The landscape of Sinan’s architecture in Thrace offers an opportunity to rethink the value of the famous Ottoman architect in light of his huge legacy, presented through his architectural and engineering works, which are spread out over a vast territory that once belonged to the Ottoman Empire. Especially in the Balkans, a region of conflicts […]

Doç. Dr. Kabadayı’s talk explores the planning and implementation of military campaigns from a geo-spatial perspective; the establishment and expansion of the postal service (menzil); and, the journey itineraries of Ottoman civil servants covering the long period from mid-sixteenth to mid-nineteenth century. The logbooks of four Ottoman military campaigns (Köszeg 1532, Suceava 1538, Yerevan 1635, […]

The ethnographic film ‘Shahbaz Qalandar’ explores the vital role the Qalandariyya Sufi Order plays in the religious life of the city of Sehwan Sharif, the last remaining centre of Qalandariyya dervishes world-wide. Shabbir Siraj, Nofil Naqvi and Hasan Ali Khan, conceptualized the film together. Ali Khan’s work on the Qalandariyya, in the city of Sehwan […]

In her talk, Dr. Valeska Huber revisits the Suez Canal as a connection and boundary between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Through the analysis of diverse mobilities intersecting at this global crossroads, such as tourists, troops, workers, pilgrims, caravan travellers, dhow skippers and others, she shows how in the Canal Zone, certain kinds of […]

13.08. – 15.08.2018, Kultur- und Vortragsprogramm, Worms Vom 13. bis zum 15. August veranstaltet das Orient-Institut Istanbul in Zusammenarbeit mit der Stadt Worms auf Schloss Herrnsheim/Pfalz unter dem Titel „Eine andere Türkei” ein dreitägiges Kultur- und Vortragsprogramm unter Beteiligung von Nahost- und Kunsthistorikerinnen und –historikern sowie Musikwissenschaftlerinnen und –wissenschaftlern. Hierbei wird unter anderem auch ein von Richard […]

The Turkish Collection at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland, consists of around 200 manuscripts, mainly produced in Turkey and written in Ottoman Turkish. Many of these manuscripts are illustrated poetry and history texts, and a large portion are beautifully illuminated (though not illustrated) religious texts, such as prayer books. The Turkish Collection includes several of the greatest manuscripts […]