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Doughty Charles M. Intr. T. E. Lawrence
Arabia Deserta
8vo, br, ed. . Nel 1876 un giovane medico e poeta inglese innamorato dei popoli e della cultura del Medio Oriente decide di visitare un sito archeologico nascosto nel cuore dell'Arabia. Per raggiungerlo, non esita a travestirsi da pellegrino e a unirsi alla grande carovana di devoti che da Damasco si reca alle città sante dell'Islam. Comincia così l'odissea nel deserto di Charles M. Doughty, turista clandestino che nessuna autorità può proteggere nella sua esplorazione di un mondo arcaico, violento e misterioso, in cui le regole di comportamento a lui note non valgono nulla. Mille incontri indimenticabili si svolgono negli scenari magici e solenni delle immense distese di sabbia, tra la fatica delle lunghe cavalcate a dorso di cammello, le soste in villaggi e accampamenti che sembrano usciti da un lontano passato, la fame e la sete, i tradimenti e gli agguati delle guide cui l'ignaro viaggiatore si affida, e i momenti di comunione con gli eroici abitanti del deserto, uomini e donne osservati da Doughty con l'appassionata attenzione dello straniero che, per sopravvivere, ha bisogno di distinguere a colpo sicuro gli amici dai nemici. Da autentico esploratore, l'autore di questo classico della letteratura di viaggio riesce a scoprire l'anima del deserto, e a rivelarcela in un resoconto che si legge come un grande romanzo d'avventura.
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Norwich John Julius
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe
Hardcover in dj 8vo, t Edition. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe 'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single decade. Each looms large in his country's history and, in this book, John Julius Norwich broadens the scope and shows how, against the rich background of the Renaissance and destruction of the Reformation, their wary obsession with one another laid the foundations for modern Europe. Individually, each man could hardly have been more different - from the scandals of Henry's six wives to Charles's monasticism - but, together, they dominated the world stage.
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DANKOFF ROBERT
From Mahmud Kasgari to Evliya Celebi. Studies in Middle Turkic and Ottoman Literatures
8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 508 p. Part 1: MIDDLE TURKIC: 1. Qarakhanid Literature and the Beginnings of Turco-Islamic Culture. In: Central Asian Monuments (ed. Hasan B. Paksoy, Istanbul, 1992), 73-80. 2. On Nature in Karakhanid Literature. Journal of Turkish Studies 4 (1980), 7-35. 3.Three Turkic Verse Cycles Relating to Inner Asian Warfare. Harvard Ukrainian Studies 3/4, 1979-80 (= Eucharisterion Omeljan Pritsak, Part 1), 151-65. 4.Inner Asian Wisdom Traditions in the Pre-Mongol Period. Journal of the American Oriental Society 101.1 (1981), 87-95. 5.Kashgari on the Tribal and Kinship Organization of the Turks. Archivum Ottomanicum 4 (1972), 23-43. 6.Kashgari on the Beliefs and Superstitions of the Turks. Journal of the American Oriental Society 95.1 (1975), 68-80. 7.The Alexander Romance in the Diwan Lughat at-Turk. Humaniora Islamica 1 (1973), 233-44. 8.Baraq and Buraq. Central Asiatic Journal 15.2 (1971), 102-17. 9.Middle Turkic Vulgarisms. In: Aspects of Altaic Civilization II (ed. L. V. Clark and P. A. Draghi, Bloomington, Indiana, 1978), 59-64. 10.Introduction to Wisdom of Royal Glory (Chicago, 1983). 11.Textual Problems in Kutadgu Bilig. Journal of Turkish Studies 3 (1979), 89-99.12.Animal Traits in the Army Commander. Journal of Turkish Studies 1 (1977), 95-112. 13.Some Notes on the Middle Turkic Glosses. Journal of Turkish Studies 5 (1981), 41-44. Part 2: OTTOMAN: 14.The Lyric in the Romance: The Use of Ghazals in Persian and Turkish Masnavis. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43.1 (1984), 9-25. 15.The Romance of Iskender and Gülshah. In: Turkic Culture: continuity and Change (ed. S. M. Akural, 1987 = Indiana University Turkish Studies 6), 95-103. 16.Inner and Outer Oguz in Dede Korkut. Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 6.2 (1982), 21-25. 17.The Seyahatname of Evliya Çelebi as a Literary Monument. Journal of Turkish Literature 2 (2005), 71-83. 