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| Semester | spring semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Özhan Kapici (oezhan.kapici@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The main aim of this course is to develop students’ reading skills in various types of Ottoman-Turkish scripts. In explaining how the documents and their functions worked, furthermore, the course aims to describe the Ottoman bureaucratic system with its chancellery and scribal tradition. The course materials are comprised of samples selected from different types of Ottoman archival documents and manuscripts. The course will acquaint students with the Ottoman archival documents by focusing on varied case studies from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
| Learning objectives | By the end of this course students will - identify the general characteristics of Ottoman-Turkish. - recognize, describe and distinguish different types of Ottoman scripts. - explain the meaning of general terms and concepts in Ottoman documents. - acquire reading skills in Ottoman manuscripts and archival documents dating from the 18th and 19th centuries - analyze the discourse in the Ottoman political and diplomatic texts |
| Bibliography | Şinasi Tekin, Ottoman Manual (I) Ottoman Texts in Transcription and Facsimile,(II) Annotated Turkish Translation of the Ottoman Texts, Annotated Glossary, Cambridge, Mass., The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2002. Mübahat S. Kütükoğlu, Osmanlı Belgelerinin Dili (Diplomatik), Istanbul 1994 (Edition of Turkish Historical Society, Ankara 2018). Jan Reychman-Ananiasz Zajaczkowski, Handbook of Ottoman-Turkish Diplomatics,(ed. İn English: Andrew S. Ehrenkreytz), Paris: The Hague Martinus, 1968 (Edition in Turkish, İstanbul 1993). M.Tayyib Gökbilgin, Osmanlı Paleografya ve Diplomatik İlmi, İstanbul 1992. Faruk K. Timurtaş, Tarihi Türkiye Türkçesi Araştırmaları II, Osmanlı Türkçesi Metinleri, İstanbul 2018. Mehmet Eminoğlu, Osmanlı Vesikalarını Okumaya Giriş, Ankara 2007. Yılmaz Kurt-Muhammet Ceyhan, Osmanlı Paleografyası ve Osmanlı Diplomatikası, Ankara 2018. Recep Karacakaya-İsmail Yücedağ, Osmanlı Arşiv Vesikaları, İstanbul 2015. Ali Aktan, Osmanlı Paleografyası ve Siyasi Yazışmalar, İstanbul 1995. Fahameddin Başar-Mahmut Ak, Osmanlı Türkçesi, Gramer-Tarihi Metinler-Belgeler, İstanbul 2016. |
| Admission requirements | Erfolgreicher Abschluss der Module "Grundlagen des Arabischen" sowie "Grundlagen des Türkischen" |
| Course application | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: erforderlich. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul: Themen der Nahoststudien (Bachelor's degree subject: Near & Middle Eastern Studies) Modul: Themen der Near & Middle Eastern Studies (Master's degree subject: Near & Middle Eastern Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Nahost-Studien |