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Millî Mücâdele’Nin Başlangıcında Konya Ve Atatürk’Ün Konya’Ya İlk Gelişleri, Yaşar Semiz
Millî Mücâdele’Nin Başlangıcında Konya Ve Atatürk’Ün Konya’Ya İlk Gelişleri, Yaşar Semiz
Yaşar Semiz
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Millî Mücâdele Ve Mehmet Âkif, Yaşar Semiz
Dancing Boys, Anthony Shay
Dancing Boys, Anthony Shay
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
The informal, and occasionally formal, institution of the dancing boy--the term used by most Western writers in their descriptions of the Islamic world--has been attested for centuries by European observers throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, as well as the Indian subcontinent and throughout the Islamic areas of Southeast Asia such as Indonesia and the southern Philippines. These individuals have been called by a variety of names: bachchec [batcha], literally "child" in Persian and some Turkish languages, luti (itinerant performer), raqqas (dancer) in many regions, kocek (little) and tavsan (rabbit) in Ottoman Turkey, khawal in …
Beloved, Anthony Shay
Beloved, Anthony Shay
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
The "beloved" forms a central literary concept, highly developed during the medieval Islamic period and still popular in our own times, in the urbanized societies of the Middle East and Central Asia. Encountered throughout the literatures of Persian, Ottoman, and Chaghatay (Uzbek) Turkish, Urdu, and Arabic, among others, this concept manifests itself through highly charged, homoeroticized images and metaphors. The beloved is characterized through such highly eroticized and theatrical tropes of wanton allurement as disheveled locks, torn garments, intoxication symbolized by a wine cup in hand, and appearing at the bedside of the feverish lover. (See, for example, the poems …
Osmanlı Devleti'nde Üniversite Darülfünûn, Yaşar Semiz
Osmanlı Devleti'nde Üniversite Darülfünûn, Yaşar Semiz
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