Carole Hillenbrand
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748625727
- eISBN:
- 9780748671359
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625727.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter looks at the legacy of Manzikert in the later Middle Ages. It examines the ways in which the Turks are portrayed in the historical writings of the Muslim Arabs and Persians over whom ...
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This chapter looks at the legacy of Manzikert in the later Middle Ages. It examines the ways in which the Turks are portrayed in the historical writings of the Muslim Arabs and Persians over whom they ruled until the period of European colonialism and the creation of nation-states in the Middle East. The role of the Turks in the crusading context is analysed. The neglect by Muslim chroniclers of the battle of Myriocephalon of 1176 (in several ways a replay of Manzikert) in which the Seljuq sultan Kilij Arslan defeated the Byzantine emperor Manuel Comnenus, is revealed as a lost historiographical opportunity. The chapter also discusses early legendary folk literature, written in Turkish. The victories of the Mamluk sultans against Crusaders in the Middle East and those of the Ottoman sultans against Christian Europe (Varna, Kosovo and Mohacs) are then analysed. Close attention is given to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453; the way in which its propagandistic potential is exploited to the full by contemporary Turkish historians is highlighted. Throughout the chapter the Turks are shown as exemplary upholders of Sunni Islam and jihad fighters against the Christian infidel, both Crusader and Byzantine.Less
This chapter looks at the legacy of Manzikert in the later Middle Ages. It examines the ways in which the Turks are portrayed in the historical writings of the Muslim Arabs and Persians over whom they ruled until the period of European colonialism and the creation of nation-states in the Middle East. The role of the Turks in the crusading context is analysed. The neglect by Muslim chroniclers of the battle of Myriocephalon of 1176 (in several ways a replay of Manzikert) in which the Seljuq sultan Kilij Arslan defeated the Byzantine emperor Manuel Comnenus, is revealed as a lost historiographical opportunity. The chapter also discusses early legendary folk literature, written in Turkish. The victories of the Mamluk sultans against Crusaders in the Middle East and those of the Ottoman sultans against Christian Europe (Varna, Kosovo and Mohacs) are then analysed. Close attention is given to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453; the way in which its propagandistic potential is exploited to the full by contemporary Turkish historians is highlighted. Throughout the chapter the Turks are shown as exemplary upholders of Sunni Islam and jihad fighters against the Christian infidel, both Crusader and Byzantine.
Richard Osborne
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195181296
- eISBN:
- 9780199851416
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181296.003.0034
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Gioachino Rossini wrote Maometto II in collaboration with Cesare della Valle, Duke of Ventignano, a leading figure in Neapolitan literary life whose libretto derives from his own play Anna Erizo. It ...
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Gioachino Rossini wrote Maometto II in collaboration with Cesare della Valle, Duke of Ventignano, a leading figure in Neapolitan literary life whose libretto derives from his own play Anna Erizo. It is a measure of della Valle’s seriousness as a scholar that the events described in the play closely follow the facts of Mehmet II’s conquest and destruction of the Venetian colony of Negroponte in northern Greece in 1470. The names of two of his principal characters, the Venetian commander Paolo Erisso and fellow soldier Alvise Calbo, are in the historical records. What subverts the libretto’s status as a piece of post-revolutionary historical realism is its reliance on a weak and overused plot line. Locations were shuffled, dates changed, history rewritten. Le Siège de Corinthe, the slimmed down, French-language revision of Maometto II with which Rossini made his debut at the Paris Opera in October 1826, ends in a holocaust.Less
Gioachino Rossini wrote Maometto II in collaboration with Cesare della Valle, Duke of Ventignano, a leading figure in Neapolitan literary life whose libretto derives from his own play Anna Erizo. It is a measure of della Valle’s seriousness as a scholar that the events described in the play closely follow the facts of Mehmet II’s conquest and destruction of the Venetian colony of Negroponte in northern Greece in 1470. The names of two of his principal characters, the Venetian commander Paolo Erisso and fellow soldier Alvise Calbo, are in the historical records. What subverts the libretto’s status as a piece of post-revolutionary historical realism is its reliance on a weak and overused plot line. Locations were shuffled, dates changed, history rewritten. Le Siège de Corinthe, the slimmed down, French-language revision of Maometto II with which Rossini made his debut at the Paris Opera in October 1826, ends in a holocaust.
Karen C. Pinto
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226126968
- eISBN:
- 9780226127019
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226127019.001.0001
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cartography
There are hundreds of cartographic images scattered throughout the medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of extant copies produced in a variety ...
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There are hundreds of cartographic images scattered throughout the medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of extant copies produced in a variety of locales across the Islamic world for eight centuries testifies to the enduring importance of these medieval Islamic cartographic visions. This book examines the rich corpus of Islamic maps to show that they can be read as iconographic representations of the way medieval Muslims perceived their world and that, just like text, they can be analyzed to reveal insights into the history of the period in which they were constructed. In these maps we see images informed by the work of other societies, by myth and religious belief, and by physical reality. This work disentangles the Islamic maps, traces their inception and evolution and reveals their picture cycles. It shows how these maps can be deconstructed to reveal the identities of their constructors, painters, and patrons. This book draws on complex debates in the realms of art history, history of science, and world history of cartography, as well as the philosophy of aesthetics, symbolic anthropology, and visual theory. It explores the applicability of newer and more innovative techniques for approaching the visual record of Islamic history. The author aims to bring Middle Eastern maps into the orbit of modern and postmodern theoretical paradigms. This is achieved through a series of analytical lenses that present alternate ways of viewing Islamic maps.Less
There are hundreds of cartographic images scattered throughout the medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of extant copies produced in a variety of locales across the Islamic world for eight centuries testifies to the enduring importance of these medieval Islamic cartographic visions. This book examines the rich corpus of Islamic maps to show that they can be read as iconographic representations of the way medieval Muslims perceived their world and that, just like text, they can be analyzed to reveal insights into the history of the period in which they were constructed. In these maps we see images informed by the work of other societies, by myth and religious belief, and by physical reality. This work disentangles the Islamic maps, traces their inception and evolution and reveals their picture cycles. It shows how these maps can be deconstructed to reveal the identities of their constructors, painters, and patrons. This book draws on complex debates in the realms of art history, history of science, and world history of cartography, as well as the philosophy of aesthetics, symbolic anthropology, and visual theory. It explores the applicability of newer and more innovative techniques for approaching the visual record of Islamic history. The author aims to bring Middle Eastern maps into the orbit of modern and postmodern theoretical paradigms. This is achieved through a series of analytical lenses that present alternate ways of viewing Islamic maps.
Karen C. Pinto
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226126968
- eISBN:
- 9780226127019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226127019.003.0010
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cartography
Chapter Ten, “Meḥmed II and Map Patronage” is the first of three chapters that broaches the subject of patronage of Islamic cartography. It employs a Schamaesque approach to reading a set of ...
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Chapter Ten, “Meḥmed II and Map Patronage” is the first of three chapters that broaches the subject of patronage of Islamic cartography. It employs a Schamaesque approach to reading a set of classical Islamic KMMS maps from the period of Meḥmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople in 1452. This chapter begins with a brief overview of work already done on the role of patronage in cartography, and moves on to a consideration of the character of a particular patron, namely Meḥmed II. This chapter seeks to offer an alternative view of Fātiḥ the Conqueror.Less
Chapter Ten, “Meḥmed II and Map Patronage” is the first of three chapters that broaches the subject of patronage of Islamic cartography. It employs a Schamaesque approach to reading a set of classical Islamic KMMS maps from the period of Meḥmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople in 1452. This chapter begins with a brief overview of work already done on the role of patronage in cartography, and moves on to a consideration of the character of a particular patron, namely Meḥmed II. This chapter seeks to offer an alternative view of Fātiḥ the Conqueror.
