Tag: Ottoman Empire
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Sultan Süleyman in Hamburg: Speaking power in the poem collection (1554) by Sultan Süleyman – Author: Christiane Czygan
Sultan Süleyman in Hamburg: Speaking power in the poem collection (1554) by Sultan Süleyman Author: Christiane Czygan 1 December 2023 My research project which I have been pursuing at the Orient-Institut Istanbul is based on the Hamburg manuscript (1554). My critical edition of this magnificently illuminated poem collection by Sultan Süleyman also explores the political…
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Behold, here comes the bride: textiles, women, and marriage in the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture – Author: Roxana Coman
Behold, here comes the bride: textiles, women, and marriage in the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture Author: Roxana Coman 21 July 2023 Supported by a Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant in the COST Action Europe Through Textiles: Network for an Integrated Research, and the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the two months spent in the Benaki Museum of Greek…
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Baroque Dance at the Orient-Institut Istanbul: Dance Historians Explore Aspects of Orientalism – Authors: Irène Feste, Hubert Hazebroucq, Gerrit Berenike Heiter
Baroque Dance at the Orient-Institut Istanbul: Dance Historians Explore Aspects of Orientalism Authors: Irène Feste, Hubert Hazebroucq, Gerrit Berenike Heiter 13 July 2023 This blog contribution by historical dance scholars and performers Irène Feste, Hubert Hazebroucq, and Gerrit Berenike Heiter focuses on a lecture demonstration that was presented during the online event “Music and Mirrored…
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Turkish and Greek folk songs of the late Ottoman era: Popular culture and intercommunal relations through musical collections – Author: Evangelia Chaldæaki
Turkish and Greek folk songs of the late Ottoman era: Popular culture and intercommunal relations through musical collections Author: Evangelia Chaldæaki 12 April 2023 As it is widely known, various musical genres emerged during the whole timespan of the Ottoman Empire, around the city centers and at the countryside areas. These genres were connected to…
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Women Composers’ Creative Conditions Before and During the Turkish Republic – Author: Nejla Melike Atalay
Women Composers’ Creative Conditions Before and During the Turkish Republic A Case Study on Three Composers: Leyla [Saz] Hanımefendi, Nazife Aral-Güran, and Yüksel Koptagel Author: Nejla Melike Atalay 4 January 2023 My book[1] focuses on three Istanbulite composers, Leyla [Saz] Hanımefendi (1850?-1936), Nazife Aral-Güran (1921-1993), and Yüksel Koptagel (b. 1931), who lived and produced in…
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A Young Turk from Lehistan: Seyfeddin Thadée Gasztowtt (1881 – 1936) and Poland’s Independence in the post-1908 Young Turk Revolution Istanbul – Author: Paulina D. Dominik
A Young Turk from Lehistan: Seyfeddin Thadée Gasztowtt (1881 – 1936) and Poland’s Independence in the post-1908 Young Turk Revolution Istanbul Author: Paulina D. Dominik 7 January 2022 For over a century the Ottoman Empire and subsequently the Republic of Turkey played an important role in the geopolitical imagination of Polish independence activists and statesmen.…
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Countdown to 9/11 – Author: Maurus Reinkowski
Countdown to 9/11 Author: Maurus Reinkowski 27 August 2021 I am sitting here at my desk that the Orient-Institut Istanbul has graciously provided me with for the month of August in an attempt to pursue a project of mine from olden times, that is, to make sense of the varying nature of “peripheries” in the…
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Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes – Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz
Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz 4 June 2021 Perhaps this yarn is the only thing that holds this man together/ some say he was never here at all… (Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombone) The above quoted lines of a song lingered in my…
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A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries – Author: Roxana Coman
A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries Author: Roxana Coman 30 April 2021 Ottoman material culture in Romania underwent significant paradigm changes with many symbolical implications during the 18th and 19th centuries, most notably if we take into consideration the westernization and nation building processes. Insofar, the…
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A German-Ottoman Scramble for Objects in ar-Raqqa. Antiquities Trade, Archaeological Looting and Museum Rivalry in the Late Ottoman Empire – Author: Sebastian Willert
A German-Ottoman Scramble for Objects in ar-Raqqa. Antiquities Trade, Archaeological Looting and Museum Rivalry in the Late Ottoman Empire Author: Sebastian Willert 23 April 2021 “Since I arrived at Halep [Aleppo] I have been seeing valuable antiquities in many houses. Telegrams I receive from Raqqa indicate that antiquity smuggling is pervasive.”[1] In his telegram of…