...Serdar Poyraz Duke University Press 2006 Thinking about Turkish Modernization: Cemil Meriç on Turkish Language, Culture, and Intellectuals Serdar Poyraz...

...Benjamin C. Fortna Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Few would deny the centrality of reading to modern so- hand, and the flimsiness of the underlying evidence, on the ciety. Since the nineteenth century a growing proportion...

...Barak A. Salmoni The "Teachers' Army" and Its Miniature Republican Society: Educators' Traits and School Dynamics in Turkish Pedagogical Prescriptions, 1923-1950 Barak A. Salmoni During the first half of the twentieth century “modern” Having recourse to traditional Islamic distinctions...

...Kent F. Schull Schull’s introduction discusses the impact Donald Quataert’s research and mentoring had on the development of Ottoman and Turkish studies and introduces the seven articles included in the special section of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East , volume 34...

...Aslı Iğsız In 2010, the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Museum opened its doors as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (ECoC) project. Presented as the first migration-themed museum of Turkey, it is a site of cultural recollection focused on family histories. Yet the museum...

...Yasemin Gencer Images of children appear with striking frequency in Turkish Republican cartoons produced in the years immediately following the War of Independence (1919–23). Turkish nationalistic ideology commonly conceives of the nation as a sacred entity worthy of the people’s devotion and often...

...Kyle T. Evered “Wicked” Istanbul: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Early Turkish Republic Wyers Mark David Istanbul : Libra Kitap , 2012 312 pp., 35,00 TL (cloth) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

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...Benjamin C. Fortna This article examines the concepts of public and private in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic through the worlds of child readers. It interrogates the shifting lines of demarcation between public and private against the background of children learning to read...

...Zoe Griffith State building and nationalism have been widely examined in the context of both the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish Republic. This article explores the role of Islamic calligraphy and calligraphers during the final decades of Ottoman rule and through the twentieth century...

...Denise Gill-Gürtan This essay focuses on the multiple definitions and conflicting narrative performances of meşk that coexist in contemporary Turkish practices of music transmission. In Ottoman contexts, meşk referred to the prescribed unfolding of transmission over a long period of time between...

...Yeşim Bayar This article looks into how religion was situated within the educational policies of the early republican era (1920–38) in Turkey. The existing literature on Turkish nation building treats the educational policies of the time as solely and unchangingly directed toward...

...Buket Türkmen This article discusses the meaning of the formulation of a new Turkish civic morality infused with Islam in contemporary Turkey through a content analysis of the 1995 and 2007–08 editions of Religious Culture and Morality course textbooks used in high school curricula. I argue...

...Esra Özyürek In the past twenty years, around three thousand Turkish Muslims converted to a Turkish-speaking Protestant movement. Despite their small number, they have been physically and ideologically attacked by Turkish nationalists. This article asks why it is so difficult for Turkish secular...

..., and perquisites of rule were fundamental to the theory Turkey: From Empire to Revolutionary Republic; and practice of sovereignty” (276–77) and that the The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from British willingly misunderstood this anthropologi- 1789 to Present cal fact in their zest for imperial...

...Maureen Jackson Based on a larger project investigating music making as an integral part of Ottoman and Turkish social history, this article seeks to understand surviving musical resonances across ethnoreligious communities in Turkey today. It specifically explores Jewish religious music and its...

...Christine Philliou This article contains, first, an analysis of some of the work done to date on the Ottoman legacy in republican Turkey, and, second, a consideration of the moment of transition from Ottoman to Turkish history. It argues that while a range of approaches and issues have been raised...