Feroz Ahmad
Feroz Ahmad was a Turkish-American academic, historian and political scientist who taught at different universities, including the University of Massachusetts Boston, Tufts University, Harvard University, Columbia University and Yeditepe University. He was one of the leading scholars studying modern history of Turkey.
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Erik-Jan Zürcher
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A Turkologist and professor at Leiden University with expertise in Turkish languages and cultures, and focused on "the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey."
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David Priestland
David Priestland is a British historian. He teaches modern history at the University of Oxford and is Fellow of St Edmund Hall.
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Emel Akal
İlk-orta ve lise öğrenimini Ankara'da gördü. İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü'nü bitirdi. 1970'li yıllarda aktif sol siyaset içinde yer aldı. İstanbul, Diyarbakır, Trabzon, Van, Bursa ve Samsun'da İlerici Kadınlar Derneği'nin örgütlenme faaliyetlerinde bulundu. 1996'da ODTÜ Siyaset Bilimi Ana Bilim Dalı'ndan doktora derecesini aldı. Milli Mücadelenin Başlangıcında Mustafa Kemal, İttihat Terakki ve Bolşevizm (İstanbul: TÜSTAV Yayınları, 2002) ve Kızıl Feministler (İstanbul: TÜSTAV Yayınları, 2003) adlı iki kitabı, pek çok makalesi vardır. Boğaziçi, Muğla ve Bilkent Üniversitelerinde Türkiye tarihi dersleri verdi, vermektedir.
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Eric J. Hobsbawm
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914) and the "short 20th century" (The Age of Extremes), and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work.
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Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and spent his childhood mainly in Vienna and Berlin. Following the death of his parents and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, Hobsbawm moved to London with his adoptive fami -
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
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He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
Some of his works ( Flight , all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them tha -
Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of -
Karl Marx
With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.
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German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
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Mary Beard
Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Newnham College. She is the Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and author of the blog "A Don's Life", which appears on The Times as a regular column. Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist".
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Mary Beard, an only child, was born on 1 January 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her father, Roy Whitbread Beard, worked as an architect in Shrewsbury. She recalled him as "a raffish public-schoolboy type and a complete wastrel, but very engaging". Her mother Joyce Emily Beard was a headmistress and an enthusiastic rea -
Nikolai Gogol
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
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Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
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Şevket Süreyya Aydemir
Şevket Süreyya Aydemir was a Turkish writer, intellectual, economist, historian, and one of the founders, publisher and a key theorist of Kadro ("Cadre"), an influential left-wing political journal published in Turkey from 1932 to 1934.
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Aydemir was a prolific writer. His most famous work was İnkılap ve Kadro ("Revolution and the Cadre"), published in 1932, where he outlined his theory of political economy presented in the Kadro journal. He published his memoirs, Suyu Arayan Adam ("The Man Searching for Water") in 1959. Between 1963 and 1965, he published Tek Adam ("The Single Man"), a three volume tome on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He also published a biography of İsmet İnönü titled Ikinci Adam ("The Second Man"). -
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.
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Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.
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David Priestland
David Priestland is a British historian. He teaches modern history at the University of Oxford and is Fellow of St Edmund Hall.
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İhsan Oktay Anar
Türk yazardır. Lisans, master ve doktora eğitimini Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nde yaptı. Aynı okulda öğretim üyeliğinden emekli olmuştur.
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Her bir kitabının çok uzun araştırmalardan sonra yazıldığı içerdikleri ağır tarihi bilgi ile göze çarpar. Eserleri pek çok küçük hikâye etrafında örülmüş büyük bir roman biçimindedir.
