Murat Bardak (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Murat G khan Bardak (born 1955) is a Turkish journalist working on Ottoman history and Turkish music history. Besides he is a columnist in Habert rk newspaper. Bardak was born in 1955 in stanbul. An economist by training, he was trained in Turkish classical music by some of the most-reputed contemporary masters, in tanbur and singing at first, with his primary interests directed more towards theory and musical history later. He published several researches on musical history (notably the biographies of the composers Abd al-Qadir Maraghi and Refik Fersan) and with the start of a journalistic career in H rriyet, expanded the scope of his writings on Ottoman and general Islamic history, with marked emphasis on the 19th and the early-20th centuries.