Marinos Sariyannis
@sariyannis.bsky.social
Ottoman cultural history - IMS/FORTH, Greece
GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition
https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis
GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition
https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis
Pinned
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
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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
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Fascinating. Liked this detail:
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fascinating. Liked this detail:
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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...
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...
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...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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...
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...
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❓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
I explore this question in my “Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy.” 1/2
#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OpenAccess
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
❓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
I explore this question in my “Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy.” 1/2
#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OpenAccess
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Tolga U. Esmer - Economies of Banditry in the Late Ottoman Empire
À paraître en février aux Oxford UP
À paraître en février aux Oxford UP
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Tolga U. Esmer - Economies of Banditry in the Late Ottoman Empire
À paraître en février aux Oxford UP
À paraître en février aux Oxford UP
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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
Sometimes, the copyist praised both.
More Hindus read the epics in Persian (versus Sanskrit) in this period.
Images courtesy of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
Sometimes, the copyist praised both.
More Hindus read the epics in Persian (versus Sanskrit) in this period.
Images courtesy of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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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
Project MUSE - From Private Libraries in Late Ottoman Palestine to "Abandoned Property": Reconstructing the Dajānī Family Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Israel
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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
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On our blog, a new post Dr Yorgos Moraitis introduces his new book on Robert Hart: visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10...
Guest blog: Yorgos Moraitis on Robert Hart and his Loyalties, Neither Chinese Nor British | Visualising China
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October 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
On our blog, a new post Dr Yorgos Moraitis introduces his new book on Robert Hart: visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10...
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.
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?)
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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.
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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
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
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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
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?)
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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?)
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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?)
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📅 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
📌 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
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📅 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
📌 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
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#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...
Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#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...
Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A crime story (Faroqhi, Surviving Istanbul, p. 225-226)
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A crime story (Faroqhi, Surviving Istanbul, p. 225-226)
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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
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
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
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
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
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
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
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
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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
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Didn't know Bruce McGowan has authored a novel on 17th-c. Ottomans!
#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"A man of the world: Vienna to Istanbul; a historical novel" by Bruce McGowan
[Istanbul: Isis Press, 2005]
dx.doi.org/10.25673/115...
#vienna #istanbul
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"A man of the world: Vienna to Istanbul; a historical novel" by Bruce McGowan
[Istanbul: Isis Press, 2005]
dx.doi.org/10.25673/115...
#vienna #istanbul
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Didn't know Bruce McGowan has authored a novel on 17th-c. Ottomans!
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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...
Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500) | Mary Jaharis Center
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November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Suraiya Faroqhi, Surviving Istanbul, Istanbul: Koç University Press 2023, p. 141
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📢 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/...
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/...
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
📢 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/...
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
"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, …
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November 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"Επικινδυνότητες από φυσικά φαινόμενα για την πολιτιστική κληρονομιά του Ρεθύμνου": Ομιλία στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών
So these are the pencik varakaları mentioned by Hakan Erdem (Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and Its Demise, pp. 19-20).
(h/t @will-smiley.bsky.social)
(h/t @will-smiley.bsky.social)
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
So these are the pencik varakaları mentioned by Hakan Erdem (Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and Its Demise, pp. 19-20).
(h/t @will-smiley.bsky.social)
(h/t @will-smiley.bsky.social)