Cemal Kafadar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4048886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cemal Kafadar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cemal |
| FAMILY NAME | Kafadar |
| SIGNATURE | KAFADAR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6030-4522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Introduction
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…
How to Write Fake Global History
There has been a recent surge of publications in “global history”, including on the medieval and early modern periods. While many of these are worthy pieces of research, some of them are what can only be termed “fake global history”, driven by irresponsible sensationalism and the crude exigencies of the market. Here we look at a particular example of this, Yale professor Alan Mikhail’s God’s Shadow. Ostensibly about the global impact of the Ottom…
Osmanlı İnhitat Söylemine Girizgâh
The first section of this bipartite essay deals with different approaches to the monetary turbulence experienced in the Ottoman world in the late-16th century. Combining “real” economic factors with the “quantity theory of money,” it underlines population growth and the velocity of circulation as well as structural aspects of Ottoman trade balances vis-a-vis the west and the east. The focus of the second section is on the observations and analyse…
A Rome of One’s Own
A Rome of One’s Own
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Between Two Worlds
Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans during the late Middle Ages. This highly original …
The Ottomans and Europe
Les Troubles Monétaires de la Fin du XVIeSiècle et la Prise de Conscience Ottomane du Déclin
Si le XVIIesiècle représente une ère de crise généralisée pour diverses parties du monde, il semble bien que cette période de troubles ait commencé dans l'Empire ottoman deux décennies plus tôt, vers 1580, lorsque, par une coïncidence malheureuse, le calendrier islamique approchait de son millénaire. Pour diverses raisons qui ne sont pas toutes d'ordre chronologique, la capitale ottomane fut saisie de la crainte d'une apocalypse au cours de la de…
Self and Others
Ottoman literary history, indeed all Ottoman cultural history, has been traditionally viewed within the framework of a dualistic schema: courtly (high, learned, orthodox, cosmopolitan, polished, artificial, stiff, inaccessible to the masses) versus popular (folk, tainted with unorthodox beliefs-practices and superstitions, but pure and simple in the sense of preserving national spirit, natural, honest). This schema took shape under the influence …
News of Fellows and Scholars
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Memoirs of a Turkish Fascist
Self and Others
Ottoman literary history, indeed all Ottoman cultural history, has been traditionally viewed within the framework of a dualistic schema: courtly (high, learned, orthodox, cosmopolitan, polished, artificial, stiff, inaccessible to the masses) versus popular (folk, tainted with unorthodox beliefs-practices and superstitions, but pure and simple in the sense of preserving national spirit, natural, honest). This schema took shape under the influence …
News of Fellows and Scholars
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Memoirs of a Turkish Fascist
Self and Others
Ottoman literary history, indeed all Ottoman cultural history, has been traditionally viewed within the framework of a dualistic schema: courtly (high, learned, orthodox, cosmopolitan, polished, artificial, stiff, inaccessible to the masses) versus popular (folk, tainted with unorthodox beliefs-practices and superstitions, but pure and simple in the sense of preserving national spirit, natural, honest). This schema took shape under the influence …
News of Fellows and Scholars
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Les Troubles Monétaires de la Fin du XVIeSiècle et la Prise de Conscience Ottomane du Déclin
Si le XVIIesiècle représente une ère de crise généralisée pour diverses parties du monde, il semble bien que cette période de troubles ait commencé dans l'Empire ottoman deux décennies plus tôt, vers 1580, lorsque, par une coïncidence malheureuse, le calendrier islamique approchait de son millénaire. Pour diverses raisons qui ne sont pas toutes d'ordre chronologique, la capitale ottomane fut saisie de la crainte d'une apocalypse au cours de la de…
The Ottomans and Europe
Between Two Worlds
Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans during the late Middle Ages. This highly original …
A Rome of One’s Own
A Rome of One’s Own
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Osmanlı İnhitat Söylemine Girizgâh
The first section of this bipartite essay deals with different approaches to the monetary turbulence experienced in the Ottoman world in the late-16th century. Combining “real” economic factors with the “quantity theory of money,” it underlines population growth and the velocity of circulation as well as structural aspects of Ottoman trade balances vis-a-vis the west and the east. The focus of the second section is on the observations and analyse…
How to Write Fake Global History
There has been a recent surge of publications in “global history”, including on the medieval and early modern periods. While many of these are worthy pieces of research, some of them are what can only be termed “fake global history”, driven by irresponsible sensationalism and the crude exigencies of the market. Here we look at a particular example of this, Yale professor Alan Mikhail’s God’s Shadow. Ostensibly about the global impact of the Ottom…
Introduction
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…
Introduction
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)