Overview

In keeping with the historical trend, well developed for Western civilisation, of research into attitudes to Death, but it is concerned with the far less studied East, specifically the Turkish world and its attitude to Death. Bringing together a team of specialists belonging to diverse disciplines (ethnology, history, philology, political studies), this study approaches its subject from various angles; although the Ottoman period is central to the study, a lengthy period is touched on, from the ancient Turks of Inner Asia to the present situation in Central Asia and Turkey. This intriguing work looks into the pre-Islamic Turkic traditions, the role of Islam, and other historical factors involved in the development of Ottoman funeral practices and attitudes to Death, which the present-day Turks have nolens volens inherited.

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' The multidisciplinary character of this collection allows it to gather a large amount of new and well-researched information into one volume...Libraries with collections of any sort on the Middle East or Asian cultural studies should certainly purchase it.'<br>Walter G. Andrews, Religious Studies Review, 1998.<br>' Ce livre ouvre maints horizons'<br>Robert Mantran, Annales HSS, 2001.<br>

' The multidisciplinary character of this collection allows it to gather a large amount of new and well-researched information into one volume...Libraries with collections of any sort on the Middle East or Asian cultural studies should certainly purchase it. Walter G. Andrews, Religious Studies Review , 1998. ' Ce livre ouvre maints horizons ' Robert Mantran, Annales HSS , 2001.

'The multidisciplinary character of this collection allows it to gather a large amount of new and well-researched information into one volume...Libraries with collections of any sort on the Middle East or Asian cultural studies should certainly purchase it.’ Walter G. Andrews, Religious Studies Review, 1998. 'Ce livre ouvre maints horizons…' Robert Mantran, Annales HSS, 2001.

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Gilles Veinstein is Director of Research at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and head of the Turkish and Ottoman department. He has published numerous books and led many research projects on Ottoman history.

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