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2020New English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English. 104 p. Upon the dissolution of the Western Gokturk Khaganate, the declaration of independence and migration movements of the Turkish tribes within her structure as a new migration of tribes deeply affected many layers of world history, especially mainly ethnic and sociological way. However, these migrations leave permanent traces in the northern part of the Black Sea, North Caucasus and the Balkans; their impacts have continued until today. This study examines one of the most controversial issues of history studies: Origins of Gagauz people. There are many different theories about their origin: Are they Turks? Or Greeks? Or Bulgars? In the light of the origin studies of the Gagauz people; the effects of these migrations and the factors other than migrations have been explained.
1998Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English and Turkish. 78 p., b/w ills., 24 color plates. Nahçivan'da arkeolojik arastirmalar, 1998. [= Archaeological survey in nakhichevan, 1998].
1925Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Turkish with Arabic letters). 248 p., unnumbered many b/w plates and 2 folded maps. Occasionally foxing on cover and some pages, otherwise a very good copy. First and Only Edition in the Ottoman literature of this rare book including the political and historical details on Turks lived in Qazan region by a leading intellectual of Tatar and Finnish Turks. Abdullah Battal Taymas was an important historian, intellectual, author and thinker who lived between 1883-1969 at Kazan. Hegira 1341 = Gregorian 1925. Özege 10485.; TBTK 5707.; OCLC 13072121.
2014New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 89, [2] p., ills. Mahsati Ganjavi compound of two Persian words "Mah/Maah" (Moon) and "Sati" (Lady). The word appears in the works of Sanai, Nizami, Attar, Rumi, and Saadi,. As an eminent poet, she was composer of quatrains (ruba'is). Originated from Ganja, she was said to have associated with both Omar Khayyam and Nizami. She is also said to have been a companion of Sultan Sanjar. Her alleged free way of living and peddled verses have stamped her as a Persian Madame Sans-Gêne. Her purported love affairs are recounted in the works of Jauhari of Bukhara. No details about her life are documented except that she was born in Ganja and was highly esteemed at the court of Sultan Sanjar of the Seljuk dynasty.
1987Very Good Georgian Original dark green cloth bdg. Large demy 8vo. (22,5 x 15,5 cm). In Georgian, Turkish, Russian, English. 1000 p., b/w plates of original Ottoman documents. Ottoman documentary sources 16th - 18th - centuries: The Turkish text, with Georgian translation, introduction, terminological vocabulary, facsimiles and indexes prepared for publication by Nodar Shengeelia, Book I.= Smaletis dok'ument'uri ts'q'aroebi me -16 - me -18 sauk'uneebshi: Turkuli t'eksi, Kartuli targmanit, shesavali, t'erminologiuri leksik'a, paksimilebi da indeksebi, momzadebuli gamosakve'neblad Nodar Shengelias mier, Ts'igni I.= Osmanskie dokumental'ie istochniki XVI - XVIII vv. 1000 copies were printed.
1993Very Good Very Good Greek, Modern (post 1453) Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Small 4to. (26 x 21 cm). In Greek (Modern). 329 p., color and b/w ills. Signed and inscribed by author to Cemal Kozanoglu. The Greeks in the Black Sea: From the Bronze Age to the beginning of the 20th century.
2017New Azerbaijani Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Texts in entirely in Azerbaijani and Persian; bilingual title in English and Azerbaijani. 557, [4] p. 2 volumes set in one issue. Safî: Socio-cultural magazine No: 6. Special issue: Azerbaijan novel. A novel about Shah Ismayil Safavi's life and activity. Vol. I: Khudafarin Bridge. Vol. II: Chaldron War. Translator: Bijan A. Moghadam.
