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The Tribe of the Esraris. is an acclaimed Turkish poet's heartfelt commentary on our times, an inquiring companion to the new millennium. In a series of fragmentary prose pieces on a wide range of topics, Ahmet Guntan offers new ways to break the proverbial "silence" of the poet and tackle the world head-on. He takes the floor as one of the Esraris, the eponymous tribe of uneasy souls, and builds the framework of a poetics of deeper engagement with the world around us. Reading in part like a philosophical diary, The Tribe of the Esraris. is a wake-up call to be heard, a poetic testimony written with olive trees, income inequality, and E.M. Cioran in mind.

"Koðc èUniversitesi VEKAM/Koðc University VEKAM"--verso title page.

The Proceedings of the International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium contains seventy five of ninety two papers presented at the First International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium with a theme of "Change in the Byzantine World in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" held from 25th to 28th June 2007. The book is organized into subtitles of History and Geography, Identity, Cultural Interaction, Economy, Settlements, Architecture, and Visual Culture identified in the concept of the symposium. The writing principles of the articles follow the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Style Guide for Publication, which is widely appropriated in international academic circles. Turkish articles follow the principles of Turkish Language Society. The book contains the opening and closing speeches bilingual, both in English and Turkish, while the articles are published in their original language.

The excavations at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) are a part of long-range, broadly-based archaeological investigations in the Turkish state of Hatay's Plain of Antioch, today called the Amuq Valley. Tell Atchana is located at the southern center of the valley close to the major westward bend of the Orontes River and was for nearly a thousand years the capital of a small Bronze Age principality called variably Alalakh and Mukish. This volume presents the major new archaeological campaing from 2006-2010, which was designed to revisit the phasing and dating of previously excavated strata, to explore untouched areas of the site, to establish a typology and seriation of local artifact types, and to study local cultural and political history in the dynamic and international Late Bronze II period. The Alalakh Excavations project's ongoing research on chronology, political history, material culture, city landscapes, international relations, and many other topics is beginning to form a coherent picture of ancient Alalakh. Coming into focus is a small city with ancient roots that dared to play a hard game of territorial checkers with its larger LB II neighbor kingdoms and empires. Today Alalakh continues to engage and amaze as excavations and analyses reveal surprise after surprise. The Alalakh Excavations project has taken great care to include a wide variety of scholarly voices and opinions and to challenge preconceptions and conventional wisdom at every turn. In keeping with the tradition of sound methodology and perseverance begun by Woolley, and the interdisciplinary and international spirit of the Alalakh Excavations project, this volume now proudly presents the excavation results of LB II strata from 2006-2010.

"The Symposium on Philanthropy in Anatolia through the Ages was organized jointly by three research centers of Koðc University, namely the Suna & çInan Kiraðc Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED), the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM). The symposium was held ... in the framework of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Vehbi Koðc Foundation"--Foreword

This book has been published on the occasion of the 14th International ANAMED Annual Symposium "Heritage, World Heritage, and the Future: Perspectives on Scale, Conservation, and Dialogue" that was held at the Koðc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) on 5-6 December 2019.

A survey of the architecture and history of the Tao-Klarjeti region. This book, comprising the proceedings of a 2014 symposium at Koç University's Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center, fills an important gap in the research surrounding the historical principality of Tao-Klarjeti. This political entity founded by the Georgian Bagrationis dynasty in the early ninth century covers the modern-day provinces of Artvin, Erzurum (partially), Ardahan in Turkey, and the provinces of Samtskhe-Javakheti and Ajara in Georgia. This volume explores the religious and secular buildings, decor programs, facade articulations, stone reliefs of monastic and Cathedral churches, mason builders, and donors of Tao-Klarjeti's architecture. A particular focus is placed on recent archaeological discoveries in Şavşat Castle and the heritage of manuscripts produced in scriptoriums and literary centers of the region.

Four essays on the oldest church in Istanbul. The Monastery of Stoudios was built in the fifth century in Constantinople and for centuries constituted one of the most significant monasteries of the Byzantine capital. Today, only the church of the monastic complex--which was converted into a mosque in the Ottoman Period--survives. The chapters of this book complement different aspects of the Monastry of Stoudios based on primary sources. Esra Kudde explores its architectural characteristics and provides detailed documentation; Nicholas Melvani provides a meticulous study of its Byzantine history and evaluates its elements of architectural sculpture; and Tarkan Okçuoğlu narrates the Ottoman history of the complex.

