Klaus Kreiser
Klaus Kreiser held the chair of Turkish Language . History, and Civilization at Bamberg University from 1904 until his retirment in 2004. Her is the author of numerous articles and books on Ottoman and modern Turkish history.
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The survey begins with decorations and medals. Exhibitions and tourism are discussed in greater length. Subjects such as migration and exile and the cultural agreement between Germany and Turkey are dealt in passing. Regardless of the variety of topics the author took care to do justice to individual cultural actors.
Turkish Biographies.
Biographical essays describing the life and times of ca. 25 Turkish personalities between the last calif Abdülmecid Efendi (1868-1944) and Tansuğ Çiller (1946-). The book includes artists, authors, politicians and soldiers .
Illustrated with 10 full-page portraits by the cartoonist İsmail Gülgeç (1947-2011).
Mustafa Hami describes in almost 80 pages the route of the Ottoman expeditionary corps. He furnishes exact records of time and place, expressed partly in hours of march. His report ends with the re-entry of the force into Hudaydah after their abortive installation in San’ā’ in the middle of September 1849. The first part of his report on the Yemen is devoted in the first place to military matters. The second part with over 27 pages of closely written text contains geographical data. He describes minutely the fortifications of the towns with the layout and
names of their towers and gates. We learn of mosques and shrines, and agrarian products and taxation revenues are tabulated. ‘Ethnographic’ information fill out the descriptions of places. Mustafā Hāmī as a trained medical man practising in the Yemen, also concerns himself with various illnesses. The manuscript ends with 27 pages of colour illustrations that were drawn by Mustafa Hami. The Illustrations contains two maps with Red Sea and Harbour of Kamran followed Yemen’s important cities, fortifications, holy shrines, but also plants, and other peculiarities, like weapons. The Manuscript in facsimile is transliterated into Latin script and translated into modern Turkish. Introduction and extensive notes
both in English and in Turkish makes this book an excellent tool to learn the history, geography and human landscape of mid-19th century Yemen.