Author: Ogier Ghislain de BusbecqPublisher:
ISBN: 9781900209052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The observations of a 16th-century Habsburg ambassador to Constantinople.
Turkish Letters
Author: Ogier Ghislain de BusbecqPublisher:
ISBN: 9781900209052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The observations of a 16th-century Habsburg ambassador to Constantinople.
The Letters of Lady M. W. Montagu, During the Embassy to Constantinople 1716-18
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Turkish Embassy Letters
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554810426
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. This Broadview edition includes a broad selection of related historical documents on Turkey, women in the Arab world, Islam, and “Oriental” tales written in Europe.
The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
Author: Ogier Ghislain de BusbecqPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
My First Turkish Alphabets Picture Book with English Translations
Author: Alara S.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369600226
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Turkish ? Learning Turkish can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Turkish Alphabets. Turkish Words. English Translations.
The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
Author: Edward Seymour ForsterPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807130711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A native of western Flanders, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq served in several posts as diplomatic representative for the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I (King of Bohemia and Hungary, 1526–64, and Holy Roman Emperor, 1556–64). Busbecq's most famous mission was undoubtedly to the Ottoman Empire at the zenith of its power and glory during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. In four letters to his friend Nicholas Michault—who had been Busbecq's fellow student in Italy and afterwards was imperial ambassador to the Portuguese court—he details impressions on everything he saw and experienced in Turkey, including landscapes, plants, animals, Islam, ethnic groups, architecture, slavery, military matters, court practices, clothing, gender and domestic relations, and the Sultan himself. Suleiman (spelled Soleiman in the translation) the Magnificent is perhaps the most distinguished figure in Turkish history, and his reign saw the greatest extension of Turkish power. His devotion to his own religion and his tolerance of other faiths, his munificence and generosity, won him the fidelity of his subjects and the respect of his enemies. Busbecq was given the assignment of using diplomacy to check the raids of the Turks into Hungary, and he proved very effective with his quick sympathy, appreciation of the Turkish character, and untiring patience. He returned from Constantinople in the autumn of 1562 with an established reputation as a diplomatist. Busbecq's Turkish Letters is a treasure of early travel literature, reflecting Busbecq's rich literary talent, classical education, love for collecting antiquities, and remarkable power of observation. Delightfully entertaining reading, it also offers invaluable lessons on understanding and bridging cultural divides.
Letters
Author: Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The Ottomans
Author: Marc David BaerPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541673778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. The Ottomans vividly reveals the dynasty’s full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world.
Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations (2 vols.)
Author: Ismail Hakkı KadıPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004409998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1095
Book Description
Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives, is a product of meticulous study of İsmail Hakkı Kadı, A.C.S. Peacock and other contributors on historical documents from the Ottoman archives. The work contains documents in Ottoman-Turkish, Malay, Arabic, French, English, Tausug, Burmese and Thai languages, each introduced by an expert in the language and history of the related country. The work contains documents hitherto unknown to historians as well as others that have been unearthed before but remained confined to the use of limited scholars who had access to the Ottoman archives. The resources published in this study show that the Ottoman Empire was an active actor within the context of Southeast Asian experience with Western colonialism. The fact that the extensive literature on this experience made limited use of Ottoman source materials indicates the crucial importance of this publication for future innovative research in the field. Contributors are: Giancarlo Casale, Annabel Teh Gallop, Rıfat Günalan, Patricia Herbert, Jana Igunma, Midori Kawashima, Abraham Sakili and Michael Talbot
Letters in Gold
Author: M. Uğur DermanPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998730
Category : Calligraphy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The catalogue for an exhibit at the Museum and travelling to Los Angeles and Harvard through 1999. Presents 71 examples of calligraphy collected by the Turkish businessman and philanthropist, among them exquisitely illuminated Korans and prayer manuals, elegantly decorated albums, and large-scale decorative compositions by renowned Ottoman calligraphers. The text provides information about specific artists and pieces and the tradition and techniques of the genre. A glossary defines Turkish words but does not indicate pronunciation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR