The first hospital was built by Sultan Bayezid I in Bursa when that city served as the capital of the expanding 14th century Ottoman state. Although the model for the hospital was taken from the Seljuks, the Sultan brought in an Egyptian doctor to serve as the chief physician. https://t.co/DeF1JyZv5K pic.twitter.com/6nkbccdgid
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Yes, this is quite cheesy, but it is an archaeology show that explores the final battle and death of Suleiman the Magnificent and the search for his heart in Hungary, but it shows some Ottoman culture and has some good history in it as well. You can find it on TV (Discovery and Travel Channel) and on Hulu or YouTube TV if you have that. The same TV show also covered Genghis Khan and finding his grave. I can’t link it, but the show is called Expedition Unknown.
Rise of the Ottomans is a Netflix original Documentary/Dramatization of Mehmed the Conqueror and his conquest of Constantinople. I watched it last week and Enjoyed it.
Here is the IMDB page on it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9244578/
It can be watch on Netflix.
Here’s a link explaining in quite some detail a single Persian Miniature page, featuring Faridun crossing a river with his troops. Note the artistic details: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/faridun-crosses-the-tigris-on-his-way-to-fight-zahhak/yQJSbaZhvynsKg?fbclid=IwAR0HeHn67DNcIkFVDziEtsUZnbiL_vFWRkDh4zreX2uJpXrH43iyYe28wcg
This famous manuscript was recovered from an art dealer who had stolen it: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/10/stolen-work-by-persian-poet-hafez-recovered-divan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR2SgQ27kvZ3RrLsqTcDBBi_N204KCCf9mS6y5snRuMbLXznmyCk4sg9czg
Have a listen to this 4 minute NPR podcast of the research and technology put into recreating “The Sound Of The Hagia Sophia, More Than 500 Years Ago” and hear the amazing final product!
You can learn more about Bissera Pentcheva, the lead researcher, here.
Here is the link for the Azerbaijan Moving Miniature exhibit at the 2019 Venice Biennale: https://vimeo.com/339179603?ref=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1cb7r6ghjBxoAp8HvX1OYk7UyrNnDJoheAfAFbO6y7LEtEja0_zXanUdg
This article expands on what Dr. al-Tikriti described of the rebranding trend of Rumi. The author, Rozina Ali, explains:
“He is typically referred to as a mystic, a saint, a Sufi, an enlightened man. Curiously, however, although he was a lifelong scholar of the Koran and Islam, he is less frequently described as a Muslim.”
Ali discusses Rumi’s popularity in pop culture, from Cold Play to Westernized translations of his poetry, and how we can trace this to prim, proper, and ethnocentric Victoriana.
She also provides names of authors who produce more legtimate (scholarly) translations.