Europe and the Orient. Journal of Historical and Cultural Interactions 2023/1

CONTENTS

Editorial

ARTICLES

Slobodan Dan Paich (USA) - Cultural Osmosis, Overlap, and Shared Latitudes Complexity and Ambiguity of Islamic Legacy in Non-Muslim Context

Azucena Hernàndez Pérez (Spain) - Art, Science and Technology in the Medieval Mediterranean: the Case of the Astrolabes in al-Andalus and the Middle East

Ekin Can Göksoy (Turkey) - Eating Out. Food Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Mohammad Mosa Foqara (Israel) - Traditions and Practices around the Tombs of the Just from the Point of View of Judaism and Islam

Roza Zharkynbaeva (Kazakhstan) - Interaction of Western and Southern National Cultures in Extreme Conditions of the Great Patriotic War (on the Example of Mobilized Population from Central Asian Military District)

Pulat Shozimov (tadjikistan) - The Creation of an Innovative Cross-Disciplinary Methodology in Central Asia as a Result of a Dialogue Between Western European and central Asian Systems of Philosophical Thought

Milena Benovska (Bulgaria) - The Soft Power of Seduction: Turkish TV Dramas as Cultural Diplomacy

Almat Musin (Kazakhstan) - Comics in Kazakhstan as a Cultural Phenomenon: Varieties, Features, and Influences on Contemporary Youth Culture

BOOK REVIEWS

José Manuel Losada, Mitocritica Cultural. Una Definicion Del Mito. Madrid: Akal, 2022 (Reviewed by José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas, Spain)

Ferenc Bódi, Andrea Ragusa, Ralitsa Savova, eds., Courage in Politics. Pisa: Pacini Editore, 2020. (Reviewed by Nikolai Vukov, Bulgaria)

Mohammad Mosa Foqara, Anthropology and Colonialism in the Past and Present. Alhoda Press, 2022 [in Arabic]. (Reviewed by Duaa Taha, Israel)

Nevrie Chufadar, The Fantastical Elements in the Koroglu Destans. Shumen: Konstantin Preslavski University Press, 2019 [in Bulgarian]. (Reviewed by Nikola Papuchiev, Bulgaria)

CONFERENCES

"Miasto i Pamięc" - Gdynia, Poland, 27-29 October 2021. (Overview by Stefan Halikowski-Smith, UK)

"What's Up?!" Conference of Directors of European Ethnographic Museums - Budapest, Nungary - 25-27 May 2022 (Overview by Iglika Mishkova, Bulgaria)

"Scientific Knowledge and Chalenges of Historical Memory: Local and Universal" (III International Conference for a Culture of Knowledge) - Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 19-20, 2022. (Overview by Nikolai Vukov, Bulgaria)