Vehbi Koc Vakfinin kurulusunun 50. Yili kapsaminda acilan sergi ile eszamanli olarak basilan kitap, dönemin Ankarasinda eski ve yeni sehir bölgelerindeki yerlesimin modernlesmesi, kent ve park kültürünün olusmasi, kamusal hizmetlerin modernlesmesi, anma kültürünün yaratilmasi, ulus kültürünün kimlige kavusturulmasi ve kentin sosyal yasaminin modernlesmesi temalariyla acilimlar getirmektedir. Modern Ankaranin ilk genislemesi sayilan Yenisehirin 1933 tarihindeki konut ve kamu yapilarindan olusan durumunu modelleyerek yeni bir bilgi alani ortaya cikaran calisma, 20. yüzyilin ilk ceyreginde, savas yorgunu bir ülkede yeni bir sehrin nasil kuruldugunu, Cumhuriyetin 10. yilina kadar ortaya konan irade ve olgularla birlikte ele almaktadir.

Sephardic Trajectories brings together scholars of Ottoman history and Jewish studies to discuss how family heirlooms, papers, and memorabilia help us conceptualize the complex process of migration from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. To consider the shared significance of family archives in both the United States and in Ottoman lands, the volume takes as starting point the formation of the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection at the University of Washington, a community-led archive and the world's first major digital repository of archival documents and recordings related to the Sephardic Jews of the Mediterranean world. Contributors reflect on the role of private collections and material objects in studying the Sephardi past, presenting case studies of Sephardic music and literature alongside discussions of the role of new media, digitization projects, investigative podcasts, and family memorabilia in preserving Ottoman Sephardic culture.

280 s, monokrom fotograflar, Ingilizce.This remarkable work of scholarship offers a rarely-examined view of Orientalism that of Ottoman and Turkish observers from over a century ago until the 1930s whose critique of the Western gaze anticipated that of Said and other modern authors. Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient constitutes a valuable addition to the slim library of responses to Orientalism from the Orient itself.Rashid KhalidiEdward Said Professor of Modern Arab StudiesDepartment of History, Columbia UniversityEurope Knows Nothing about The Orient is essential reading, compiled by Celik with magisterial scope and erudition, and preceded by an introduction that will be a guide to scholars for generations to come. Celiks volume reveals a worldly, intellectual, cosmopolitan late Ottoman world, one engaged both in projects of modernity, and in sharp critical assessment of the assumptions of the European scholars regarding the Orient. It thus has the effect of both contesting Orientalist theorists of the 19th century, as well as disrupting those of the 21st century, who tend to locate the enterprise of theoretical salvation of the Orient in the realm of Euro-American intellectual thought.Jerrilynn DoddsHarlequin Adair Dammann Professor of Islamic StudiesSarah Lawrence CollegeEurope Knows Nothing about the Orient brings together eye-opening critical texts on Orientalism by angry Ottoman and Turkish intellectuals. The collection is astutely introduced by Zeynep Celik, whose work is essential to understand the cultural modernization of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East.Orhan PamukSince Edward Saids germinal work defined Orientalism as a key technique of imperialism, few studies have considered local expressions of resistance to it. Framed around five themes, along with a definitive introduction, Zeynep Celiks masterful volume curates stories, articles, and commentaries from Turkish language-texts that lend voice to imperial and nationalist dreams. Beyond providing primary sources from the Ottoman East that add nuance to understandings of Orientalism as merely imposed upon unsuspecting and compliant subjects, the texts Celik explores offer fascinating reading as the selections display the richness and vigor of intellectual debates about Western cultural hegemony in late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic.Selim KuruAssociate ProfessorNear Eastern Languages and Civilization, ChairUniversity of Washington

"This volume collects research presented at the Koðc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) 2018 international annual symposium. It brings together researchers engaged in the study of the decoration and technology of glazed pottery, ranging from the early Byzantine era to the end of the Ottoman period. Topics explored include pottery production in Constantinople, glazed ceramic production and consumption in medieval Thebes, pottery imports in Algiers during the Turkish Regency, considerations of trading routes and their influences, the relationships between Italy and the Byzantine and Ottoman world through pottery, and more." -- From publisher's website.