Nadir Bir İstanbul Kitabı-Henry Otis Dwight, Constantinople and its Problems. Its Peoples, Customs, Religions and Progress, Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, 1901. 298 s, başlık s önünde pelür kağıdı ile korunmuş 1 fotoğraf, metin dışındaki 8 planşta (11 fotoğraf), indeks, 20.5 x 13 cm, yayıncının desenli bez cildinde. Çok uzun bir süre İstanbul’da misyoner olarak yaşayan Amerikalı rahip H. O. Dwight kitabında İstanbul’u dünyanın merkezine koymaktadır. İstanbul, İslamiyet, Doğu (Ortodoks) Kilisesi, Doğu ve Batı’nın buluşması, eğitim sistemi (azınlık ve yabancı okulları), Bible House (daha sonra Redhouse Yayınevi) kitabın ana bölümlerini oluşturur. Misyoner faaliyetlerin kültürel emperyalizmin bir yan uğraşı olarak görüldüğü dönemlerin, bu düzenin önde gelen isimlerinden biri tarafından ayrıntılı bir biçimde anlatılışıdır.
In this collection of seven loosely related essays upon " Constantinople and its Problems" Dr. Dwight adds another volume to the large and rapidly increasing collection of books which contain the results of the observation and experience of men who have spent many years in missionary service. It is distinctly better than many of these "missionary books", however less "preachy," freer from pious but trivial incident and comment, wider in its outlook, more tolerant and sympathetic in its judgments. The Turk, as Dr. Dwight depicts him, is by no means without his attractive qualities. He respects what he calls learning. He is not complacently insensible to his deficiencies and needs, or altogether reluctant to accept the offered gifts of western civilization. He is reading the newspapers which Christians own and publish ; he relinquishes to Christians the keeping of his accounts, the control of his banks, and the building of his mosques. He is making recognizable, if slow, progress in provision for popular education. Christian missions in Turkey gain few Moslem converts, but one closes Dr. Dwight's book convinced that the leaven of Christianity is working nevertheless. The women who now form a majority of the missionary force of the American board at Constantinople are gathering the little children into kindergartens and visiting Greek and Armenian mothers in their wretched homes with the Bible in their hands. A weekly family newspaper and a monthly illustrated paper for children in two or three languages are carried into all parts of the empire. Books published by "an uncontroversial but thoroughly Christian press" are hawked about the streets of Constantinople and bought to be read in far-distant regions. Skilled Christian workers are always going about among the journeyman laborers who have come up to the city from country homes, with friendly offers of service, helping them to write letters and to send their wages to their families, and calling them together in the evening for Bible teaching. This is not a work which furnishes much material for imposing missionary statistics. But none the less it is the proclamation of the good news of the kingdom of Christ.
Henry Otis Dwight (1843-1917), was an American missionary and author.
İçindekiler:
I. THE CITY AS THE CENTRE OF A WORLD: Beauty and importance of the site, Dominating influence of the city in Western Asia, Illustrations from missionary experience, The ebb and flow of population between the city and the provinces, Power to elevate the people of the land

II. THE MOHAMMEDAN QUESTION: Unfilled promises of strength a characteristic of Islam, Illustrations from life in the city, The question thus raised, Mohammedan creed as presented by its chief doctor, Strength of Islam ; the truth that it teaches, Its weakness ; the belief that God’s mercy provides for self-indulgence, Power of pure Christian character to move Muslims
III. THE WOMAN QUESTION: Woman Asia’s bulwark against reform, The Turkish woman, Her charms, Her tongue and its uses, Her ignorance and heathenism, Her influence over men, Education a step toward the solution of the woman question
IV. THE EASTERN CHURCH: The natural channel for evangelization of Turkey, A thousand years of stagnation, Reasons for this, The Church a political club, The laity not the clergy lead growth, Incapacity for elevating the general populace, Claims of this Church to the sympathy of Christendom, No growth for Turkey but through influence from outside, This Church the place to begin efforts for uplifting the people of the country
V. THE MEETING OF EAST AND WEST: Susceptibility of Orientals to outside influences, Common ground in commerce and amusements, Turkish tastes in amusements, interest in European social life, Injury wrought by a soulless civilization, Commercial civilization not elevating in its influence, Vanity of hope that civilization alone will lift the people to better life
VI. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL TEACHERS: Respect of Turks for learning, Rank among Mohammedan clergy rests upon learning alone, Does not imply any scientific knowledge, The Mohammedan school system, Its extension by desire for having children read, Its limitation through dread of the effects of knowledge, The Turkish teacher, Moral state of schools, Armenian and Greek schools, Moral philosophy that justifies lying, Roman Catholic and other Western schools in Turkey, Robert College, American College for Girls, Education without religious principle cannot uplift
VII. A HALF FORGOTTEN AGENCY: The ancient bookwriters’ guild of Constantinople and the possibilities of the press, Awakened taste for reading, The American mission and its entrance into the inner life of the people, The press and its power, City missions, Women as missionaries and their work, Better use of Constantinople essential to success of this enterprise, The waiting Christ in St. Sophia

ILLUSTRATIONS
In the Harbor
Mosque of St. Sophia
Turkish Version of “The Man with the Hoe”
Turkish Women and Fortune Teller
Group of Greek Clergy
The Bosphorus as a Highway (Russian transport on the way to China)
The Cart of Asia Minor
Geuk Sou (Family parties out for the day)
In a Coffee Shop
Robert College
American College for Girls
The Bible House