18.Turkic Languages and Turkish Dialects according to Evliya Çelebi. Altaica Osloensia: Proceedings from the 32nd Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, ed. Bernt Brendemoen, Oslo, 1990, 89-102. 19.The Languages of the World according to Evliya Çelebi. Journal of Turkish Studies 13 (1989 = Gerhard Doerfer Festschrift), 20.Evliya Çelebi on the Armenian Language of Sivas in 1650. Annual of Armenian Linguistics 4 (1983), 47-56. 21. "Mi?disi": An Armenian Source for the Seyahatname. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 76 (1986 = Festschrift Andreas Tietze), 73-79. 22.Marrying a Sultana: The Case of Melek Ahmed Pasha. In: Decision Making and Change in the Ottoman Empire (ed. Caesar E. Farah, Kirksville, Missouri, 1993), 169-182. 23. An Unpublished Account of mum söndürmek in the Seyahatname of Evliya Chelebi. In: Bektachiyya: Études sur l'ordre mystique des Bektachis et les groupes relevant de Hadji Bektach (ed. A. Popovic and G. Veinstein, Istanbul: Isis, 1995), 69-73. 24. Establishing the Text of Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname: A Critique of Recent Scholarship and Suggestions for the Future. Archivum Ottomanicum 18 (2000), 139-44. 25."Shall We Tear Down That Observatory?" Evliya Çelebi and Philology. [unpublished English original of: "Su Rasadi Yikalim mi" Evliya Çelebi ve Filoloji. In: Evliya Çelebi ve Seyahatname (ed. Nurhan Tezcan & Kadir Atlansoy, Dogu Akdeniz Üniversitesi, 2002), 99-118. 26.Some Reflections on the Editing of Book 9 of the Seyahatname. In: Izzet Gündag Kayaoglu Hatira Kitabi: Makaleler (ed. Oktay Belli, Yücel Dagli, M. Sinan Genim; Istanbul, 2005), 122-32. 27.Some Reflections on the Editing of Book 10 of the Seyahatname. In: Journal of Turkish Studies 30/1 (2007 = In memoriam Sinasi Tekin, I
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Biagini Antonello Folco
Storia Della Turchia Contemporanea
8vo, br. ed.
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Orga Irfan
Un Viaggio in Turchia
8vo, br. ed. bandelle.
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Shafak Elif
The Architect's Apprentice
br. ed. 446pp. Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie. So begins an epic adventure that will see young Jahan rise from lowly origins to the highest ranks of the Sultan's court. Along the way he will meet deceitful courtiers and false friends, gypsies, animal tamers, and the beautiful, mischievous Princess Mihrimah. He will journey on Chota's back to the furthest corners of the Sultan's kingdom and back again. And one day he will catch the eye of the royal architect, Sinan, a chance encounter destined to change Jahan's fortunes forever. Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation, The Architect's Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.'A gorgeous picture of a city teeming with secrets, intrigue and romance' The Times. 'Shafak's most ambitious novel yet her best - generous and imaginative' Independent
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Sola Emilio, Peña, Emilio José F. de la
Cervantes y la Berbería : (Cervantes, mundo turco-berberisco y servicios secretos en la época de Felipe II)
8vo, br. ed. pp.291. Entre 1575 y 1580 Miguel de Cervantes permaneció como prisionero en la ciudad de Argel: cinco años -entre los 28 y los 33 de su vida- que marcaron hondamente su trayectoria vital y su obra literaria. La ciudad era un verdadero mito en su época, la república corsaria o 'república popular' que dijera Salvago a principios del siglo XVII, en donde un hombre podía pasar de pobre esclavo a gobernar un navío como arraez corsario o gobernar un territorio. Era la biografía ejemplar de los hermanos Barbarroja, Aruch y Jeredín, que medio siglo largo antes de que Cervantes estuviera allí habían creado casi de la nada aquel nuevo régimen político, avanzadilla occidental del los Otomanos en su enfrentamiento con los Habsurgos. Era la gran frontera mediterránea, generadora de peculiares hombres, como el corsario Dragut, Alí Bajá o Hasán el Veneciano. Sólo la mano maestra de Cervantes es capaz de guiar al historiador por aquel mundo, exótico y cercano al mismo tiempo, actualísimo, salvando los escollos de la 'leyenda negra' que los medios oficiales cristianos tejieron sobre la Berbería.
