Legislator Poets
Translated from the Turkish
by Mevlut Ceylan
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Yusuf Ziya Ortac
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Economist (b. 1948, Adıyaman). He graduated
from İstanbul High Institute of Islam (1972)
and from İstanbul University, Faculty of
Economics (1976). He became an assistant at
the same faculty in 1980.
He received the degree of “Doctor of
Economics” from İstanbul University, Faculty
of Economics in 1981, with his thesis
“Gazali’nin İktisat Felsefesi” (Philosophy
of Economics by Gazali), which he prepared
under the supervision by Prof. Dr. Sabri F.
Ülgener.
In 1980, he became an assistant at the
İstanbul University, Faculty of Economics,
Chair of Social Politics. |
At the end of 1982, he began to give lectures at Marmara
University, Faculty of Economical and Administrative
Sciences, Department of Economics as an assistant
professor.
During the educational semester of 1982-1983, he
lectured at Erzurum Atatürk University, Faculty of
Economical and Administrative Sciences, Department of
Economics and then resumes his Office at Marmara
University.
In 1986, he became an associate professor at the same
university. Between 1989 and 1990, he worked at London
University, London School of Economics and Political
Sciences as a research scholar.
In May, 1993, he became a professor at Marmara
University, Department of Economics.
Between 1992 and 1994, he served as a professor of
economics at International Islamic University in
Malaysia, and at the International Institute of Islamic
Thought and Civilization (which is an organization on
the status of Post-Graduate Studies Institute) between
1995 and 1997.
He took his pension off from professorship at Marmara
University, Department of Economics and continued his
studies at the International Institute of Islamic
Thought and Civilization as a professor of economics.
WORKS
RESEARCH-STUDY: Gazali’nin İktisat Felsefesi
(Philosophy of Economics by Gazali, 1984), Gazalî:
Hakikat Araştırması - Felsefe Eleştirisi ve Etkisi (Gazali:
Reserch of Reality – A Critic and Influence of
Philosophy, 1986), İktisat Tarih ve Toplum (Economics,
History and Society, 2001).
EDITION (As an editor): Bilgi, Bilim ve İslam
(Information, Science and Islam, 1987), Para, Faiz ve
İslam (Money, Interest and Islam, 1987), Türkiye’de
Zekat Potansiyeli (The Potential of Offering in Turkey,
1987), İşçi-İşveren İlişkileri (Relations Between
Employers and Employees, 1990), Modernleşme, İslam
Dünyası ve Türkiye (Modernization, Islam World and
Turkey, 2001).
Besides, he made translations from K. R. Popper and
Abdülaziz Duri.
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One Day
One day this mother earth
Will embrace me to her bosom
They will see my hands
On a plane tree leaf by leaf
My voice is a chirping bird on a branch
My soul is a flight in outer space
Found its happiness
For far away from this world
Each flower is part me
Those insects are my eyes
Farmers will cut my hair every summer bundle
by bundle
My head is full of four seasons grass
Leaves are my confident
tears irrigating this black earth
Yusuf
Ziya Ortac
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus
Created
By Charles C. Mann
I’m
a big fan of Charles Mann’s previous
book
1491:
New Revelations of the Americas Before
Columbus, in which he
provides a sweeping and provocative
examination of North and South America
prior to the arrival of Christopher
Columbus. It’s exhaustively researched
but so wonderfully written that it’s
anything but exhausting to read. With
his follow-up,
1493, Mann has taken it to a
new, truly global level. Building on the
groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby
(author of
The Columbian Exchange and, I’m
proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer),
Mann has written nothing less than the
story of our world: how a planet of what
were once several autonomous continents
is quickly becoming a single,
“globalized” entity.
Mann not only talked to countless
scientists and researchers; he visited
the places he writes about, and as a
consequence, the book has a marvelously
wide-ranging yet personal feel as we
follow Mann from one far-flung corner of
the world to the next. And always, the
prose is masterful. In telling the
improbable story of how Spanish and
Chinese cultures collided in the
Philippines in the sixteenth century, he
takes us to the island of Mindoro whose
“southern coast consists of a number of
small bays, one next to another like
tooth marks in an apple.” We learn how
the spread of malaria, the potato,
tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar
cane have disrupted and convulsed the
planet and will continue to do so until
we are finally living on one integrated
or at least close-to-integrated Earth.
Whether or not the human instigators of
all this remarkable change will survive
the process they helped to initiate more
than five hundred years ago remains,
Mann suggests in this monumental and
revelatory book, an open question. |
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The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
By Randall Kennedy
Among the best things about
The Persistence of the Color Line
is watching Mr. Kennedy hash through the
positions about Mr. Obama staked out by
black commentators on the left and
right, from Stanley Crouch and Cornel
West to Juan Williams and Tavis Smiley.
He can be pointed. Noting the way Mr.
Smiley consistently “voiced skepticism
regarding whether blacks should back
Obama” . . .
The
finest chapter in
The Persistence of the Color Line
is so resonant, and so personal, it
could nearly be the basis for a book of
its own. That chapter is titled
“Reverend Wright and My Father:
Reflections on Blacks and Patriotism.”
Recalling some of the criticisms of
America’s past made by Mr. Obama’s
former pastor, Mr. Kennedy writes with
feeling about his own father, who put
each of his three of his children
through Princeton but who “never forgave
American society for its racist
mistreatment of him and those whom he
most loved.” His father distrusted
the police, who had frequently called
him “boy,” and rejected patriotism. Mr.
Kennedy’s father “relished Muhammad
Ali’s quip that the Vietcong had never
called him ‘nigger.’ ” The author places
his father, and Mr. Wright, in
sympathetic historical light. |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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