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 ...

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 ...

This study examines the treatment of Ottoman history in the Israeli Hebrew textbooks for history used from 1948 to 2014. Relating the foundation period, all the books rely on the ghaza thesis. The Ottoman Empire of the ...