Journals / Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi / 2016 / Cilt: 31 - Sayı: 2
Mihai Maxim, Brăila otomană. Materiale noi din arhivele turcești. Registre de recesământ din secolul 16 [Brăila under the Ottoman occupation. New Materials from the Turkish Archives. Census Registers of the Sixteenth Century], Muzeul Brăilei, Editura ISTROS, 2013, 356 pp
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Mihai Maxim, a world-renowned Romanian Professor of Turkish Studies, studied at the Universities of Iași, Baku and Moscow (1961-1968), then he graduated magna cum laude from the Department of Turkish History, the Institute of Oriental Studies, and earned a doctor's degree in History, in 1976, with the great professors Mihai Berza (Bucharest) and Halil İnalcık (Ankara).He has begun his academic career in 1968 as junior lecturer (1968-1978), continuing as senior lecturer (1978-1989), associate professor (1990-1993) and professor (from 1993) at the Faculty of History, the University of Bucharest. He has also been a doctoral advisor for candidates in Turkish Studies from Romania, Italy, Japan, Turkey etc, visiting professor at the Columbia University (1990-1991), the University of Istanbul (1995-2001), University of Venice (2002-2003) etc. He has been the founder (1985) and the director of the "Dimitrie Cantemir" Center for Turkish Studies of the University of Bucharest (up to the present); the director of Romano-Turcica periodical (up to the present); the originator of a new Romanian school of Turkish Studies; director of the Dimitrie Cantemir Romanian Cultural Institute in Istanbul (January 2005-January 2011), holding the diplomatic rank of Minister Counsellor. He serves as an Editorial Board member for some international publications and a governing board member for some International Associations of Turkish Studies; vice president of the International Association for the Study of Islamic Civilization in the Balkans. He was awarded the Romanian Academy Prize in 1993.He has been elected honorary member of the Turkish Academy of History (Türk Tarih Kurumu).Of the over 130 books which he has published so far, the following titles worth mentioning: Culegere de texte otomane / Collection of Ottoman Texts ( Bucharest, 1974); Limba turco-osmană. Curs Practic / The Turkish- Ottoman Language: practical course ( Bucharest, 1984, reprinted in 1993 and 2004); Țările Române și Înalta Poartă. Cadrul juridic al relațiilor româno-otomane în Evul Mediu, cu o prefațăde Prof. Halil İnalcık / The Romanian Principalities and the Sublime Porte: the legal framework of the Romanian-Ottoman Relations in the Middle Ages; with a foreword by Professor Halil İnalcık ( Bucharest, 1993); LʼEmpire ottoman au nord du Danube et lʼautonomie des Principautés Roumaines au XVI siècle. Études et documents (Istanbul, 1999); Romano-Ottomanica. Essays and Documents from the Turkish Archives, Istanbul, 2001 ; Noi documente turcești privind Țările Române și Înalta Poartă(1526-1602) / New Turkish Documents concerning the Romanian Principalities and the Sublime Porte (1526-1602), Brăila, 2008 ; Brăila. Noi documente otomane / Brăila. New Ottoman Documents, Brăila, 2011 ; O istorie a relațiilor româno-otomane cu documente noi din arhivele turcești/ A History of the Romanian-Ottoman Relations with new documents preserved in the Turkish archives, vol. 1 ( 1400-1600), vol. 2 ( 1601-1711/1716), Brăila, 2012The work makes the most of the Professor Mihai Maxim’s research carried out in Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi [General Directorate of State Archives of the Prime Ministry of the Republic of Turkey] in Istanbul, during the last years, regarding Brăila under the Ottoman rule, in specific subject fields: population and tax registrers; registers for inspection and maintenance of military constructions; account registers concerning the renting of the gangway/port of Brăila; janissaries' registers; light infantry registers; heritage registers. The study of these category of registers (defterler) is part of defterology, an anancillary discipline of Turkology and Osmanistics.The book includes: the Author's Foreword (pp. 9 – 14); Chapter I: New Materials from the Turkish Archives (pp. 15 – 246); Chapter II: Census Registers of the Sixteenth Century (pp. 247 – 345); Conclusions (pp. 347 – 350); Illustrations (pp. 351 – 356).In the foreword, the author tells us that the Fondul Turco-Osman Mihai Maxim [“Mihai Maxim” Turkish-Osmanistics Fund ] has been created within the Library of the Museum of Brăila, including Turkish registers (defter) regarding the history of Brăila under Ottoman occupation (1540-1829), which were discovered in the archives in Istanbul. This fund is already computerized and available to the researchers.The present work is meant to serve as a catalog of the Fondul turco-osman Mihai Maxim [“Mihai Maxim” Turkish-Osmanistics Fund ] for those who study Osmanistics and look into the research of these historical sources of great value for Brăila under Ottoman occupation.Chapter I, entitled New Materials Regarding the City and the Port of Brăila in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Preserved in the Turkish Archives, Professor Mihai Maxim brought in and published significant excerpts about Brăila, collected from the following thematic archive funds, found at Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi-Istanbul (BOA):–01.BD. BŞM. BNE. D (Bâb-i Defteri. Baş Muhâsebe. Bina Emini Kalemi Defteri); Registers no. 15.974; 15.996; 15.998; 16.008; 16.252; 16.310; 16.312; 16.313 (pp. 15 – 66); –02. BD. YNÇK. D(Bâb-i Defteri.Yeniçeri Kalemi Defteri ); Registers no. 34.197; 34.315; 34.481; 34.488; 35.060 (pp. 67 – 119); –03. BD. PYMK. D(Bâb-i Defteri.Piyâde Mukabelesi Kalemi. Defter). Registers no. 35.169; 35.214; 35.377; 35.383 (pp. 121 – 173) –04. BD. BŞM. MHFK. D (Bâb-ı Defterî. Baş Muhāsebe.Muhallefât Kalemi. Defteri); Registers no.13.012; 13.236; 13. 251; 13. 262 (pp. 174 – 220); –05. BD. BŞM.BMK. IBM. D (Bâb-ı Defteri. Baş Muhasebe. Baş Mukata’a Kalemi. Ibrāil Mukata’ası. Defter ). Registers no. 22.640; 22.641; 22.642; 22.643; 22.644 (pp. 221 – 243). Thus, Chapter I consists of reports of the Ottoman military architects (bina emini) on their conclusions and evaluations related to the status of the city of Brăila and the measures taken to repair this tremendous fortress, especially during the Russian-Austrian-Ottoman wars of 1768-1774, 1787 -1792, 1806-1812
Özet
Mihai Maxim, a world-renowned Romanian Professor of Turkish Studies, studied at the Universities of Iași, Baku and Moscow (1961-1968), then he graduated magna cum laude from the Department of Turkish History, the Institute of Oriental Studies, and earned a doctor's degree in History, in 1976, with the great professors Mihai Berza (Bucharest) and Halil İnalcık (Ankara).He has begun his academic career in 1968 as junior lecturer (1968-1978), continuing as senior lecturer (1978-1989), associate professor (1990-1993) and professor (from 1993) at the Faculty of History, the University of Bucharest. He has also been a doctoral advisor for candidates in Turkish Studies from Romania, Italy, Japan, Turkey etc, visiting professor at the Columbia University (1990-1991), the University of Istanbul (1995-2001), University of Venice (2002-2003) etc. He has been the founder (1985) and the director of the "Dimitrie Cantemir" Center for Turkish Studies of the University of Bucharest (up to the present); the director of Romano-Turcica periodical (up to the present); the originator of a new Romanian school of Turkish Studies; director of the Dimitrie Cantemir Romanian Cultural Institute in Istanbul (January 2005-January 2011), holding the diplomatic rank of Minister Counsellor. He serves as an Editorial Board member for some international publications and a governing board member for some International Associations of Turkish Studies; vice president of the International Association for the Study of Islamic Civilization in the Balkans. He was awarded the Romanian Academy Prize in 1993.He has been elected honorary member of the Turkish Academy of History (Türk Tarih Kurumu).Of the over 130 books which he has published so far, the following titles worth mentioning: Culegere de texte otomane / Collection of Ottoman Texts ( Bucharest, 1974); Limba turco-osmană. Curs Practic / The Turkish- Ottoman Language: practical course ( Bucharest, 1984, reprinted in 1993 and 2004); Țările Române și Înalta Poartă. Cadrul juridic al relațiilor româno-otomane în Evul Mediu, cu o prefațăde Prof. Halil İnalcık / The Romanian Principalities and the Sublime Porte: the legal framework of the Romanian-Ottoman Relations in the Middle Ages; with a foreword by Professor Halil İnalcık ( Bucharest, 1993); LʼEmpire ottoman au nord du Danube et lʼautonomie des Principautés Roumaines au XVI siècle. Études et documents (Istanbul, 1999); Romano-Ottomanica. Essays and Documents from the Turkish Archives, Istanbul, 2001 ; Noi documente turcești privind Țările Române și Înalta Poartă(1526-1602) / New Turkish Documents concerning the Romanian Principalities and the Sublime Porte (1526-1602), Brăila, 2008 ; Brăila. Noi documente otomane / Brăila. New Ottoman Documents, Brăila, 2011 ; O istorie a relațiilor româno-otomane cu documente noi din arhivele turcești/ A History of the Romanian-Ottoman Relations with new documents preserved in the Turkish archives, vol. 1 ( 1400-1600), vol. 2 ( 1601-1711/1716), Brăila, 2012The work makes the most of the Professor Mihai Maxim’s research carried out in Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi [General Directorate of State Archives of the Prime Ministry of the Republic of Turkey] in Istanbul, during the last years, regarding Brăila under the Ottoman rule, in specific subject fields: population and tax registrers; registers for inspection and maintenance of military constructions; account registers concerning the renting of the gangway/port of Brăila; janissaries' registers; light infantry registers; heritage registers. The study of these category of registers (defterler) is part of defterology, an anancillary discipline of Turkology and Osmanistics.The book includes: the Author's Foreword (pp. 9 – 14); Chapter I: New Materials from the Turkish Archives (pp. 15 – 246); Chapter II: Census Registers of the Sixteenth Century (pp. 247 – 345); Conclusions (pp. 347 – 350); Illustrations (pp. 351 – 356).In the foreword, the author tells us that the Fondul Turco-Osman Mihai Maxim [“Mihai Maxim” Turkish-Osmanistics Fund ] has been created within the Library of the Museum of Brăila, including Turkish registers (defter) regarding the history of Brăila under Ottoman occupation (1540-1829), which were discovered in the archives in Istanbul. This fund is already computerized and available to the researchers.The present work is meant to serve as a catalog of the Fondul turco-osman Mihai Maxim [“Mihai Maxim” Turkish-Osmanistics Fund ] for those who study Osmanistics and look into the research of these historical sources of great value for Brăila under Ottoman occupation.Chapter I, entitled New Materials Regarding the City and the Port of Brăila in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Preserved in the Turkish Archives, Professor Mihai Maxim brought in and published significant excerpts about Brăila, collected from the following thematic archive funds, found at Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi-Istanbul (BOA):–01.BD. BŞM. BNE. D (Bâb-i Defteri. Baş Muhâsebe. Bina Emini Kalemi Defteri); Registers no. 15.974; 15.996; 15.998; 16.008; 16.252; 16.310; 16.312; 16.313 (pp. 15 – 66); –02. BD. YNÇK. D(Bâb-i Defteri.Yeniçeri Kalemi Defteri ); Registers no. 34.197; 34.315; 34.481; 34.488; 35.060 (pp. 67 – 119); –03. BD. PYMK. D(Bâb-i Defteri.Piyâde Mukabelesi Kalemi. Defter). Registers no. 35.169; 35.214; 35.377; 35.383 (pp. 121 – 173) –04. BD. BŞM. MHFK. D (Bâb-ı Defterî. Baş Muhāsebe.Muhallefât Kalemi. Defteri); Registers no.13.012; 13.236; 13. 251; 13. 262 (pp. 174 – 220); –05. BD. BŞM.BMK. IBM. D (Bâb-ı Defteri. Baş Muhasebe. Baş Mukata’a Kalemi. Ibrāil Mukata’ası. Defter ). Registers no. 22.640; 22.641; 22.642; 22.643; 22.644 (pp. 221 – 243). Thus, Chapter I consists of reports of the Ottoman military architects (bina emini) on their conclusions and evaluations related to the status of the city of Brăila and the measures taken to repair this tremendous fortress, especially during the Russian-Austrian-Ottoman wars of 1768-1774, 1787 -1792, 1806-1812