We are very proud to announce that Güllü Yıldız’ article about nature as represented in Ottoman route manuals (menzilnames) just appeared in the journal kadim!
The article explores textual and visual representations of Ottoman nature in ten menzilnames written in Turkish by Ottoman subjects between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It argues that these depictions aim to provide the reader and future traveler with practical information rather than to provoke an aesthetic sensation or record a scientific description.
The article is openly accessible:
Güllü Yıldız, ‘Travel Essentials: Nature as Represented in Ottoman Route Manuals (Menzilnames),’ in: kadim 9 (2025), 45–70, https://doi.org/10.54462/kadim.1618038.