Koray Durak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koray Durak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koray |
| FAMILY NAME | Durak |
| SIGNATURE | DURAK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bogaziçi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1233-377X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Interventions to Istanbul Studies II, Introduction Restoring the Fabric: Giving Voice to Istanbul s Rum Community
No abstract available
Byzantine Studies and Istanbul s Greek-Speaking Community: The 1950s and the Tenth International Congress of Byzantine Studies
No abstract available
The economy of Melitene/Malaṭya and its role in the Byzantine-Islamic trade (seventh to eleventh centuries)
The city of Melitene in eastern Asia Minor/western Armenia presents a peculiar case in the study of Byzantine-Islamic commerce in the early Middle Ages, because, unlike Trebizond or Attaleia, its commerce was entirely based on land-route connections, and the available evidence does not identify it as a town deliberately designated as a commercial exchange point by the Byzantine authorities. My purpose is to find an answer to the question of how B…
The Story of Storax in the Byzantine World: A Fragrant Resin of International Fame from Southern Anatolia
Bu makale, Geç Antik Çağ ve Orta Çağ’da storaks ismi verilen reçine üzerinedir. Styrax officinalis L.’den (İng. snowbell, Tr. tesbih / ayı fındığı) elde edilen, sert ve altın rengi olan ve bu yüzden “katı storaks” diye adlandırılan bir türün yanında, Liqudambar orientalis Mill.’den (İng. oriental sweetgum, Tr. sığla / günlük / buhur ağacı) elde edilen, yapışkan ve daha az katı olan ve bu yüzden “sıvı storaks” olarak bilinen bir türü de vardır. He…
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture
The aim of this article is to present the sources available to the ordinary Turkish citizen for forming an opinion about Byzantium. These sources range from the written (school curricula to newspapers) to the visual (cinema to television), and I categorize them on the basis of a set of criteria such as accessibility, control over the audience, and intellectual depth. I aim to show how non-state actors have been laying the groundwork for a more in…
The commercial history of Trebizond and the region of Pontos from the seventh to the eleventh centuries: An international emporium
This article examines the merchant and commodity networks of Trebizond as well as routes at the regional, interregional, and international levels that connected the city to Constantinople, the rest the Black Sea, Armenia, the Near East and the Caucuses in the early Middle Ages. After a brief survey of the commercial history of Trebizond from the late antique period to the eleventh century, the economy of the Pontic region and its commercial excha…
Introduction: Interventions to Istanbul Studies
The editors of the Interventions to Istanbul Studies series are proud to present these contributions, which together comprise the first round of what will be an ongoing conversation inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. While honoring the issues of systemic racism, oppression, and abuse of power that were and continue to be raised in the context of the BLM movement, we wanted to invite colleagues in the emerging intellectual fie…
Hapishanede Ayasofya yı Düşünmek: El-Ömerî ile Balaban ın Kostantiniyye deki Ulu Kilise Üzerine Sohbeti
Meclis'in Brigitte Pitarakis tarafından derlenen ikinci dosyası, 2020'de İstanbul'da kültürel miras tartışmalarına damga vurmuş Ayasofya'nın camiye dönüştürülmesini imliyor ve mabedin geçmişte nasıl farklı şekillerde deneyimlendiğinin altını çiziyor. Elinizdeki makale, akademik tarih yazımı ile edebi kurgu arasında bir köprü kurma çabasının ürünüdür.Ayasofya Kilisesi’nin erken ortaçağ Arapça yazınında nasıl temsil edildiğini anlamak için, ortaçağ…
The representation of Byzantine history in high school textbooks in Turkey
Examining the treatment of Byzantium in the history textbooks that were used in Turkish secondary education from the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923 to the present, I argue that the history of this treatment can be divided roughly into four periods, during which the Turkish, Graeco-Roman, and Islamic parts of Anatolian history have been differently emphasized depending on the current ideological concerns. The presentation of Byzantium …
Who are the Romans? The Definition ofBilād al-Rūm(Land of the Romans) in Medieval Islamic Geographies
The present work is a contribution to the Islamic geographical conceptualisation of the medieval world through the examination of the term Rūm (Roman). Rūm, in medieval Arabic, represented a territory that lay to the north and west of the Islamic Near East and North Africa. However, it is far from clear whether the term represented Europe, the Byzantine Empire or both. Study of Arabic geographical works from the ninth to the eleventh centuries sh…
