Tag: Book

“Islamic Schools in Modern Turkey: Faith, Politics, and Education” by İren Özgür (Cambridge University Press, 2012, $95, pp 240) There are few debates more fraught with secular-religious rancor in modern Turkey ...

A new book published by Kültür AŞ titled ‘100 customs of Istanbul,’ sheds light on Ottoman urban life and customs, enlightening the traditions and exposing the habits of the society ...

Within the scope of a project titled “Recovering Cultural Heritage in the Balkans,” experts from Turkey are transferring Ottoman manuscripts into a digital environment in Macedonia, home to the largest ...

‘Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town’ by Christopher de Bellaigue (Penguin, 2011, 35TL, pp 288) Christopher de Bellaigue was Turkey correspondent for The Economist during ...

Ottoman book art was rooted in the traditions of the wider Islamic world, but evolved and diversified in Ottoman territories. Traditions were adapted to Ottoman taste and flourished under the ...

The İzmir Education Directorate's books commission is seeking to ban certain parts of John Steinbeck's classic “Of Mice and Men” for several “immoral” passages, according to daily BirGün.  The book ...

From psychology to biography, economics to tech, see what some of the world’s top minds are reading.  When FP chose this year's 100 Global Thinkers, we asked each of them ...

I first read Orhan Pamuk’s childhood memoir of Istanbul three years ago, during a brief spell living in Ankara and before even having visited the city in question. It didn’t make much of an ...

Jalaladdin Rumi’s famous epic poem, the “Masnavi,” has been translated into 22 languages and is currently being translated intoRussian and Malaysian, Konya’s mayor has said ahead of celebrations for the 739th ...

Researchers from Turkey have produced a compendium presenting the lives and work of Mardin’s musicians following five years of painstaking labor. Mardin is known across Turkey as one of the ...