‎Turquie - ottoman empire‎

‎Galante Avram‎

‎Histoire Des Juifs De Turquie, 9 Volumes‎

‎8vo., 9 volumes ([4], 396 p.; [4], 290 p.; [4], 352 p.; viii, 374 p., 2 maps; vii, 341 p.; viii, 366, [1] p.; viii, 342 p.; vi, 323 p.; vi, 255 p.). 1- Les Juifs de Constantinople sous Byzance. Les Juifs sous la domination des Turcs Seldjoukides. Les Juifs d'Istanbul sous Mehmet le Conquerant. Histoire des Juifs d'Istanbul depuis la prise de cette ville en 1453 par Mehmet II jusqu'a nos jours (1er volume). 2- Histoire des Juifs d'Istanbul depuis la prise de cette ville en 1453 par Mehmet II jusqu'a nos jours (2me volume). Histoire des Juifs d'Anatolie (1er volume); les Juifs d'Izmir (Smyrne) (1ere partie). 3- Histoire des Juifs d'Anatolie (1er volume); les Juifs d'Izmir (Smyrne) (2eme partie). Histoire des Juifs d'Anatolie (2eme volume) (1ere partie). 4- Histoire des Juifs d'Anatolie (2eme volume) (2eme partie). Appendice a l'histoire des Juifs d'Anatolie. 5- Documents officiels Turcs concernant les Juifs de Turquie. Appendice a l'ouvrage Documents officiels Turcs concernant les Juifs de Turquie. Recueil de nouveaux documents inedits concernant l'histoire des Juifs de Turquie. 6- Nouveau recueil de nouveaux documents inedits concernant l'histoire des Juifs de Turquie. Encore un nouveau recueil de documents concernant l'histoire des Juifs de Turquie -etudes scientifiques. Quatrieme recueil de documents concernant les Juifs de Turquie proverbes Judeo-Espagnols. Cinquieme recueil de documents concernant les Juifs de Turquie -divers sujets Juifs. Sixieme recueil de documents concernant les Juifs de Turquie et divers sujets Juifs. 7- Septieme recueil de documents concernant les Juifs de Turquie et divers sujets Juifs. Histoire des Juifs de Rhode, Chio, Cos, etc. Appendice a l'histoire des Juifs de Rhode, Chio, Cos, etc. et fin tragique des communautes Juives de Rhodes et de Cos, oeuvre du brigandage Hitlerien. Turcs et Juifs, etudes historique, politique. 8- Turcs et Juifs, etudes historique, politique (suite). Appendice a l'ouvrage Turcs et Juifs, etudes historique, politique. Appendice a mes ouvrages Turcs et Juifs. Nouveaux documents sur Sabbetai Sevi organisation et us et coutumes de ses adeptes. Don Joseph Nassi d'apres de nouveaux documents. 9- Esther Kyra d'apres de nouveaux documents. Don Salomon Aben Yaeche Duc de Metelin. Hommes et choses Juifs Portugais en Orient. Medecins Juifs au service de la Turquie. Un chapitre inedit de l'histoire Juive: Marranes Iraniens. Le Juif dans le proverbe: Le conte et la chanson Orientaux. Abdul Hamid II et le sionisme. L'adoption des caracteres Latins dans la langue Hebraique signifie sa dislocation. La presse Judeo-Espagnol mondiale. international customers please inquire on shipping.‎

‎Scott Alev‎

‎Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended a century ago - and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital and relevant; where medieval ethnic diversity meets 21st century nationalism, and displaced people seek new identities.It's a story of surprises. An acolyte of Erdogan in Christian-majority Serbia confirms the wide-reaching appeal of his authoritarian leadership. A Druze warlord explains the secretive religious faction in the heart of the Middle East. The palimpsest-like streets of Jerusalem's Old Town hint at the Ottoman co-existence of Muslims and Jews. And in Turkish Cyprus Alev Scott rediscovers a childhood home. In every community, history is present as a dynamic force.Faced by questions of exile, diaspora and collective memory, Alev Scott searches for answers from the cafes of Beirut to the refugee camps of Lesbos. She uncovers in Erdogan's nouveau-Ottoman Turkey a version of the nostalgic utopias sold to disillusioned voters in Europe and the U.S‎

‎Ronaldshay, the Earl of‎

‎On the Outskirts of Empire in Asia‎

‎8vo 240x170mm. XXII+408pp.56 photographic plates,2 folding colored maps, index , first map torn, both complete. ex library copy w. usual marks, in library solid binding.Contains: Across a Continent, Turkey in Asia, Across the Taurus, Cilicia, Aleppo to Deir-el-Zob, The Desert, Lands of the Tigris, Baghdad Railway, To Kermanshah, To Teheran, Persia in 1903, Portals of Persia, Baku, Transcaspian Railway in 1903, Bokhara the Noble, Samarkand, Across the Steppes of Turkestan, Kulja, The Ibex of Turkestan, After Wild Sheep in the Siberian Altai, Sport in Mongolia, Central Siberia, The Great Siberian Railway, The East Chinese Railway, The Near East, A Tibetan Episode, The Far East, Last Words. Ex-Library‎

‎Akçam Taner‎

‎Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide)‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 288pp. The book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research. A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide the documentary evidence surrounding it. This book provides a major clarification of the often blurred lines between facts and truth in regard to these events. The authenticity of the killing orders signed by Ottoman Interior Minister Talat Pasha and the memoirs of the Ottoman bureaucrat Naim Efendi have been two of the most contested topics in this regard. The denialist school has long argued that these documents and memoirs were all forgeries, produced by Armenians to further their claims. Taner Akçam provides the evidence to refute the basis of these claims and demonstrates clearly why the documents can be trusted as authentic, revealing the genocidal intent of the Ottoman-Turkish government towards its Armenian population. As such, this work removes a cornerstone from the denialist edifice, and further establishes the historicity of the Armenian Genocide.‎

‎Tufekci Zeynep‎

‎Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.326. o understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today’s social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests—how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change. Tufekci speaks from direct experience, combining on-the-ground interviews with insightful analysis. She describes how the internet helped the Zapatista uprisings in Mexico, the necessity of remote Twitter users to organize medical supplies during Arab Spring, the refusal to use bullhorns in the Occupy Movement that started in New York, and the empowering effect of tear gas in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. These details from life inside social movements complete a moving investigation of authority, technology, and culture—and offer essential insights into the future of governance.‎

‎Hodgson Marshall G.s.‎

‎L'ordine degli Assassini. La lotta dei primi Ismailiti nizariti contro il mondo Islamico‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp. 522. Gli «Assassini» sono noti come una cerchia di fanatici sicari musulmani, responsabili di un numero enorme di delitti efferati e di azioni suicide, che compivano nella convinzione di guadagnarsi così il Paradiso - questo almeno era quanto credevano dopo essersi storditi con l'hashish (donde il loro nome arabo Hasisiyyun, «assassini»). Sin qui la leggenda. Ma la vera storia dei Nizariti (questo il nome della setta) è ben più affascinante. Nati nel 1094 da uno scisma interno all'Ismailismo, a sua volta un ramo dello sciismo, i Nizariti conquistarono in breve tempo una serie di fortezze tra la Siria, l'Iraq e l'Iran e vi si asserragliarono. Da lì lanciarono una sfida all'intero mondo islamico, che li considerava temibili eretici, e per quasi due secoli seppero tenergli testa sia militarmente sia culturalmente, elaborando una versione dell'assetto sociale, politico e religioso dell'Islam radicalmente alternativa a quella sunnita che si andava allora affermando. E il coronamento di questa visione fu, nel 1164, la proclamazione della Qiy?ma o «Resurrezione», cioè l'abrogazione dei vincoli della sar?'a, la legge religiosa, e l'istituzione del Paradiso in terra con la rinascita dei fedeli nizariti a una vita spirituale immortale. In questo libro, divenuto subito un classico, Hodgson non solo traccia per la prima volta la complessa storia dei Nizariti, ma ne ricostruisce la raffinata e stupefacente dottrina, a partire dai testi sacri della setta e dai dotti scritti dei loro strenui oppositori‎