Yazın biçim göndermeler içerir. Kabaca birkaç örnek vermek gerekirse Amat'taki İsrafil adlı çocuğun gemi borazancısı olup diriliş düdüğünü çalışı islamiyette kıyamet haberi olan borazanı çalacak meleğe, alt ambar toprak altına ve mezara göndermeler ya da modellemelerdir. Bu üslup okuyucuyu hem yetiştirir, hem geliştirir. Umberto Eco bu biçimde gelişen okuru ampirik okurdan ayırmaktadır. Her gerçek yazar aslında bu tip inc -
Halil İnalcık
He was born in Istanbul to a Crimean Tatar family, which left Crimea for Constantinople in 1905. His birthday is unknown but İnalcık chose 26 May 1916 for his birthday. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School, and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History where he graduated from in 1940. He completed his PhD in 1943 in the same department. His PhD thesis was on the Bulgarian question in the late Ottoman Empire.
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He entered the same school as an assistant, then he became assistant professor in 1946 and after his return from lecturing in the University of London for a while, he became a professor in the same department in 1952. He lectured in various universities in the United States as a gu -
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Mithat Cemal Kuntay
Mithat Cemal Kuntay (1885, İstanbul - 30 Mart 1956, İstanbul), Türk yazar, şair ve hukukçu. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun yıkılış dönemini konu edinen, Üç İstanbul (1938) adlı ilk ve tek romanı ile ünlendi. Biyografi yazarlığı yönüyle de tanındı.
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Mithat Cemal’in yayımlanan ilk şiiri, Çırçır Suyu’nda başlığını taşır. 1901 yılında Malumat Dergisi’nde çıkmıştır. Sırat-ı_Müstakim Dergisi ve Tercüman-ı Hakikat gazetesi’nde yayımlanan şiirleri ile adını duyurdu. Tek şiir kitabı Türkün Sehnamesi'nde 82 şiiri yer aldı. Şiirlerinde aruzu ustaca kullandı. Ağır bir dille sahip olan şair, dilini zamanla sadeleştirmiştir. Vatan ve millet sevgisi temalı epik ve lirik şiirleri yazdı. Hiciv türünde de şiirler yazdı, aşk temasını hemen hemen hiç işlemedi. Hiçbir -
Grigory Petrov
(1868 - 1925), Orthodox priest and a leading proponent of Christian social activism.
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Grigory Petrov was born in Iamburg, St. Petersburg province. He was educated at the diocesan seminary and the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy (1887 - 1891), and on graduating became a priest in a St. Petersburg church.
Petrov was also active as a writer. In his most successful work, The Gospel as the Foundation of Life (1898), he argued that Christian believers were required to apply the literal teachings of Jesus to every aspect of their lives in order to begin building the Kingdom of God here on earth. Petrov knew of the American Social Gospel movement, but his ideas were shaped by his encounters with new conceptions of pastorship and Christian activi -
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, (d. 27 Mart 1889, Kahire, Mısır – ö. 3 Aralık 1974, Ankara). Türk romancı, gazeteci, şair, diplomat.
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Roman, öykü ve makaleleri ile Türk toplumunun Tanzimat’tan bu yana geçirdiği değişiklikleri anlatmış bir yazardır. Asıl ününü romanları ile sağlayan yazarın en ünlü romanları Nur Baba, Kiralık Konak ve Yaban'dır. Edebiyat yaşamının başında Fecr-i Ati edebiyat topluluğunun kurucu üyeleri arasında yer almış; daha sonra ferdiyetçi düşüncelerden uzaklaşarak toplumcu edebiyatı kabul etmiş bir yazar olarak değerlendirilir.
Milli Mücadele yıllarında ve sonrasında etkin bir siyasal yaşam sürmüştür. Milli Mücadeleden itibaren Atatürk’ün yakın arkadaşları arasında yer almış; TBMM II., IV., XII. dönemlerde milletvekiliği yapmış -
Barış Bıçakçı
Barış Bıçakçı 1966'da Adana'da doğdu. Hüseyin Kıyar ve Yavuz Sarıalioğlu ile birlikte, Ocak 1994 ve Ekim 1997 tarihlerinde iki şiir kitabı yayımladı. İlk romanı Herkes Herkesle Dostmuş Gibi (2000) yılında İletişim Yayınları tarafından yayımlandı. İletişim Yayınları'nca yayımlanan diğer kitapları: Herkes Herkesle Dostmuş Gibi (2000), Veciz Sözler (2002), Aramızdaki En Kısa Mesafe (2003), Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (2004), Baharda Yine Geliriz (2006), Bir Süre Yere Paralel Gittikten Sonra (2008), Sinek Isırıklarının Müellifi (2011), Seyrek Yağmur (2016).
