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Review of U+201CConstruction grammars : cognitive grounding and theoretical extensionsU+201D ed. by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried Ghent University
Van minaret naar imaret. Hoe en waarom wordt de Ottomaanse keuken vandaag opgedist? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Historiografie en etnologische insteek over de Ottomaanse Keuken, zowel doorheen de geschiedenis als in eigentijds erfgoedbeleid
Haremnavels, leeuwenmelk en aubergines. Culinair erfgoed uit het Ottomaanse Rijk Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Vertaling van sleutelteksten over de geschiedenis van de Ottomaanse keuken sinds de middeleeuwen
Moedige krijgers of het zwaard van God? Een conceptuele herevaluatie van Paul Wittek's gaza-thesis over de Osmaanse staatsvorming Ghent University
This article re-evaluates Paul WittekU+2019s famous gaza thesis, which until the 1980s was the dominant explanation of the Ottoman state and remains influential. It situates Wittek within the intellectual genealogy of Ottoman Studies, which exhibits two major lines: the Ottomans were either barbarians without an understanding of state-building, or fanatical Muslims who were engaged in continuous holy war. Since Wittek, many scholars have ...
The pre-national Balkans : a view without hindsight bias : three variations on the theme of religion and ethnicity Ghent University
Among the many entities people in the past could identify with and feel loyal to, the ethnic group appears to have been far less important than the religious community, the social class, the local community and the clan. Ascribe to ethnic consciousness the same feelings of loyalty people socialized in contemporary nation states experience toward their national community obviously is a projection of a modern mental make-up into the past. Under ...
From Temür to Selim : trajectories of Turko-Mongol state formation in Islamic West-Asia’s long fifteenth century Ghent University
This chapter offers an historical contextualization for the volume’s specific case studies in parts two and three. It presents a new introductory interpretation of the entanglement and particularities of the elites, the institutions and practices, and the transformations that, since the days of Temür (r. 1370-1405), left their marks on the rough political landscapes of Muslim West-Asia. Emphasizing the segmented nature of Turko-Mongol politics ...
Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences Ghent University
The concept, practice, institution and appearance of ‘the state’ have been hotly debated ever since the emergence of history as a discipline within modern scholarship. The field of medieval Islamic history, however, has remained aloof from most of these debates. Rather it tends to take for granted the particularity of dynastic trajectories within only slow-changing bureaucratic contexts. Trajectories of State Formation promotes a more critical ...
The history and etymology of Cappadocian fšáx 'child' Pharasiot fšáxi 'boy' Ghent University
Cappadocian fšáx ‘child’, Pharasiot fšáxi ‘boy’ are traditionally derived from Turkish uşak, assuming a hitherto unexplained fricativization of [u] to [f] and of word-final [k] to [x] after the borrowing process. The latter cannot be attributed to Cappadocian or Pharasiot, however, as it is a common feature of Anatolian Turkish. In order to understand the former sound change, we have to assume an isolated case of high vowel fricativization in ...
History as science : the fifteenth-century debate in Arabic and Persian Ghent University
In the fifteenth century, scholars writing in Arabic and Persian debated the nature of historical inquiry and its place among the sciences. While the motivations and perspectives of the various scholars differed, the terms and parameters of the debate remained remarkably fixed and focused, even as it unfolded across a vast geographic space between Herat, Cairo, and Constantinople. This article examines the contours of this debate and the ...