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This article compares ideological production in the Burgundian sources with the Ottoman sources and ascertains that there was a contrast in their respective treatments of the battle of Nicopolis (1396). This event was the first major encounter between the Ottoman Empire and the Western European states of the later Middle Ages. A paradox can be observed between the Burgundian sources on the one hand and Ottoman chronicles on the other : in the ...

This article deals with a literary offering presented by Ibn Sultan (d. 1544)-a Mamluk Dama-scene. alim who eventually became the Ottoman mufti of Damascus-to Sultan Selim I that dates back to shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Syria. Entitled al-Jawahir al-mudiyyah fi ayyam dawlat al-Turkiyyah, this hitherto unpublished work is here made available in a critical edition introduced by an extended literary analysis. With both inter-and ...

In deze studie onderneem ik een kritische discoursanalyse (Critical Discourse Analysis of CDA) van de eerste Osmaanse kronieken, geschreven in de vijftiende eeuw. Op die manier probeert de studie een dieper inzicht te krijgen in de ideeën en concepten die een cruciale rol speelden in de vroegste staatsvorming en bij de opbouw van legitimiteit van de Osmaanse staat en dynastie. De vroeg-Osmaanse staatsvorming was een complex proces dat ...

The inclusion of symbolic resources related to South Slav Muslim collective identity in the educational material of the interwar Yugoslav state reveals a growing sensitivity for South Slav Muslim religious identity. The integration of these symbolic resources within Yugoslav nationhood took place along the broader pattern of the parallel nationalisation of the various religious traditions among the Yugoslav population. Intellectual ...