26 Ocak 2010 Salı

Final Exam Objection

Dear all,
Objection for the final exam will be held tomorrow (27 January Wednesday) at 14.30 at Cultural Heritage Museum (50 meters down the Female Dorm in the South Campus).

Final Exam Results

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2008209099  79
2008207030  0
2009208051  85
2008110045  44
2008302126  87
2007102821 71

13 Ocak 2010 Çarşamba

FINAL EXAM PLACES

16 JANUARY 10.00

NH 301: Hist 105.01, Hist 105.02, Hist 105.08

NH 305: Hist 105.06, Hist 105.09, Hist 105.11

NH 401: Hist 105.07, Hist 105.10, Hist 105.12

NH 405: Hist 105.03, Hist 105.04, Hist 105.05

3 Ocak 2010 Pazar

The Genghisid World-Empire

Mongol rule and successor states, 13th, 14th centuries

1.
Mongol tribal confederacy under Genghis (Cengiz), the Great Khan, or Khagan (Hakan), 1206. Capital city: Karakorum

Conquests in China, Central Asia and Iran, Russia and Eastern Europe, Mesopotamia and Syria

Khanates:
* Golden Horde in Russia
* Ilkhans in Iran; Centered in Tabriz and Sultaniyya
(Sack of Baghdad, 1258)
* Mongol Yuan dynasty in China; Kubilai Khan (1260-1294);
Capital of the great khanate: Khanbalik (modern Beijing)
* Chagatai khanate


2.
Connections across Eurasia through the “Pax Mongolica”

Consolidation of global trade network; radical increase in volume of trade across Eurasia

Silk road, controlled and secured by the Mongol rule: creates space for the exchange of luxury goods, for cultural encounters between the Mediterranean and Asia, for the transfer of technology and science

Mongol decline renders land routes dangerous; explorations of sea routes to shape emerging early modern world

Timurid invasions, 1360’s - 1405


3.
Mongol legacy

Cultural eclecticism and inclusivism of Mongol rulers across Asia; east Asian cultural forms travel west. Appropriations of local cultural forms by newly established Mongol polities

Genghisid notions of world rule: to shape notions of world rule in the late medieval and early modern Turco-Persian world, in the Timurid, Ottoman, Mughal empires




Medieval Chinese Society and Culture




Medieval Chinese Society and Culture: Tang Dynasty 618-907, Emperor Tang Taizong (559-649) and Empress Wu


The medieval era in China: the first international experience of Chinese History.


Two important developments mark this experience:

1. internationalization of the Chinese world

Extension all the way to Central Asia

Conversion to Buddhism (in contrast to the ethnically Chinese traditions of Daoism and Confucianism)


2. Continuous fight between Chinese and the Federation of Nomads

This led to the strengthening of the state. As part of this process, the state examinations and the idea of meritocracy were revived. Such bureaucratic development effected other neighboring countries as well such as Vietnam, Korea, Japan and Uygurs.


IN THE TANG PERIOD

Reunified territories

Extension of territories

Incorporation of Buddhism

Development of statecraft that was copied by others (Very much like Rome but much more effectively )

Medieval Central Asia:Sufis, Saints and Nomads


The Tomb of Aisha Bibi



Tomb of Ahmed Yesevi


Pre-Mongolian : first wave of conversion to Islam, without important centers of conversion, emphasis on the person


Central Asian Sufism: earlier belief systems such as ancestor worship, animistic beliefs and Buddhism facilitated the spread of Islam through a flexible and unorthodox practice, that is Sufism.


The spread of Sufism itself was through figures who played the most important roles. Ahmed Yesevi is one of them. (Aslanbab, his teacher: teachers also respected in central Asian sufism)


After the 14th century: 2nd wave of conversion, this time emphasis was no longer only on the person but many centers where Arabic and Arabic literature florished became the tools of the spread of Islam.

Medieval Encounters: Conflict and Coexistence

MEDIEVAL ENCOUNTERS OUTLINE 23.12.2009


Cultural heritage of the medieval world: transmission of knowledge in the Mediterranean


Between the two worlds of Islam and christendom: Even through the crusades and amidst battle peoples of different faiths sharing rather than enmity.


The trade network of the Mediterranean, uninterrupted since the ancient times, assured the exchange of goods between Christianity and Islam.


Crusades as the end-result of Christian peoples extending to the Mediterranean in search of wealth and land; Jihad as an attempt to share rather than destroy as exempilified in Salahaddin Eyyubi.


On the other side of the Islamic world, through the Abbasids that came upon Sasanian and Byzantine religlous traditions of imperial culture: a dynamic, pluralistic and competitive Islam.


Two movements of cultural expansion:


1. The Abbasid Renaissance: 8th-10th century


Unrivaled intellectual center for science, philosophy, medicine and education. Many classic works of antiquity translated into Arabic and Persian


2. Latin Translation Movement: 12th-13th century. New centers of learning that relied on the recovery of Greek knowledge through Arabic sources translated into Latin (and later Hebrew)


Channels of Transmission of Knowledge:


centers such as Alexandria, Antioch, Tarsus, Harran as well as Zoroastrian centers of Hellenistic learning in Persia, and Syriac speaking Biblical centers such as Urfa, Mosul
education: from the House of Wisdom to the Madrasa as of the 11th century and to the emergence of colleges anduniversities in Europe.
Aristotelian logic: Wisdom is there as Aristotle claimed and can be applied to belief. One searches for reason –and so does in school- and applies to religion to arrive at theology. (To Understand I believe: motto of scholasticim)
Also applied in Islam through Kalam. (İbn Sina)


Products of Mutual Penetration and Influence of Islamic and Christian world:

The Norman Kingdom of Sicily (11th century) When Normans invaded Sicily it was under Islamic rule with very much and Arabic culture that they assimilated into rather than reject it.


Thus Europe re-discovered ancient Greco-Roman sources and embraced it as its own.

The influence on the Islamic world was also to play great role in the development of Sufism.

None of us took this city from Muslims. No Muslim of the great army now coming against us was born when the city was lost. We fight over an offense we did not give against those who were not alive to be offended.
What is Jerusalem? Your holy places lie over the Jewish temple. that the Romans pulled down. The Muslim places of worship lie over yours. Which is more holy? The wall? The mosque? The sepulcher (tomb)? Who has claim? No one has claim. All has claim.





A contemporary depiction of the crusades




A translation from Arabic to Latin, 1542






Mustansiriyah Madrasah, Baghdad





Beit al Hikmah, Baghdad




Paris University, 14th century




Norman Kingdom of Sicily (1100-1250)