Eurasian Studies Vol. IV 1-2 2005

Volume IV Number 1 June 2005
Articles
¹smail Hakk› Kad›,
Jan Schmidt
Paul Maashoek, Dutch merchant and adventurer
in Palestine (1669-1711)
1
Giorgio Rota A new date for the death of Giorgi Saak’adze 19
Giovanni Canova Critical attitudes toward Arabic folk epics 29
Anne Marie Touzard Les voyageurs français en Perse de 1600 à 1730 41
Giulio Colapaoli The ¼Ulam…-yi Isl…m II: an open question 75
Kate Daniels Turkish and Ottoman motifs in Arabic literature
from the Nahÿa to the end of the caliphate 99
Svetlana Ivanova Review article: A History of the Jewish
Community in Istanbul the Formative Years, 1453-
1566 (M. Rozen). 129
Reviews 139
Recent Articles 155

Volume IV Number 2 December 2005
Articles
Géza David and
Pál Fodor
Changes in the structure and strength of the
Timariot army from the early sixteenth to the end
of the seventeenth century
157
Giovanni Canova Animals in Islamic Paradise and Hell 189
Matthias Kappler The “Geography of Beauty” as a metaphorical
device in Ottoman #ehr-engîz literature 205
Colin Imber ‘An illiberal descent’:
Kemalism and Ottoman law 215
Maria Li Puma The Turkish grammars by Francesco Maria
Maggio Theatine missionary in Georgia
(1636-1641) 245
Reviews 261