Following up on last week’s divorce theme, we thought we’d take a look back at pre-modern marital splits. While divorce may not have been common in the West until the advent of women’s lib, it was apparently a staple of several Asian and Middle Eastern societies for centuries: The outpouring of scholarly and popular works […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ottoman Empire'
Divorce in Ye Olden Tymes
July 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags:divorce·Indonesia·Japan·Malaysia·marriage·Medieval history·Ottoman Empire
The Red Sultan’s Legacy
July 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
We find ourselves completely baffled by the uproar over the publication of the Turkish-language “Blue Book,” a once-secret British dossier that chronicled the Armenian genocide some 93 years ago. The Turkish government’s griping is predictable enough, of course, given its long history of chafing at public mention of the slaughter. But we’re mystified as to […]
Tags:Armenian genocide·Henry Morgenthau·history·Ottoman Empire·Turkey·World War I