From Constantinople to Cairo: Ottoman Inaugurations and Their Successors

Mansel, Philip

doi:10.1179/cou.2004.9.1.004

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“…With the loss of the status to Ankara as the center of government, economic recession, and the later exodus of the minorities during the 1950s and 1960s, 68 the city was becoming "poor and provincial." 69 Although the number of meyhanes also diminished during this period, they were probably instrumental in the preservation of the association of seafood with alcohol. Approximately half of the approximately 50 mezes listed in a 1950s text on meyhanes are various kinds of seafood.…”

Section: Early Republic: the Exclusion Of Istanbul From Turkishnessmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…48 began to take shape. The "Istanbul way of life," a multicultural Ottoman or Levantine culture, 49 came to be known for the joint pleasures of food, wine, music, taverna, and often, the sahil and recreational night fishing for lüfer. 50 This culture further developed during the early 18th century Tulip Era-a time that also marks the onset of a culture of consumption.…”

Section: The Classical Ottoman Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

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Between Life Giver and Leisure: Identity Negotiation Through Seafood in Turkey

Knudsen

2006

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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With socioeconomic liberalization and development, especially since 1980, Turkey has witnessed rapid changes in consumption patterns and fashion styles. Often one fad rapidly follows another, creatively combining symbols of the Ottoman era, foreign influences, and regional traditions. Kandiyoti argues that “[t]here is little doubt that class cultures in Turkey are increasingly being shaped and redefined through the medium of consumption.” Thus, consumption has emerged recently as a central concern and analytical tool in historical, anthropological, and sociological works on Ottoman and Turkish society. One trend focuses on the secular high-income class' “globalized” consumption patterns and lifestyle, especially as expressed through shopping patterns and the commoditization of symbols of Turkish secularism. Another, more prevalent, trend is more concerned with the upwardly mobile Islamists' attempt at articulating their newly gained economic status through consumption. A third directs attention to the history of consumption and “the everyday” to counter a previous emphasis on production and state politics in the Ottoman Empire.

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Section: Early Republic: the Exclusion Of Istanbul From Turkishnessmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: The Classical Ottoman Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

Between Life Giver and Leisure: Identity Negotiation Through Seafood in Turkey

Knudsen

2006

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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“…Today's Istanbul is a well-populated metropole, and has been for two millennia [13,14]. It was colonised as Byzantion by the Greeks of Megara in 657 BC.…”

Section: Eastern Roman Empirementioning

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Similarity in Symmetry Groups of Ornaments as a Measure for Cultural Interactions in Medieval Times

Erbudak¹,

Onat²

2020

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The symmetry properties of an ornament contain information about its civilisation and its interactions with other cultural sources. Two-dimensional periodic ornaments can be strictly classified into a limited set of 17 mathematical symmetry groups, also known as wallpaper groups. The collection of ornaments thus classified for a civilisation is characteristic of the cultural group and serves as a fingerprint to identify that group. If the distribution of wallpaper groups is available for several societies, mathematical methods can be applied to determine similarities and differences between the art practices of these communities. This method allows a systematic approach to the general ornamental practices within a culture and their interactions in the form of similarity of fingerprints. We test the feasibility of the method on examples of medieval Armenians, Byzantium, Seljuks first in Persia and then in Anatolia and among Arabs in the Middle East. For this purpose we present the distribution of the planar ornaments and calculate the Euclidean distances in pairs. We tested to what extend geographical and religious factors could account for the observed similarity of ornamental groups between cultures. The results suggest an intensive interaction between the Seljuk Turks and Arab craftsmen who produced the ornaments. Therefore the cultural interactions are religiously motivated.

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From Constantinople to Cairo: Ottoman Inaugurations and Their Successors

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Between Life Giver and Leisure: Identity Negotiation Through Seafood in Turkey

Between Life Giver and Leisure: Identity Negotiation Through Seafood in Turkey

Similarity in Symmetry Groups of Ornaments as a Measure for Cultural Interactions in Medieval Times

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