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The Turkish Irruption

Origins

• J.J. Saunders: A History of Medieval Islam, (London: Routledge, 19??), chap. 9. "IX The Turkish Irruption"
• Z. V. Togan: The Origins of the Kazaks and the ôzbeks, Central Asian Survey Vol. 11, No. 3. 1992, [At Turkiye.net]

Seljuks

Turkestan

• Turks & Tatars: An exhibit of the Interactive History Project, Muslims in the 19th-century Russian Empire.

Culture

• The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic [At UTK]
  An epic of the Oghuz (10th century).
• The Legends & Poetry of The Turks, selections
  From Ahmedi to Baqi.
• Old Turkish Tales: The Queen of Night
• WEB Turkmen Arts and Culture
  

The Ottomans

General

• The Ottomans [At WSU]
  A multi-media site by Richard Hooker.
• History of Ottoman Empire [At Ualberta]
• The Ottoman Page
• Yahoo!: Ottoman History
• Türkiye: Country Information [At UTK]
• Türkiye: Arts and Literature [At UTK]
•  H-Turk Homepage

Origins of Turks

Conquests

• The Fall of Constantinople 1453
  from a Greek point of view.
• 2ND Muhammad El-Halaby: The LiberationFall of Constantinople 1453 [At Islam.org.au]
  from a Muslim point of view.
• Eulogy of Istanbul, from The Counsels of Nabi Efendi to his Son Aboul Khair [At WSU]
• Old Serbian Tales: Marko and the Turks, c. 1450 [At this Site]
• James M. Ludlow: The Tribute of Children, 1493
  The Janissaries

Government

• Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522 - 1592): The Turkish Letters,   excerpts, 1555-1562 [At this Site]
• Administration
• Military
• The Millet System
  • The Status of Jews and Christians in Muslim Lands, 1772 CE
    A question on the position of Jews in Islam, and the answer of the Shaikh Hasan Al Kafrawi, The Shafiite [Professor of canon law in Cairo, d. 1788 CE]
  • WEB The History of Turkish Jews

Society

• Sidi Ali Reis (16th Century CE): Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries), 1557 CE
  A Turkish traveler's account of the world of India and the Middle East.
• Women
  • A Visit to the Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (Translated from a Genoese Letter), c. 1550
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Dining With The Sultana, 1718
  • Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522 - 1592): Lesbian Love in A Turkish Bath, 1560  [At Letters Magazine]

Ottoman Egypt

• Firman of Appointment of Muhammad Ali as Pasha of Egypt, issued by the Ottoman Sultan, 1840 [At MS State]
• Muhammad Ali's Tax Inspectors 1809 [At MS State] from Chronicles of al-Jabarti - cAbd al-Rahman al-Jabarti cajaib al-athar f-il-tarajim w-al-akhbar, Cairo 1297/1879 IV, 93-94,141-142, 154, 183, 208-209).

Culture

• Architecture
  • Sinan
  • Views of Turkey [At Purdue]
    Includes many images of Ottoman architecture.
  • Istanbul: The Cradle of Civilization
• Science and Technology
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Smallpox Vaccination in Turkey, [At this Site]
• Painting
  • WEB Miniature Collection: The Age of Sultan Suleyman, the Magnificent Exhibition [At UMD]
    With a large collection of miniatue images

Poetry

• The Legends & Poetry of The Turks, selections
  From Ahmedi to Baqi.
• Turkish Poetry Homepage [At UMD]
  A very large selection of texts in Turkish and English. Mostly modern authors, but has a specific page on Turkish poetry throughout the centuries, with both Turkish and English texts.
  • Selection from the Dede Korkut
  • Yunus Emre (?1238-?1320): Knowledge is to understand / To understand who you are
  • Esrefoglu (?-1469) : My God do not part me from thee / Do not part me from thy sight
  • Pir Sultan Abdal: The rough man entered the lover's garden / It is woods now, my beautiful one, it is woods
  • Nedim (?1681-1730): SONG, "Come, let's grant the joy to this heart of ours that founders in distress: / Let's go to the pleasure gardens, come, my sauntering cypress . . ."
  • Ahmet Hasim: PROMISED LAND, "Let it play with your hair, this gentle breeze / Blowing from the seven seas."
• Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology by Walter G. Andrews, Najaat Black, Mehmet Kalpakli  [At UMD]
  • Nâilî: What witch are you
    

Decline

• Sir William Eton: A Survey of the Turkish Empire, 1799
• Demetra Vaka: Aïshé Hanoum, c. 1888
  Life of a Turkish woman.
• Julia Pardoe: The Dancing Dervishes, 1902
• Dr. Cyrus Hamlin: Turkish Bread, 1907
• The Young Turks: Proclamation for the Ottoman Empire, 1908
• Sultan Abdulhamid: Biography Of Sultan Abdul Hameed The Second And The Fall Of The Islamic Khilafa [At ummah.org.uk]
  An Antisemetic account.

The Balkan Wars

• Old Serbian Tales: Marko and the Turks, c. 1450 [At this Site]
• Alfred Lord Tennyson: Montenegro [At this Site]
• Arthur D. Howden-Smith: An Attack on the Bashi-Bazouks, Macedonia, 1907 [At this Site]
• Bernard Grant: The Flight of the Turks from Lule-Burgas, 1912 [At this Site]
• Philip Gibbs: The Siege of Adrianople, 1912 [At this Site]
  

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