[Bilimsel Haber] New Book Publication: _Turkish Jerusalem (1516-1917)_

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

TURKISH JERUSALEM (1516-1917)
Ottoman Inscriptions from Jerusalem and Other Palestinian Cities
by Mehmet Tütüncü
SOTA, Haarlem 2006
352 p. (including some 150 pictures 3 maps and a CD-Rom with original
pictures of all inscriptions)
ISBN 90-807403-4-9

You can have a look at the cover and download some sample pages from:
<www.turkistan.org/jerusalem.htm>

 From the year 1071 until 1917 Turks ruled Jerusalem. Among the Jews,
Christians and all others who claim Jerusalem as their holy city, the
Turkish rule was the longest in the history of the Holy Land. First
Seljukids, Artuqids and Zangids, and after that Mamluks from (1250 to
1516) and lastly Ottoman Turks ruled (from 1516 to 1917) in Jerusalem
and its surroundings. But despite this long rule, the Turkish heritage
and contribution to Jerusalem is often overlooked or underestimated in
the literature.

The Ottoman inscriptions from 1516 until 1917 are published in this book.

Max van Berchem’s famous Corpus of Jerusalem Inscriptions contains most
of the inscriptions but he left out many inscriptions that were of
Turkish language or were of recent date. But what was "recent" in 1900’s
is now more than 100 years-old and needs to be published. In this book
there are 122 inscriptions from Jerusalem and other parts of Ottoman
Palestine mostly published for the first time. Many are published with
new interpretation and improved readings.

This book goes further than many earlierp ublications of inscriptions,
and all the inscriptions are collected under one cover. All the
inscriptions are accompanied by recent photos on paper and on cd-rom, so
that one can check the inscriptions and the authors interpretation and
reading. There are also detailed maps of the location of the inscriptions.


CONTENTS

Acknowledgement	9
Acknowledgement of Illustrations:	10
Foreword	11
1. Jerusalem and Turks : an introduction	13
2. Characteristics of Inscriptions	17
3. Mode of Publication	23

CATALOGUE OF CORPUS OF INSCRIPTIONS

INSCRIPTIONS FROM JERUSALEM
4.1 Inscriptions of Sultan Süleyman (1520-1566)	31
Inscriptions from the Coenaculum	31
Inscriptions from The Citadel	36
Pre-Ottoman inscriptions from Citadel:	51
Inscriptions From The Walls and Gates of Jerusalem	54
Sabil Inscriptions	68
Inscriptions from the Haram al-Sharif	79
4.2. Inscriptions after Süleyman in Jerusalem	97
Sultan Ibrahim I. (1640-1648)	97
Mustafa II (1695-1703)	99
Mahmud I  (1730-1754)	101
Abdülhamid I. (1774-1789)	103
Selim III.  (1789-1807)	107
Mahmud II. (1808-1839)	109
Abdulmejid Han (1839-1861)	120
Abdülaziz Han (1861-1876)	127
Abdülhamid II. (1876-1909)	136
5. Other Inscriptions from Jerusalem	152

6. INSCRIPTIONS FROM OTHER PALESTINIAN PLACES
Hebron	201
Qala Aqabah	203
Qala Burkat (Salomons Pool)	205
Tiberia	207
Jaffa Inscriptions	209
Akka Inscriptions	219
Beysan (Beth Shean)	222
Birusseba (Ber Sheva)	223
Hayfa Inscriptions	229
Kayseriya (Caesarea) Inscription	234
Turkish Pilots Monument	236
Last Ottoman Inscription: Mahmudiye Mosque in Jaffa	238
7. Tables	239
8. Bibliography	257
9. Index of Quranic Quotations	261
10. Selective Index	264
Appendix I 	New Discovered Inscriptions in Jerusalem………266
Figures (1-150) and Maps (1-3)………….…………………273-352

Appendix II 	Cd-Rom with digital version of the illustrations in colour
where available, and original pdf file of Illustrations in black and white.