History of Türkiye 2 (Ottoman Empire 1300-1600)

History of Turkey is the product of a plan created by Oğuz Akkan and Sina Akşin in 1980 and a long period of study and preparation. History of Türkiye consists of 5 volumes. In each volume, the politics, economics, thought, architecture and art histories of the period are examined in separate sections. Volume 1 deals with the Turks before the Ottoman Empire. Volume 2 reviews Ottoman History up to 1600. Volume 3 covers the years 1600-1908. Volume 4 examines the period 1908-1980. Volume 5 covers the period 1980-1995, that is, current Turkey. Sina Akşin created the staff of writers and served as the editor-in-chief. The authors of the Political History departments are Ümit Hassan, Metin Kunt, Sina Akşin, Selahattin Hilav, Mete Tunçay, Cemil Koçak, Hikmet Özdemir, Bülent Tanör. Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, Korkut Boratav, Zafer Toprak wrote the Economic History sections. The history of thought sections were written by Ümit Hassan, Hüseyin Yurdaydın, Sina Akşin, Selahattin Hilav, Murat Katoğlu. The only author of the Architecture and Art History departments is Ayla Ödekan. Sina Akşin explains the purpose of Turkish History as follows: "...the history taught in schools and universities in Turkey is generally a superficial history. For students in schools, history is the most unbearable, rote-based, meaningless subject. The scores of university history departments, that is, the demand for historiography, In the eyes of many of us, history is not an exciting branch of science in which to investigate the truth, but rather a field in which to compile evidence to support certain accepted ideological or political attitudes. This is perhaps a modest contribution of this book to save our country's historiography from its current state of disgrace. "This volume in your hands is an indispensable source for the first three centuries of Ottoman History between 1300 and 1600.



Number of Pages: 416

Year of Printing: 2002


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Cem Publishing House

Number of Pages: 416

First Printing Year: 2002

Language: Turkish