Edhem Eldem
Bogazici University, History Department, Faculty Member
- History, Social History, Economic History, Human and Society, History of Archaeology, Archaeology, and 18 moreOttoman History, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Studies, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Late Ottoman Period, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, Late Ottoman History, Ottoman Turkish, Ottoman Historiography, History of Archeology, History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, History of photography, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Funerary Practices, History of Collections, and History of Museumsedit
Research Interests: Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Modern Ottoman History, Late Ottoman Period, and 14 moreOttoman-Turkish Westernization, Late Ottoman History, Osmanlı/Türk siyasi düşünce tarihi, Tanzimat, Osmanlı Sosyo-Ekonomik Tarihi, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Osmanlı Teşkilat Tarihi, Osmanlı Tarihi, Tanzimat reforms Ottoman Empire, Osmanlı Devleti, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Osmanlı Diplomasi Tarihi, Osmanlı Müesseseleri Ve Medeniyeti Tarihi, and Yakınçağ Osmanlı Türk Siyasal Tarihi
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Turkish History, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, and 9 moreOttoman-Turkish Westernization, Modern Turkey, Minorities in Turkey, History of Modern Turkey, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, History of Istanbul, Istanbul, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, and Urban Studies: Constantinople/Istanbul
Research Interests: Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish, Early modern Ottoman History, and 7 moreLate Ottoman Period, Turkish Linguistics, Ottoman Turkish (Languages And Linguistics), Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish Language, Ottoman Culture and History, and Late Ottoman Political and Cultural History
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Modern Ottoman History, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, and 11 moreLate Ottoman History, 19. and early 20. century Ottoman modernization, Batılılaşma, Osmanlı Sosyo-Ekonomik Tarihi, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Osmanlı Tarihi, Osmanlı Devleti, Osmanlı Kültür Tarihi, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Osmanlı/Türk Modernleşmesi, and Basın Tarihi
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Late Ottoman Period, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Orientalism in art, and 4 moreEconomic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Orientalism (Art History), Orientalism, and Contemporary middle eastern art, contemporary Turkish art, 19th century Orientalism
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Late Ottoman Period, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, and 7 moreHistory of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Orientalism in art, Ottoman art and architecture, Orientalism (Art History), Orientalism, Late Ottoman History, and Ottoman Turkish historical writing
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Biography, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Ottoman Empire, and 8 moreModern Ottoman History, Late Ottoman Period, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Ottoman art and architecture, French Second Empire, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, and Paris
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Balkans, Late Ottoman Period, and 6 moreOttoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Collections (Archaeology), History of Archaeology, Late Ottoman History, History of Art and archaeology, and Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology, Architecture and History of Art
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Heritage Studies, Ottoman Archaeology, Turkish Nationalism, Ottoman Studies, and 10 moreTurkish History, Ottoman Empire, Late Ottoman Period, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Turkish Republic, Turkish Studies, Turkish politics, Ottoman Heritage Art and Architecture, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, and Ottoman Archeology
Very little is known about the acquisitions of the (Ottoman) Imperial Museum during the first decades of its existence. As a consequence of the haphazard way in which objects were collected and the absence of any form of... more
Very little is known about the acquisitions of the (Ottoman) Imperial Museum during the first decades of its existence. As a consequence of the haphazard way in which objects were collected and the absence of any form of institutionalization, the collections inherited from this early period generally lack the most basic contextual information concerning their provenance, date of entry, and mode of acquisition. Nevertheless, historical and archival research can offer a solution to this archaeological dead-end by tapping into other available sources to fill these lacunae. The following case study reconstructs the story of three marble reliefs in the collection utilizing such documentation. Although they were thought to be from Salonika (Thessaloniki) in northern Greece, they are in fact from Ascalon (Ashkelon) in modern Israel—the product of one of the earliest campaigns carried out by an Ottoman state official to fill the newly established museum in Constantinople with antiquities. Apart from correcting later attributions and guesses, this study also proposes a critical reassessment of the nature of early Ottoman archaeological ventures and a systematic analysis of the accumulation (or not) of knowledge and scholarship on the fringes of Europe.