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.
Most recent update: 22 November 1999.
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)
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
University of North Carolina's Middle East and Islamic Filmography
Leiden University's Turcica
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
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.
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.
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.