Authors:Sait AVCI Abstract: The work of art that emerges as a product of the Islamic art tradition can be considered a manifestation of the understanding of the existence and life of the society in which the artist lives with the artist. Although the work of art is a product of the artist's personal experience and effort, it also has a data feature that reveals the cultural accumulation of the society from which the artist emerged and the aesthetic perspective of the religious thought to which he belongs. Islamic art has developed a basic understanding of style and motifs from its beginnings to the present; it has determined the general framework that the artist must follow precisely. In the historical process, a unity of thought and action was achieved in many fields of Islamic art such as poetry, architecture, music, and decorative arts. Although many works have been written on Islamic arts until today, it is difficult to say that sufficient studies have been carried out to bring together the concepts of Islamic art aesthetics and address them holistically. At this point, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Uğur Karadeniz's work titled "Understanding Aesthetic Beauty in Islamic Arts" fills a big gap. In this work, the author has examined both the aesthetic background of Islamic arts and explained their sources and concepts in a holistic manner. By analyzing this valuable work, we aimed to present it to the attention of all researchers and readers, especially those working in the fields of Classical Turkish Literature and Islamic Arts. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Bülent AYYILDIZ Abstract: Women science fiction writers of the 60s and 70s reflected second wave feminist ideologies in their fictional works. The distinctive narrative techniques of science fiction genre brought out various aspects of feminist ideas in different ways. Issues related to gender and sex were embedded in the elements of science fiction such as parallel universes, androgynies, intersex, mindreading, planets, aliens, and inventions. Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975), through these elements, raise questions about gender equality, body politics, ethics, and social constructions. These science fiction novels have themes that are closely related to the central texts debated among second wave feminists such as Simon de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963). Le Guin and Russ apply feminist theories to unconventional lives and societies, whose uniqueness or oddity helps readers think outside of the box. By presenting alternative societies, they unfold how male domination can cause sexual objectification and gender inequality, and anatomic differences in science fiction worlds creates an awareness concerning constructed gender roles. Moreover, the second wave feminists’ emphasis on sexual freedom, birth control, and marriage are illustrated through the multi-faceted outcomes of these multi-directional utopic and dystopic societies. This paper aims to bring together second wave feminist ideas and science fiction through an examination of two works, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Female Man, both of which present resisting interpretations of traditional gender issues. Unorthodox approaches to gender, the peculiar structure of the societies, and body politics will be analyzed through the narratives and elements of science fiction. Further-more, this paper will illustrate how these novels challenge conventional definitions of gender and sex in the light of second wave feminism. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Burcu ÖZTÜRK GENÇ Abstract: Abstract With the publication of the Maarif-i Umumiye Nizamnamasi in 1869, the moder-nisation movement in the education system of the Ottoman Empire, which started in the 18th century, was placed on a solid foundation. Abdülhamid II (1876-1909), who attached impor-tance to modern education and the idea of Ottomanism, ensured the implementation of the Maarif-i Umumiye Nizamnamesi. During this period, importance was given to the opening of rüşdiye, idadi and sultanates and their spread throughout the country. Gelenbevi School of Higher Education (Gelenbevi Mekteb-i İdadisi), now known as Gelenbevi Anatolian High School, was established in 1910/11 and was raised to the level of Sultanate in 1913 /14. The building, which was devastated by the Sultanselim fire in 1918, was rebuilt in 1924. The place of idadis in the Ottoman education system is one of the most frequently studied topics in terms of content. However, in the 19th century Ottoman lands, there are few studies on the investigation of the idadi school buildings built with a method defined as a type project within the scope of architectural history. The original plan and façade drawings of the Gelenbevi School of Higher Education, which are the subject of this study, give an idea about the architect and civil engineer of the building, and also give an idea about the architect of the buildings of higher secondary schools. The construction notebook of the building contains detailed information such