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“The last decades of Ottoman history cannot be understood properly without taking into account the revolution from below caused by the revivalist movements.”
― The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
― The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
“A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“There must be an ability to pass long hours in study and research with pleasure even though some of the effort will inevitably lead to dead ends. Such is the price of admission.”
― Letters to a Young Scientist
― Letters to a Young Scientist
“Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.”
― Paradise
― Paradise
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
Tuncay’s 2025 Year in Books
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