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Sola Castaño, Emilio.
Cervantes libertario: Cervantes antisistema, o Por qué los anarquistas aman a Cervantes
8vo, br. ed. pp.196. Alcanzar libertad en esta vida es un verso de Cervantes que encierra en sí mismo todo un programa de vida y acción para una persona de su tiempo y de todos los tiempos. Porque la riqueza cervantina está precisamente en ese descubrimiento que cada generación hace de él amedida que evolucionan nuevas sensibilidades, más allá de la mera erudición crítica de los cervantistas, siempre desbordada por ellas. Cuatro días antes de morirse, Cervantes mismo lo dice: no son los tiempos unos , y que vendrá un tiempo en el que la gente, anudando los rotos hilos sueltos de sus historias, verá lo que quiso decir y, más aún, lo que convenía decir. Este libro de Emilio Sola historiador con trabajos fundamentales sobre asuntos fronterizos y de información en la época de Cervantes, tanto en el Mediterráneo como en Extremo Oriente es una invitación precisamente a esa interpretación más libre de las obras de Cervantes, a una lectura libertaria o liberadora que en su tiempo histórico no son los tiempos unos era inviable. Para horror del sistema, de los casticistas, de los bienpensantes y políticamente correctos, sobrevuela la sospecha de un Cervantes antisistema, imposible cortesano, zahiriente del cambio injusto y trato con maraña (la corrupción económica más elemental), un Cervantes aconfesional y hasta feminista del que no se habla en la pompa de los centenarios, y cuyomensaje principal se esforzó en construir a lo largo de su vida de manera consciente. Por ello, Cervantes, el libertario cuerdo o lúcido, tiene que inventarse a don Quijote, el libertario loco, para poder decir lo que quería decir, pura búsqueda de libertad de expresión para alcanzar libertad en esta vida . Lecturas de Cervantes innumerables y siempre nuevas, renovables incluso a medida que cambien los tiempos, fundamentales para entender por ejemplo a Cervantes cuando dice que no vale para cortesano porque no sabe lisonjear, y cuyas quejas sobre la justicia son radicales, sin fisura, claramente antisistémicas, tal cual aparece en el discurso primero de la Edad de Oro, por boca de Quijote; o el Cervantes que en un análisis maestro de la modernidad que se avecinaba, compara la empresa económica moderna con la galeota corsaria, y lamenta que el nuevo dios de los nuevos tiempos sea el interese , el dinero, de manera que el cambio injusto y trato con maraña sea la nueva ley de esos nuevos tiempos bárbaros; o el Cervantes feminista que en una sociedad patriarcal y macha hace decir a Marcela que ella nació libre y que pasa de que su enamorado no correspondido, Crisóstomo, se haya suicidado, porque era un acosador; o el Cervantes que, en una sociedad confesional fundamentalista como era la monarquía católica, hace despedirse a un moro y a un cristiano en una pieza teatral así: Tu Cristo vaya contigo , dice el moro Ali; Tu Mahoma, Ali, te guarde , dice el cristiano; formulación sin parangón en la literatura europea de entonces y casi de hoy, tal como van las cosas. Ese es el Cervantes que no parece que las élites culturales y los especialistas tengan ningún interés en glosar para que todos lo entiendan. El que no puede digerir una sociedad formal que en el fondo no entra de lleno en él porque, como en vida le sucedió, lo desprecia y oculta, lo difumina o ningunea, y sólo es capaz de reírle gracias al loco que dice tonterías, y que inventó por pura necesidad de libertad de expresión, en un artilugio literario que crea la novela moderna. Ese es, sin duda, el Cervantes personaje histórico que encandila a los anarquistas, a los libertarios, y por ello son radicalmente cervantistas, más que quijotistas, pues enamorados del Quijote, focalizan su interés en ese hombre que está detrás de la obra literaria misma, que le da vida, que la hace posible. Ese Don Quijote de Alcalá de Henares, como sintetiza, puro emblema, José María Pujol, en el título de un libro que publicó en 1947 y que firma sencillamente PUYOL; un exiliado libertario que llegó a Argelia en el barco. en espanol.
