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The work presents etymologies of the Turkic names for the seven most important cereals: barley, corn, millet, oats, rice, rye and wheat. Altogether, 106 names are discussed. As yet, this subject has not been dealt with as a whole.... more
As a sophisticated intellectual, one of the least known aspects of İbrahim Müteferrika, the founder of Turkish printing press, is his service as a diplomat. İbrahim Müteferrika went to Poland and undertook negotiations during a time when... more
In this piece, I explore the portraits of Ottoman Sultans found in the British Library's manuscript Or 9505. I contextualize the work within the broader tradition of Ottoman historiography, and then compare the illustrations - which are... more
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE 18th С. ALEPPO’S ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN ALEXANDER RUSSELL’S “THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ALEPPO” Keywords- Syria, Ottoman Empire, religion, Turks, Chrisians, Muslims, Jews, Europeans, tradition, plague The book... more
My undergraduate graduation thesis , dealing with the trancription and translation into modern greek of the ottoman "tapu" title deeds which are kept in the Arta's department of the General State Archives of Greece . In addition to the... more
من أفضل قواعد اللغة التركية الحديثة التي قرأتها وأنصح بها الطلاب جميعًا لما تحويه من أمثلة كثيرة وشرح مبسط للقواعد، والكتاب يصلح للمستوي المبتدئ والمتوسط وبداية المستوي العالي.
Political marriages in the Middle Ages were safe tools of diplomacy and they were often contracted in order to establish peace, strengthen political ties and stabilize the relations in entire regions. It is for these reasons that the... more
DOBRUDJA IN OTTOMAN TIMES: THE KAZA OF HÂRȘOVA (16TH C) Abstract The Ottoman chancery documents, such as defters, orders, regulations, are a key source for studying Dobrudja under Ottoman rule, revealing its administrative, military and... more
The purpose of this guide is to offer a brief introduction to the rules of writing the Arabo-Persian script of the Ottoman orthography. Given that Ottoman orthography was never fully systemized, this somehow appears as a paradox... more
The paper proposes a methodology for a three-year seminar on Ottoman Language and Palaeography to Greek speakes. Moreover, it addresses the problems encountered when teaching Ottoman Turkish.
Nasreddin hocanın karısı ve komşuları ile olan kavgaları, dostlukları, esnaf ile olan ilişkileri vb. konularda dilden dile dolaşan fıkraları
Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die arabische Sprache in ihrem kulturellen und historischen Rahmen. Es berücksichtigt sowohl das Verhältnis zwischen arabischer Sprache und Islam als auch die Einbettung in die semitische Sprachfamilie.... more
“Şeyhoğlu Mustafa, Hurşîd-nâme (Hurşîd u Ferahşâd), nşr. Hüseyin Ayan” (tenkid ve tanıtım), İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, İstanbul 1993, c.XXVI, s. 355-367. ISSN 1015-2091
Küçük Prens aslında çocuklara yazıldığı düşünülen bir yetişkinler kitabı... Yetişkinlerin modernizmin başladığı erken dönemlerde içine düşmüş olduğu düşünsel ve davranışsal çıkmazları bir çocuk gözüyle fazla da rahatsız etmeden,... more
SUMMARY Mustafayev Sh.M. From the Seljuks to the Ottomans. Ethno-political processes in the Turkic milieu of Asia Minor in the 11-15 centuries. The monograph analyzes the complex ethno-political processes in Asia Minor on a broad... more
This volume consists of articles of various lengths on issues related to the social and political history of the Ottoman state. Some of the articles, based on original archival sources, were written as independent studies; others were... more
Bu parça, Peyami Safa'nın Ateş Böcekleri adlı eserinden kısa bir bölümdür. Metin, Faruk Kadri Timurtaş'ın Osmanlı Türkçesine Giriş 1 isimli kitabının 29-32 sayfaları arasından alınmıştır.
The Phanariots-Grecophone Christian elites who ruled the Danubian principalities in the eighteenth century-were the only non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire who claimed power by virtue of their command of the Turkish language. Why were they... more
Bu yazı, Zafer Önler'in 2019 yılında Türk Dil Kurumu yayını (1312) olarak çıkan Tarihsel Tıp Metinleri Sözlüğü başlıklı kitabın değerlendirme (olumlu ve olumsuz eleştiri) yazısıdır.
This study aims to follow the Ottoman Empire's stands on Constantine's requests, particularly that of the designation of Ahmed Bey as the Pacha of Algeria replacing his predecessor Hussein Dey who was removed by the French forces... more
THE OTTOMAN INSCRIPTIONS OF HYPATA (BADRACIK) The published epigraphic material derives from the city of Hypata (Ottoman Badracık). The corpus comprises four inscriptions in total, two funerary and two dedicatory. The collection covers... more
The newspaper of Papağan, started to be published by Orhan Seyfi on the date of 23 April 1924, continued its publishing life during 239 issues. In this study, it is examined two-year-publication activity of Papağan whose content was full... more
An encyclopaedic dictionary of culinary terms used in the Ottoman period. This new revised edition was published in 2023.
Ali Ufkî Bey (Wojciech Bobowski) is one of the most important figures of the Turco-Polish cultural relations, and a product of both worlds. He was born around 1610 in a village near Lviv, which belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian... more
Harput, sazıyla sözüyle çok zengin bir kültürel geçmişe sahiptir. Klasik edebiyatımız açısından da farklı ve dikkat çekici edebî muhitlerden biridir. Zira 19. asra kadar yetişen divan şairlerin sayısı birkaç sima ile sınırlı iken ve bu... more
Language is a crucial component of categorizing and contextualizing manuscripts. At times, curators and cataloguers have noted the "incorrect" orthographies of manuscript texts, positioning them in relation to orthographic standards that... more
Fahri Kaplan, "Klasik Türk Edebiyatı Eleştiri Terimleri Sözlüğü -Latifi Tezkiresi Örneği-", DBY Yayınları, İstanbul, 2021. Önsöz Şair tezkireleri, şairlerin hayatları hakkında bilgi veren, şiirlerinden örnekler sunan birer... more
Based on Ottoman historiographical and literary sources of the seventeenth century (Kınalızade, Mustafa Ali, Kâtip Çelebi, Na'ima, Defterdar Mehmed Paşa etc.), this paper analyzes the vocabulary used by the Ottoman elite for the lower... more
This collective publication deals with the loanwords, which are found in 18 late Byzantine historians and chronicles.
The Glossarium Sabicum, Persicum, Turcicum, et Arabicum (henceforth, Glossarium) is a quarto manuscript in the collection of the Leiden University Library, where it is accessioned as Acad. 222. Even though the Glossarium has the... more