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This paper explores reading practices of an Islamic text, the Risale-i Nur, within the Suffa community, one of the many that emerged from the most influential reformist movement of modern Turkey, the Nur movement. The article tackles main anthropological debates about the impact of modern secular education and new media on pedagogical practice within Muslim contexts. Whereas works on the topic have generally focused on the implications of these major transformations for the redefinition of religious authority, the paper draws attention to forms of reflection (tefekkür) and related views of the world, or cosmologies, that are generated by reading practices of the Risale. As some have argued, the direct access to religious knowledge by the individual believer that is allowed by this text may recall dynamics that took place in Europe within the Protestant Reformation. However, the paper suggests that such a perspective prevents the analysis of the lines of continuity between past and present paths to cultivating Muslim faith. Moreover, it argues that a new anthropology of reading, both in Islam and in other traditions, should pay more attention to the specific kind of intellectual exercises that are attached to reading practices in different cultural settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Located in modern-day eastern Türkiye, Ani was the ancient capital of the prosperous Armenian Bagratid period in the Middle Ages renowned as the "City of 1,001 Churches". Unfortunately, due to a series of massive earthquakes, shifting trade routes and periodic conflict, Ani's great buildings were abandoned before the 17th century, leaving the expansive ruins of the city unattended and exposed to the elements. World Monuments Fund (WMF) has maintained a presence at the site in Kars Province, Türkiye since its inclusion on the 1996 World Monuments Watch, which raised international awareness of the need for protection of this significant built fabric. The decades-long project has integrated professionals from Türkiye, Armenia, Iran, Russia and the United States, making the preservation of Ani a truly international endeavor and establishing a model for project-focused international collaboration. This paper sets forth some of the key considerations and components in the establishment of a collaborative preservation that facilitates regional coordination, international cooperation, and global cultural exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In order to study the cult of Zeus Nikatôr, six Greek inscriptions (one from northern Syria and five from southern Anatolia) are gathered and commented. The origin, the diffusion and the longevity of the cult are evoked, since it was vivid until the IIIrd century A.D. in the eastern Mediterranean, mainly in southern Taurus (Pamphylia, Lycia, Pisidia and Phrygia Paroreios). Accordingly, also in connection with onomastics and numismatics, the Seleucid memory and the remembrance of Seleucos I are discussed, from Hellenistic times to the Roman Imperial period, and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with two Greek reliefs found in Catania, an Attic relief with Demeter and Kore (late fifth c. B.C.), and a funerary relief of the late second - early first c. B.C., from Delos or Asia Minor. The Attic relief carries a votive inscription in Dorian dialect, which is possible to date to the second c. B.C., and raises the possibility that it was bought by a Catanaean family to be reoffered in the local sanctuary of Demeter. Traces of erased letters, belonging to an older inscription, seem to confirm such a proposal. The intense relations between Catana, Athens, and Asia Minor in such a period are clearly hinted at by inscriptions found at Oropos and Smyrna, which celebrate Catanaean athletes. In a wider perspective, moreover, the two reliefs, along with several references in Cicero's De signis and possibly the well known Mahdia shipwreck, strengthen the idea that Sicily played a first-rate role within the trade in works of art during the Late Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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