Robert College, founded by American Protestant missionaries in Constantinople in 1863, started its first academic schools with students belonging to a variety of nationalities, no Turks or Muslims among them (the first ...

In the summer of 2014, the renovated Kizlaraga’s mosque was opened in the town of Ljubinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the Bosnian historiography and collective memory of the people of Ljubinje and the wider area, it was ...

The aim of this article is to stimulate greater interest in a series of largely uncharted scholastic journeys—a history of encounters and exchange between the Ottoman Empire and the amirate of Afghanistan in the long ...

This article examines three provincial intermediaries in Cyprus during the closing decades of the eighteenth century. It considers these cases as examples of some of the groups of Ottoman subjects who came to benefit in ...

The single specimen I propose to dissect was a man whose lifetime spanned the second half of the eighteenth century, and the first quarter of the nineteenth. He was born in Aleppo in 1172 of the hijri calendar (i.e. 1758 ...

If there is any aspect of Ottoman history that is considered to be well understood, it is the timar system, the system through which the revenues of the empire and the oversight of peasant agriculture were awarded to ...

Constitutionalism in this study refers to political ideas and actions, normative values and legal structures as well as restrictive mechanisms and compactual agreements of constitutional import, produced within the Ottoman ...

On 15 February 1765, Ahmad Efendi Tahazâde, a prominent member of the legal and religious establishment of Aleppo and a wealthy businessman, went to the main law court of that city and founded his third and final pious ...

Vakıf Belgeleri Işığında Umur Bey ve Lala Şahin Paşa’nın Menşei ve Osmanlılar ile İttifakı’na Dair araştırma yapılmıştır.

A Treaty Of Narratives: Friendship, Gifts, And Diplomatic History In the British Capitulations Of 1641