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Mont-Rond, Maxime
Constantinople tableau historique de cette ville et precis de l'histoire de l'empire d'Orient et de l'empire Ottoman depuis Constantin jusqu'a nos jours
8vo, br. ed. 345pp.
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PAMUK Orhan
Istanbul. i Ricordi e La città . nuova Ediz. Illustrata
8vo grande pp.660. profusamente illustrato.
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Rossi, Ettore
MANUALE DI LINGUA TURCA Vol 1 (Grammatica Elementare Esercizi - Vocabolarietti) and Vol 2, etimologia- Sintassi - Stlistica - Metrica - Note Di Osmanli
2 volumi in 8vo, br. ed. 24.5x17 cm, printed covers, vi + 159pp, folding table; 296pp.
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Scott Alev
Turkish Awakening: Behind the Scenes of Modern Turkey. New and Updated edition
br. ed. When Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to explore her family's heritage, she didn't know what to expect from this colorful nation at the edge of the Middle East. By travelling around the country and talking to everyone from art dealers to camel breeders, Alex began to piece together a picture of modern Turkey. Moving from booming Istanbul to the historically diverse villages of the south-east, and caught up in the protests of 2013, Alev saw from the inside how constantly surprising this remarkable country can be. Turkish Awakening is essential reading for anyone travelling to, or simply interested in, this rapidly-evolving nation. This updated paperback edition includes an additional chapter on the aftermath of the 2013 Gezi Park protests. About the Author: Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish mother and a British father, and educated at North London Collegiate School and New College, Oxford, where she studied Classics. After graduating in 2009, she worked in London as an assistant director in theatre and opera before moving to Istanbul in January 2011, where she now works as a freelance journalist for the British press.
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Tyerman Christopher
The Crusades a Very Short Introduction
16mo, br. ed.
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Mamboury Ernest
Istanbul Touristique
12x18.3 cartonnage gris de l'éditeur, motif représentant une mosquée en bord de mer sur le premier plat, publicité sur le second plat 630p ; un feuillet d'erratum ; bel ex le grand plan en couleurs replié d'Istanbul et autres 300 illustrations plans cartes dessins, vues panoramiques delpiants.etc. edition française mise a jour a fin mars 1951
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Armistead, Samuel G.
EL ROMANCERO JUDEO - ESPAÑOL EN EL ARCHIVO MENENDEZ PIDAL. Tomo I - II- III. (Catálogo - índice de romances y canciones) por Samuel G. Armistead con la colaboración de Selma Margaretten, Paloma Montero y Ana Valenciano
3 vols., 387; 393; 358p., illus., facsimiles, bibl., index, wrps. (Fuentes para el Estudio del Romancero. Serie Sefardi; I, II & III) Tomo I: Catalogo de Textos A-K. Tomo II: Catálogo de Textos L-DD. Tomo II: Transcripciones musicales editadas por Israel J. Katz; Antología - Indices. clear taped spines, library labels and stamps, ow. a vg copy. heavy: international customers please inquire on shipping. Ex-Library
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Cardini Franco
Il Sultano e Lo Zar. Due imperi a confronto
8vo. 274pp. BROSSURA. La Sublime Porta e il Cremlino, sullo scacchiere mondiale per il controllo delle terre tra Europa e Asia: dal Bosforo al Pamir, dal Caucaso a Suez. Lotte, commerci, scoperte e accordi tra le potenze che ancora oggi si contendono il dominio del'Oriente.
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Cardini Franco
Il turco a Vienna. Storia del grande assedio del 1683
8vo, rileg. ed. sovracoperta. Selva araldica. Il duello mediterraneo. Fluidi confini, mutevoli frontiere. Tra L'Ucraina e l'Isola di Candia. Effemeridi danubiane. Al tempo della tregua. Splende sull'Oriente il sole d'Occidente. Marcia Turca. Auff, auff, Ihr Christen. Dies gloriae. L'Estate indiana della crociata. L'ungheria liberata. Dal Reno al Danubio: l'intreccio dei fronti. Chi sale chi scende. Del caffé viennese e di altre turqueries. Bibliografia. Cronologia. Con 10 cartine in nero. 8vo. pp. 778
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Bellingeri Giampiero
Nedîm. La canzone d'Istanbul nel primo Settecento. Odi, canti, liriche dal Corno d'oro
8vo, br. ed.
