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Ottoman Studies
Ottoman studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, costumes, religion, art, such as literature and music, science, economy, and politics of the Ottoman Empire. It is a sub-category of Oriental studies and Middle Eastern studies, and also Turkish studies. According to Marc David Baer, Ottoman studies is an "ethically challenged field" because "Armenian genocide denial is widespread". Institutions specializing in Ottoman studies *Turkish Studies Association *Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies *Centre for Ottoman Studies at SOAS, University of London *Ottoman and Turkish Studies, University of Chicago *Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Stanford University *Center for Ottoman Studies, Belgrade *Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Academic journals *''Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association'' Notable people * Maurits van den Boogert (born 1972), Dutch historian *Suraiya Faroqhi (born 1941), German historian * Caroli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature and language, as opposed to the study of religion, or "divinity". The study of the humanities was a key part of the secular curriculum in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of natural sciences, social sciences, formal sciences (like mathematics), and applied sciences (or Professional development, professional training). They use methods that are primarily Critical theory, critical, speculative, or interpretative and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly Empirical method, empirical approaches of science."Humanity" 2.b, ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 3rd ed. (2003). The humanities include the academic study of philosophy, religion, histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Studies Association
The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (formerly the Turkish Studies Association) is a learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences. Membership may be open to al ... established in 1971 for the promotion of Turkish and Ottoman studies. It was previously known as the Turkish Studies Group. It publishes the ''Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association'' (formerly ''Turkish Studies Association Journal'', earlier ''Turkish Studies Association Bulletin''). Presidents Past presidents of the organisation include: References Organizations established in 1971 Turkology Ottoman studies {{ottoman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Howe Lybyer
Albert Howe Lybyer (1876 in Putnamville, Indiana – 1949) was a scholar of the history of the Middle East and the Balkans. Lybyer taught medieval and modern European history at Oberlin College from 1909 to 1913, and also held teaching positions at Robert College of Istanbul (1900–1906), Harvard University (1907–1909) and the University of Illinois (1913–1944). He served as a technical advisor to the King–Crane Commission in 1919. The book ''The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent'' was his most influential work. He gave manuscript feedback to Barnette Miller for her 1931 book ''Beyond the Sublime Porte'' on the Turkish seraglio. He graduated from Princeton University and Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heath W
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler and damper climate. Heaths are widespread worldwide but are rapidly disappearing and considered a rare habitat in Europe. They form extensive and highly diverse communities across Australia in humid and sub-humid areas where fire regimes with recurring burning are required for the maintenance of the heathlands.Specht, R.L. 'Heathlands' in 'Australian Vegetation' R.H. Groves ed. Cambridge University Press 1988 Even more diverse though less widespread heath communities occur in Southern Africa. Extensive heath communities can also be found in the Texas chaparral, New Caledonia, central Chile, and along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to these extensive heath areas, the vegetation type is also found in scattered loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British-American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Lewis's expertise was in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West. Lewis served as a soldier in the British Army in the Royal Armoured Corps and Intelligence Corps during the Second World War before being seconded to the Foreign Office. After the war, he returned to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and was appointed to the new chair in Near and Middle Eastern history. In 2007, Lewis was called "the West's leading interpreter of the Middle East". Others have said Lewis's approach is essentialist and generalizing to the Muslim world, as well as his tendency to restate hypotheses that were challenged by more recent research. On a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Lukas Kieser
Hans-Lukas Kieser (born 1957) is a Swiss historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Professor of modern history at the University of Zurich and president of the Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey in Basel. He is an author of books and articles in several languages. He became interested in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire while studying at the University of Basel where he met refugees from the 1980 Turkish military coup. This interest led to a PhD thesis which later was released by the Turkish publisher İletişim. He has been a lecturer or invited professor at Stanford University (2010); University of Michigan (2008); and other universities including the Bamberg University, and invited scholar at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France and the Bilgi University in Turkey. He received fellowships from academic institutions in Basel, Zurich and Freiburg (FRIAS), and from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He currently lectures as a Prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemal Karpat
