BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL ARTS JUL 19, 2021 8:46 PM GMT+3“Amyris, de vita et gestis Mahometi Turcorum imperatoris” (“Emir: The Life and Conquests of Mehmet the Turkish Emperor”), a Latin 5,000-line epic […]
BY MEHMET HASAN BULUT ARTS JUL 04, 2021 The winged lion of Venice tried to assassinate Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, the great eagle, following his rapid advance towards Italy, seizing the […]
BY MEHMET HASAN BULUT ISTANBUL PORTRAIT JUN 01, 2021 The first relations between the Islamic world and Japan began at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate or the Edo shogunate, the feudal […]
From Kipferl to Crescent: The (Dubious) Legend of the Ottoman Attack on Vienna How did the kipferl get its crescent shape, and become, well, a croissant? Here’s where things get hazy and a […]
BY LEYLA YVONNE ERGIL HISTORY MAY 12, 2021 A night view of Halis Bekrizade Efendi, the mecca of baklava and Turkish delight, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, in Istanbul, Turkey. (NurPhoto via […]
BY AYLA COŞKUN ISTANBUL FOOD APR 25, 2021 “Cook in the rue de Stamboul”, a painting depicting the streets of Istanbul, circa 1890-1900, Istanbul, retrieved from the Library of Congress. (via WIKIMEDIA […]
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL DIPLOMACY FEB 24, 2021 A file photo of a general view of Tukey’s Foreign Ministry building in the capital Ankara. (AA Photo) Turkey’s Foreign Ministry late […]
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL TURKEY JAN 19, 2021 The late Dündar Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu is seen in this undated photo shared by family member Orhan Osmanoğlu on Jan. 19, 2021 (Photo […]
BY HAKKI ÖCAL COLUMNS DEC 07, 2020 Lately, I have been discussing the “age of proxies” but do not attempt to search for it on the internet because all you’ll […]
Mehmed the Conqueror’s Namazgah: 1st Ottoman artifact in Kosovo’s Prizren BY ANADOLU AGENCY PRIZREN, KOSOVO ARTS DEC 01, 2020 A general view from Namazgah in Prizen, Kosovo, Nov. 30, 2020. […]
BY LEYLA YVONNE ERGIL EXPAT CORNER NOV 12, 2020 Preparation of medicines for the treatment of a patient suffering from smallpox, miniature from “The Canon of medicine,” by Avicenna (980-1037), […]
BY RABEE AL-HAFIDH OP-ED NOV 10, 2020 On Sept. 1, 1900, on the orders of Sultan Abdulhamid II, the Ottoman authorities started working on a 1,320 kilometer (820.2 miles) railway […]
BY MUHAMMET ALI GÜLER OP-ED OCT 24, 2020 Students hold Turkish flags in a dormitory restored by donations provided by Turkish charities and businesspeople, in the capital Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. […]
Source: History Collection By Patrick Lynch Since the formation of Islam in the early 7th century AD, there have been countless battles involving commanders who fought to expand the religion […]
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL ARTS OCT 25, 2020 The painting depicting Haji Bektash Veli with Sarı Saltuk Baba is 22 by 17 centimeters. (AA Photo) While Haji Bektash […]
MAGAZINE: EDITION AUGUST 2020 Dr Bilal Tahir ISLAMIC HISTORY 1st October 2020 Dr Bilal Ahmed Tahir, Sheffield, UK Introduction The Ottoman Empire ruled much of the Arab World for […]
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL ARTS SEP 17, 2020 Abu Bakr Efendi’s descendants during their visit to Istanbul, Turkey, June 26, 2018. (AA Photo) Fifteen South African descendants of Ottoman scholar Abu […]
Source: Daily Sabah By ALİ TÜFEKÇİ; ISTANBUL; Arts The 18th century was a period of great acculturation between the Orient and the West. The first thing that came to mind […]
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL POLITICS AUG 05, 2020 Agroup of unidentified people on Tuesday attacked a 16th-century historical Ottoman-period mosque with stones in the Greek city of Trikala. Windows […]
Source: Independent Turkey’s leader is picking and choosing his way through his country’s history for the gaudiest bits to discard or embellish, writes Robert Fisk If Bashar al-Assad was the only […]