as the methods, techniques, materials and space descriptions used in the construction of the building. However, this construction book does not cover the entire building; it deals with the garden units, wet areas and some furnishing elements added later to the main spaces, as well as some of the remaining woodwork. Analysing the data of the construction book is also important in terms of giving an idea about the construction processes and other details of other idadi buildings built in the same period as in the case of Gelenbevi School of Higher Education. When the original plan and front drawings of the building and the construction book before the discovery are evaluated together, it is important in terms of obta-ining information about the plan of Gelenbevi School of Higher Education, the materials used in the building and even the brand of the materials, architectural and engineering terms. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Ramazan KARAGÖL; Melike ELALMIŞ ERCAN Abstract: For centuries, art has been seen in all areas of our lives, in various civilizations and cultures, in many formal forms and styles. Consumption is one of the most natural needs of humanity. As consumption increases, production continues to increase. With the Industrial Revolution, this increase reached large masses. The growth in production is shaped by different soci-eties and cultures. This situation has created different consumption cultures in parallel with production over time. Reaching the target audience in the production sector has diversified advertising activities and directed the manufacturer to use different methods. One of these methods is seen as benefiting from the uniqueness of art. Art is frequently used in the use of persuasive elements such as creating a behavior towards purchasing the product in the target audience for the continuation of production and its permanence in the sector, and ensuring the retention o of the brand and the product. It is desired to create an emotional effect on the consumer by associating products or services with art. Likewise, it aims to facilitate the buying impulse of the target audience with aesthetic pleasure. Various factors such as the age range, gender, education, occupation, economic and geographical conditions of the target audience direct the form of persuasion activities through art. This study aims to examine the use of artistic activities as a method of persuasion in consumption culture. For this purpose, the advertising activities of brands serving on a global scale were examined, and the advertising campaigns of seven institutions and companies associated with works of art were included. The concepts of the research were reported through literature review. In this respect, the research is qualitative. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Işıl ÇOBANLI ERDÖNMEZ Abstract: Since communication is an interdisciplinary branch, data flow is provided rather than the fields of art. In terms of content production, mass media has a wide range from the most traditional to the latest databases. In this study, a minor evaluation analysis will be made on Nuri Bilge Ceylan's movie The Wild Pear Tree (2018). It’s done with a qualitative embedded literature review method over a single case analysis. The book called “Films and Dreams” (2011/ Thorsten Botz-Bornstein), Andrei Tarkovsky's poetic cinema and Akın Aksu’s story “Tree’s Solitude” who was influenced by during the scriptwriting stage, are the examples of content evaluations produced from other mass media. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Səadət VAHABOVA Abstract: In the article, pro turkic mission of the person who was brutally murdered (not only his body, but also his soul, thought, action, position, identity) during the Soviet period is investigated with concrete facts. Nation, national consciousness, the idea of independent statehood and independence education, political prohibitions (Tsarist Russia, Soviet period), the destruction of human convictions, human freedom and the understanding of the human being (although the body is given the right to live) are described in the creative arena of Ömar Faik. Numanzade sees the way to achieve social justice and improve life in science, education, free literature, opposition to despotism and foreign oppression, struggle for the ideals of democracy and equality. The fate of the Muslim population of Borchali, Akhalsikh and Akhalkalek districts is more clearly expressed in his creativity. He did a lot for the fate and peace of the Turks which living in Georgia. In his works, Omer Faik has reported on the biased activities of non-Muslims in the Muslim regions, especially the Armenians who infiltrated the administrative organizations. Numanzade's information about the Golden Soldiers (Soviet soldiers) he highlights their hegemonic behaviour during communications, persecuting the population of Muslim villages, as an actual problem. The concrete facts showing that Turks were dismissed from all jobs and subjected to torture and the struggle to eliminate these problems are considered as important arguments of pro Turkism. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Ramis KARABULUT Abstract: Vasıf Necdet (Armay) is one of the figures who were influential in the cultural life of Bursa during the War of Independence and the first years of the Republic. From 1921 to 1933, he published the newspapers Kardeş (1921-1933) and Hakikat (1922) in Bursa. In the newspaper Kardeş, of which he was the owner and editor-in-chief, he serialized his novel Günahkâr Kalbi in1921 and published in 1924. He also published a book on etiquette called Muaşeret Yolları in 1926. According to the information given on the website of the Bursa Journalists’ Association, he was arrested by the special court on the grounds of collaborating with the enemy during the occupation years of Bursa, and was acquitted during the trial after it was understood that he had secretly supported the Turkish revolutionaries. There is no detailed information about Vasıf Necdet’s life. Vasıf Necdet’s novel named Günahkâr Kalbi consists of sixteen chapters and ninetynine pages. There are twelve photographs placed between the pages of the work showing a young woman and a man. Because of this feature, the work is described as a “comic” on the inner cover. The novel was published in Bursa Orhaniye Printing House in 1924. In the introduction, a photograph of the author and brief information about the work are given under the title of “A Few Words”. The author emphasizes that he wrote his work in 1328 (1912), four years before it was published (1920-1921). When it was serialized in the newspaper, the reader liked this work very much. Its subject was based on a real event and it was his first novel in the genre. With all these features, Vasıf Necdet’s Günahkâr Kalbi can be regarded among the popular novels of the first years of the Republic. Vasıf Necdet should be included among popular romance writers such as Nezihe Muhittin, Muazzez Tahsin, Kerime Nadir, Oğuz Özdeş, Peride Celal, Suat Derviş, Mükerrem Kamil Su and Güzide Sabri. The misfortune of Vasıf Necdet’s work is perhaps that it was published in Bursa. If it had been published in İstanbul, perhaps it would have reached wider audiences and would have been better known. In other words, it is necessary to take into account the disadvantage of being far from the centre of the press in those days in Turkey in this context. It can be said that oblivion is a misfortune for Vasıf Necdet and his work. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Lamia LEVENT ABUL Abstract: In Mawlawi sufi order, which is shaped by the teachings of Rumi, all creatures are the manifestation of the names and attributes of Allah. The universe performs rituals on the beauties of Creator. Everything was created for a purpose and is a verse pointing to the existence of the Supreme Creator. All living and non-living beings in the world have consciousness. Their consciousness prompts people to behave more naively towards things. Rumi reminds us that Allah created man from a handful of soil and the vitality of the soil which is presumably tought to be inanimate. According to Rumi, mountains and stones have eyes to see and ears to hear. Thanks to the consciousness of every existence in the universe, it fulfills the task assigned to it. Due to this approach, Mawlawis treat every item they touch and use elegantly. They talk to and they give thanks to them. In the spiritual education process unique to Mawlawiyya, it is taught to treat not only people but also all beings around them with respect and care. This respectful attitude becomes a part of the daily lives of the Mawlawis through the sect's customs and traditions. For them, thanks to Allah, the sentence means thanking the created ones. Being naive, sensitive, and grateful towards other beings in the universe is one of the basic teachings of Mawlawi sufi order. Rumi bases these views on the Qur'an and hadiths. The essence of the ideal human being in Mawlawi sufi order is the respect for the ecology and the universe. It is the case that Mawlawiyya teaching is gaining importance as the ecological problems increase each day. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Mehmet BULUT Abstract: The struggle of East Turkestan, in fact the struggle of all Turks against the Chinese has been going on since their creation. The last major Chinese aggression against East Turkestan started in the 1750s and has continued until today and unfortunately it is under Chinese domination today. The names of some of the rebellions of the people of East Turkistan, who have rebelled against this occupation many times until today, are as follows: Big-Small Khoja Rebellion Uchturfan Rebellion, Ziyavdin Khoja Rebellion, Cihangir Khoja Rebellion, Yusuf Khoja Rebellion, Yedi Khoja Rebellion, Velihan Tore Rebellion, Kuchar and Dungans Rebellion. In our article, we will consider three poems written during the uprising in the 1930s and recorded in Jarring Prov. 472. One of these poems was previously published by Alimcan Buğda, and the other two will be published for the first time in this article. In the first part, general information about Uyghurs is given and