Marinos Sariyannis
@sariyannis.bsky.social
Ottoman cultural history - IMS/FORTH, Greece
GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition
https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis
GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition
https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis
Pinned
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude
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My latest book, on open access!
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Συνέντευξή μου στα "Ρεθυμνιώτικα Νέα" και τον Γιάννη Κωστάκογλου
Προκλήσεις από την υποχρηματοδότηση και την υποβάθμιση της επιστημονικής έρευνας
Προκλήσεις από την υποχρηματοδότηση και την υποβάθμιση της επιστημονικής έρευνας
Προκλήσεις από την υποχρηματοδότηση και την υποβάθμιση της επιστημονικής έρευνας - RethNea.gr
Ιδιαίτερα σημαντικό και μάλιστα μοναδικό στη χώρα είναι το έργο που παράγει το Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών, τμήμα του Ιδρύματος Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας στο Ρέθυμνο
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February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Συνέντευξή μου στα "Ρεθυμνιώτικα Νέα" και τον Γιάννη Κωστάκογλου
Προκλήσεις από την υποχρηματοδότηση και την υποβάθμιση της επιστημονικής έρευνας
Προκλήσεις από την υποχρηματοδότηση και την υποβάθμιση της επιστημονικής έρευνας
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Reposting this fantastic interview with Kevin van Bladel on his vision of the "Classical Near East", talking a lot about languages like Greek, (Christian) Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Syriac, Mandaic, and Middle Persian. Also very interesting in terms of career paths and how our fields are structured.
A new episode of Byzantium & Friends: The Classical Near East, with Kevin van Bladel www.medievalists.net/2026/01/the-... #history #NearEast
The Classical Near East, with Kevin van Bladel - Medievalists.net
A conversation with Kevin van Bladel on his proposal regarding “The Classical Near East,” a constellation of fields defined by the classical literary…
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February 11, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Reposting this fantastic interview with Kevin van Bladel on his vision of the "Classical Near East", talking a lot about languages like Greek, (Christian) Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Syriac, Mandaic, and Middle Persian. Also very interesting in terms of career paths and how our fields are structured.
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February 10, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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In his book, Joshua M. White offers the first comprehensive examination of piracy in the eastern Mediterranean from the perspectives of Ottoman legal theory and practice, as well as international law.
Introduction can be read 👉: www.sup.org/books/middle...
#maritimehistory
Introduction can be read 👉: www.sup.org/books/middle...
#maritimehistory
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
In his book, Joshua M. White offers the first comprehensive examination of piracy in the eastern Mediterranean from the perspectives of Ottoman legal theory and practice, as well as international law.
Introduction can be read 👉: www.sup.org/books/middle...
#maritimehistory
Introduction can be read 👉: www.sup.org/books/middle...
#maritimehistory
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Andras Riedlmayer, art historian at Harvard's Aga Khan program, has passed away. A great loss for Ottoman Balkan history. 🖤 Among many feats, Andras testified about the deliberate destruction of religious and cultural sites in the 1990s wars in Bosnia and Kosovo humanrights.uconn.edu/icty-digital...
The Andras Riedlmayer Collection | Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute
The Andras Riedlmayer CollectionIntroduction to the Andras Riedlmayer Collection Southeastern Europe has long served as a cultural intersection, where major ...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Andras Riedlmayer, art historian at Harvard's Aga Khan program, has passed away. A great loss for Ottoman Balkan history. 🖤 Among many feats, Andras testified about the deliberate destruction of religious and cultural sites in the 1990s wars in Bosnia and Kosovo humanrights.uconn.edu/icty-digital...
Link valid for three days: we.tl/t-8JoPN8MAz5
February 10, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Link valid for three days: we.tl/t-8JoPN8MAz5
My latest paper.
www.academia.edu/164559197/An...
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Ancient History in Ottoman Universal Histories
In Ovidiu Olar and Konrad Petrovszky (eds), Writing History in Ottoman Europe (Fifteenth – Eighteenth Centuries), Leiden: Brill 2026, 23-68.
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February 10, 2026 at 11:51 AM
My latest paper.
www.academia.edu/164559197/An...
www.academia.edu/164559197/An...
E. J. W. Gibb's History of Ottoman Poetry has been reissued. It's amazing how useful it is, more than 120 years after its original publication. I still remember finding it at the IFEA library, reading it back to back and taking notes.
A History of Ottoman Poetry
This six-volume set reissues E. J. W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry with new forewords by Christine Woodhead.
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February 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM
E. J. W. Gibb's History of Ottoman Poetry has been reissued. It's amazing how useful it is, more than 120 years after its original publication. I still remember finding it at the IFEA library, reading it back to back and taking notes.
Is Franz Rosenthal, Jacques Le Goff of Islamic studies?
February 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Is Franz Rosenthal, Jacques Le Goff of Islamic studies?
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Launching the ottoman-archive GitHub organisation for all historians and linguists interested in learning about a world culture where only 10,000 people can now read its written records github.com/ottoman-arch... @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
ottoman-archive
ottoman-archive has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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February 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Launching the ottoman-archive GitHub organisation for all historians and linguists interested in learning about a world culture where only 10,000 people can now read its written records github.com/ottoman-arch... @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
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Scholars used to call the Ottoman Empire “a near-perfect military society,” but really it all depended on 1,000 scribes in Istanbul who did spreadsheets by day and wrote Persian poetry by night
February 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Scholars used to call the Ottoman Empire “a near-perfect military society,” but really it all depended on 1,000 scribes in Istanbul who did spreadsheets by day and wrote Persian poetry by night
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30% discount code for my book, "Ottomans and the Supernatural". Please share it with your librarians!
