Publications

2023
Elias Kolovos, George Pallis Panagiotis Poulos & C, ed.. Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages Under Negotiation. 1st ed. Athens: Kapon Editions, 2023. Publisher's Version Abstract
The book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages Under Negotiation approaches the Ottoman monuments of Greece as the heritage of a historical period that lends itself to multiple readings. This collective work brings together and array of studies, covering a wide range of disciplines, including history of art, archaeology, architecture, and urban studies. Through rich unpublished archival, photographic, and epigraphic material, the authors of this edited volume, enrich our knowledge of the emblematic Ottoman monuments of Greece cities and foreground unknown aspects of the architecture of rural Greece. In the pages of the book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: heritages under negotiation, the stories of places, buildings, and people from Ottoman era to present days come alive. These stories constitute a major contribution to the dialogue on the status and role of this special heritage for Modern Greece. The critical analyses featured in this edited volume renew and broaden the research conducted in the fields of Ottoman studies and cultural heritage.
2022
Poulos, Panagiotis C. “

Greeks, Jews, and Music Sociality in Late Ottoman Istanbul

”. Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 9, no. 1 (2022): 51-69. Publisher's Version Abstract
This article examines the different registers of music interaction between Greek Orthodox and Jewish communities of Istanbul in the late Ottoman period. Intercommunal interaction is approached within the broader framework of modernization of music and in relation to the degree in which this interaction was implicated in the modernization process. New forms of music sociality related to music print and entertainment in which musicians and other agents from the two com- munities participated are analyzed in terms of their spatial dimension and as knots in a network of important locales within the city. This spatial approach challenges the centralized narratives concerning the modernization of Ottoman music and highlights the important role of local intermediaries and new economic patterns in shaping Otto- man musical modernity. KEYWORDS: Greek Orthodox, Jews, Istanbul, music print, sociality, Ottoman modernity
2021
Poulos, Panagiotis C, and Elias Kolovos. “Athens besieged: Greek and Ottoman perceptions of shifting space during the Greek Revolution of 1821”. Journal of Greek Media & Culture 7, no. 2 (2021): 219–38. Publisher's Version Abstract
This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, using as a case study the transitional events of the siege of the Acropolis by the Ottoman army in 1826 and the recapturing of the city of Athens. Through a thorough study of space as embodied knowledge grounded in the dynamic interaction between humans and material culture, it identifies the shifts in the Athenian landscape during this period. Its findings are based on primary textual and visual sources pertaining to warfare, which are juxtaposed to the Greek and Ottoman emerging official perceptions of the significance of the city of Athens as a political and imaginary objective. The article deploys a phenomenological analysis of space that foregrounds the everyday experiential dimensions and is highly relevant in understanding the ideological and political complexities and implications of the shifting spatialities of the revolutionary period.
Πούλος, Παναγιώτης. “Μορφές και είδωλα στο κατώφλι της οθωμανικής νεωτερικότητας στη Θεσσαλονίκη”. In “The work of magic art”. Ιστορία, χρήσεις και σημασίες του μνημείου των Incantadas της Θεσσαλονίκης, 191-201. Θεσσαλονίκη: Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης, 2021. Abstract
he testimony of the French diplomat Félix de Beaujour in the late 18th century regarding the Turkish name of the celebrated Incantadas triggered a series of creative interpretations of the phrase sureth maleh. Besides the issue of the meaning of this name, the relation of the city’s Muslim community with the particular antiquities and their stories remains relatively unknown and understudied. Using as starting point the work of the poet Ahmet Meşhûrî (1783-1857), this study attempts a preliminary reading of 19th century Ottoman literary and historiographical sources about Thessaloniki. It aims to map the broader conceptual framework within which the perception and the way the Muslim community related to remnants of the past and to this particular monument can be placed. This corpus of texts is historically situated at the threshold of Ottoman modernity, which, among other factors, is defined by the construction of a primary archaeological conscience by the Ottoman state, but also of the conceptualization of the city’s heritage. The aim of this critical read- ing is to highlight the contradictions and ambiguities of this process.
2019
Poulos, Panagiotis. “Spaces of Intercommunal Musical Relations in Ottoman Istanbul”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 1 (2019): 181-189.
2018
Poulos, Panagiotis. “At the House of Kemal: Private Musical Assemblies in Istanbul from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic”. In Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright, 104-122. London: Routledge, 2018.
2016
Poulos, Panagiotis. “Echoes of the Ottoman City in the Artistic Salons (meclis) of Modern Istanbul”. In Memory Narrates the City…: Oral History and Memory of Urban Space, 185-202. Athens: Plethron, 2016.
2015
Poulos, Panagiotis. Music in the islamic world: Sources, perspectives, practices. Athens: Hellenic Academic Libraries Link-Kallipos, 2015. Abstract
This book is an introductory handbook to the historical and ethnomusicological study of the musical traditions of the Islamic world. The aim of the book is to introduce its readers to the role and status of music in societies where Islam has historically been the predominant religion. The book is structured around three basic themes: Sources, Perspectives, Practices. Among the topics that are being explored is the relation between music, religion and ritual, the ways music is transmitted, musical orality and literacy, philosophical approaches to music and its conception as science and as art, its performative nature etc. Music is approached in relation to other forms of art (literature, iconography, architecture etc.) and to the various fields in which creativity is expressed in the Islamic world. Overall, the book aims to to contribute to a deeper and broader understanding of Islamic culture.
2014
Poulos, Panagiotis. “Greeks and Turks meet the Rum: Making Sense of the Sounds of ‘Old Istanbul’”. In When Greeks and Turks Meet: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship since 1923, 83-105. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014.
2013
Poulos, Panagiotis, Kostis Kornetis, and Eleni Kallimopoulou. Learning culture through city soundscapes-An educational tool. Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia , 2013.
Poulos, Panagiotis, Risto Pekka Penannen, and Aspasia Theodosiou, eds.. Ottoman Intimacies, Balkan Musical Realities. Helsinki: The Finnish Institute at Athens , 2013.
2011
Poulos, Panagiotis. “Rethinking Orality in Turkish Classical Music: A Genealogy of Contemporary Musical Assemblages”. Middle Eastern Journal of Culture and Communication 4 (2011): 164-183.