Marinos Sariyannis

La fille du meunier et l’épouse du gouverneur d’Adana La justice des cadis ottomans opérait une classification sociale à travers un vocabulaire stéréotypé (mentionnant le statut, le sexe, le titre, la confession, le métier etc. des individus), selon l...

この論文知らなかった。マルタン・ゲールの帰還の逆。奴隷として何回も売られてダマスカスに至ったアイシェが、アダナ知事の死んだはずの妻ファトマと勘違いされて生地のアダナに連れ帰され、知事のもとへ。そこにアイシェの母親が現れて
Işık Tamdoğan, "La fille du meunier et l’épouse du gouverneur d’Adana: L’histoire d’un cas d’imposture au début du xviiie siècle," Remmm 127 (2010).
journals.openedition.org/remmm/6692#f...

This is the first page of Gul Sen's book chapter "Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy" in the edited volume Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement, edited by Stephan Conermann, Youval Rotman, Ehud Toledano, and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, pp. 133–166. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.

❓How did the Ottoman state organize unfree labor - among others: captives, enslaved people, and convicts - to power its early modern navy?

I explore this question in my “Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy.” 1/2

#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OpenAccess

They got me!

Tolga U. Esmer - Economies of Banditry in the Late Ottoman Empire

À paraître en février aux Oxford UP

When copying the #Mahabharata in #Persian in 18th-century #India, did one praise Allah or Rama?

Sometimes, the copyist praised both.

More Hindus read the epics in Persian (versus Sanskrit) in this period.

Images courtesy of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Congratulations!

My first peer-reviewed article, based on my BA thesis at FU Berlin, has just been published (OA). It traces Palestinian libraries from the late Ottoman period in the so-called Abandoned Property Collection (NLI). Thank you to everyone who supported! doi.org/10.1353/mns.... @sims-mss.bsky.social

On our blog, a new post Dr Yorgos Moraitis introduces his new book on Robert Hart: visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10...

That's why we keep these social media!

On the right, a similar vase (with an even worse kef!) from the Benaki museum in Athens (h/t Amila Buturovic for bringing it to my attention)

Problem solved! This is a kef copied by an (almost) illiterate person. On the left, you can see the fish, symbol of the 25th bölük of the janissaries.

Cover illustration: Upper left: The title page of the second volume of the Historiae Osmanidarum (Plenck). Upper right: The introduction to the Tārīḫ-i Naʿīmā in MS Ragıp Paşa 996. Below: A detail view showing sultan Selīm III’s private library, including the Tārīḫ-i Naʿīmā. Author: Gül Şen Title: Making sense of history : narrativity and literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na’ima Published: by Brill in Leiden, The Netherlands Publication date: July 25, 2022.

This is my second book: Making Sense of History:
Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 390 pp.

🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

#history
#earlymodern #OttomanHistory
#historiography #chronicle #historian #blueskybooks

Could it be a ج for "cema'at"?

This is a 18th-c. ceramic from Çanakkale, I'm told. Does anyone recognize the shape above the number 25? (or is it 35, manuscript-like?)

📅 Σήμερα 🕢 στις 19.30,
📌 στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων του Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
και
💻 διαδικτυακά: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsW-...
Μια πρώιμη βιομηχανική πόλη στο Αιγαίο, H Ερμούπολη Σύρου, την περίοδο 1823-1940,
σκιαγραφείται μέσα από το
📖 βιβλίο της Χριστίνας Αγριαντώνη

#Incredible ! There is good evidence that Greek literacy was relatively widespread among the ancient Arabs east of Ḥawrān. Here, our #Safaitic author partially writes out the Safaitic letters in the Greek order, omitting vowels!

Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...

From "Machiel Kiel: A Memoir"

#MachielKiel

A crime story (Faroqhi, Surviving Istanbul, p. 225-226)

Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude

My latest book, on open access!

Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617

Thank you very much! You'll see it incorporates some ideas from the Otto Spies lecture 😊

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Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude

My latest book, on open access!

Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617

Congratulations!

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History

I downloaded it! But, being scanned in grayscale, it's unprintable. I don't think I'm able to read fiction on a screen... :(

Didn't know Bruce McGowan has authored a novel on 17th-c. Ottomans!

Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500) | Mary Jaharis Center

Attend: Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500), lecture by Samet Budak (Princeton University), Princeton University, November 10, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/byzanti...

Suraiya Faroqhi, Surviving Istanbul, Istanbul: Koç University Press 2023, p. 141

📢 New Open Access Issue!

The latest Diyâr: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish & Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2025) is out!
Special issue on heritage practices, guest edited by Roxana Coman (NIAS).

Read online 👉 www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...

"Επικινδυνότητες από φυσικά φαινόμενα για την πολιτιστική κληρονομιά του Ρεθύμνου": Ομιλία στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών - GOODnet.gr ειδήσεις, νέα & άρθρα από Κρήτη, Ρέθυμνο, Χανιά, Ηράκλειο, Λα... Με μια εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρουσα εισήγηση με θέμα : Επικινδυνότητες από φυσικά φαινόμενα για την πολιτιστική κληρονομιά του Ρεθύμνου  συνεχίζεται, τη Δευτέρα 3 Νοεμβρίου 2025, …

"Επικινδυνότητες από φυσικά φαινόμενα για την πολιτιστική κληρονομιά του Ρεθύμνου": Ομιλία στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών