The most american sounding individual i have ever heard. AHttahman mAHping haha. Great podcast though

أنا صنعني صانع 
حاضر ناظر صاحب المعروف 
والعبد اليه راجع 
حنين كريم هو رحيم رؤوف
يلجأ اليه الطامع 
و إلي يلجأ اليه مالو خوف
يا الله يا سامع
حسن حالي يا رب يا رؤوف

أنا صنعني صانع - الحضرة - محمد الهادي العقربي

كلمات : نوري بوزيد
الحان و غناء و عزف : انور براهم


لو كان جا عندك ڨرن
تحط البلاد على ڨرنك
تقلها "ارر" ترحل
لو كان جا عندك يد
ما قصهاش جدك
تحط السما في يدك 
تنفخ عليها رعد
تبخر منها سحاب
بسحرك يولي تراب... يولي ڨمح و شعير.

(انور براهم ـ اركض (من فيلم صفايح الذهب

على باب دارك نصبوا الخيام

New album "Habka" on September 2017.
Teaser video: https://youtu.be/W01ht3e3_Ag

Nouriya / Habka / Kamilya Jubran & Sarah Murcia

Translation of the spoken word by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish:

I Don't have the knowledge, whether I am there or here
and I don't know, Whether my body is my word
or my word is my body
However, in both cases I am absent
So why do you open the doors of Interpretation wide open on that road that fades into fantasy and ancient time, between Areeha and Jerusalem
Forgive me for my absence from reality 
So I can forgive you for your departure into legends.

Smokable | يُدَخَّنْ  - Now and Then / الآن , القادم

E197 | This podcast explores murky boundaries in two senses. The first has to do with Anglo-Ottoman commerce and diplomacy in the early modern period. Like the more well-known case of the the British East India Company in South Asia, British diplomatic representation in Constantinople was also controlled by a corporate entity. Known as the Levant Company, the institution ensured that from the late 16th to the early 19th century there was little distinction between merchants and statesmen when it came to British diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire. The blurred lines gave way to what might be called a “cycle of necessity,” in which British diplomats gave gifts to secure commercial privileges for British merchants who would then fund the diplomats to provide gifts again. Yet the cycle did not always proceed smoothly, and discrepancies between translations of agreements often played a key role in hitches, in the process raising basic yet profound questions about what treaty-making meant. The second part of the podcast considers Ottoman maritime space and legal order more broadly. With respect to this theme, murkiness makes another appearance, this time as it related to the ability to possess or control the sea. What did it mean to draw a line across the waves, to differentiate between su and derya? Particularly in an age of imprecise mapmaking technologies, these efforts at delineation often were accompanied by a good deal of ambiguity, pointing to the complexity - if not always plurality - of legal cultures and claims to sovereignty that existed in the Ottoman maritime space and, indeed, that extended even ashore the Well-Protected Domains as well.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/british-ottoman-diplomacy-and-making-of.html

Dr. Michael Talbot completed his PhD at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher with the Mediterranean Reconfigurations project at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Episode No. 197
Release Date: 22 August 2015
Location: Paris, France
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Michael Talbot
Image via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O916899/a-british-official-probably-the-watercolour-anonymous-greek-artist/

British-Ottoman Diplomacy and the Making of Maritime Law | Michael Talbot

E221 | Where did the Ottomans fit within the geographical understandings of Christian kingdoms in early modern Europe? How did Europeans reconcile the notion of "the Turk" as other with the reality of an Ottoman presence in the Balkans and Eastern Europe? What was the relationship between the maps and representations of Ottoman space in Europe and the self-mapping carried out by the Ottomans in maps and miniatures? These are some of the major questions addressed by our guest Palmira Brummett in her new book Mapping the Ottomans, which uses maps to study early modern space and time, travel, the flow of information, claims to sovereignty, and cross-cultural encounters between the Ottomans neighboring Christian polities.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/01/maps-ottoman-empire-europe.html

Palmira Brummett is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Tennessee and Visiting Professor of History at Brown University. Her work assesses the rhetorics of cross-cultural interaction in the Ottoman and Mediterranean worlds. 

CREDITS

Episode No. 221
Release Date: 23 January 2016
Recording Location: Providence, RI
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Karaköy Balık Pazarı (recorded by Chris Gratien)
Image of Seutter Map of Ottoman Empire, 1730 (via Wikipedia)
Additional thanks to Emily Neumeier

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aksan, Virginia H., and Daniel Goffman. The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Brummett, Palmira Johnson. Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/mapping-ottomans-sovereignty-territory-and-identity-early-modern-mediterranean

Dankoff, Robert. An Ottoman Mentality The World of Evliya Çelebi. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Emiralioğlu, M. Pinar. Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. 2014.

Fetvacı, Emine. Picturing History at the Ottoman Court. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Goodrich, Thomas D. Atlas-i Hümayun: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Maritime Atlas Discovered in 1984. Wiesbaden: [s.n.], 1987.

______. The Ottoman Turks and the New World: A Study of Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi and Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Americana. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1990.

Hagen, Gottfried, Baki Tezcan, and Thomas D. Goodrich. Other places: Ottomans traveling, seeing, writing, drawing the world : essays in honor of Thomas D. Goodrich. 2012.

Pinto, Karen C. Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016.

Ramachandran, Ayesha. The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015.

Smith, Charlotte Colding. Images of Islam, 1453-1600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe. 2014.

Mapping the Ottomans | Palmira Brummett

E239 | Were Ottoman courts just? Boğaç Ergene discusses this basic question in this podcast by forging a new path beyond the earlier views of the justice system as inherently fickle and capricious—immortalized in Weber’s concept of kadijustiz—and the idealistic views of Ottoman courts as a site of equal and fair treatment for all. Drawing on the results of research for his forthcoming publication with Metin Coşgel entitled The Economics of Ottoman Justice, Ergene argues for employing the quantitative methods of “law and economics” scholars, demonstrating that entrenched power holders in early modern Ottoman society were always able to use the Ottoman court system to produce outcomes favorable to themselves. 

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/economics-and-justice-in-ottoman-courts.html

Boğaç A. Ergene (PhD in History, 2001, Ohio State University) has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics, Economic History, and History and is currently Associate Professor of History at University of Vermont. He is the author of Local Court, Provincial Society and Justice in the Ottoman Empire (Brill, 2003) and editor of Judicial Practice: Institutions and Agents in the Islamic World (Brill, 2009). His most recent monograph, The Economics of Ottoman Justice, coauthored with Metin Coşgel, is forthcoming from the Cambridge University Press. 

Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.

CREDITS

Episode No. 239
Release Date: 11 April 2016
Recording Location: Cambridge, MA
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and outro music
Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Muzaffer Akgun - Ha Bu Diyar; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Rizeli Sadik - Erkek Kadin Oyun Havasi
Podcast image by Daphne Christoforou, copyright Boğaç Ergene
Bibliography courtesy of Boğaç Ergene

More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/economics-and-justice-in-ottoman-courts.html

Economics and Justice in the Ottoman Courts | Boğaç Ergene

Arranged and Mixed by Dilaw ..  Warm tribute to our departing friend , Khaled ..

Live life to the fullest and don't get too mad , " Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. " 

Belonging To Nature: Eternality

E251 | Commentaries are a common, even a nearly ineluctable, part of the textual landscape of the early modern Ottoman Empire. Especially when it came to philosophy, commentaries were perhaps the main venue of discussions. An earlier generation of scholars believed these commentaries to be derivative but we now see them as a major piece in the development of the philosophical tradition in the Middle East. In this podcast, we speak with L.W.C (Eric) van Lit about how to approach these commentaries and their effect on the intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth century. 

More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/ghazali.html

Eric van Lit works on the history of Islamic philosophy and theology, especially of the post-classical period. He wrote a dissertation on the notion of a world of image in Suhrawardī (d. 1191) and his commentators, at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is currently a postdoc at Yale University. You can find more information at www.digitalorientalist.com.

Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.

Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.

CREDITS

Episode No. 251
Release Date: 27 July 2016
Recording Location: Yale University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi
Special thanks to Muhtelif for allowing us to use "Bint El Shalabiya" in the intro music and Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music
Bibliography courtesy of Eric van Lit available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/ghazali.html

Ottoman History Podcast

Ottoman Commentaries on Islamic Philosophy | Eric van Lit

E252 | Geneticists and historians are generally considered strange bedfellows. However, new advances in bio-archaeology and genetics are facilitating this odd coupling. In this episode, we speak to Nükhet Varlık, author of Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World : the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600 (Cambridge University Press), about how genetic evidence has transformed the study of the Plague in the past ten years, allowing geneticists to more readily identify the presence of Yersinia pestis bacteria in a human remains. Whereas before historians had been hesitant to diagnose diseases posthumously, they can now speak with greater certainty about the presence of plague. We then discuss the life of plague in the early modern Ottoman Empire in particular, focusing on the creation of ‘plague capitals’ in the urban centers of the Ottoman Empire following the conquest of Constantinople and how integrating the Ottoman experience of plague changes the story of how historians of medicine approach the topic. To inspire future collaborations among our listeners, we end with a peek at the process of working with geneticists and what such approaches can contribute to the study of the history of the Middle East.

More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/plague.html

Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark. She is a historian of the Ottoman Empire interested in disease, medicine, and public health.

Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.

CREDITS

Episode No. 252
Release Date: 29 July 2016
Recording Location: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi
Special thanks to Muhtelif for allowing us to use "Bint El Shalabiya"
Images and bibliography courtesy of Nükhet Varlık avaiable at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/07/plague.html

Tracing Plague in the Ottoman Empire | Nükhet Varlık

Ziad Rahbani Live at Damascus Citadel 2008

Live at Damascus Citadel 2008 

زياد الرحباني -(الشرق الأوسط (.. وقمح

Producer/machines  : Halim yousfi
Lead vocals : Molka yahiaoui

RIP Rim banna

Demna - Zidni (rim banna cover)

a cool mashup beat i enjoyed making on koala sampler

check my review of koala:
https://youtu.be/SKcd_ZrJsjE


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عبد الوهاب و كيڤن غيتس - مسكين |  (prod. abu muhammad) Abdelwahab x Kevin Gates - Maskin

“Psalms” was composed during the years of the last Intifada, as the only escape road from the absurdity that endangers sanity, and as the only answer I can give to the recurring question that haunts each and every Arab today: “ Who are you?” 

Mapping the Ottomans | Palmira Brummett

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