‎Long C.W.R.‎

‎Bygone Heat: Travels of an Idealist in the Middle East‎

‎8vo, br. ed. The story of Long's thirty years' work and experience generally, in part as a diplomat, around the Muslim world,in libya, turkey, baghdad, beirut khartum, damascus, qatar. egypt. told with sensitivity and wit. new. Size: 13.8cm - 21.5cm with 238pp. Synopsis: "How couldst thou take such journeys into fanatic Arabia?" So C.W.R. Long begins his memoir with a quotation from Doughty and answers it affirmatively and with enduring enthusiasm and affection. He tells his story of over thirty years life and work in Muslim lands, including times as a diplomat. He begins at Cambridge and his career follows the turns and twists of history through Libya, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, the Sudan, Turkey, the UAE, Qatar and Jordan and--above all--Iraq, a country he continues to regard with the utmost affection, understanding and concern. The result is a memoir of grace and sensitivity in which his colleagues and local people of all levels come vividly to life and he embeds his story in the history, polities, geography, culture and social structure of the countries where he served. About the Author: C.W.R. Long is Director of Islamic Studies at Durham University's Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.‎

‎Ayalon Yaron‎

‎Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.264. This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less significant in Ottoman society than commonly believed. Furthermore, the emphasis on Islamic principles and the presence of Islamic symbols in the public domain were measures the state took to enhance its reputation and political capital - occasional discrimination of non-Muslims was only a by-product of these measures. This study sheds new light on flight and behavioral patterns in response to impending disasters by combining historical evidence with studies in social psychology and sociology. Employing an approach that mixes environmental and social history with the psychology of disasters, this work asserts that the handling of such disasters was crucial to both the rise and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.‎

‎Varlik Nükhet Varlik‎

‎Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.394. This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies and travellers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.‎

‎Montesano Marina‎

‎Dio lo volle? 1204: la vera caduta di Costantinopoli‎

‎8vo, br. ed.‎

‎MALCOLM Noel‎

‎Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750‎

‎8vo, cloth in dj, pp.512. From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the deep hostility of Western Christendom towards Islam. Yet there was also much curiosity about the social and political system on which the huge power of the sultans was based. In the sixteenth century, especially, when Ottoman territorial expansion was rapid and Ottoman institutions seemed particularly robust, there was even open admiration. In this path-breaking book Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, studying all the ways in which thinkers in the West interpreted the Ottoman Empire as a political phenomenon - and Islam as a political religion. Useful Enemies shows how the concept of 'oriental despotism' began as an attempt to turn the tables on a very positive analysis of Ottoman state power, and how, as it developed, it interacted with Western debates about monarchy and government. Noel Malcolm also shows how a negative portrayal of Islam as a religion devised for political purposes was assimilated by radical writers, who extended the criticism to all religions, including Christianity itself. Examining the works of many famous thinkers (including Machiavelli, Bodin, and Montesquieu) and many less well-known ones, Useful Enemies illuminates the long-term development of Western ideas about the Ottomans, and about Islam. Noel Malcolm shows how these ideas became intertwined with internal Western debates about power, religion, society, and war. Discussions of Islam and the Ottoman Empire were thus bound up with mainstream thinking in the West on a wide range of important topics. These Eastern enemies were not just there to be denounced. They were there to be made use of, in arguments which contributed significantly to the development of Western political thought.‎

‎Wirtz Philipp‎

‎Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies: Images of a Past World‎

‎8vo, br. ed. The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses Turkish autobiographical narratives describing the part of their authors’ lives that was spent while the Ottoman Empire still existed. The texts studied in this book were written in the cultural context of the Turkish Republic, which went to great lengths to disassociate itself from the empire and its legacy. This process has only been criticised and partially reversed in very recent times, the resurging interest in autobiographical texts dealing with the "old days" by the Turkish reading public being part of a wider, renewed regard for Ottoman legacies. Among the analysed texts are autobiographies by writers, journalists, soldiers and politicians, including classics like Halide Edip Adivar and Sevket Süreyya Aydemir, but also texts by authors virtually unknown to Western readers, such as Ahmed Emin Yalman. While the official Turkish republican discourse went towards a dismissal of the imperial past, autobiographical narratives offer a more balanced picture. From the earliest memories and personal origins of the authors, to the conflict and violence that overshadowed private lives in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, this book aims at showing examples of how the authors painted what one of them called "images of a past world."‎