February 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
30% discount code for my book, "Ottomans and the Supernatural". Please share it with your librarians!
30% discount code for my book, "Ottomans and the Supernatural". Please share it with your librarians!
February 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
30% discount code for my book, "Ottomans and the Supernatural". Please share it with your librarians!
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first article of 2026! and this one comes with a sound file to imagine the chatter & noises that filled the air of a Sasanian city.
Have you ever wondered what a Sasanian city sounded like? We can imagine the sounds of the past if we pay close attention to material, historical, & archaeological sources. Check out this new article on the soundscapes of Eranshahr-- & be sure to download the sound file for an immersive experience
January 28, 2026 at 9:47 PM
first article of 2026! and this one comes with a sound file to imagine the chatter & noises that filled the air of a Sasanian city.
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Bahcesehir Journal for the History of Science and Intellectual History started taking submissions, here is the link for our website:
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Please share this widely.
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BAHÇEŞEHİR JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY (BJHSIH) - Bahçeşehir J Intellect Hist Hist Sci: 1 (1)
Bahçeşehir Journal of Intellectual History and History Science
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January 28, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Bahcesehir Journal for the History of Science and Intellectual History started taking submissions, here is the link for our website:
bauintellectualscience.org
Please share this widely.
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Χάσαμε την Κυριακή τον Γιάννη Χ. Αλεξανδρόπουλο (John C. Alexander), έναν πρωτοπόρο μελετητή των οθωμανικών κανουναμέδων και καταστίχων, της φορολογίας και της γαιοκτησίας, των μοναστηριών υπό οθωμανική κυριαρχία, του Μοριά του 18ου αιώνα - και έναν χαρισματικό δάσκαλο, που σχεδόν μόνος του
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January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Χάσαμε την Κυριακή τον Γιάννη Χ. Αλεξανδρόπουλο (John C. Alexander), έναν πρωτοπόρο μελετητή των οθωμανικών κανουναμέδων και καταστίχων, της φορολογίας και της γαιοκτησίας, των μοναστηριών υπό οθωμανική κυριαρχία, του Μοριά του 18ου αιώνα - και έναν χαρισματικό δάσκαλο, που σχεδόν μόνος του
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John C. Alexander (Alexandropoulos), my teacher and mentor, passed away on Sunday. A pioneering scholar of Ottoman kanunnames, taxation and landholding, of monasteries under Ottoman rule, of 18th-c. Peloponnese; and a charismatic teacher who singlehandedly produced
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January 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
John C. Alexander (Alexandropoulos), my teacher and mentor, passed away on Sunday. A pioneering scholar of Ottoman kanunnames, taxation and landholding, of monasteries under Ottoman rule, of 18th-c. Peloponnese; and a charismatic teacher who singlehandedly produced
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tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging
January 25, 2026 at 1:42 PM
tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging
It's called imperial boomerang
US commentators comparing Minneapolis to Fallujah or Gaza or whatever, crack me up. Why do you think those places are the way they are, buddy?
January 24, 2026 at 9:09 PM
It's called imperial boomerang
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Read more about the 2025 OTSA award winners on our website! Congratulations to the winners! www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prize...
Recent Winners (2017-2025) – Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association
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January 20, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Read more about the 2025 OTSA award winners on our website! Congratulations to the winners! www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prize...
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Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals 🐦⬛🪺
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Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'
Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals.
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January 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals 🐦⬛🪺
bbc.com/travel/artic...
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⚠️ La tentative de censure d’État a échoué. Les autorités israéliennes viennent d’annuler l’interdiction d’entrée sur le territoire qui me visait. Je pars demain matin (mardi) pour assurer une partie des 20 rencontres prévues en Palestine & Israël. Quelques constats, à chaud :
January 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
⚠️ La tentative de censure d’État a échoué. Les autorités israéliennes viennent d’annuler l’interdiction d’entrée sur le territoire qui me visait. Je pars demain matin (mardi) pour assurer une partie des 20 rencontres prévues en Palestine & Israël. Quelques constats, à chaud :
A very interesting paper on Ottoman "science of flowers" 🌷(Aleksandar Shopov - Himmet Taşkömür)
Three Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Books on Flowers (Şükūfe-nāme), Flower Breeding (terbiye-i ezhār), and the New Science of Soil in Istanbul
Three Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Books on Flowers (Şükūfe-nāme), Flower Breeding (terbiye-i ezhār), and the New Science of Soil in Istanbul
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January 12, 2026 at 7:44 PM
A very interesting paper on Ottoman "science of flowers" 🌷(Aleksandar Shopov - Himmet Taşkömür)
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⚠️ Ce soir je devrais être dans l'avion vers Jérusalem ✈️, pour une semaine de séminaires et rencontres avec des Palestiniens et des Israéliens 🇵🇸🇮🇱, collègues, lycéens, étudiants. Le gouvernement israélien a décidé de me boycotter et de m'interdire d'embarquer. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
January 12, 2026 at 12:15 AM
⚠️ Ce soir je devrais être dans l'avion vers Jérusalem ✈️, pour une semaine de séminaires et rencontres avec des Palestiniens et des Israéliens 🇵🇸🇮🇱, collègues, lycéens, étudiants. Le gouvernement israélien a décidé de me boycotter et de m'interdire d'embarquer. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.
January 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.