A historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Itzkowitz transferred to emeritus status in 2001 after 42 years on the faculty. Itzkowitz’s scholarship covered a range of topics and periods in ...

Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, which are ...

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

Prof. Cornell H. Fleischer, a world-renowned expert of Ottoman history and scholar of the greater Islamic world, passed away in Chicago on April 21. He was 72. Known for his prowess with languages and ...

A new book titled The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908--1923), edited by ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

Growing up in a military family, history professor Doug Howard did two tours of duty in Turkey, and he’ll be returning there this summer through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Acknowledgements -- A note on spelling and transliteration -- List of figures. Introduction. Part 1 Approaching the sources : Texts in context: relating primary to secondary sources -- The trouble ...