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Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar was a Turkish writer and politician.
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Gürpınar was the son of a family close to the Ottoman court, born in Istanbul. Having lost his mother at an early age, he was sent to Crete where his father was an Ottoman civil servant, however he was soon sent back to Istanbul, where he was brought up by his aunts and grandmothers in Istanbul.
Gürpınar started writing fiction at an early age. He became a civil servant, then a writer and journalist. He later served as a member of parliament in the early years of the Turkish Republic between 1935 and 1943. -
Erik-Jan Zürcher
Erik-Jan Zürcher
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A Turkologist and professor at Leiden University with expertise in Turkish languages and cultures, and focused on "the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey."
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Emel Akal
İlk-orta ve lise öğrenimini Ankara'da gördü. İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü'nü bitirdi. 1970'li yıllarda aktif sol siyaset içinde yer aldı. İstanbul, Diyarbakır, Trabzon, Van, Bursa ve Samsun'da İlerici Kadınlar Derneği'nin örgütlenme faaliyetlerinde bulundu. 1996'da ODTÜ Siyaset Bilimi Ana Bilim Dalı'ndan doktora derecesini aldı. Milli Mücadelenin Başlangıcında Mustafa Kemal, İttihat Terakki ve Bolşevizm (İstanbul: TÜSTAV Yayınları, 2002) ve Kızıl Feministler (İstanbul: TÜSTAV Yayınları, 2003) adlı iki kitabı, pek çok makalesi vardır. Boğaziçi, Muğla ve Bilkent Üniversitelerinde Türkiye tarihi dersleri verdi, vermektedir.
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Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – June 13, 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was an expert Japanese swordsman and rōnin. Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through stories of his excellent swordsmanship in numerous duels, even from a very young age. He was the founder of the Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū or Niten-ryū style of swordsmanship and the author of The Book of Five Rings (五輪の書 Go Rin No Sho), a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy that is still studied today.
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Bernard Lewis
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Bernard Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of many critially acclaimed and bestselling books, including two number one New York Times bestsellers: What Went Wrong? and Crisis of Islam. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Internationally recognized as the greatest historian of the Middle East, he received fifteen honorary doctorates and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. -
Edward W. Said
(Arabic Profile إدوارد سعيد)
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Edward Wadie Said was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies. A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran.
Educated in the Western canon, at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East; his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno.
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Zafer Toprak
1946 yılında doğdu. 1969 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nü bitirdi. 1971’de Londra Üniversitesi’nde ‘Alan Araştırmaları’ konusunda yüksek lisansını tamamladı. 1981 yılında Londra Üniversitesi’nde ekonomi doktorasını verdi. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde Ekonomi ve Toplum Tarihi profesörü olarak görev yaptı. Tarih Vakfı’nın başkan yardımcısı ve Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü’nün kurucu başkanıdır.
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Ahmet Demirel
1957’de Trabzon’da doğdu. Orta öğrenimini 1976’da Darüşşafaka Lisesi’nde tamamladıktan sonra, 1980’de Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Siyaset Bilimi Bölümü’nü bitirdi. Aynı üniversitenin Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’nde yüksek lisans çalışmasını, ardından 1993 yılında doktorasını tamamladı. 1981’de Yurt Ansiklopedisi’nin “sosyo-ekonomik yapı bölümü” koordinatörü olarak çalışma yaşamına atılan Demirel, şimdiye kadar çeşitli basın yayın kuruluşları ile piyasa ve kamuoyu şirketlerinde çalıştı. Halen Marmara Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışıyor ve Türkiye’nin yakın siyasi tarihiyle ilgili çalışmalarını sürdürüyor.
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