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Chavannes Edouard
Documents sur les Tou-Kiue (Turcs) occidentaux. Recueillis et commente´s par E´douard Chavannes ... Avec une carte. (Pre´sente´ a` l'Acade´mie impe´riale des sciences de St-Pétersbourg le 23 aout 1900)
Original Wraps. 4to. iv, 378 pp; folding end map/ 109 pp; soft cover, would need rebinding , lower end of front cover soiled, frail, end cover and last pages detached. but present, large fldng map present and in excellent state. broché. fragile, rare china 1940 anastatic reprint of 1900 orignal.
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Akhmedov Ismail
In and out of Stalin's GRU : a Tatar's escape from Red Army Intelligence
Map endpapers. octavo. 222 pgs with glossary & index. Red cloth, with very good dust jacket
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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.
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Cahun Leon
Introduction a l'histoire de l'Asie; Turcs et Mongols des origines a 1405
8vo, xii-519pp. reliure mi-veau. Excerpt: Turcs Et Mongols, des Origines à 1405 Jusqu'à l'époque où la science et la méthode ont primé la foi et la force brutale, les Turcs et les Mongols ont dominé l'asie et l'eur0pe orientale; l'élan religieux a été pour si peu que rien dans leur éclatante fortune; au temps de leur plus grande puissance, leur empire typique, celui des Mongols, n'avait pas de religion définie; mais tout ce qu'on peut faire avec le sabre, les Turcs et les Mongols l'ont fait; ils ont incarné l'esprit militaire; leurs vertus sont celles des vrais gens de guerre, le courage, l'obeissance, la droiture, le bon sens; ils ont été d'exacts gouvernants, de fermes administra teurs; loin de mépriser l'art et la science, ils ont honoré les choses intellectuelles; ils ont essayé de se les incor porer, de se les rendre naturelles. Mais le moule de leur pensée originale était trop étroit et rudimentaire pour contenir et transformer la civilisation persane ou chi noise; enfermée de force dans ce moule, elle ne tardait pas à le briser, et a perdre l'empreinte que lui donnaient, pour un instant, la droiture et la netteté de vision qui sont naturels àl'espritturc; ces conquérants n'ont pas pu développer, dans leur voie propre et'avec leur intelligence innée, ce qu'ils avaient appris des Persans et des Chinois.
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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
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Nicolaides J.
Favole e novelle della vecchia Turchia
8vo, br. ed. ottima copia.
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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
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Shafak Elif
I miei ultimi 10 minuti e 38 secondi in questo strano Mondo
8vo, rilegato e soracop. 365pp.
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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.
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Morris Benny, Dror Ze'evi
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey?s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924
8vo, 656pp. hardcover in dj. Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region?s Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia?s Christian population. The years in question, the most violent in the recent history of the region, began during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks, and ended during the first years of the Turkish Republic founded by Ataturk. Yet despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post?World War I period, the nation?s annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, mass rape, and brutal abduction. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.
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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.
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Flores Marcello
Il Genocidio Degli Armeni
8vo, br. ed. timbro di app. qualche sottolineatura, altrimenti ottimo.
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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
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Klausner Carla L.
The Seljuk Vezirate:a Study of Civil Administration, 1055-1194: A Study of Civil Administration, 1055-1194
8vo, br. ed. Pp. viii, 143 Original stiff wrappers. In a very good condition, crisp interior. ~ First edition. Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph Series, XXII
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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.