Nadir Bir İstanbul Kitabı

Henry Otis Dwight, Constantinople and its Problems. Its Peoples, Customs, Religions and Progress, Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, 1901. 298 s, başlık s önünde pelür kağıdı ile korunmuş 1 fotoğraf, metin dışındaki 8 planşta (11 fotoğraf), indeks, 20.5 x 13 cm, yayıncının desenli bez cildinde. Çok uzun bir süre İstanbul’da misyoner olarak yaşayan Amerikalı rahip H. O. Dwight kitabında İstanbul’u dünyanın merkezine koymaktadır. İstanbul, İslamiyet, Doğu (Ortodoks) Kilisesi, Doğu ve Batı’nın buluşması, eğitim sistemi (azınlık ve yabancı okulları), Bible House (daha sonra Redhouse Yayınevi) kitabın ana bölümlerini oluşturur. Misyoner faaliyetlerin kültürel emperyalizmin bir yan uğraşı olarak görüldüğü dönemlerin, bu düzenin önde gelen isimlerinden biri tarafından ayrıntılı bir biçimde anlatılışıdır.
In this collection of seven loosely related essays upon " Constantinople and its Problems" Dr. Dwight adds another volume to the large and rapidly increasing collection of books which contain the results of the observation and experience of men who have spent many years in missionary service. It is distinctly better than many of these "missionary books", however less "preachy," freer from pious but trivial incident and comment, wider in its outlook, more tolerant and sympathetic in its judgments. The Turk, as Dr. Dwight depicts him, is by no means without his attractive qualities. He respects what he calls learning. He is not complacently insensible to his deficiencies and needs, or altogether reluctant to accept the offered gifts of western civilization. He is reading the newspapers which Christians own and publish ; he relinquishes to Christians the keeping of his accounts, the control of his banks, and the building of his mosques. He is making recognizable, if slow, progress in provision for popular education. Christian missions in Turkey gain few Moslem converts, but one closes Dr. Dwight's book convinced that the leaven of Christianity is working nevertheless. The women who now form a majority of the missionary force of the American board at Constantinople are gathering the little children into kindergartens and visiting Greek and Armenian mothers in their wretched homes with the Bible in their hands. A weekly family newspaper and a monthly illustrated paper for children in two or three languages are carried into all parts of the empire. Books published by "an uncontroversial but thoroughly Christian press" are hawked about the streets of Constantinople and bought to be read in far-distant regions. Skilled Christian workers are always going about among the journeyman laborers who have come up to the city from country homes, with friendly offers of service, helping them to write letters and to send their wages to their families, and calling them together in the evening for Bible teaching. This is not a work which furnishes much material for imposing missionary statistics. But none the less it is the proclamation of the good news of the kingdom of Christ.
Henry Otis Dwight (1843-1917), was an American missionary and author.
İçindekiler:
I. THE CITY AS THE CENTRE OF A WORLD: Beauty and importance of the site, Dominating influence of the city in Western Asia, Illustrations from missionary experience, The ebb and flow of population between the city and the provinces, Power to elevate the people of the land

II. THE MOHAMMEDAN QUESTION: Unfilled promises of strength a characteristic of Islam, Illustrations from life in the city, The question thus raised, Mohammedan creed as presented by its chief doctor, Strength of Islam ; the truth that it teaches, Its weakness ; the belief that God’s mercy provides for self-indulgence, Power of pure Christian character to move Muslims
III. THE WOMAN QUESTION: Woman Asia’s bulwark against reform, The Turkish woman, Her charms, Her tongue and its uses, Her ignorance and heathenism, Her influence over men, Education a step toward the solution of the woman question
IV. THE EASTERN CHURCH: The natural channel for evangelization of Turkey, A thousand years of stagnation, Reasons for this, The Church a political club, The laity not the clergy lead growth, Incapacity for elevating the general populace, Claims of this Church to the sympathy of Christendom, No growth for Turkey but through influence from outside, This Church the place to begin efforts for uplifting the people of the country
V. THE MEETING OF EAST AND WEST: Susceptibility of Orientals to outside influences, Common ground in commerce and amusements, Turkish tastes in amusements, interest in European social life, Injury wrought by a soulless civilization, Commercial civilization not elevating in its influence, Vanity of hope that civilization alone will lift the people to better life
VI. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL TEACHERS: Respect of Turks for learning, Rank among Mohammedan clergy rests upon learning alone, Does not imply any scientific knowledge, The Mohammedan school system, Its extension by desire for having children read, Its limitation through dread of the effects of knowledge, The Turkish teacher, Moral state of schools, Armenian and Greek schools, Moral philosophy that justifies lying, Roman Catholic and other Western schools in Turkey, Robert College, American College for Girls, Education without religious principle cannot uplift
VII. A HALF FORGOTTEN AGENCY: The ancient bookwriters’ guild of Constantinople and the possibilities of the press, Awakened taste for reading, The American mission and its entrance into the inner life of the people, The press and its power, City missions, Women as missionaries and their work, Better use of Constantinople essential to success of this enterprise, The waiting Christ in St. Sophia

ILLUSTRATIONS
In the Harbor
Mosque of St. Sophia
Turkish Version of “The Man with the Hoe”
Turkish Women and Fortune Teller
Group of Greek Clergy
The Bosphorus as a Highway (Russian transport on the way to China)
The Cart of Asia Minor
Geuk Sou (Family parties out for the day)
In a Coffee Shop
Robert College
American College for Girls
The Bible House

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