Portraits from My Notebook

This time, İlber Ortaylı, one of Turkey's leading historians, shares his notebook with his readers. He tells about what he read, what he knew, and his teachers from his own perspective. People who shaped history, today's well-known, discussed and spoken names come to life again from Ortaylı's pen.

The first part of Portraits from My Notebook brings together the great historical figures of world history. These figures include emperors, scholars, musicians, poets, architects, sultans and soldiers: Julius Caesar, Emperor Augustus, Constantine the Great, Sultan Alparslan, Ibn Khaldun, Fatih Sultan Mehmed, Emir Timur, Yavuz Sultan Selim, Shah Ismail, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, Prince Eugen, Beethoven, Poet Pushkin, Lev Tolstoy, II. Abdulhamid, Gazi Osman Pasha and Enver Pasha...

The second part of Portraits from My Notebook includes portraits from contemporary Turkey. Especially considering that many of the people mentioned here are known personally by İlber Ortaylı, the result is extremely emotional and very sincere pages for all readers. Some of these names are as follows: Osman Ertuğrul Efendi, Neslişah Sultan, İhsan Doğramacı, Semiha Berksoy, Bülent Ecevit, Nejat Göyünç, Oktay Aslanapa, Halil İnalcık, Süreyya Faruki, Recep Yazıcıoğlu, Andreas Tietze, Cemil Meriç, Yılmaz Öztuna, Mübahat S. Kütükoğlu, İsmail Cem, Mübeccel Belik Kıray, İrene Melikoff, Füsun Akatlı, Muhibbe Darga, Hasan Celal Güzel, Semavi Eyice...

Portraits from My Notebook is an extraordinary book for those who want to travel among the most important figures of the world and our country, meet them and most importantly, understand them.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 1. Dough

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Edition