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This book is an introductory handbook to the historical and ethnomusicological study of the music... more This book is an introductory handbook to the historical and ethnomusicological study of the musical traditions of the Islamic world. The aim of the book is to introduce its readers to the role and status of music in societies where Islam has historically been the predominant religion. The book is structured around three basic themes: Sources, Perspectives, Practices. Among the topics that are being explored is the relation between music, religion and ritual, the ways music is transmitted, musical orality and literacy, philosophical approaches to music and its conception as science and as art, its performative nature etc. Music is approached in relation to other forms of art (literature, iconography, architecture etc.) and to the various fields in which creativity is expressed in the Islamic world. Overall, the book aims to to contribute to a deeper and broader understanding of Islamic culture.
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Edited volumes by Panagiotis Poulos
Kapon Editions, 2023
The book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages Under Negotiation approaches the Ottoman monument... more The book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages Under Negotiation approaches the Ottoman monuments of Greece as the heritage of a historical period that lends itself to multiple readings. This collective work brings together and array of studies, covering a wide range of disciplines, including history of art, archaeology, architecture, and urban studies. Through rich unpublished archival, photographic, and epigraphic material, the authors of this edited volume, enrich our knowledge of the emblematic Ottoman monuments of Greece cities and foreground unknown aspects of the architecture of rural Greece. In the pages of the book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: heritages under negotiation, the stories of places, buildings, and people from Ottoman era to present days come alive. These stories constitute a major contribution to the dialogue on the status and role of this special heritage for Modern Greece. The critical analyses featured in this edited volume renew and broaden the research conducted in the fields of Ottoman studies and cultural heritage.
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Poulos, Panagiotis C. 2021. ‘Figures and idols at the threshold of Ottoman modernity in Thessaloniki’. In E. Solomon and S. Galiniki (eds), “The work of magic art”. History, uses and meaning of the Incantadas monument of Thessaloniki, 191-201. Thessaloniki: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki., 2021
The testimony of the French diplomat Félix de Beaujour in the late 18th century regarding the Tu... more The testimony of the French diplomat Félix de Beaujour in the late 18th century regarding the Turkish name of the celebrated Incantadas triggered a series of creative interpretations of the phrase sureth maleh. Besides the issue of the meaning of this name, the relation of the city’s Muslim community with the particular antiquities and their stories remains relatively unknown and understudied.
Using as starting point the work of the poet Ahmet Meşhûrî (1783-1857), this study attempts a preliminary reading of 19th century Ottoman literary and historiographical sources about Thessaloniki. It aims to map the broader conceptual framework within which the perception and the way the Muslim community related to remnants of the past and to this particular monument can be placed. This corpus of texts is historically situated at the threshold of Ottoman modernity, which, among other factors, is defined by the construction of a primary archaeological conscience by the Ottoman state, but also of the conceptualization of the city’s heritage. The aim of this critical read- ing is to highlight the contradictions and ambiguities of this process.
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This study focuses on the «in-between state» which characterizes the position of dragomans of the... more This study focuses on the «in-between state» which characterizes the position of dragomans of the Sublime Porte through the lens of cultural history and specifically through history of everyday-life and musical orality. The aim of the study is to highlight those aspects of inter-communal contacts and relations among dragomans that were situated on the fringes of writing and their rich textual output. Through the case of the polymath, musician and dragoman Wojciech Bobowski/Ali Ufkî (1610?-1675), this study questions the social and cultural boundaries of dragomans’ environment, around the period of the succession to the post from Panagiotis Nikousios to Alexandros Mavrokordatos.
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Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2022
This article examines the different registers of music interaction between Greek Orthodox and Jew... more This article examines the different registers of music interaction between Greek Orthodox and Jewish communities of Istanbul in the late Ottoman period. Intercommunal interaction is approached within the broader framework of modernization of music and in relation to the degree in which this interaction was implicated in the modernization process. New forms of music sociality related to music print and entertainment in which musicians and other agents from the two communities participated are analyzed in terms of their spatial dimension and as knots in a network of important locales within the city. This spatial approach challenges the centralized narratives concerning the modernization of Ottoman music and highlights the important role of local intermediaries and new economic patterns in shaping Ottoman musical modernity.
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Poulos, Panagiotis C. and Kolovos, Elias. 2021. ‘Athens besieged: Greek and Ottoman perceptions of shifting space during the Greek Revolution of 1821’. Journal of Greek Media & Culture 7(2): 219–38., 2021
This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, ... more This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, using as a case study the transitional events of the siege of the Acropolis by the Ottoman army in 1826 and the recapturing of the city of Athens. Through a thorough study of space as embodied knowledge grounded in the dynamic interaction between humans and material culture, it identifies the shifts in the Athenian landscape during this period. Its findings are based on primary textual and visual sources pertaining to warfare, which are juxtaposed to the Greek and Ottoman emerging official perceptions of the significance of the city of Athens as a political and imaginary objective. The article deploys a phenomenological analysis of space that foregrounds the everyday experiential dimensions and is highly relevant in understanding the ideological and political complexities and implications of the shifting spatialities of the revolutionary period.
