[Discussion] "The Turks and Palestine: A 1000 Years of Relations"

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Institute of Asian and African Studies
The Forum for Turkish Studies
Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi,
The Center for the Research of Eretz-Israel and its
Peoples

are pleased to invite you to an international
conference on

"The Turks and Palestine: A 1000 Years of Relations"

to be held on 22-24 June 2004
at Yad Izhaq Ben-Zvi,
12 Abarbanel St., Jerusalem, Israel

Tuesday, 22 June 2004
Opening Session 19:30-21:00
Chair: Prof. Amnon Cohen (Hebrew University)

Greetings: Prof. Uri Bialer, Director of the Center
for the Research of Eretz-Israel, and its Peoples, Yad
Izhak Ben-Zvi
Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, Dean of the Faculty of
Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
H.E. Feridun Sinirlioglu, Ambassador of Turkey in
Israel
Mr. Gideon Meir, Deputy General-Secretary of Israeli
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Lecture: Prof. Reuven Amitai (Hebrew University)
"A millennium of Turkish contact with Palestine/Eretz
Israel: Can we speak of a longue dur=E9e?"


Wednesday, 23 June 2004

9:00-10:45
Session 1: The Pre-Ottoman Period
Chair: Prof. Jacob M. Landau (Hebrew University)

Prof. Muhammet Besir Asan (Firat University)
"Artuk Bey's governance of Jerusalem (1085-1091)"

Dr. H=FCseyin Kayhan (=C7anakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
"The Policy of the Great Seljuks in Syria and
Palestine"

Prof. Zerrin G=FCnal =D6den (=C7anakkale Onsekiz Mart
University)
"The First Turkish emirs in Palestine"

Dr. Hatim Mahamid (Ben-Gurion University and Tel Aviv
University)
"Education and politics in Mamluk Jerusalem"


10:45-11:00 Coffee Break


11:00-12:45
Session 2: The Sixteenth Century and the Consolidation
of Ottoman Rule
Chair: Dr. Dror Zeevi (Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev)

Mr. Haggay Etkes (Hebrew University) and Dr. Miri
Shefer (Tel Aviv University)
"Jerusalem's demographic growth and decline during the
16th Century: An economic interpretation"

Prof. Mustafa =D6zt=FCrk (Firat University)
"Population of the Sanjak of Safed according to the
Record Register"

Prof. Amy Singer (Tel Aviv University)
"Jerusalem on the Ottoman frontier"

Dr. Mehmet T=FCt=FCnc=FC (SOTA Turkistan and Azerbaijan
Research Centre, Amsterdam)
"Ottoman inscriptions in Jerusalem"


12:45-14:15 Lunch Break


14:15-16:00
Session 3: The Nineteenth Century: Identities and
Society
Chair: Prof. Miri Hoexter (Hebrew University)

Dr. Mahmud Yazbak (Haifa University)
"Jaffa: The formation of the city and society at the
beginning of the 19th century according to local
sources"

Dr. Miri Shefer (Tel Aviv Univesity) and Dr. Nadav
Davidovitch (Ben Gurion University)
"From private to public health in Ottoman Palestine"

Dr. Oded Peri (Hebrew University)
"Could the history of Palestine in the Ottoman period
be the history of Palestinian nationalism?"

Prof. Butrus Abu-Manna (Haifa University)
"Aspects of socio-political transformation in
Palestine in the Tanzimat period (1841-1876)"


16:00-16:30 Coffee Break


16:30-18:00
Session 4: The Christian Communities
Chair: Prof. Ehud Toledano (Tel Aviv University)

Prof. Dean Sakel (Bospherus University)
"Oriental Christian attitudes towards the Ottoman
conquest: The Palestinian response"

Dr. Isil Isik Bostanci (Firat University)
"Interrelations of communities regarding the
administration of Holy Places according to the
Churchbook (1613-1885)"

Dr. Hasan Babacan (S=FCleyman Dermirel University)
"The Church policies of Ottoman Empire in Palestine in
the Tanzimat time"

Dr. Michelle Campos (Cornell University)
"The Rum between Millet, Homeland, and Empire:
Palestinian Christians in the age of revolution,
1908-14"


20:00-22:00 Reception at the residence of H.E. the
Ambassador of Turkey (by invitation only)


Thursday, 24 June 2004

9:00-10:45
Session 5: Sultan Abd=FClhamid and Rural Palestine
Chair: Dr. Rachel Milstein (Hebrew University)

Dr. G=F6khan =C7etinsaya (Istanbul Technical University)
"Jerusalem at the closing years of Abd=FClhamid II's
reign: the governorship of Ali Ekrem Bey, 1906-1908"

Prof. Ruth Kark and Mr. Roy Fischel (Hebrew
University)
"The private lands of Sultan Abd=FClhamid II in
Palestine and elsewhere"

Prof. David Kushner (Haifa University)
"The Turcomans in Palestine"

Mr. Erik Eliav Freas (St. Andrews University)
"Ottoman reform and development of a formal "Islamic"
identity among the Arab peasantry in Palestine"


10:30-11:00 Coffee Break


11:00-12:30
Session 6: Jews in Nineteenth Century Palestine:
Culture and Identities
Chair: Prof. Haggai Ben-Shammai (Hebrew University)

Dr. Yaron Ben-Naeh (Hebrew University)
"Agreements regarding luxuries and free-time: A
chapter in the cultural and social history of the Jews
of Jerusalem in the 19th century"

Mr. Louis Fishman (University of Chicago)
"Zionism during the Young Turk Period: A Lost
Opportunity"

Ms. Abigail Jacobson (University of Chicago)
"Between Ottomanism to Zionism: Sephardi Jewish
identity in late Ottoman Jerusalem"


12:30-14:00 Lunch Break


14:00-15:30
Session 7: The First World War and the End of Ottoman
Rule
Chair:  Dr. Anat Lapidot (Hebrew University)

Dr. Mithat Atabay (=C7anakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
"Cemal Pasha's activities in Palestine during the
First World War"

Dr. Muhammet Erat (=C7anakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
"The End of Turkish sovereignty in Palestine"

Dr. Eyal Ginio (Hebrew University)
"Presenting Palestine to Ottoman soldiers during WWI:
Glances from the Harb Mecmuasi"


15:30-16:00 Coffee Break


16:00-18:00
Session 8: Turkish-Israel Relations: Round Table
Chair: Dr. Alon Liel  (Hebrew University)

Dr. Halil Erdemir (Celal Bayar University)
Dr. Ihsan Kaymaz (=C7anakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
Prof. Amikam Nachmani (Bar Ilan University)


20:00 Closing Dinner (by invitation only)



Academic committee of the conference:

Prof. Reuven Amitai
Dr. Yaron Ben-Naeh
Prof. Uri Bialor
Prof. Amnon Cohen
Dr. Eyal Ginio
Prof. Joseph Hacker
Prof. Jacob M. Landau
Dr. Rachel Milstein

Coordinator of the conference:
Mrs. Hanna Lahav


For further details:
02-5398823


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