Kemal Karpat (15 February 1924, Babadag Tulcea, Romania – 20 February 2019, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States) was a Romanian- Turkish naturalised American historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Early life He was of Turkish origin and born in Babadag, Romania. He received his LLB from the University of Istanbul, his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from New York University. He previously worked for the UN Economic and Social Council and taught at the University of Montana and New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational .... His final post was at Istanbul Şehir University. Selected publications * ''Elites and Religion: From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic '' (Times, 2010) * ''The Gecekondu: Rural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halil İnalcık
Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed his PhD and worked between 1940 and 1972. Between 1972 and 1986 he taught Ottoman history at the University of Chicago. From 1994 on he taught at Bilkent University, where he founded the history department. He was a founding member of the Eurasian Academy. Biography He was born in Istanbul on 7 September 1916 to a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar family that left Crimea for the city in 1905. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School (current Balıkesir University), and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History, from which he graduated in 1940. His work on Timur drew the attention of Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, who facilitated his entry as an assistant to the Modern Age Department of the universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doğan Gürpınar
Doğan Gürpınar is a Turkish historian whose work focuses on the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. He is employed by Istanbul Technical University Istanbul Technical University, also known as Technical University of Istanbul (, commonly referred to as İTÜ), is an public university, public technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical university .... Works * * * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gurpinar, Dogan Academic staff of Istanbul Technical University Scholars of nationalism Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Turkish historians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Day Goodrich
Thomas Day Goodrich (1927 – November 5, 2015) was an American historian of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Tom Goodrich was the son of the prominent historian of China Luther Carrington Goodrich who took him to live in China from the ages of 3 to 5. The family then moved back to the United States, where Goodrich attended school and did his military service. In 1953, he received his master's degree from Columbia University. He wanted to teach overseas, so he accepted a position in Turkey at a middle school for boys, where he taught for four years. He then spent an additional year in Turkey teaching at a high school for girls in İzmir. It was during this time abroad that he met his first wife Carol "Rusty" Wright. Scholarly career Back in the US, Goodrich began a PhD, doctoral program in history at Columbia University, where he studied with Tibor Halasi-Kun (his thesis advisor) and Peter Gay. With the help of a Fulbright Scholarship, Goodrich completed his dissertation, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Von Hammer-Purgstall
Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall (; 9 June 1774 – 23 November 1856) was an Austrian orientalist, historian and diplomat. He is considered one of the most accomplished orientalists of his time. Life Born Joseph Hammer in Graz, Duchy of Styria (now Styria, Austria), he received his early education mainly in Vienna. Entering the diplomatic service in 1796, he was appointed in 1799 to a position in the Austrian embassy in Istanbul, and in this capacity he took part in the expedition under Admiral William Sidney Smith and General John Hely-Hutchinson against France. In 1807 he returned home from the East, after which he was made a privy councillor. In 1824 he was knighted and thereafter styled himself as '' Ritter Joseph von Hammer''. For fifty years Hammer-Purgstall wrote prolifically on the most diverse subjects and published numerous texts and translations of Arabic, Persian and Turkish authors. He was the first to publish a complete translation of the divan of Hafe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Finkel
Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Publications Her book ''Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923'' was published by John Murray in England in 2005, and by Basic Books in the United States (). A Greek translation appeared in 2007, Dutch in 2008, and Russian in 2010. The Turkish edition, ''Rüyadan İmparatorluğa: Osmanlı'' (2007) is in its fourth printing. She has recently co-authored a guidebook of Turkey's first long-distance equestrian, hiking and biking route, the Evliya Çelebi Way. It is available in English and Turkish. Other works include ''The administration of warfare: the Ottoman military campaigns in Hungary, 1593-1606'' (1988), and ''The seismicity of Turkey and adjacent areas : a historical review, 1500-1800'' (1995, also in Turkish), written with N. N. Ambraseys. She holds honorary fellowships at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
