MANAA Book Archive

By Emma Levine

Istanbul Day through Day is the right pocket advisor ebook for self reliant visitors offering a realistic, vibrant structure with worthwhile, transparent maps and expertly designed excursions. The advisor highlights the must-see locations and provides an expert opinion on the place to stick, consume and store.

• Includes exact curiosity excursions that entice households, arts and track enthusiasts, historical past buffs and architectural fans.
• Details nice neighbourhood strolling excursions via Istiklal Caddesi, Eyup Sacred websites, Tunel to Karakoy, Uskudar, Eminonu to Sultanahmet, Fener & Balat, and Beyazit's Bazaars & Mosques.
• Discover interesting day journeys from town to Princes' Island and Edirne.
• Where to buy, consume, see the simplest Arts & leisure and the simplest areas to Stay.
• Helpful suggestions and all you must understand to utilize your journey within the Savvy visitor chapter.
• Maps to accompany each travel in addition to a fold-out nearby map in plastic case.

Day via Day courses are brief and punchy urban courses that direct guests on a quick holiday round the urban within the premier means. The publications are geared toward subtle travelers who're searching for a really obtainable learn to aid utilize their remain. by utilizing special-interest excursions within the books, travelers may be able to get a good suggestion of the geography in their urban immediately prior to exploring it in an engaging manner, giving humans a few outstanding offerings for what to determine and do, that they won't have concept to contemplate typically. those visitors recognize that there is a type of technological know-how to organizing a while on a visit, to prevent loads of pointless backtracking or overbooking, and Day via Days supply this knowledge in an obtainable way.

By Niyazi Berkes

First released in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa corporation.

The 1st comparative learn to check the position of faith within the formation of Greek and Turkish nationalisms, this ebook argues that the shift to an more and more non secular paradigm in either international locations may be defined by way of the exigencies of consolidation and the necessity to entice grassroots components and account for range.

By Cemal Kafadar

By Murat Birdal

Even supposing much less renowned than a few Anatolian websites, it really is Amorium's importance as an immense payment after the Roman interval that makes it so vital. The excavation programme's major objective has been to make clear the Byzantine payment that flourished right here till the eleventh century advert. This guidebook is an try and fill in a number of the gaps within the archaeology, and to convey town and its background again to existence.

By Nazan Maksudyan

Heritage books frequently weave stories of emerging and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars between robust countries. the following, Maksudyan succeeds in making people who find themselves farthest faraway from strength the lead actors during this historical past. targeting orphans and destitute early life of the past due Ottoman Empire, the writer offers voice to these young children who've lengthy been missed. Their reviews and views shed new mild on many major advancements of the past due Ottoman interval, supplying another narrative that acknowledges young ones as old agents.
Maksudyan takes the reader from the intimate global of little one foundlings to the bigger foreign context of missionary orphanages, all whereas targeting Ottoman modernization, urbanization, citizenship, and the upkeep of order and protection. Drawing upon archival documents, she explores the ways that the remedy of orphans intersected with welfare, hard work, and kingdom development within the Empire. during the ebook, Maksudyan doesn't lose sight of her lead actors, and the effect of the kids is usually current if we easily hear and spot rigorously as Maksudyan so convincingly argues.

By Suraiya Faroqhi

It is a learn of 2 contrasting cities in Anatolia within the 17th century. As apartment possession was once common, facts relating worth, description, place and possession of dwellings represent a sound demeanour of imminent city society as a complete. via her use of records from the kadi registers of Ankara and Kayseri, Dr Faroqui follows adjustments in styles of apartment possession over nearly a century. The city society therefore printed differs from the styles typically linked to the 'Islamic urban' version. Townsmen frequently received genuine property with no deciding on 1 / 4 inhabited through their co-religionists, which throws gentle at the Muslim majority's perspective to the Christian minority. in spite of the fact that examples of rich and negative quarters weren't recognized. The kadi registers additionally point out that regardless of passing via a interval of situation early within the century, either cultures controlled a reasonably quick restoration from this.