‎Brilli Attilio‎

‎Il grande racconto del favoloso Oriente‎

‎8vo, tela ed. in sovracoperta, pp.480. «Trascorsi metà della notte a riflettere sulla strana serie di circostanze che avevano interrotto la tranquilla esistenza di un giovane avvocato e, dalla terra degli affari e dei guadagni, l'avevano spedito a meditare sulle rovine di antiche città e a dormire su un pavimento di fango, in mezzo ai turbanti turchi...» (John Lloyd Stephens, 1836). Un luogo esotico in cui proiettare emozioni, desideri impossibili e fantasie: per il mondo occidentale l'Oriente è favoloso perché gli elementi fantasmatici vi superano di gran lunga la realtà. Che sia il Vicino Oriente mediterraneo o quello più lontano dell'Asia, dilatato alla Polinesia e ai Mari del Sud, lo sconfinato Oriente ha sollecitato negli occidentali l'erotismo della conoscenza ma anche brame di colonizzazione e di possesso. È un Altrove ideale per l'uomo moderno che anela a liberarsi dai vincoli del conformismo e a rigenerarsi a contatto con popoli e civiltà non stravolti dal progresso: anche se questo implica violare universi gelosamente chiusi da barriere fisiche ma soprattutto simboliche e culturali. Può trattarsi di sfidare i deserti dell'Arabia, gli altopiani tibetani o le giungle cambogiane; oppure di introdursi nell'harem, visitare clandestinamente le città sante dell'Islam, provocare la reazione di civiltà millenarie, dall'Oceano Indiano al Mar del Giappone. È così che esploratori, avventurieri, naturalisti, archeologi, agenti segreti, spie - uomini e donne - partecipano, fra Settecento e Novecento, alla costruzione di una visione leggendaria dell'Oriente.‎

‎Curtis, William Eleroy‎

‎Around the Black Sea: Asia Minor, Armenia, Caucasus, Circassia Daghestan, the Crimea Roumania‎

‎8vo. original dark yellow cloth with elaborate white and rose decorated front board. First Edition. pp. 456 The orginal color folding map and 40 b&w unique photographs are intact. An excellent copy. scarce. Contents: cruising in the black sea, trebizond, railway concessions in turkey, caucasus, tiflis, ararat, armenians persecution, massacres of 1909, american missions, caspian oil fields, daghestan, circassians and cossacks, crimea, sevastopol and balaklava, florence nightingale, odessa, new regime in turkey, emancipation of turkish women, robert college and other american schools‎

‎Alan Mikhail (Autore), Luca Fusari (Traduttore), Sara Prencipe (Traduttore)‎

‎L'ombra di Dio. Selim il sultano, il suo Impero ottomano e la creazione del mondo Moderno‎

‎8vo, tela ed. sovracop. 482pp. Nei primi anni del 1500, l'onnipotente sultano Selim I, con l'aiuto della madre, l'abile Gülbahar, triplicò il territorio dell'Impero ottomano, proiettandolo sulla scena mondiale. Dopo secoli di occultamento della storia islamica da parte degli europei, Alan Mikhail assegna all'Impero ottomano e all'Islam un ruolo centrale nella storia moderna, ridefinendo eventi cruciali come i viaggi di Cristoforo Colombo (origine di una nuova crociata che assimilava i nativi americani ai «mori»), la Riforma protestante, lo schiavismo e la drammatica conquista ottomana del Medio Oriente e del Nordafrica. Attingendo a fonti mai prima d'ora esaminate (turche, arabe, spagnole, italiane, francesi), l'innovativo resoconto di Mikhail riporta in vita il sultano Selim e la sua epoca, mostrandoci quanto la storia dell'Europa e dell'America sia strettamente intrecciata con quella del mondo islamico. Dobbiamo molto agli ottomani. E solo Selim, «l'ombra di Dio sulla Terra», può raccontarci per intero questa storia.‎

‎Enard Mathias‎

‎Parlami di battaglie, di re e di Elefanti‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 13 maggio 1506: Michelangelo sbarca a Costantinopoli, da cinquant'anni capitale dell'impero turco. Ha lasciato Roma, irritato con papa Giulio II che gli preferisce altri artisti, per accettare l'invito del sultano Bayazid il Giusto, che gli offre un compito e una sfida: disegnare un ponte che unisca le rive del Bosforo. Lo stesso progetto era stato affidato vent'anni prima a Leonardo da Vinci, e Michelangelo trova irresistibile la prospettiva di riuscire là dove il rivale ha fallito. Il fascino della città d'oro e di spezie lo avvolge e lo ammalia fin da subito: e tra paggi, schiavi, soldati, elefanti, scimmie, taverne oscure e freschi cortili si fanno avanti due figure ambigue e incantevoli che avvincono l'artista con il potere della danza, del canto, della poesia. Sempre in bilico tra invenzione e ricostruzione storica, questo romanzo è il racconto di un sogno: quello dell'incontro – possibile e mancato – fra il genio del Rinascimento e la magia dell'Oriente.‎

