The studies on the motives regarding the establishment of the Ottoman Empire, the respective groups’ role in it and notable families distinguished among those groups have remained limited due to the insufficiency of the ...

The institution of witness testimony played a critical role in the Ottoman judicial system. Judges (kadıs) made their final decisions almost solely on the basis of witness testimony. For this reason, great importance was ...

Subjects relating to public health turned into a significant policy-making issue in the 19th century, which is why governments took various measures to cope with public health matters. Food safety was considered a major ...

This work investigates fourteen non-Muslim (Christian and Jewish) waqfs and also those for “poor Muslims”. In the literature this is the first work to shed light on “unusual waqfs” which are unusual among innumerable ...

In 1552, Timişoara fell under Ottoman suzerainty and it became centre of the province. It has great strategic importance for protecting the Transylvania region. Timişoara which was under Ottoman rule for a long time, ...

In the 15th and 16th centuries Timur, who was a source of legitimacy for many Islamic dynasties, was commemorated in the Ottoman and Iranian worlds with images that were very different from each other. Beyond his well-known ...

III. Selim yönetimi 18. yüzyıl sonlarında askeri ve mali alanlardaki dönüşümler kapsamında, taşradaki kazaların masraflarını ve bunlarla ilgili suistimalleri hedefleyen bazı düzenlemeler yaptı. Bu çerçevede taşra ahalisinin ...

Burhān al-Dīn Haydar al-Harawī is one of the scholars invited from the East to the Ottoman lands during the foundation period of the Ottoman State. al-Harawī, who was reported to come to Bursa with the invitation of Sultan ...

Bu çalışma Mirza Mahdum Şerifi’nin (1540-87) Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndaki hayatı ve kariyerini incelemektedir. Mirza Mahdum Safavilerde yüksek rütbeli bir Şii bürokrattı, ancak Osmanlılara sığındıktan sonra Sünni olup ...

The Syriac Orthodox Community in the Ottoman State were administratively affiliated with the Armenian Patriarchate. Only the Greeks, Armenians and Jews were accepted as non-Muslim nations in the millet system organized by ...