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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Ottoman world of sports
    sub title: refashioning bodies, men, and communities in late imperial Istanbul
  name:
    name part: Yildiz, Murat
    name part: Dr
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: "In the Ottoman Empire of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Istanbul was a cosmopolitan center with various religions and ethnicities intermingling, including Muslims, Jews, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Christians, and Catholics. Yıldız explores how the concepts of sports and physical culture developed over this period and served to bring these different populations together while also hardening the boundaries between them in the growing middle class. Especially as the Empire became part of the global network and the Ottomans desired to appear more modern, activities such as gymnastics, weightlifting, and football became activities that all young men needed to perform regularly in order to develop into moral men, regardless of their ethnic or religious background. Relying on extensive multi-lingual archives in a number of countries, Yıldız examines how the idea of physical culture developed in schools (and the opposition some parents had to their children wasting their time that way) and expanded to sports clubs across the city that were divided by ethnicity/religion but yet would come together to celebrate one another's holidays or festivals. Similarly, sports experts from the different populations of Istanbul collaborated on spreading the importance of physical culture even while instilling the virtues of sport within their own communities. Sports columns in the daily newspapers and specialized sports magazines appeared, bringing sports further into the public arena and creating a shared civic culture around them. Likewise, sports moved from school gymnasia and empty fields to new arenas, further inculcating sporting culture within the civic body and displaying it as legitimate entertainment as people gathered to watch competitions and cheer on their teams. Finally, Yıldız examines how international sporting culture came to Istanbul through such activities as the newly reformed Olympics, even as the divisions between ethnicities grew in how the press covered …
  table of contents: Pregame. "You can write the history of sports in Turkey right here..." -- "Sport in our city" -- "Gymnastics is not a game" -- "Long live our gymnastics club" -- "Sport nut" -- "My dear, you're going to be both an inspector and a founder" -- "Praise be to God, sports enthusiasm has awakened in our country" -- "Oh my, there is a spectacle" -- "These brave young men with solid biceps are the hope of the future generation" -- "The name of the Ottomans will be held high" -- Overtime. "The unconventional state of affairs."
  note: Murat C. Yıldız.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-tu---
  subject:
    topic: Physical education and training
    geographic: Turkey
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Athletic clubs
    geographic: Turkey
    geographic: Istanbul
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Turkey
  subject:
    geographic: Turkey
    topic: History
    temporal: Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
  subject:
    topic: Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
  subject:
    geographic: Empire ottoman
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Clubs sportifs
    geographic: Turquie
    geographic: İstanbul
  classification: GV301 .Y55 2025
  classification: 613.709561
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ottoman world of sports
    name:
      name part: Yildiz, Murat, Dr
    origin info:
      publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2025]
      edition: First edition
    identifier: (DLC) 2025003793
  identifier: 9781477332870 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1477332871
  identifier: 9781477332863
  identifier: 9781477332887
  identifier: 2025003792
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: P@U
    record creation date: 250418
    record change date: 20260412195038.3
    record identifier: in00005778211
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng