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Les Ottomans et la mort: Permanences et mutations (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, 9)

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In keeping with the historical trend, well developed for Western civilisation, of research into attitudes to Death, but it is concerned with the far less studied East, specifically the Turkish world and its attitude to Death. Bringing together a team of specialists belonging to diverse disciplines (ethnology, history, philology, political studies), this study approaches its subject from various angles; although the Ottoman period is central to the study, a lengthy period is touched on, from the ancient Turks of Inner Asia to the present situation in Central Asia and Turkey.
This intriguing work looks into the pre-Islamic Turkic traditions, the role of Islam, and other historical factors involved in the development of Ottoman funeral practices and attitudes to Death, which the present-day Turks have nolens volens inherited.

324 pages, Leather Bound

First published July 1, 1996

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Gilles Veinstein

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Né le 18 juillet 1945 à Paris, élève à l’Ecole normale supérieure de la rue
d’Ulm, après une agrégation d’histoire et un doctorat d’Etat, il a été directeur
du Centre d’histoire du domaine turc à l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, en coopérati
on avec le CNRS, puis élu en décembre 1998 professeur
au Collège de France. Il était également co
-
directeur de la revue
Turcica
,
membre du comité de rédaction des
C
ahiers du monde russe
, membre de
l'
Academia Europaea
, du comité des orientalismes du
CNRS
et
du Conseil
scientifique des instituts français d’
Istanbul
et de
Tachkent
. Son élection au
Collège de France a donné lieu à une controverse au sujet de l’utilisation du
terme de génocide arménien
: son attachement à rechercher la production de
documents, d
e preuves écrites irréfutables de la planification d’un génocide,
l’ont conduit à chercher une nuance à l’usage du terme qui
fût
vivement
critiquée.

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August 24, 2017
Türk kültüründe ölüm ve ölüm çevresinde tesis edilen inanç ve uygulamaların çok iyi bir derlemesi niteliğini taşıyor kitap. İslamiyet öncesi Türklerden Osmanlılara ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'ne kadar uzanan geniş bir perspektifte ölümün antropolojik, sosyolojik, dini yönleri başta olmak üzere disiplinlerarası bir vizyon yaratıyor.

Özellikle Türk kültürü ile İslam inancının çakıştığı noktalarda nasıl formüller izlendiği, Türk kültürünün hangi noktalarda baskın çıktığı ve hatta açıktan dini uygulamalara karşı çıkıldığı ortaya konmakta. Bununla birlikte Yaşar Kemal'in folklorculuğu üzerinden halk arasında ölümün nasıl karşılandığına dair makale de oldukça ilgi çekici.
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