Gilles Veinstein

Gilles Veinstein is a French historian, born with Paris the July 18th 1945. He is specialist in Turkish and Othoman history.

Biography

In 1966, it integrates the National university of the street of Ulm. At its exit of the ENS, it prepares its thesis of third cycle as chief of work with VIe section of the practical École of the high studies, become École of the high studies in social sciences. In 1977, he becomes assisting Master, then university lecturer, with the EHESS. In 1986, from now on doctor d' État, he becomes director of studies (professor of masterly row).

In December 1998, he is elected professor with the Collège de France.

He belongs Turkish the Études laboratory and to Othomans (ESA 80 32), who associates the National center of the scientific research and the EHESS. He directs the Center of history of the Turkish field of this school.

Gilles Veinstein is co-director of the review Turcica , with Paul Dumont. He is member of the editorial board of the Cahiers of the Russian world , Academia Europeaea, the committee of Orientalisms of CNRS, of the Scientific advice of the French Institutes of Istanbul and Tachkent.

Controversy relative to its election at the Collège de France

Gilles Veinstein is elected professor with the Collège de France by 18 votes against 15 (and 2 white), that is to say a poll unusually tight for an election at the Collège de France. Its election is preceded by a polemic concerning the content of its remarks about the Armenian genocide, in an article ordered by the review the History for its file devoted to the deportation of the Armenians in 1915, published in April 1995. Gilles Veinstein explained Gilles Veinstein recalls in this article the existence of the Turk massacres perpetrated by the Armenian militia, and estimates that the term Génocide could not apply in an undeniable way to the massacres of Armenians perpetrated by the Turks in 1915 - 1916.

Israel Charny, president of the Research institute on the Holocaust ^, qualifies the article of Gilles Veinstein “of clear example of a new extremely dangerous form of sophisticated negationnism”. Catherine Coquio, president of the '' International association of research on the crimes against humanity and the genocides '' (AIRCRIGE), supports that the authors quoted by Gilles Veinstein, like the Gurun Turk, “made career on the negation of the Armenian genocide”. “It omits the majority of the evidence” and relativizes the importance of the hundreds of testimonys existing., Michel Cahen, Pierre Chuvin, Alain-Gerard Slama, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet because they consider that its work concerns the historical discipline, of the discussion, contrary to those of real negationnists. Two petitions were launched to support Gilles Veinstein. One gathered more than eighty signatures, petition of support of Mr. Veinstein like candidate at the Collège de France, but repudiating it on its refusal of the use of the term of genocide. This first petition was signed mainly by teacher-researchers of the EHESS of which is resulting Gilles Veinstein. The other petition was signed by a score of historians belonging to other establishments, of which Jean-Pierre Vernant, professor emeritus at the Collège de France. Misters Cahen and Vidal-Naquet indicated that the arguments of Mr. Veinstein did not convaincaient them. Pierre Vidal Naquet specifies in another intervention: “it is obvious that in the case of the massacre of the Armenians, the Turkish State is negationnist”.

This controversy inspired the philosopher Pierre Tévanian, who affirms that the refusal of the qualification of genocide concerns a perversion of the speech, and thus takes part in the construction of myths like “the Jewish question” or “the Armenian question”. Yves Ternon, in the book Of the negationnism, memory and taboo thinks while being based on the methods of the historical comparative literature, which one is in right to invite negationnist an author who refuses with the massacres of the Armenians the qualifier of genocide, without to compare it to the negationnists of the Jewish Génocide. It analyzes the techniques negationnists in the light of the Veinstein business.

Recent research

Since his election at the Collège de France, Gilles Veinstein and his collaborators chose four “great research programs”: languages and cultures of the Turkish-speaking people; sources and the first four centuries history Othoman (of XIVe with XVIIIe); end of the Ottoman Empire and the heritage bequeathed by him; bases of the contemporary Turkish world. Its courses with the College relate in particular on the Othoman diplomacy, and more especially to the relations with Christian Europe. He recalled on this subject, in the review the History (n° 273, February 2003) that the orientation of the Turks towards Europe goes back precisely to the first centuries of the Othoman time and is translated, inter alia, by the diplomacy carried out at that time.

With Nicolas Vatin, Gilles Veinstein wrote the Seraglio shaken , vast anthropological and political history of the Othoman capacity, of XIVe at the XVIIIe century. With Othoman Insularities , Gilles Veinstein is interested in the maritime policy of the Sublime door.

Principal publications

Works

Mehmed Effendi. The paradise of the infidels , Maspero, coll “the Discovery”, 1981
Ottoman Empire and Rumanian countries. 1544-1545 , ED. school of the high studies in social sciences and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1987
State and company in the Ottoman Empire. Ground, the war, the communities , London, ED. Variorum, 1994
inaugural Lesson , Collège de France, 1999
the shaken Seraglio. Test on deaths, depositions and advents of Othoman sultans. XVe-XIXe centuries , ED. Beech, 2003

Direction of collective works

Last turco-tatar, present Soviet, Mixtures in the honor of Alexandre Bennigsen (joint management with CH. Lemercier-Quelquejay, E.S. Wimbush), Peeters editions and editions of the School of the High Studies in Social sciences, 1986
mystical Orders in Islam. Advance and current location , ED. ÉHÉSS, 1986
In Soviet Central Asia. Ethnos groups, Nations, States (joint management with R. Dor), special issue of the Books of the Russian and Soviet world , XXII, January-March 1991, editions of the School of the High Studies in Social sciences, Paris, 1991
Salonique, 1850-1918. The “city of the Jews” and the alarm clock of Balkans , ED. Otherwise, Paris, 1992.
Soliman the Magnificent and his time. Acts of IXe meetings of the School of Louvre , (7 March 10th, 1990), French Documentation, Paris, 1992
Bektachiyya. Studies on the mystical order of Bektachis and the groups concerned with Hadji Bektach (joint management with A. Popovic), ED. Isis, Istanbul, 1995,476 p.
Othomans and death. Permanences and changes , ED. Brill, Leyde, 1996
Ways of holiness in Islam and Christianity , number set of themes of the Re-examined history of the religions , 215, January 1st, th and th - March 1998, 186 p.
History of the men of God in Islam and Christianity (joint management with Dominique Ionia-Prat), ED. Flammarion, 2003
Othoman Insularities , French Institute of Anatolian studies/ED. Maisonneuve and Larose, 2004

Articles

Gilles Veinstein contributed in many specialized publications in history. A list of these articles is present on the site of the Collège de France. In addition to the texts presenting the state of its research, it also published articles of popularization in the review the History .

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