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Zarinebaf Fariba
Mediterranean Encounters. Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata
8vo, br. ed. 422pp. Amazon Music Unlimited Ascolta le nostre playlist per leggere Descrizione prodotto Dalla seconda/terza di copertina "An outstanding work in early modern Mediterranean history, Fariba Zarinebaf's Mediterranean Encounters explores commercial, legal, and cultural relations in Galata with depth and vigor. This fascinating analysis brings to life the rich history of Galata’s inhabitants—Muslims, Christians and Jews—and carefully examines their relationship to the empire in which they lived, as well as to the empires around them, their commerce, their trading relations, their leisure practices, and their everyday life. Offering a rich and sophisticated reading of sources in three languages, and incorporating research methodologies from microhistory, legal history, urban history, and gender studies, Mediterranean Encounters is a vivid and fascinating history of the city of Istanbul. A marvelous read."—Orit Bashkin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago "Galata: port of Istanbul, Ottoman-European diplomatic hub, storied home of Istanbul’s nightlife. And yet few comprehensive historical accounts exist. Zarinebaf’s work fills this void in masterly fashion. Her deeply researched book shows us the legal, commercial, and social characteristics of this essential cosmopolitan center in the crucial early modern period."—A. Holly Shissler, Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History, University of Chicago "In Mediterranean Encounters, Fariba Zarinebaf charts the rise of early modern Istanbul as a commercial center, and its engagement with European imperial powers. Unedited court records vividly bring to life the bustling cacophony of the Ottoman city in all its grittiness and complexity."—Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder "Zarinebaf shows us Ottoman Galata as we have not seen it before, over time and in depth. Her detailed vision of the early modern port highlights its intercommunality. Especially illuminating are her nuanced treatments of the implementation of Ottoman-French treaties and of the interactions among locals and foreigners."—Palmira Brummett, Visiting Scholar in History, Brown University "Fariba Zarinebaf takes her readers on a grand tour of Galata’s pluralist past and cosmopolitan character. Galata has long deserved a history of its own, and it could not have wished for a better chronicler than Zarinebaf."—Maurits van den Boogert, PhD, author of Aleppo Observed and The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System L'autore Fariba Zarinebaf is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700–1800 and coauthor with John Bennet and Jack L. Davis of A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century.
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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.
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Kinglake, Alexander William
Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
8vo, br. ed. Jan MorrisEothen ("From the East") recaptures a bold young Englishman's exploits in the Middle East during the 1830s. Alexander William Kinglake recounts his rambles through the Balkans, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in a style radically different from other travel books of his era. Rather than dwelling on art or monuments, Kinglake's captivating narrative focuses on the natives and their cities. His adventures ? populated by Bedouins, pashas, slave-traders, monks, pilgrims, and other colorfully drawn personalities ? include crossing the desolate Sinai with a four-camel caravan and a sojourn in plague-ridden Cairo. A contemporary of Gladstone at Eton and of Tennyson and Thackeray at Cambridge, Kinglake offers a frankly imperialistic worldview. "As I felt so have I written," he declares in his preface, and his forthright expressions of his thoughts and impressions range in mood from confessional, to comic, to serious, to romantic. Victorian readers were captivated by Kinglake's chatty tone and his uncompromising honesty, and two centuries later this remarkable travelogue remains funny, fresh, and original.
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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.
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Freely John
Stamboul Ghosts: A Stroll Through Bohemian Istanbul
8vo, hardcover in dj, In English. 144 p. With the exception of Og?uz, so thin that he was known as The Ghost because he barely cast a shadow, everyone in John Freely's rumbustious memoir, including the author himself, is larger than life. Bohemian Istanbul was a haven for myriad misfits who found their feet in the city. Glamorous, eccentric, cosmopolitan and frequently anarchic, they included the ‘berserker' Peter Pfeiffer, a resourceful exile with three passports, Aliye Berger, the beautiful queen of bohemian Pera, the writer James Baldwin and, fleetingly, the future Pope John XXIII. ‘Would James Baldwin have felt quite so liberated in Istanbul if he had not been a frequent guest at John Freely's parties and experienced that Never Never Land sense of bohemia among the expatriate faculty in an outrageously beautiful campus overlooking the Straits?' – Andrew Finkel ‘The beautiful images that adorn this memoir are by the great Ara Gu?ler. His work as a photojournalist for Magnum took him all over the world, and his archive of 800,000 negatives contains likenesses of Salvador Dali?, Alfred Hitchcock, Willy Brandt, John Berger, Maria Callas, Bertrand Russell, Pablo Picasso and Indira Gandhi, among others. But it is his chronicling of mid-twentieth-century Istanbul for which he is most loved.' – Maureen Freely.
