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The cartoonist Rifqī (died 1939?) began his career around 1919 in Istanbul. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, he emigrated to Italy and later to Egypt to continue his work there. Little is known about his biography, including his name. In...

This article examines caricatures printed in the Lebanese newspaper al-Maʿraḍ (‘The Exhibition’), published by Michel Zaccour (1896–1937) in Beirut from 1921 to 1936. Situating these images within the socio-political dynamics of Lebanon...

The oldest known caricatures of Ottoman humour press in Istanbul were published in Zuarchakhos ‘Joker’ (1856), an Armeno-Turkish humour gazette written in Turkish using Armenian script. It is also the oldest known humour gazette in Turkish. This...

The contribution deals with caricatures that depict and thematise ideas about the future and compares examples from Istanbul and Cairo. Both Ottoman-Turkish and Egyptian journals contain manifold examples of caricatures that could be characterised...

The Ottoman Empire is examined through the eyes of the satirical press in the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire from 1908 to 1914. A view from the periphery and through visual satire offers a more encompassing understanding of world...

In the 1880s, Islamic art objects were not yet regarded as collectable heritage in the Ottoman state. Although Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) had suggested turning the fifteenth-century Çinili Köşk (Tiled Kiosk) into a museum of ‘Muslim art’...

This study examines three imperial collections housed within sultanic pavilions at Topkapı Palace during the late Ottoman era. Originally constructed in the 15th century during the reign of Mehmed II (the Conqueror) for the sultan’s personal use,...

In 1855/1860, Dimitrie Papazoglu (1811−1892) opened a museum in his private residence on Calea Văcărești, no 151, Bucharest, with objects amassed during and after retiring from his military career, ca. 1855. Papazoglu doubled opening a museum...

The current Paper is focused on the Turkish-Iraqi border, specifically on Mosul, which was under Ottoman administration until just before the end of World War I (11th November 1918) and is now within the borders of Iraq. The so-called ‘Mosul...

Once ubiquitous, the fact that Muslim merchants were overshadowed by their non-Muslim counterparts in the later Ottoman Empire helped engender the misconception of an antagonism between Islam and enterprise. Based on a document in the Austrian State...

This article aims to explore the intricate interplay between artefacts and identities from the perspective of temporary Turkish art exhibitions planned at American museums in the 1950s by looking into personalities, namely American museum curators...

This article examines the calligraphic production of Ottoman sultans from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, drawing on a corpus of largely unstudied archival inventories. It argues that royal calligraphy was not only a personal...

This article examines the collecting practice of Sadberk Koç (1908–1973), whose systematic engagement with Ottoman textiles and domestic artefacts culminated in the posthumous establishment of the Sadberk Hanım Museum, Turkey’s first...

This thesis examines the circulation of scientific knowledge between Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the long nineteenth century, focusing on three emerging disciplines – agronomy, forestry, and veterinary medicine. I analyse these fields...