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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s\, Middle Eastern Studies Program prese
nts Murat C. Yildiz from Skidmore College.How do we write a history of urb
an centers in the late Ottoman Empire in which we study Muslims\, Jews and
Christians through a single frame? Focusing on his new book \;The Ott
oman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies\, Men\, and Communities in Late
Imperial Istanbul \;(University of Texas Press\, 2026)\, historian Mur
at C. Yıldız explores the creation of a shared sports culture among Turks\
, Armenians\, Greeks and Jews at the end of empire in the political center
of the Ottoman Empire. The talk reconsiders the history of late imperial
Istanbul and \;its lived urban space through a focus on the activities
\, spaces and discourses of what Ottoman-Turkish speakers referred to as “
the Ottoman world of sports.” Yıldız examines how gymnasts\, footballers\,
weightlifters\, runners\, coaches\, teachers\, journalists and fans recon
figured communal boundaries and pursued a civic project that blended fitne
ss\, gender\, class\, morality and community.Murat C. Yıldız is associate
professor of history at Skidmore College. His book \;The Ottoman World
of Sports: Refashioning Bodies\, Men\, and Communities in Late Imperial I
stanbul \;(University of Texas Press\, 2026) tells the story of the ro
le played by Muslim\, Christian and Jewish sports aficionados in the makin
g of a shared sports culture in Istanbul during the late-nineteenth and ea
rly-twentieth centuries. He's an assistant editor of the \;Arab Studie
s Journal \;and an editorial board member of the \;International J
ournal of the History of Sport.
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SUMMARY:Book Talk | Murat Yildiz | The Ottoman World of Sports
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Moynihan Institute’s\, Middle Eastern S
tudies Program presents Murat C. Yildiz from Skidmore College.
How d
o we write a history of urban centers in the late Ottoman Empire in which
we study Muslims\, Jews and Christians through a single frame? Focusing on
his new book \;The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies\,
Men\, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul \;(University of
Texas Press\, 2026)\, historian Murat C. Yıldız explores the creation of
a shared sports culture among Turks\, Armenians\, Greeks and Jews
at the end of empire in the political center of the Ottoman Empire.
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p>The talk reconsiders the history of late imperial Istanbul and \;its
lived urban space through a focus on the activities\, spaces and discours
es of what Ottoman-Turkish speakers referred to as “the Ottoman world of s
ports.” Yıldız examines how gymnasts\, footballers\, weightlifters\, runne
rs\, coaches\, teachers\, journalists and fans reconfigured communal bound
aries and pursued a civic project that blended fitness\, gender\, class\,
morality and community.Murat C. Yıldı
z is associate professor of history at Skidmore College. His book
\;The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies\, Men\,
and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul \;(University of T
exas Press\, 2026) tells the story of the role played by Muslim\, Christia
n and Jewish sports aficionados in the making of a shared sports culture i
n Istanbul during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. He's
an assistant editor of the \;Arab Studies Journal&
nbsp\;and an editorial board member of the \;International J
ournal of the History of Sport.
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