2019New Persian Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Texts in entirely in Persian with a bilingual title in English and Persian on the cover. [172], 200, [12] p., b/w ills. and facsimiled pages. Al-ta'rîf bi-tabaqât al-umam: The world history of sciences & scholars up to the 5th century A.H.= At'tarîf bit'tabaqât: Tarikh-e jihânî ulûm wa dânishmendân tâqrîn chahbam bahrabî. Edited by Gholamreza Jamshidnezhad Aval. Said Al-Andalûsî, (1029-1070), was an Arab qadi of Toledo in Muslim Spain, who wrote on the history of science, philosophy and thought. He practised as a mathematical scientist with a special interest in astronomy, and compiled a famous biographic encyclopedia of science that quickly became popular in the empire and the Islamic East. Tabaqat al-Umam is a classification of the sciences and of the nations (The only extant work), written in 1068 two years before his death. It was composed in 1068 is an early "history of science" that comprises biographies of the scientists and scientific achievements of eight nations. In the field of nations are the Indians, Persians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Byzantines, Arabs and Jews (in contrast to others not disposed, such as Norsemen, Chinese, Africans, Russians, Alains and Turks). Sâ'id offers an account of the individual contribution each nation makes to the various sciences of arithmetic, astronomy, and medicine, etc., and of the earliest scientists and philosophers, from the Greeks, - Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle - to the Roman and Christian scholars of the 9th and 10th centuries in Baghdad. The second half of the book contains Arab-Islamic contributions to the fields of logic, philosophy, geometry, the development of Ptolemaic astronomy, observational methods, calculations in trigonometry and mathematics to determine the length of the year, the eccentricity of the sun's orbit, and the construction of astronomical tables, etc.
1967Very Good French Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French. [vii], [1], 176 p. Documents Anatoliens sur les langues et les traditions du Caucase. IV: Recits Lazes en dialecte d'Arhavi (parler de Senköy). Anatolian documents on the languages and traditions of the Caucasus. IV: Recits Lazes in Arhavi dialect (about Senköy). Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University, École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, and a member of the Académie Française. Dumézil is well known for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis on Proto-Indo-European mythology and society. His research has had a major influence on the fields of comparative mythology and Indo-European studies. And he's one of the pioneers who collected Laz fairy and folk tales.
1965Very Good French Paperback. Large demy 8vo. (23 x 14 cm). In French. 264, [2] p. Le livre des heros: Legendes sur les Nartes (Collection Caucase). Traduit de l'Ossete avec une introduction et des notes par Georges Dumezil.
1953Fine Fine German Original decorative cloth bdg. with pictorial dust wrapper. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In German. 396 p. Buchara: Erinnerungen. Bukhara: Memoirs. Aini was a Tajik intellectual who wrote poetry, fiction, journalism, history and lexicography. He is regarded as Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers in the country's history. Ayni gave indigenous Tajik literature in Tajikistan a boost in 1927 by writing Dokhunda, the first Tajikistani novel in the Tajik language.
1964Very Good French Paperback. Large demy 8vo. (23 x 14 cm). In French. 272, [2] p. Le Chevalier a la peau de tigre (Collection Caucase). Traduit du Georgien avec une introduction et des notes par Serge Tsouladze.
2005As New English Original bdg. HC. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English. 400 p., color and b/w ills. Life of outstanding people: Geidar Aliev.
1964Very Good French Paperback. Large demy 8vo. (23 x 14 cm). In French. 398, [2] p. David de Sassoun: Epopee en vers (Collection Caucase). Traduit de l'Armenien avec une introduction et des notes de Frederic Feydit. Preface de Joseph Orbeli. David of Sasun [= Sasuntsi Davit] is the main hero of Armenia's national epic Daredevils of Sassoun, who drove Arab invaders out of Armenia. As an oral history, it dates from the 8th century, and was first put in written form in 1873 by Garegin Srvandztiants.
1965Very Good French Paperback. Large demy 8vo. (23 x 14 cm). In French. 308, [2] p. Aventures merveilleuses sous terre et ailleurs de Er-Töshtük: Le geant des steppes. (Collection Caucase). Epopee du cycle de Manas. Traduit du Kirghiz par Pertev Boratav. Introduction et notes de Pertev Boratav et Louis Bazin.
1987Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 153 p. Uygurlarin siyasi ve kültürel tarihi (Hukuk vesikalarina göre). Uygur politic and cultural history.
1993Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 35, [1], [4 ]p. Stimulants among the Turks of Eastern Turkmenistan an Eastern Turki text edited with translation, notes and glossary.
