Târîh-i dâr-i Âl-i 'Osmân

The Ottoman Page


Welcome to the Ottoman Page. This corner of the web is dedicated to classical Ottoman history. For "classical," I take the dates from Halil Inalcik's title, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age (1300-1600).

I have removed the "books" section since the advent of online booksellers like Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble has relegated my hand-made catalog to obsolesence.

New links will appear periodically.

If you're interested in the Ottoman background of Kosovo, lately in the news, please turn to the "suggested reading" page and take a look at Noel Malcolm's new book.

Suggestions for correcting, improving, expanding or updating the page can be e-mailed directly to me.

bill walsh

Most recent update: 22 November 1999.


Recommended reading

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Academic Institutions | Academic Resources | Journals | Professors | Vendors | Other Resources


Academic Institutions

Bilkent University's Department of History, which offers, among other things:

Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies also maintains a more comprehensive list of centers of study of the Middle East.

Harvard Library's Middle Eastern Resources

Princeton University's Near Eastern Studies Department

University of Chicago

University of Michigan Library's Near Eastern special collections

University of Pennsylvania's

Washington University's Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations (e-mail)


Academic Resources

Washington State University has an online world civilizations class which has a nice, introduction to the Ottomans

Peter Sebastian and Mary Neff's page on Marino Sanuto, Venetian historian and politician (1466-1536) who observed the contemporary Ottoman world in detail.

Ayse Koçoglu's Ottoman history page

Atlantic Studies on Societies in Change #56, East European Monographs, CCLV, War & Society in East Central Europe, Vol. XXVI, The Fall of The Medieval Kingdom of Hungary: Mohacs 1526 - Buda 1541 by Geza Perjes, (trans. Maria D. Fenyo; foreword, Janos M. Bak), is a nicely presented web-based version of a Hungarian revisionist account of the consequences of the battle of Mohacs.

Index to Murat Çizakça's database of tax-farm and waqf records

Bekir Kemal Ataman's Turkish Archives page at Marmara Üniversitesi has some useful information on the Ottoman (Basbakanlik) archives.

The Chicago Ottoman Microforms Project


Journals

Leiden University's Turcica


Professors

Benjamin Braude, Associate Professor, Boston College

Caesar Farah, Professor of History, University of Minnesota

Carter V. Findley, Professor, Ohio State University

Jane Hathaway, Professor, Ohio State University

Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University (Address, phone & e-mail)

Gülru Necipoglu, Harvard University (Address & Phone)

Sarah Shields, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Ehud R. Toledano, Professor, Tel Aviv University

Princeton University's entire Near Eastern Studies Faculty


Vendors

Yahya Erdem, a dealer in Turkish and Ottoman books in Ankara

See also the holdings of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, links to which appear above.


Other Resources

Yahoo's links on Turkish and Ottoman history are pretty good.

Kelley Ross has a nice timeline of Ottoman sovereigns, accompanied by maps of the Empire's waxing and waning As a curiosity, I cannot resist listing the Almanach de Bruxelles, in which one may find listed <the descendants of the Ottoman line.

The Piri Reis Map Project

Explore Turkey has a nice page on Istanbul in the Ottoman period with links to other sites of interest in the city and in Turkey in general A Belgian page on Ottoman flags, which has some interesting images but relatively little explanatory information or historical context.

Tughra Net is an Ottoman philatelic site.

Elif Akcali's chapter on Ottoman cuisine from her history of Turkish cuisine

"GOOD APPETITE", another page on Ottoman and Turkish cuisine.