In the eighteenth century the embassies and trading houses of France, England, Venice, and other European powers shared space on the steep hills of Galata and Pera, separated only by the waters of the Golden Horn from ...

Before examining Ahmed Vâsıf ’s philosophy of history, it will be useful to say a word about his life and work.4 Born in Baghdad in the 1730s, Vâsıf entered state service around the year 1768 and began a career of no small ...

The current paper will deal with an intellectual who became famous in Ottoman cultural history as the founder of the first Ottoman-Turkish printing house (1726). He was a Hungarian-born Protestant (allegedly Unitarian), ...

The relationship between the Ottoman state and the fifteenth century Ottoman historians require more attention than it has received to date. The evidence suggests that where the interests of the state and political individuals ...

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 ...

Takririn kimin tarafından kaleme alındığına dair kesin bir bilgi yoktur. Zira takrirde bu hususta herhangi bir isim zikredilmez. Bununla birlikte müellifin kimliği ve hayatıyla ilgili esas kaynağımız da yine takririn ...

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 ...

Celalzâde’nin Alman seferi tarihçesi aslında araştırmacılar tarafından ismen malum olmakla birlikte mahiyeti tam olarak bilinmeyen bir eserdir. Mesela Tayyib Gökbilgin “Süleyman I” maddesinde eserin Süleymaniye Kütüphanesindeki ...

Köprülü’nün İlk Mutasavvıflar’daki değerlendirmelerinde dikkat çeken nokta, Anadolu’ya Şiî/Alevî unsurların girişinde İsmailî-Batınî etkiye yaptığı vurgudur. Öteden beri Batınî akidelerine bir sığınak olan Suriye ile ...

Were the Endowment Libraries in Arab Countries Plundered by the Ottomans? Yazma eserler konusunda çalışan Arap ülkelerine mensup hemen hemen bütün araştırmacıların, İstanbul’daki zengin yazma eserlerden bahsederken ...