Marinos Sariyannis
@sariyannis
Ottoman cultural history - IMS/FORTH, Greece GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis
In dark hours of the night I sometimes think about the long scholarly genealogy into which I was inculcated, centuries of scholars reaching back into the early modern world, and how I am a terminal branch in this genealogy, as are perhaps all of the others contemporary with me
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner (@CornellPress, July 2025) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150178… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalchristianity #medievalculture #medievalpower
Do you know both Arabic and Persian? Are you currently unemployed or underemployed? Have you considered a career in jinn translation services
#OpenAccess Navigating the Mediterranean Through the Chinese Lens Transcultural Narratives of the Sea Among Lands ed. Renata Vinci. Firenze Univ Pr 2024 PDF 🎯 media.fupress.com/files/pdf/24/1… books.fupress.com/catalogue/navi…
Christiane Czygan'la yayına hazırladığımız Osmanlı edebiyatında aşkın ele alınışını çeşitli açılardan inceleyen birbirinden değerli on makaleyi içeren ve De Gruyter tarafından yayımlanan kitabımız aşağıdaki linkten indirilebilir: degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
#OpenAccess #NewRelease Challenging Conventions Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry eds. Christiane Czygan and Hatice Aynur. De Gruyter 2025 PDFs 🎯 archive.org/download/10.15… degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
Thursday, July 3, at 9:00 PM Palestine/Israel Time at the following link: tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/83104563242
New essay, precipitated by one of our Monday Ottoman Turkish manuscript reading group sessions, up on the verboten place, link down thread:
#BreakingNews: Journal of Byzantine Studies/Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (#JoeB) goes full #openaccess with issue nr 74 (2024), published in spring 2025 with @oeaw press. 1/2 verlag.oeaw.ac.at/produkt/journa…
I was approached by a Canadian journalist to explain how propaganda works in Iran in the current war. My response:
Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung: If legal norms were applied evenly, Israel's war on Iran would be just as illegal as Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Because this would be "absurd", the "law of the strongest" must take priority over international law.
„Man kann nicht ernsthaft so tun, als sei Putins imperialer Feldzug gegen ein souveränes Nachbarland das Gleiche wie der Präventivschlag des jüdischen Staates gegen ein Regime, das ihm mit Vernichtung droht.“ Beeindruckender Leitartikel von @hubert_wetzel sz.de/li.3270036
This is an excellent essay on "decolonizing knowledge." Although initially well intentioned, the idea of "de-colonizing scholarship" has been very damaging to scholarship and scholarly collaboration. On the one hand, the decolonizers ignore productive scholarly collaborations +
Only extractivist and exploitative? Of things forgotten about the historical craft in Central Eurasia prior to 2022 ... oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog…
You Are Invited to a Book Launch! On 20 June, you are invited to the “Book Launch” titled “Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World” to be held at the ANAMED Library. Nedim Nomer, Başak Tuğ, and Abdurrahman Atçıl will be the speakers.
Came across this 1768 Ottoman Turkish manuscript, the first pages of the text missing, described by the cataloger as "Diary of a journey from Damascus to Istanbul," sounds fascinating but I doubt I'll have time to explore rn so if anyone else wants to do so and report back...
büyükada'nın tarihi rum yetimhanesinin otel olması kararlaştırıldı. bu güzel yapı, binlerce lira verilerek girilen lüks bir otele dönüşecek. yıllar içinde ne tarihi ne anlamı kalacak.
Another gem for Ottoman history nerds. People often lament the scarcity of early Ottoman documents, but this book offers a rare window into that world. It came out over two years ago, but both the book and the documents it presents deserve more attention.