Spies, Scandals, and Sultans
Title | Spies, Scandals, and Sultans PDF eBook |
Author | Ibrāhīm Muwayliḥī |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780742562172 |
This is an English translation of a critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid.
Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
Title | Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures PDF eBook |
Author | C. Ceyhun Arslan |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2024-03-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1399525840 |
The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures fleshes out the Ottoman canon's multilingual character to call for a literary history that can reassess and even move beyond categories that many critics take for granted, such as 'classical Arabic literature' and 'Ottoman literature'. It gives a historically contextualised close reading of works from authors who have been studied as pionneers of Arabic and Turkish literatures, such as Ziya Pasha, Jurji Zaydan, Ma?ruf al-Rusafi and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. The Ottoman Canon analyses how these authors prepared the arguments and concepts that shape how we study Arabic and Turkish literatures today as they reassessed the relationship among the Ottoman canon's linguistic traditions. Furthermore, The Ottoman Canon examines the Ottoman reception of pre-Ottoman poets, such as Kab ibn Zuhayr, hence opening up new research avenues for Arabic literature, Ottoman studies and comparative literature.
The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire
Title | The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | George H. Junne |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2016-06-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857728083 |
The Chief Black Eunuch, appointed personally by the Sultan, had both the ear of the leader of a vast Islamic Empire and held power over a network of spies and informers, including eunuchs and slaves throughout Constantinople and beyond. The story of these remarkable individuals, who rose from difficult beginnings to become amongst the most powerful people in the Ottoman Empire, is rarely told. George Junne places their stories in the context of the wider history of African slavery, and places them at the centre of Ottoman history. The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire marks a new direction in the study of courtly politics and power in Constantinople.
A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
Title | A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Heather J. Sharkey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2017-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052176937X |
This book traces the history of conflict and contact between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East prior to 1914.
Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature
Title | Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Koerber |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-03-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474417450 |
This book examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction since the early twentieth century. Read against the historical and intertextual backgrounds of individual authors and their works, conspiracy theory emerges not as a single, rigid ideology, but as a style of writing that is equal parts literary and political.
The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918
Title | The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918 PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Masters |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2013-04-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107033632 |
This book discusses the role of Arabs in the Ottoman Empire for the four centuries that they were its subjects. The conventional wisdom was that the Arabs were a subject people who resented or, at best, were indifferent to their Ottoman overlords. This book argues that two social classes - Sunni religious scholars and urban notables - were willing collaborators in the imperial enterprise, and without whose support the Ottoman Empire would not have ruled the Arab lands for as long as they did.
The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz
Title | The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz PDF eBook |
Author | Marilyn Booth |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192846191 |
A study of the career and writings of Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) an early feminist thinker and writer in Egypt. It focuses on her newspaper essays, novels, poetry, and her play which was the first to be published by a female author in Arabic.