then the struggle of East Turkistan Turks against Chinese and Russian invaders in the last one hundred and fifty years is explained. After that, the contribution of Turkish Turkey to this struggle is analyzed. Afterwards, the poems in question have been transferred to the transcript alphabet and the Turkish language has been given against them. In this way, we will look at the emotional and historical side of the glorious struggle based on three poems. Ahmet Kemal Ilkul, who was sent to East Turkestan as a teacher by the Union and Progress Party, may have been the one who ensured that the Altai poem, in which we see the contribution of Turkish Turkishness, reached East Turkestan. Another possibility is that they were delivered by Turkish military personnel. The poems contain the place names of Qumul, Kashgar and Altai and describe the victory won there. The poems are technically flawed. However, it is not correct to expect technical success from these poems written under difficult conditions. What is important in such poems is the emphasis on independence and victory. It is also to instill love of homeland and faith in the hearts. We can say that these three examples have a significant power in this regard. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Emrah MEYDAN Abstract: The notables, who are in an extremely important position in the Turkish society structure, are the people who have the power to direct and shape their environment in the regions they are in. It can be said that the notables effect is stronger especially in the provinces. Type of notables who want to expand their zone of influence, therefore tries to create an element of pressure on civil servants by trying to influence civil servants. As a result of the pressures created, the notables, which increased its influence primarily on the civil servants and the public, aims to increase it by putting their own benefits in the foreground. Unfair, unlawful, unjust practices and behaviors occur in line with this purpose. This situation causes some breaks in social life. These negativities occured in the social structure are often written by the authors as a theme in the novels. In this study, it has been tried to determine how the subject is handled in some novels that deal with the negativities created by the notables type and in which ways the notables expands their influence. As a result, it was seen that the notables suppressed the civil servants through economic power, political power, entertainment and acquaintanceship. The long tenure of civil servants and their economic difficulties were effective in the emergence of this situation. In addition, seeing the civil servants as the representatives of the state in the Turkish society structure and therefore the public's inability to oppose the civil servants has also been an important factor. In addition to this, the presence of morally flawed people among civil servants was seen as an opportunity that should be evaluated in terms of notables. As a result of all these, the word notables took on a negative meaning and hegemonic notables type emerged. This type of notables, by putting pressure on civil servants, saw them as their own employees and had the audacity to even interfere with the functioning of the state in line with their own benefits. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Eyüp YILDIRIM; Bahir SELÇUK Abstract: Words, which are at the forefront of the basic dynamics of people and societies with their characteristics of leaving a trace in the mind and in life, build the identity of the person by carrying the emotions and thoughts of the person, especially the knowledge. Man realizes his ability to name existence through words. The meaning attributed to the words creates the spirit of the words. The spirit of words permeates the identity of people and societies. Although soul and spirit are used a lot by people in daily life, they are words or concepts that are often used interchangeably. The fact that these terms are often used interchangeably indicates that there is obvious confusion on this issue. However, when a Qur'an-centered reading is performed, it will be seen that both concepts are used in different contexts and meanings. Niyâzî-i Mısrî is one of the important Sufi poets of the 17th century and wrote his poem in the center of Sufism. While Misrî uses the concepts of soul and soul instead of unifying, within the scope of the Sufi tradition, he separates the soul into different categorizations such as vegetative, animal and mental soul. However, Mısrî emphasizes that he contains spirits in his poems. Until this time, it will be mentioned how the Qur'an's concepts of soul and spirit will be approached. Then, the perception of soul and soul of Niyâzî Mısrî, one of the important assets of Sufi poetry, will be tried to be revealed through his poems. Thus, it will shed light on whether the approach of the Qur'an and the perception of Niyâzî-i Mısrî overlap or not and the current reflections of this perception. PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +030
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