Kızıl Elma
Kızıl Elma (or Kızılelma ), the red apple (in German also the “golden apple”), is a symbol of imperial rule by the Turks . It stood for the legendary goal of Turkish-Muslim conquests. With the Ottomans , the red apple symbolized first Constantinople and Budapest , then Rome and later Vienna, in accordance with imperialist aspirations .
In Ahmed I's album (around 1610) numerous sultans were depicted with the red apple in their hands.
The origin or history of this expression or this idea of the red apple is not clear.
The red apple shows similarities with the golden globe of Christian emperors and kings and is a cross-cultural symbol.
Representatives of the nationalist stream of Turanism localized the red apple in Turan in Central Asia since the early 20th century . Today, the red apple is primarily a symbol of turanist longing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ahmed I. Album . TSMK, Bağdat Köşkü, no. 408, vr. 32a
- ↑ Hans Lukas Kieser in: Irichard Faber (Ed.) Imperialism in past and present. Würzburg 2005, p. 183
literature
- Pertev Naili Boratav: Ḳi̊zi̊l-Elma (or Ḳi̊zi̊l-Alma) , in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition , Vol. 5, Brill, Leiden 1986, ISBN 90-04-07819-3 , pp. 245–246 ( online , limited access ).
- Orhan Şaik Gökyay: Kızılelma , in Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi , Vol. 25, Istanbul 2002, ISBN 975-389-403-1 .
- Pál Fodor: In Quest of the Golden Apple. Imperial Ideology, Politics, and Military Administration in the Ottoman Empire. The Isis Press, Istanbul 2000, ISBN 975-428-166-1 .