The orientalist Karl Süssheim meets the young Turk officer Isma'il Hakki Bey. Two unexplored sources from the last decade in the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II /

The book consists of transcriptions and summary translations of two texts in, mostly, Ottoman Turkish, the first of which is the recently discovered second volume of the diary of the German orientalist Karl Süssheim, covering the years 1903-08 which he mostly spent in Istanbul. The second text is a...

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Main Author: Schmidt, Jan.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2018.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

Subjects:

Süssheim, Karl, > 1878-1947.

Abdülhamid > II, > Sultan of the Turks, > 1842-1918.

Istanbul (Turkey) > Social life and customs > 20th century.

Cairo (Egypt) > Social life and customs > 20th century.