Kursar, Vjeran. Croatian Levantines in Ottoman Istanbul. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2021. 258 Page. ISBN: 9789754286670.

Practicing Astral Magic in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul

The Ottoman courtly context in the “long sixteenth century” (1450 to 1640), as Fernand Braudel has called it, is an ideal but neglected historical laboratory for examining the use of occult lore for purposes predictive, protective, and entertaining. A sizeable yet sorely understudied amount of archival and material sources testifies to the fact that several sixteenth-century Ottoman sultans uti...

Istanbul Declaration

2. However, it is with deep disappointment that, at the conclusion of this process, it is clear our voices have not been heard and reflected in the conference outcomes. The negotiations started with analyses of the failings of the Brussels Programme of Action, also reflected in UNCTAD’s LDC report 2010. These showed that development partners failed to deliver their commitments to provide adequa...

The Greening of Istanbul

Notes for the Istanbul Lectures

Istanbul, August 1955