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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular
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Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
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Many thanks to Michael Hickok for his review of my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina in Histoire sociale / Social History @hssh1968.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/article/9715...
🗃️ what's history #skystorians #Balkans #OttomanEmipre #Habsburg #menasky
Title of the review The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina by Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular (review) Michael Robert Hickok Histoire sociale / Social History Les publications Histoire sociale / Social History Inc. Volume 58, Numéro/Number 119, Mai/May 2025 pp. 201-203 10.1353/his.2025.a971523
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Autumn in #NYC
A bee on top of flowers. Fuchsia Water Lilly; reflection of a building in a pond.
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir.
#edirne #selimiye #unesco
#mimarsinan #türkiye
#turkey #sanat #tarih
September 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status.
Full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
#Turkey 🗃️ what’s history #ottoman #arthistory
September 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status.
Full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
#Turkey #menasky 🗃️ #ottoman
Current restored dome and a proposed restitution. Current restored calligraphic panels and proposed restitution erasing them Current restored dome and ceiling and proposed restitution
September 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Um, what?
No, we are not on a dystopian movie set.
Stop hiring humans Ai advertisement.
May 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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“I don’t need your drugs I’d rather have high fashion”
May 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Today at 3pm EST with @lediona.bsky.social @harunb.bsky.social @ademferizaj.bsky.social Piro Rexhepi
Dženita Karić
#Bosnian #Albanian Studies 🔥🔥🔥
#Balkansky 🗃️
Bosnian and Albanian Studies: Bridging the Divide Virtual Panel
March 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Unbelievable
People walking through an entirely destroyed area of Gaza
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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There is one remaining professor of history in Gaza.
January 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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#NYC #CentralPark
Bench and fallen leaves, Central Park, NYC
December 13, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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Rainy day in #NYC
Rainy day in NYC. Street view Rainy day in NYC. View up building and fog
December 10, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Last year in November this was a staggeringly high number. #Gaza #NYC #mena
NYC subway exit. “420 Gaza kids die every day! 11/3/23”
November 26, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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Tapestry with mirror.
November 15, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Who is afraid of the Balkans? at the Ottoman Turkish Studies Assocation Conference at Northwestern
with @anasekulic.bsky.social
@edinh.bsky.social
@harunb.bsky.social
Uğur Zekeriya Peçe
@lalehjoon.bsky.social
Who is afraid of the Balkans? at the Ottoman Turkish Studies Assocation Conference at Northwestern with @anasekulic.bsky.social @edinh.bsky.social @harunb.bsky.social Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @lalehjoon.bsky.social
October 27, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Next week in Vienna: “HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE USES OF THE PAST IN ASIA” JESHO Workshop at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
October 11, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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Istanbul friends, if you are around next Tuesday I’ll be presenting my book at Sabancı University
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The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe book talk by Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular on Tuesday December 5 at 2:30pm at Sabancı University
November 29, 2023 at 6:55 PM
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Some good news in these dark times. Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina is here!
sup.org/books/title/...
menasky 🗃️
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
October 21, 2023 at 7:09 PM
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Awkward autumn when it’s 27C in October that feels like being on a StarTrek Holodeck, enjoyable but lulls us into forgetting about the looming danger. #climatechange 🖖
Awkward autumn when it’s 27C in October that feels like being on a StarTrek Holodeck, enjoyable but lulls us into forgetting about the looming danger. #climatechange 🖖 Trees and sun rays; Central Park, NYC
October 4, 2023 at 5:48 PM
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So excited that The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe now has a cover! @stanfordpress.bsky.social
sup.org/books/title/...
August 24, 2023 at 8:16 AM
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At the cistern
August 23, 2023 at 12:01 PM
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Istanbul blues
August 14, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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Ancestral lands
@ Bosanska Krajina
photo by dajdža
August 13, 2023 at 10:37 AM
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Some serious tilsim protection
August 11, 2023 at 6:45 PM