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Montesano Marina
Dio lo volle? 1204: la vera caduta di Costantinopoli
8vo, br. ed.
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Musarra Antonio
Francesco, i minori e la Terrasanta
8vo, br., pp. 380, cm 12x18. (Peregrinantes in mundo). Nella tarda estate del 1219, Francesco si trovava Damietta, al pari di migliaia di altri pellegrini e crociati decisi a riportare Gerusalemme in mani cristiane. In un momento imprecisato, entrò nel campo musulmano, accolto dal sultano al-Malik al-K?mil nella tenda adibita alle pubbliche discussioni. L'aurea di mistero che avvolge quell'incontro è ancora oggi intatta. Desiderava, forse, porre termine al conflitto? Era sua intenzione convertire il sultano? Ricercava il martirio? In Francesco, i minori e la Terrasanta, Antonio Musarra restituisce i contorni del celebre episodio ripartendo dalle fonti, operandone una contestualizzazione spesso assente nelle numerose opere dedicate all'argomento.
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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.
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PAMUK Orhan
Il Libro Nero
8vo, Traduzione di Semsa Gezgin. 506 p., f.to cm 22x14,5, copertina rigida con sovraccoperta. Ottimo stato Collana:
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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."
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Tibble Steven
Gli eserciti delle Crociate
8vo, tela in sovracop. pp.524. Pensiamo di conoscere le Crociate: il primo esempio di scontro tra civiltà, una serie di drammatici conflitti tra cristianesimo e islam che hanno segnato in profondità il mondo moderno. Ma quanto sono precise le nostre conoscenze? E se la principale causa delle Crociate fosse invece da cercare nel cambiamento climatico e nella migrazione di massa scatenatasi nelle steppe euroasiatiche? E se all'origine del conflitto ci fossero antiche tensioni tra società nomadi e sedentarie, tra mandriani e coltivatori? E che diremmo se scoprissimo che gli eserciti «crociati» erano perlopiù composti da Arabi, Siriani e Armeni, mentre quelli islamici schieravano sorprendentemente pochi musulmani? Steve Tibble si propone di osservare da una prospettiva assai originale i tentativi occidentali di colonizzare il Medio Oriente nel corso del Medioevo, e analizza le strategie dei due fronti in guerra attingendo alle ricerche più recenti, a numerosi documenti islamici, a reperti archeologici e alle più importanti fonti occidentali. Tibble sfida dogmi e luoghi comuni, per mostrarci in tutti i suoi aspetti la figura del soldato medievale, tra tattiche, sconfitte e vittorie. Il confronto di adattamenti, evoluzioni e diversità culturali sottolinea quanto i rispettivi eserciti fossero all'avanguardia, persino per i nostri standard, e ci fa comprendere per il intero la reale complessità di quel mondo, dove i comportamenti venivano condizionati tanto dal pragmatismo quanto dall'ideologia, e l'opportunismo era più importante del fanatismo religioso.
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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.
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Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent Schull Edts.
Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries
8vo, br. ed. 367pp. Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English translation for the first time. These materials are examined with new methodological approaches to gain a deeper understanding of what it meant to be Ottoman. Designed for use as a course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions for further reading. Christine Isom-Verhaaren is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. She is author of Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century. Kent F. Schull is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Middle East History at Binghamton University, SUNY and author of Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity.
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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
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Mansel Philip
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
pp.xvi-528, 33 b.w. illustrations.
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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.
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Kaya Genç
The Lion and the Nightingale
8vo, haedcover in dj. Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genc travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are imprisoned, he walks the streets of the famous Ottoman neighbourhoods, telling the stories of the ordinary Turks who live among the contradictions and conflicts of Anatolia, one of the world's oldest civilizations. The Lion and the Nightingale presents the spellbinding story of a country whose history has been split between East and West, between violence and beauty - between the roar of the lion and the song of the nightingale. Weaving together a mixture of memoir, interview and his own autobiography, Genc takes the reader on a contemporary journey through the contradictory soul of the Turkish nation.
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