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Istanbul: The Lost Paradigm For Understanding Turkish Society

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YerasimosStephanos. 1995. Konstantiniye ve Ayasofya Efsaneleri (The Legends of Constantinople and Saint Sophia). 2nd edition. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Translated from French by TekeliŞirin. 295 pp.

YerasimosStefanoset al. 1996. İstanbul, 1914-1923. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Translated from French by AkalınC.. 215 pp.

BeharCem and DubenAlan. 1996. İstanbul Haneleri: Evlilik, Aile ve Doğurganlik, 1880-1940 (İstanbul Households: Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880-1940). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Translated from English by a group of translators at Yayınlarıİletişim. 283 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Şirin Tekeli*
Affiliation:
Formerly Faculty of Political Science, Istanbul University

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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1996

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1 Mantran, Robert, Histoire d’Istanbul. Fayard, Librane Arthème, 1996Google Scholar, especially Ch. 12: De l’Ottomantisme au cosmopolitisme (XIXe. siècle-début du XXe.siècle), pp. 285319.Google Scholar

2 Yet, remembering the mere title of a recent, short article by sociologist Göle, Nilüfer, one wonders if, in spite of many changes, Istanbul does not keep the spirit of “cosmopolitanism” even in the 1990’s: “Rebellious, Contemporary and Cosmopolitan” (Yeni Yüzyıl, 5 July 1996).Google Scholar The article was an interesting interpretation of the meaning of the concert that Kudsi Erguner and his Turkish Music Ensemble presented at Hagia Eirene Museum (an old Byzantine church) at which the Ensemble played the Ferahfeza Mevlevi Ayini by Hammamizade Ismail Dede Efendi, a nineteenth century Ottoman composer.