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YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies , 2019
The overall aim of this article has been to address those understated intermediary spaces that we... more The overall aim of this article has been to address those understated intermediary spaces that were produced in the context of musical interaction among the various communities residing in Istanbul in the Ottoman era. The underpinning theme in defining those spaces and tracing their dynamic trajectory throughout the history of the city has been the quest for voicing the diverse elements that composed them. This task has shown that the internal stratification of communities was often quite more multifaceted than previously thought and that the subsequent layers are not always easily traceable. As demonstrated, the internal diversity of communities was based both on the cultural and the social background of its members. Moreover, the makeup of each community and its musicians was constantly renewed through immigration. A consequent challenging question that needs to be addressed is whether and how this diversity was expressed in musical terms.
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At a transitional phase in the history of Thessaloniki, many public buildings were requisitioned ... more At a transitional phase in the history of Thessaloniki, many public buildings were requisitioned to cover the urgent housing needs of the Asia Minor refugees who kept arriving to the city. The mosques of the city provided an instant means of shelter for refugees, as did the various Christian Orthodox churches that had been turned into mosques in Ottoman times and returned to the Greek community and to their initial usage following the incorporation of Thessaloniki in the Greek Kingdom. The changes in the usage of the buildings, which are documented in detail in the present article, played a part in the gradual obliteration from public space of the Muslim community and the recent Ottoman past, while they also attested and contributed to the refugee heritage of Thessaloniki.
A crucial but little explored dimension of the aforementioned changes concerns the sonic mark of religious buildings on public space. The pres- ent study focuses on this historical moment of transition for Thessaloniki, through the history of sound in the everyday life of these buildings. Through archival sources, oral testimonies and references in the press, we seek to document and uncover the aural dimension, which forms also an important aspect in the history of the refugee settlement in Thessaloniki.
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Using as starting point the work of the poet Ahmet Meşhûrî (1783-1857), this study attempts a preliminary reading of 19th century Ottoman literary and historiographical sources about Thessaloniki. It aims to map the broader conceptual framework within which the perception and the way the Muslim community related to remnants of the past and to this particular monument can be placed. This corpus of texts is historically situated at the threshold of Ottoman modernity, which, among other factors, is defined by the construction of a primary archaeological conscience by the Ottoman state, but also of the conceptualization of the city’s heritage. The aim of this critical read- ing is to highlight the contradictions and ambiguities of this process.
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A crucial but little explored dimension of the aforementioned changes concerns the sonic mark of religious buildings on public space. The pres- ent study focuses on this historical moment of transition for Thessaloniki, through the history of sound in the everyday life of these buildings. Through archival sources, oral testimonies and references in the press, we seek to document and uncover the aural dimension, which forms also an important aspect in the history of the refugee settlement in Thessaloniki.
Using as starting point the work of the poet Ahmet Meşhûrî (1783-1857), this study attempts a preliminary reading of 19th century Ottoman literary and historiographical sources about Thessaloniki. It aims to map the broader conceptual framework within which the perception and the way the Muslim community related to remnants of the past and to this particular monument can be placed. This corpus of texts is historically situated at the threshold of Ottoman modernity, which, among other factors, is defined by the construction of a primary archaeological conscience by the Ottoman state, but also of the conceptualization of the city’s heritage. The aim of this critical read- ing is to highlight the contradictions and ambiguities of this process.
A crucial but little explored dimension of the aforementioned changes concerns the sonic mark of religious buildings on public space. The pres- ent study focuses on this historical moment of transition for Thessaloniki, through the history of sound in the everyday life of these buildings. Through archival sources, oral testimonies and references in the press, we seek to document and uncover the aural dimension, which forms also an important aspect in the history of the refugee settlement in Thessaloniki.
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Empire to the modern Greek state. The histories and/or ‘stories’ of this shifting urban space are studied in their intersensorial dimension, highlighting the dynamic interplay between materiality and its multifaceted conceptualizations.
The aims of the project is to concentrate on the development of a methodological model for studying the sensory history of Ottoman urban spaces in transition and to explore the contemporary politics of historical memory as articulated in the Greek and European public
sphere, through the opening up of a dialogue with the broader community of professionals and practitioners.
This project brings together methodological tools and analytical concepts from the fields of cultural history, archaeology, urban studies, ethnomusicology and anthropology, a multidisciplinary model that interacts with the current trends in the broader feld of digital
humanities both on a local and international level.