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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين)

@sberkmetin.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at SFU; previously Sciences Po (BA'18); Leiden (MA'20). Ottoman History, Religion, Material Culture, History, Istanbul (Şevketlü/Mehabetlü/Kerametlü).

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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Einar Wigen, Alp Eren Topal, and Carlo Trombino, "Last Great Plague of Istanbul, 1812: An Overture to Biopolitics in the Ottoman Empire" academic.oup.com/jhmas/articl...
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The Last Great Plague of Istanbul, 1812: An Overture to Biopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
Abstract. Starting in 1812, a plague epidemic killed a third of the population in Istanbul and a third of the population of Izmir. It lasted at least until
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Vincent E. @vincente.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My first peer-reviewed article, based on my BA thesis at FU Berlin, has just been published (OA). It traces Palestinian libraries from the late Ottoman period in the so-called Abandoned Property Collection (NLI). Thank you to everyone who supported! doi.org/10.1353/mns.... @sims-mss.bsky.social
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Project MUSE - From Private Libraries in Late Ottoman Palestine to "Abandoned Property": Reconstructing the Dajānī Family Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Israel
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New searchable timeline to track academic freedom cases in higher education in North America. Search by a university, system, state or institution type. afi.mesana.org/timeline/
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Belated update: I presented my research at the Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT) at uChicago last month. Was a true pleasure.
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🇹🇷Örpen Çağlan🇮🇹 @hasan07ant.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
10 yıl önce Antalya Rotary Derneği'nde vermiş olduğum bir dinleti sayesinde tanıştığım Prof. Dr. Remzi Sanver bu toprakların yetiştirdiği en önemli bilim insanlarından birisidir. Çok önemli çalışmalar yapmış ve binlerce öğrenci yetiştirmiştir. Takdir edileceğine yapılanlara bakınca çok üzülüyorum.
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A barbershop in Istanbul, still keeping the guild-fraternity spirit with references to the patron saint of the barbers, Salman-i Farisi (Also see the bow & the arrow!)
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Jun Akiba @jun-naibzade.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
論文 マフムト2世時代のイスタンブルの人口動態 Mustafa Mesut Özekmekçi. “II. Mahmut Döneminde (1833-1837) İstanbul Nüfusu ve Nüfus Hareketleri.” Osmanlı Araştırmaları 66 (2025) otmn osmanliarastirmalari.isam.org.tr/dergi/articl...
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II. Mahmut Döneminde (1833-1837) İstanbul Nüfusu ve Nüfus Hareketleri | Osmanlı Araştırmaları / The Journal of Ottoman Studies
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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Sabatay Sevi ve Selânik Dönmelerinin Suskun Serüveni | Konuk: Cengiz Şişman
YouTube video by Arkhé Tarih
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Had a very pleasant evening at İstanbul Bilgi University yesterday night; many thanks to the History Department for the invitation!
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
24 Aralık Çarşamba günü Bilgi Üniversitesi’nde olacağım. İlgilenenleri beklerim!
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Bedirhan E. Mutlu (بدرهان) @bemutlu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Our new research paper with Nathan Brown is out from @carnegieendowment.org ! #polisky #menasky @carnegiemec.bsky.social carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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Official Islam in the Arab States of the Gulf: Local Establishments in a Regional and Global Context
The story of religious institutions and the state in the Gulf exemplifies four main points: the “institutional isomorphism” in the region, the place of religion in the nation- and state-building proce...
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Leave the world a little better than you found it. At least in your footprint. That’s the goal.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Today is a good day to think about what you want to be remembered for. Maybe you needed some courage. Find it today.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
UK orthopedic surgeon on return from Gaza about what he experienced. I can’t even repeat the second part of the quote, it’s too awful. www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...
None of them were injured alone. Particularly the ones who were injured in bomb blasts — and it seems there's been a pattern of individual families being attacked. There was a young man aged 11, who was one of the ones who was wheeled into the operating theater on a blood-soaked trolley at the end of our ordinary list. He was one of a family of two adults and ten children. He was the only surviving child. So that is the context of each of the people on whom we operate."

"There was another wee boy who particularly sticks in my memory. His name was Jacob. He was 7. The blast had broken both legs above and below both knees and had flayed the skin and flesh from his legs. Now, we were able to care for his legs while I was writing the operation note and he was in recovery. It was heartbreaking to hear this poor little seven-year-old boy, this little scrap of humanity, calling for his mother — who was dead. Those stories are not in isolation."
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Recent release that looks very interesting:
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Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century
Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A record stone supposedly belonging to the mythic archery champion Tozkoparan (‘Dust-Breaker’) in Istanbul: Ṣāḥib’ül-Menzil fī'l-Meydān / Elleḏī ismuhu Tozḳoparan
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just saw Paths of Glory by Kubrick. Wow.
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Mahmud II’s calligraphy practice (meşk) and his teacher’s note: Māşā-Allāh āferīn efendim
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Excited to take part in TIOL-3, albeit remotely, to present our co-authored paper "Blurring the Boundary between Heresy and Orthodoxy: Foreign Travellers’ Accounts on Everyday Religiosity in 19th Century Istanbul" with @eosayin.bsky.social www.travellersinottomanlands.com/next-seminar
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Check out our new publication (it’s open access): Rik J. Janssen and S. Berk Metin, “19th Century Ottoman Archery Records Among Leiden Miscellanea,” 𝐾𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓: 𝐸-𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝑇𝑢𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜-𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 3, no. 1 (Winter 2025): 40–53. journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/ke...
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I am also struck by the prevaricating opening sentence. “Any intentional destruction” — as if Gazans might have blown their own institutions up, as if the IDF’s demolition teams and sophisticated targeting systems did this all by mistake.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
As a reminder, the AHA council approved the following, about a month after the invasion of Ukraine. www.historians.org/news/aha-sta...
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AHA Statement Condemning Russian Invasion of Ukraine - AHA
The American Historical Association condemns in the strongest possible terms Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine.
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
BOUN History+’ın davetlisi olarak 5 Aralık’ta Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’de olacağım. İlgilenenleri beklerim.
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Many thanks to Mustafa Akyol for citing my research in his new book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘛𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. Congratulations on publishing this important work which aims to build bridges in these divisive times.
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @sberkmetin.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Ryan Zohar and Berk Metin, “The Albert Nekimken Turkish Theater Collection: Censorship, Contentious Politics, and the Cold War Stage.” MELA Notes 96, vol. 1 (2023-2024): 1-26. doi.org/10.5070/M7.3...
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The Albert Nekimken Turkish Theater Collection: Censorship, Contentious Politics, and the Cold War Stage
Author(s): Zohar, Ryan; Metin, Berk | Abstract: Turkish political theater of the 1960s-1970s was a genre that galvanized both its intellectual proponents and drew the ire of state authoritie...
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