‎Cardini Franco‎

‎In Terrasanta. Pellegrini italiani tra Medioevo e prima età Moderna‎

‎In 8, pp. 528, br. ed. Questo libro traccia un grande affresco sul pellegrinaggio dalla penisola italica verso i Luoghi Santi, nel periodo compreso fra il Medioevo e la conquista ottomana di Gerusalemme del 1516. Forma devozionale assai diffusa nel mondo cristiano medievale, figlio delle tradizioni ebraiche e greco-romane, il pellegrinaggio, metafora del destino dell'uomo che "cammina" verso la morte per la salvezza, segna un fenomeno storico rilevante, non solo per gli aspetti religiosi presenti in esso, ma anche per quelli culturali, sociali, economici e artistici.‎

‎Bali, Rifat N.‎

‎The Jews and Prostitution in Constantinople 1854-1922‎

‎8vo, broch, pp,123‎

‎Tavlas, Nezih‎

‎Photojournalist: The Life Story of Ara Guler Ara Güler‎

‎small 4to, br ed. 223pp. Photojournalist, a book by Nezih Tavlas, provides a compelling and in-depth look into the life of Ara Güler who was regarded as one of the most accomplished documentary photographers of the 20th century and the pioneer of photojournalism in Turkey. The book lists all of Guler’s professional accomplishments while also providing rare insight into his personal life and his photographic legacy amounts to over two million stories told. Born into a Turkish-Armenian family in Istanbul in 1928, Ara Güler who has been given the nickname, "The Eye of Istanbul" and also described as “one of the most important living representatives of creative photography today.” Güler’s photographic work started being published in the late 1950s and early 1960s; his work has been displayed at many of the world’s major art centers, including New York, London and Paris. He has published many books on his work and is the recipient of many awards and honors. Many examples of Güler’s photographic work are to be found in institutions such as the French National Library in Paris and the Sheldon Collection at Nebraska University, as well as in private collections in Boston, Chicago and New York. His photographs are also displayed at the Ludwig Museum and at Das Imaginare Photo-Museum, both in Cologne.Güler’s international reputation is well-established after spending nearly 60 years in journalism, starting in 1950, from where he went on to become a photojournalist for Time-Life in 1956 and for Paris Match and Stern in 1958. Around the same time, he joined the Magnum Agency. The British Journal of Photography Year Book published in the U.K. in 1968 named Güler as one of the seven best photographers in the world. In 1962, he received the Leica Master award in Germany and French Legion of Honor.Ara Güler, arguably Turkey’s most eminent photographer, impressively portrayed life in the city of Istanbul, his birthplace and home, for over 60 years. He was world famous for his incomparable black-and-white images of the metropolis on the shores of the Bosporus from the 1950s and 1960s. Ara Güler, (1928-2018), was also well known for his work as a reporter and photojournalist covering political affairs around the world and for his photographic interviews with many prominent politicians and artists of the period, from Ansel Adams, Louis Aragon, John Berger, Willy Brandt, Erskine Caldwell, Maria Callas, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marc Chagall, Winston Churchill, Imogen Cunningham, Salvador Dali, Federico Fellini, Indira Gandhi, Alfred Hitchcock, Dustin Hoffman, Danny Kaye, Elia Kazan, Aram Khachaturian, Josef Koudelka, Sophia Loren, Henry Luce, Arthur Miller, Vincente Minelli, Aristotle Onassis, Pablo Picasso, Jean Renoir, Marc Riboud, Bertrand Russell, Sebastiao Salgado, William Saroyan, Mother Teresa, Arnold Toynbee, John Updike, Orson Welles and Tennessee Williams.‎

‎Al Muqaffa', Ibn‎

‎IL LIBRO DI KALILA E DIMNA‎

‎8vo. br.cop.fig.a col. A cura di Andrea Borruso, Mirella Cassarino. cm.13,5x21, pp.268, 4 tavv.ft. Coll.Omikron,39. il famoso Paciatantra (cinque libri, cinqu occasioni di saggezza)‎

