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🇹🇷H.Örpen Çağlan🇮🇹 @hasan07ant.bsky.social · 19d

10 yıl önce Antalya Rotary Derneği'nde vermiş olduğum bir dinleti sayesinde tanıştığım Prof. Dr. Remzi Sanver bu toprakların yetiştirdiği en önemli bilim insanlarından birisidir. Çok önemli çalışmalar yapmış ve binlerce öğrenci yetiştirmiştir. Takdir edileceğine yapılanlara bakınca çok üzülüyorum.

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · 22d

Officially A.B.D.! 🎉

S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Sep 22

😆😆

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Sep 21

Never heard of it hahah

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Sep 21

The sultan’s men (and some of the provincial notables) wore the same type of fez in the 1830s (Excluding the ‘ulama).
See the pictures of the sultan’s son-in-law Gürcü Halil Rıfat Pasha, Prince Miloš Obrenović, and Koca Hüsrev Pasha:

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Sep 21

I think Mahmudi(ye) was the best-looking, though its use seems to have disappeared as soon the sultan died.

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Sep 19

We had a very successful panel at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference! Many thanks to my friends & colleagues Furkan Sarılıcan and Seán Silvia.

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Bedirhan E. Mutlu (بدرهان) @bemutlu.bsky.social · Sep 15

Our new research paper with Nathan Brown is out from @carnegieendowment.org !

#polisky #menasky @carnegiemec.bsky.social

carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Official Islam in the Arab States of the Gulf: Local Establishments in a Regional and Global Context

The story of religious institutions and the state in the Gulf exemplifies four main points: the “institutional isomorphism” in the region, the place of religion in the nation- and state-building proce...

carnegieendowment.org

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Sep 15

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Mar 6

Check out our new publication (it’s open access):

Rik J. Janssen and S. Berk Metin, “19th Century Ottoman Archery Records Among Leiden Miscellanea,” 𝐾𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓: 𝐸-𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝑇𝑢𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜-𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 3, no. 1 (Winter 2025): 40–53.

journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/ke...

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Sep 14

Her: so what are your interests?

Me:

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · Sep 11

Leave the world a little better than you found it. At least in your footprint. That’s the goal.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · Sep 11

Today is a good day to think about what you want to be remembered for. Maybe you needed some courage. Find it today.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · Jun 28

If you approach a brown, Arab, Palestinian, and/or Muslim person and demand they confirm they aren't antisemitic and won't harm Jews - you are a racist.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 7

UK orthopedic surgeon on return from Gaza about what he experienced.

I can’t even repeat the second part of the quote, it’s too awful.

www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...

None of them were injured alone. Particularly the ones who were injured in bomb blasts — and it seems there's been a pattern of individual families being attacked. There was a young man aged 11, who was one of the ones who was wheeled into the operating theater on a blood-soaked trolley at the end of our ordinary list. He was one of a family of two adults and ten children. He was the only surviving child. So that is the context of each of the people on whom we operate."

"There was another wee boy who particularly sticks in my memory. His name was Jacob. He was 7. The blast had broken both legs above and below both knees and had flayed the skin and flesh from his legs. Now, we were able to care for his legs while I was writing the operation note and he was in recovery. It was heartbreaking to hear this poor little seven-year-old boy, this little scrap of humanity, calling for his mother — who was dead. Those stories are not in isolation."

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Jun 6

Some light summer reading 🤪

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · May 24

Recent release that looks very interesting:

Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century

edinburghuniversitypress.com

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · May 18

A record stone supposedly belonging to the mythic archery champion Tozkoparan (‘Dust-Breaker’) in Istanbul:

Ṣāḥib’ül-Menzil fī'l-Meydān /
Elleḏī ismuhu Tozḳoparan

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Apr 29

I’ve seen Barry Lyndon and it’s still my all-time favourite. Will watch Eyes Wide Shut tomorrow actually :-)

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Apr 29

Just saw Paths of Glory by Kubrick. Wow.

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Apr 10

Mahmud II’s calligraphy practice (meşk) and his teacher’s note:

Māşā-Allāh āferīn efendim

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Apr 8

Excited to take part in TIOL-3, albeit remotely, to present our co-authored paper "Blurring the Boundary between Heresy and Orthodoxy: Foreign Travellers’ Accounts on Everyday Religiosity in 19th Century Istanbul" with @eosayin.bsky.social www.travellersinottomanlands.com/next-seminar

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · Mar 29

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Mar 6

Check out our new publication (it’s open access):

Rik J. Janssen and S. Berk Metin, “19th Century Ottoman Archery Records Among Leiden Miscellanea,” 𝐾𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓: 𝐸-𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝑇𝑢𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜-𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 3, no. 1 (Winter 2025): 40–53.

journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/ke...

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