
Mehmet Ö. Alkan, ed., Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Süreklilik ve Değişim : Zafer Toprak Armağanı (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2022), pp. 81-131.), 2022
Zeynep İnankur Armağanı. Modernizmin Başkentleri (Istanbul: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2021), pp. 69–89, 2021
bilgi yöneticisi ve küratörü John Peel'e yönlendirmiştir. John Peel tabloyla ilgili mevcut bilgil... more bilgi yöneticisi ve küratörü John Peel'e yönlendirmiştir. John Peel tabloyla ilgili mevcut bilgileri aktarmış ve yüksek çözünürlükte fotoğrafını çekerek bana göndermiştir. Tablo teşhirde olmayıp ulaşılması zor ve kötü ışık alan bir yerde muhafaza edildiğinden, bu görüntünün elde edilmesi kolay olmamıştır. Buna ilâveten tablo restorasyona muhtaç olup, Abdülaziz'in başının üzerinde yırtığı bulunmaktadır. Bütün bu olumsuzluklardan dolayı, elimdeki görüntüyü Bülent Erkmen ve BEK Tasarım çalışanlarına aktararak hem ışık sorununun hem yırtığın dijital olarak giderilmesini sağladım. Bu desteği bana vererek bu makaleyi bitirmeme imkân veren bütün bu kişilere en içten teşekkürlerimi sunmayı vazife bilirim. 2 Ölümü 10 Mayıs 1880 günü Montevideo'da vuku bulmuştur (The Standard, 17 Haziran 1880).
Todd Shepard and Particia Lorcin, eds., French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories (Lincoln-London: University of Nebraska), 2016
Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters, eds., Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire (New York: Facts on File), 2009
Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters, eds., Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire (New York: Facts on File), 2009
Boğaziçi Journal. Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, v. 11, 1-2 Istanbul Past and Present Special Issue
Thierry Fabre and Anissa Bouayed, Le noir et le bleu. Un rêve méditerranéen, Marseilles, MuCEM-Textuel, 2013
Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi, eds., Urban Governance under the Ottomans: Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict, 2014
Ulrike Tischler (ed.), From “milieu de mémoire” to “lieu de mémoire”. The cultural memory of Istanbul in the 20th century, Munich, Martin Meidenbauer, 2006
Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani, eds., A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, 2013
Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, and Bruce Masters (eds.), The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 1999
Elisabetta Borromeo, Frédéric Hitzel, and Benjamin Lellouch, eds., Déchiffrer le passé d’un empire. Hommage à Nicolas Vatin et aux humanités ottomanes (Leuwen: Peeters, 2022), pp. 3–56., 2022
Marinos sAriyAnnis Un janissaire à Paris ou un Français au Caire ? Le Risâlatu fawâ'idi l-mulûk, ... more Marinos sAriyAnnis Un janissaire à Paris ou un Français au Caire ? Le Risâlatu fawâ'idi l-mulûk, BnF Suppl .
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, vol. II, Cities and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700, 2007
Catherine Courtet, Mireille Besson, Françoise Lavocat and Alain Viala, eds., Traversées des mondes (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2020), pp. 85-93, 2020
Elisabetta Borromeo, Frédéric Hitzel, and Benjamin Lellouch, Déchiffrer le passé d’un empire. Hommage à Nicolas Vatin et aux humanités ottomanes (Leuwen: Peeters, 2022), pp. 3–56, 2022
This book is the first monograph seen in Italy about Sedad Hakkı Eldem. The book is the result of... more This book is the first monograph seen in Italy about Sedad Hakkı Eldem. The book is the result of my ph.D. research and was selected for being my first and most important contribution to the reframing of Sedad Hakkı Eldem's work in the historical city of Istanbul. Based on different contributions the volume represents a complete portrayal of the well-known Turkish architect. Moreover, the book deals with Eldem's essential relationship with architects Le Corbusier, Perret, and Bonatz. Furthermore, based on unpublished archive documentation, this research highlights the fundamental relationship between Eldem's studies of the traditional housing and his architectural work. In the book, various aspects of Eldem's work are analyzed as a whole, uniting professional practice, teaching, and research.
Nathalie Clayer and Erdal Kaynar, eds., Penser, agir et vivre dans l’Empire ottoman et en Turquie. Études réunies pour François Georgeon (Paris-Leuwen-Walpole: Peeters), 2013
“Sedad Hakkı Eldem olunmaz, doğulur (mu?)” Edhem Eldem, Bülent Tanju and Uğur Tanyeli (eds.), Sedad Hakkı Eldem, I, Gençlik Yılları, Istanbul, Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi, 2008, pp. 10-40., 2008
Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire, 2018
Clio. Women, Gender, History, 48 (2018), pp. 29-54, 2018
Serena Acciai, Sedad Hakkı Eldem. An Aristocratic Architect and More (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018), pp. 309–51., 2018
The International History Review, 22/3, 2000
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 63/4, 2008
Economic Hisitory Review 62/2, 2009
The conclusions emphasize the new insights into the long-term development of the Bergen trade and... more The conclusions emphasize the new insights into the long-term development of the Bergen trade and into the Kontor's organization. The author demonstrates clearly that the conventional wisdom about the successful penetration of Hollanders into the Bergen trade, similar to their achievements in the Baltic, has to be revised. Indeed, the trade of the Amsterdammers in Bergen remained rather marginal until the end of the sixteenth century. The author has also demonstrated clearly that the organization of the Bergen Kontor was substantially different from the organization of the Kontors in Novgorod, London, and Bruges. Finally, the author has stressed convincingly the changeability of the relations within the Hanse in-group and the flexibility of the relations between the Bergen in-and out-groups. Some questions, however, remain.The author considers the high prices of stockfish after the Black Death as an explanatory factor for the interest of the Hanse merchants in trading at Bergen. Would the low grain prices during the same period and the general rise in the standard of living in Europe not be a better explanation for the rising demand for stockfish and for its rising price relative to grain, as was also the case with meat, dairy products, and herring? Furthermore, would the Amsterdammers not have concentrated their trade strategy rather on herring than on stockfish, because they had a comparative advantage in that sector? This could explain why the Amsterdammers did not try to replace the Hanse merchants in the Bergen stockfish trade. If this explanation be favoured, the author's arguments about the Hanse credit system will need refinement. Indeed, why should the Amsterdammers not have been able to apply the same credit system in Bergen? Furthermore, the author indicates that she did not find any trace of interest payments in the commercial transactions at the Kontor. The explanation is simple: the interest must have been integrated into the terms of the exchanges in kind. Finally, it is regrettable that the use of letters obligatory and their circulation from hand to hand-the typical and common practice among merchants of the Hanseatic League-did not receive any attention. These minor flaws aside, this is an important and insightful work.
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Mediterranean Historical Review, 33/1, 2018
American Historical Review, 2013
American Historical Review, 2018
Studia Islamica, 109, 2014
Toplumsal Tarih, 190, 2009
Studia Islamica, 109, 2014
Le jeu de mots est un peu facile mais bien trop tentant : il était temps que cet ouvrage parût. E... more Le jeu de mots est un peu facile mais bien trop tentant : il était temps que cet ouvrage parût. En près de 400 pages, quinze auteurs se penchent sur une question centrale, mais jusqu'ici en grande partie ignorée, de l'histoire été de la culture ottomanes : celle du temps. Il est toujours difficile de rendre compte d'un ouvrage collectif qui ne peut forcément pas répondre à toutes les exigences d'une monographie bien ficelée. Il y manquera parfois de la cohésion, certains sujets seront inévitablement omis, d'autres seront surreprésentés . . . Pour éviter de faire injustice à un louable effort de compilation si ce n'est de synthèse, il vaudra probablement mieux organiser ce compte-rendu comme un parcours à travers les méandres d'un concept qu'on aurait du mal à définir trop étroitement. C'est d'ailleurs ce que les meneurs du projet ont eux-mêmes fait pour donner structure et sens à l'ouvrage : quatre grandes parties balisent ce vaste espace : I. Prendre la mesure du temps ; II. Temps et temporalités ; III. Temps modernes, version ottomane ; IV. Le temps de l'empire sous la république turque. On voit tout de suite qu'il s'agit de trouver un compromis entre partition thématique et chronologique. Les deux premières parties participent plutôt d'une vision thématique, mais avec une chronologie sous-jacente ; les deux dernières ont plus trait à la question de la modernité, mais elles abordent des thèmes qui se dessinent et se distinguent assez clairement. Il y a, bien sûr, les sujets les plus attendus, ceux qui traitent de l'aspect technique de la question, notamment la mesure du temps. Frédéric Hitzel (« De la clepsydre à l'horloge ») rend compte des instruments divers et variés, mais de plus en plus occidentaux, dont se servent les Ottomans pendant toute la période moderne. Il s'interroge sur les raisons de cette torpeur du temps ottoman qui ne parvient pas à se libérer de contraintes traditionnelles. Les « Les tours d'horloge ottomanes » de Klaus Kreiser lui répondent en partie en étudiant ces monuments dont on est surpris de voir les premiers exemples érigés dès le quinzième siècle. Le phénomène reste quand même très dix-neuvième et se réduit souvent à un temps « qui se montre » pour promouvoir l'image et la réputation du commanditaire, souvent le sultan lui-même. Il y a donc un temps lent et traditionnel, mais solide et bien ancré qui se lit dans les astres et rythme la vie de la majorité (Gülçin Tunalı Koç, « An Ottoman Astrologer at Work ») ; mais il y a surtout le temps politique, le temps du pouvoir. Nicolas Vatin (« L'homme d'Etat ottoman, maître du temps ») nous rappelle que dans chronique, il y a temps. Que ce soit lorsqu'un prétendant au trône tente de franchir les distances et les obstacles qui le séparent du trône ou lorsqu'il s'agit de mener une campagne militaire de quelque envergure, le
Journal of Economic History, 2000
Toplumsal Tarih, 261, Sep 2015
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