‎Abasiyanik Sait Faik‎

‎Un uomo Inutile‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 266pp. «Lui è nato per osservare il mondo con meraviglia» scrive Sait Faik Abasiyanik di uno dei suoi tanti doppi che compaiono in questi racconti. «Per stupirsi senza capire nulla. Camminare per le strade, vedere e non vedere che cosa fa la gente». E poi? «Indugiare su un ponte e guardare in basso il colore dell'acqua, ammirare le gambe di una ragazza» – e chiedersi: «quella ragazza, chi riuscirà a baciarla?». Un incorreggibile flâneur: questo è stato Sait Faik, uno dei massimi scrittori turchi del Novecento. Dopo studi irregolari, una manciata di anni trascorsi in Francia, fiacchi tentativi, sempre falliti, di rassegnarsi a un qualsivoglia mestiere, il perdigiorno bramoso di «amare la gente» non ha fatto altro che immergersi nell'esistenza brulicante e misera dei quartieri cosmopoliti di Istanbul, e osservare avidamente, con gli occhi sempre un po' lucidi per il troppo raki, non solo gli esseri umani – lo attraggono, in particolare, certi «ragazzi di vita» che quasi mai trova il coraggio di abbordare – ma anche i cani, gli uccelli, i pesci, il cielo, il mare, i tram, le chiatte, i taxi... È qui che, tra osterie, bordelli, pasticcerie e alberghetti, vagabonda e beve per tutta la sua breve vita, fino a morire, a soli quarantotto anni, di cirrosi epatica. Eppure questo irriducibile sfaccendato riesce a perseguire con indomabile tenacia la propria vocazione letteraria, e a tracciare, un racconto dopo l'altro, una pennellata dopo l'altra, un affresco partecipe e struggente del mondo stambuliota della prima metà del Novecento – «venditori di giornali, di fiammiferi, di stecche per baveri e bustini, mercanti d'amore ... costruttori, pizzicagnoli, teatranti, scrittori, librai, acquaioli, tabaccai, professori, lustrascarpe, studenti...» in una prosa asciutta e affilata, e insieme ebbra, franta, trafelata come dopo una lunga corsa, nella quale baluginano, qua e là, folgoranti accensioni liriche: «Desiderava tanto baciare delle labbra: morbide, umide, insipide o saporite, crepitanti come capelli elettrici... Voleva impazzire al calore di una mano».‎

‎Quataert, Donald‎

‎The Ottoman Empire, 1700?1922 (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 17)‎

‎8vo, br. ed. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 is the latest addition to the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History, and strikes a balance between social, economic, and political history. The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This major new survey examines the most important trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly-debated topics such as the treatment of minorities. Donald Quataert, a distinguished Ottoman scholar, has written a lively, authoritative and accessible narrative. The text is supported by maps, illustrations and genealogical and chronological tables, which will be of enormous value to students and non-specialists alike. Book Description: This is a major new survey history of the Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922. Donald Quataert, a distinguished Ottoman scholar, has written a lively, authoritative and accessible textbook, supported by maps, illustrations and a chronology, which will be of enormous value to students and non-specialists alike.‎

‎MORIN Edgar‎

‎Vidal et Le Siens‎

‎16mo. br. ed. 473pp illustations. Avec Vidal Nahoum mourut en 1984 l'un des survivants du monde englouti de la Salonique séfarade où il était né en 1894. Son grand-père venait de Toscane et parlait italien, sa langue maternelle était l'espagnol du XVe siècle, mais, tout jeune, il sut s'exprimer en français et en allemand. Naïf et malin, animé d'un optimisme et d'une gaieté sans faille, d'un sens de la famille quasi religieux et d'un goût inépuisable pour la nourriture, il traversa les guerres balkaniques, l'écroulement de l'Empire ottoman et les deux guerres mondiales. A partir de documents historiques et personnels, Edgar Morin, son fils, restitue ici son histoire irremplaçable, celle des hommes et femmes de sa famille, celle d'un XXe siècle marqué par la complexité des relations entre l'Orient et l'Occident.‎

‎Wheatcroft Andrew‎

‎Il Nemico Alle Porte. Quando Vienna fermò L'avanzata Ottomana‎

‎8vo, br. ed.‎

‎Levi Mario‎

‎Istanbul Era Una Favola‎

‎8vo, leg, edit e sovracoperta, pp. 832. traduzione italiana di istanbul bir masaldi‎