Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities

Project Information

GHOST

Grant agreement ID: 771766

DOI 10.3030/771766

Project closed

EC signature date 12 February 2018

Start date 1 March 2018

End date 31 August 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 289 737,75

EU contribution € 1 289 737,75

Coordinated by

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS
Greece

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Publications

Non-peer reviewed articles (16)

Working paper: Ajâ’ib wa gharâ’ib in the early Ottoman cosmographies

Author(s): Feray Coşkun
Published in: Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 85-104, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Navigating the currents: exploring the esoteric threads in the Greek Orthodox Church of the 15th to 18th centuries

Author(s): Markos Litinas
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 133-142, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/nvtp-7f62

Revisiting “Turkish Fatalism”; Or, Why Ottoman Theology Matters

Author(s): Ethan L. Menchinger
Published in: Aca'ib: Occasional Papers on the Ottoman Perceptions of the Supernatural, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 9-37, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/rnyr-ar56

Ottoman Occultism and its Social Contexts: Preliminary Remarks

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 35-66, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/txbk-hk21

The Ottoman Hermes: notes on the reception of the Hermetic tradition in Ottoman scholarship

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 157-170, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/nqwj-ta51

Manuscripts on the Battlefields: Early Modern Ottoman Subjects in the European Theatre of War and Their Textual Relations to the Supernatural in Their Fight for Survival

Author(s): Ahmet Tunç Şen
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 77-106, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/08gv-3v52

Into the Deep Past of the Ottoman Istanbul: The Bronze Horseman of Constantine in Sixteenth-Century ʿAcāʾibs

Author(s): Aslı Niyazioğlu
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 13-34, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/vyny-yb65

Knowledge and control of the future in Ottoman thought

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 49-84, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Languages of Ottoman Esotericism

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 39-75, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/pc9c-vv54

Editorial: Studying Ottoman views of the supernatural: the state-of-the-art and a research agenda

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 5-20, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Enchantments and Disenchantments in Ottoman World Visions: Preliminary Remarks

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: Aca'ib: Occasional Papers on the Ottoman Perceptions of the Supernatural, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/xrd5-z830

The limits of going global: The case of “Ottoman Enlightenment(s)”

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: History Compass, Issue 18/9, 2020, Page(s) 1 of 13 – 13 of 13, ISSN 1478-0542
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12623

L’harmonie des affaires d’Orient et d’Occident. Un aperçu sur la cosmovision ottomane et la théorie musicale du XVe siècle

Author(s): Güneş Işıksel
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 121-132, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/4a3x-bd34

Gazis and cadus at the margins: conversion at the point of sword and enchantment

Author(s): Zeynep Aydoğan
Published in: Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 21-48, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Political advice and ethics in an occult framework: Alai Muhibbi Şirazi’s Düstûru’l-vüzerâ as an example of 16th century Ottoman lettrism

Author(s): Dimitris Giagtzoglou
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 73-84, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/d9qr-tm50

The Views of Gerasimos Vlachos on Astral Influences: Aristotelic, Hermetic, and Astrological Approaches to the Heavenly Bodies

Author(s): Markos Litinas
Published in: Aca'ib: occasional papers on Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 147-168, ISSN 2732-6659
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
DOI: 10.26225/2mpd-7x13

Monographic books (3)

Perceptions ottomanes du surnaturel. Aspects de l’histoire intellectuelle d’une culture islamique à l’époque moderne

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Les éditions du Cerf

Forging Paths of Continuity: Borderline Miracles in the Early Menākıbnāme Literature, 13th-15th Centuries

Author(s): Zeynep Aydoğan
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH

Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Peer reviewed articles (2)

«Nous étions tous stupéfaits et effrayés» : Émotions ottomanes face au surnaturel

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: Turcica, Issue 52, 2022, Page(s) 277-306, ISSN 1783-1822
Publisher: Peeters
DOI: 10.2143/turc.53.0.3291340

A Tale of Two Cities: Jābarṣā/Jābalqā and Their Metamorphoses

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis
Published in: Der Islam, Issue 101, 2024, Page(s) 162-192, ISSN 0021-1818
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
DOI: 10.1515/islam-2024-0006