The final results of the projects in Marinos Sariyannis' book Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, published by Oxford University Press in open access here: https://academic.oup.com/book/61617
We are honored to see the project featuring so prominently in this discussion of A. Tunç Şen's (a member of our research team) magnificent book on astrology! https://iserp.columbia.edu/news/new-book-forgotten-experts-and-grant-funded-project-ghost
Our project has been featured on the CORDIS website, highlighting our research on early modern Ottoman culture and its boundaries of knowledge. The article is now available in six languages. Check it out here: https://cordis.europa.eu/.../455775-beyond-the-limits-of...
Zeynep Aydoğan's monograph, Forging Paths of Continuity: Borderline Miracles in the Early Menâkıbnâme Literature, 13th-15th Centuries, is out and available in open access here: https://dspace.ims.forth.gr/handle/123456789/53
In this interview (publ. October 14, 2024), Nilab Saeedi asks Marinos Sariyannis about the importance of mysticism and occult sciences in the Ottoman Empire. https://www.jhiblog.org/2024/10/14/mysticism-power-and-rationalism-in-the-ottoman-mind-an-interview-with-marinos-sariyannis/
The fourth and last issue of our online open access journal, Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, is out. It contains papers presented to our last workshop (November 2023). https://ghost.ims.forth.gr/2023-2024-vol-4/
The Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH and the Research Project GHOST: Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities, European Research Council Consolidator Grant 771766, are happy to announce an international conference on “Knowing and controlling nature in Ottoman culture: scientific and occultist approaches in a global perspective“. The conference will take place in Rethymno, Greece in November 16-18, 2023.
For registration see below. All hours in Greek time – EET.
Thursday, November 16
17:45-18:00 Addresses
Chair: Gelina Harlaftis
(more…)Marinos Sariyannis, Zeynep Aydoğan, Feray Coşkun and Işık Demirakın participated in the Turkologentag 2023 in Vienna (September 21-23, 2023) with a panel entitled "Shifting Borders Between Nature and the Supernatural In Early Modern Ottoman Culture". The panel presents some of the results of a five-year (with a one-year extension due to the pandemic) research project, GHOST, that is to say “Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities”, funded by the European Research Council under the program Consolidator Grant 2017. The panelists will seek to explore Ottoman perceptions of the…
https://ghost.ims.forth.gr/acaib/issue-2022-3/
M. Sariyannis will participate in the round table organized by Özkan Bardakçı at the University of Strasbourg on December 9, 2022, entitled "Le surnaturel dans les religions du livre-quelques pistes d'interprétation". His contribution will have the title « Pour une étude du surnaturel chez les Ottomans ». For program and link, see: https://hisaar.unistra.fr/agenda/evenement/table-ronde-le-surnaturel-dans-les-religions-du-livre-quelques-pistes-dinterpretation