1941Very Good Russian Very attractive early Russian edition of this famous Georgian national poem 'The knight in the panther skin', richly illustrated in very well binding. This is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli, and a definitive work of the Georgian Golden Age, the poem consists of over 1600 Rustavelian Quatrains and is considered to be a "masterpiece of the Georgian literature". Original decorative green cloth bdg. with Rustaveli's embossed portrait. Art-nouveau borders on board. Faded titles and decorations on spine. A very good copy. 4to. (27 x 20 cm). In Russian. [5], 315, [7] p., [18] b/w full-paged plates. Shalva Nutshubidze, (1888-1969), was a Georgian philosopher, translator, and public benefactor, one of the founders of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), founder of Alethology. The main fields of scientific activity of Shalva Nutsubidze were: alethology, history of Georgian philosophy, history of the old Georgian literature, Rustvelology, problems of the oriental renaissance. He was also a well-known translator: he translated The Knight in the Panther's Skin of Shota Rustaveli, Visramiani, and other outstanding literary works in Russian. Nutsubidze is co-author of a well-known theory about the identity of Pseudo-Denys Areopagite and Georgian philosopher of the 5th century Peter the Iberian (Theory of Nutsubidze-Honigmann).
1938Very Good Russian First Edition of Piksanov's comparative study titled 'Maxim Gorky and folklore'. This book has nine chapters with an introductory text including subjects like folkloric elements in Gorky's writing, his influences from folklore, etc. Piksanov's chief works deal with the history of Russian literature, social thought, utilization of sources, textual criticism, and the methodology of literary scholarship, as well as with the work of Griboedov, Pushkin, Goncharov, Turgenev, and Gorky. Piksanov also edited many works by Russian writers. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and several medals. Piksanov is a scientist of an unusually wide creative range. His works on the history of Russian literature throughout its development, on the history of social thought, criticism, journalism, theater, drama, on the literature of the peoples of the USSR, on the study of Russian folklore, as well as source study, textual criticism and traditional technique played an important role in Soviet literary criticism and were milestones in the development of the domestic science of literature. Original green cloth. Foolscap 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Russian. [2], 191, [1] p., lithographic Gorky's portrait on frontispiece. First Edition.
1944Very Good Russian First Edition of this early Soviet compilation of Nart and Ossetian epics. Valentina Aleksandrovna Dynnik-Sokolova was a Russian and Soviet literary critic and translator, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Dynnik-Sokolova has articles, where she considered, among other researchers, the question of the similarity of the ancient Russian composition of the 12th century with the works of Western European medieval poetry. Original cloth bdg. Foolscap 8vo. (17 x 13 cm). In Russian. 78 p., ills. OCLC 4925492.
1929Very Good French Paperback. Large Roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In French. 19 p. Influence of Turco-Mongol Shamanism on Muslim mystical orders.
2015New English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8v. (24 x 16 cm). Articles in English, Russian, and Turkish. 273 p., color photos. Signed by Ilhan Sahin.
1983Very Good Very Good English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (28 x 22 cm). In English, Russian, and Turkmen. 152 p., 139 numerous color plates.
2000New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In English. [xiv], 232 p., ills. and maps. Üsküdar American Academy is a private coeducational high school located in Üsküdar borough of Istanbul, Turkey. Üsküdar American Academy was originally founded in 1876. The site in Baglarbasi was originally the American College for Girls. ACG vacated the Baglarbasi site in 1914 and moved to Arnavutköy leaving the Baglarbasi campus empty from 1914-1921 except for the years 1914-15 when the buildings of our school were used as an orphanage by the Americans and the years 1915-1918 when the Turkish army used the school for barracks.
1922Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original Ottoman manuscript historical document. 28x21,5 cm. In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 10 lines on 1 p. Signed, and three Ottoman stamps. During the Haydarpasa Fire in 1922, the warning about the Jewish resident of Beyoglu Vitali Efendi's house on Haydarpasa, Mandira Street, where the windows were broken and they were not fitted. The aforementioned warning was prepared by Vitali Efendi's tenant "Abulafya". Transcription in Turkish: "Dersaadet Kâtîb-i Adlîligi Memûriyet-i Valâsina: Efendim, Beyoglu'nda, Tozkoparan'da Bahar Apartmani'nda mukîm Mösyö Vitali Bahar'in Haydarpasa'da, Mandira Sokagi'nda 80 numero ile mudkîm bir bab hanesinde müstecîren ikâmet etmekteyim. Geçen hafta vuku' cevelân harikte, harikin tesîrâti ile hanenin pencerelerinde mevcut camlar kirilip harap olmustur. Kendisine...". The fire in Haydarpasa 1922 came to be known in history as "the Fire of Haydarpasa Çayir", because it broke out in one of the houses in Çayirbasi and spread further. It broke out on July 29, 1922.