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Who are the Romans? The Definition ofBilād al-Rūm(Land of the Romans) in Medieval Islamic Geographies
The present work is a contribution to the Islamic geographical conceptualisation of the medieval world through the examination of the term Rūm (Roman). Rūm, in medieval Arabic, represented a territory that lay to the north and west of the Islamic Near East and North Africa. However, it is far from clear whether the term represented Europe, the Byzantine Empire or both. Study of Arabic geographical works from the ninth to the eleventh centuries sh…
The representation of Byzantine history in high school textbooks in Turkey
Examining the treatment of Byzantium in the history textbooks that were used in Turkish secondary education from the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923 to the present, I argue that the history of this treatment can be divided roughly into four periods, during which the Turkish, Graeco-Roman, and Islamic parts of Anatolian history have been differently emphasized depending on the current ideological concerns. The presentation of Byzantium …
Hapishanede Ayasofya yı Düşünmek: El-Ömerî ile Balaban ın Kostantiniyye deki Ulu Kilise Üzerine Sohbeti
Meclis'in Brigitte Pitarakis tarafından derlenen ikinci dosyası, 2020'de İstanbul'da kültürel miras tartışmalarına damga vurmuş Ayasofya'nın camiye dönüştürülmesini imliyor ve mabedin geçmişte nasıl farklı şekillerde deneyimlendiğinin altını çiziyor. Elinizdeki makale, akademik tarih yazımı ile edebi kurgu arasında bir köprü kurma çabasının ürünüdür.Ayasofya Kilisesi’nin erken ortaçağ Arapça yazınında nasıl temsil edildiğini anlamak için, ortaçağ…
The commercial history of Trebizond and the region of Pontos from the seventh to the eleventh centuries: An international emporium
This article examines the merchant and commodity networks of Trebizond as well as routes at the regional, interregional, and international levels that connected the city to Constantinople, the rest the Black Sea, Armenia, the Near East and the Caucuses in the early Middle Ages. After a brief survey of the commercial history of Trebizond from the late antique period to the eleventh century, the economy of the Pontic region and its commercial excha…
Introduction: Interventions to Istanbul Studies
The editors of the Interventions to Istanbul Studies series are proud to present these contributions, which together comprise the first round of what will be an ongoing conversation inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. While honoring the issues of systemic racism, oppression, and abuse of power that were and continue to be raised in the context of the BLM movement, we wanted to invite colleagues in the emerging intellectual fie…
The economy of Melitene/Malaṭya and its role in the Byzantine-Islamic trade (seventh to eleventh centuries)
The city of Melitene in eastern Asia Minor/western Armenia presents a peculiar case in the study of Byzantine-Islamic commerce in the early Middle Ages, because, unlike Trebizond or Attaleia, its commerce was entirely based on land-route connections, and the available evidence does not identify it as a town deliberately designated as a commercial exchange point by the Byzantine authorities. My purpose is to find an answer to the question of how B…
The Story of Storax in the Byzantine World: A Fragrant Resin of International Fame from Southern Anatolia
Bu makale, Geç Antik Çağ ve Orta Çağ’da storaks ismi verilen reçine üzerinedir. Styrax officinalis L.’den (İng. snowbell, Tr. tesbih / ayı fındığı) elde edilen, sert ve altın rengi olan ve bu yüzden “katı storaks” diye adlandırılan bir türün yanında, Liqudambar orientalis Mill.’den (İng. oriental sweetgum, Tr. sığla / günlük / buhur ağacı) elde edilen, yapışkan ve daha az katı olan ve bu yüzden “sıvı storaks” olarak bilinen bir türü de vardır. He…
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture
The aim of this article is to present the sources available to the ordinary Turkish citizen for forming an opinion about Byzantium. These sources range from the written (school curricula to newspapers) to the visual (cinema to television), and I categorize them on the basis of a set of criteria such as accessibility, control over the audience, and intellectual depth. I aim to show how non-state actors have been laying the groundwork for a more in…
Interventions to Istanbul Studies II, Introduction Restoring the Fabric: Giving Voice to Istanbul s Rum Community
No abstract available
Byzantine Studies and Istanbul s Greek-Speaking Community: The 1950s and the Tenth International Congress of Byzantine Studies
No abstract available
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