Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Extensive guide with resources useful for Turkish Studies research provided by Turkish Studies Specialist, Feyza Sayman, including news portals, cultural and scientific associations, government information, maps, libraries, etc

Digital resource for multivocal and inclusive discussion of history for the Ottoman Empire and beyond

"This overview aims at assisting in locating relevant sources for those doing research on, in particular, the (late) Ottoman Empire and the early Republic of Turkey."

"...a hub for digital projects, tools, events, publications, and platforms to contribute to Digital Humanities from the perspective of Ottoman and Turkish Studies."

"This print model is trained on a selection of six late 19th – early 20th century Ottoman Turkish periodicals and an Ottoman Turkish dictionary. It was created by the Digital Ottoman Corpora team. We adhered to the “half-transcription” latinization scheme recommended by the Turkish Historical Association for late Ottoman era print material."

Publishing platform for open access academic journals published in Turkey, including many Ottoman studies journals and articles. Search or browse.

Free and extensive database of references to theses, books, articles, papers and projects relating to research into Ottoman-Turkish culture.

nitiated in the Fall of 2003, the project Historians of the Ottoman Empire aims at filling an extensive gap in the field of Ottoman Studies by offering scholars a major bio-bibliographical reference book on Ottoman historians.

Search and browse Ottoman dictionaries

Searchable selection of Ottoman dictionarries

Search for meanings of words in Arabic script or transliteration. Some deciphering capability

T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın no: 26

"It brings together over 40,000 digitized documents, incorporating published encyclopedia articles and a body of archival material that forms the basis for subsequent volumes. Enabling an in-depth analysis of the archive, the online platform provides a basis to trace and explore the visual and textual connections between various sources."

Gregorian, Hijri, Rumi

Hand-crafted bibliographies on select themes and periods presented by OHP librarian Heather Hughes

Collection guides to archives, libraries, museums, and other research centers with material relevant for Middle East / Islamic studies, as well as features for online resources

User provided collection guides for institutional collections and archives in Turkey

1,103 volumes (codices and rolls) and a small number of single leaves, dating from the 8th to the 20th century CE and carrying roughly 1,800 titles. Includes 120+ volumes carrying nearly 200 texts in Turkish (mainly Ottoman, 3 texts in Chagatai). Manuscript production in the Ottoman lands is especially well represented in terms of book arts and elements of scholarly culture.

Searchable digital database comprising information about, as well as transliterations and pictures of, all the Turkish, Arabic and Persian architectural inscriptions created in the Ottoman lands during Ottoman times

Growing project that aims at building Turkish corpora, developing Natural Language Processing tools and compiling linguistic datasets

= “Habsburg-Osmanlı Diplomasisi Kaynakları Dijital Edisyonu, 1500–1918” An open access project to digitally edit documentary and material sources of Habsburg–Ottoman diplomatic encounters.

"GraViz: The Ottoman Grand Vizierate 1560s to 1760s, is a digital editing project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, P-36216) that researches the correspondence of six selected early modern Ottoman grand viziers with the Viennese court. GraViz lays the foundations for a larger planned project that will comparatively analyze the early modern offices of grand vizier and chief minister across Eurasia." Hosted by QohD

"These archival collections provide information on the built environment and social life in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. They provide the grounds for detailed studies of the transformations of this multicultural land in the last two centuries through stories of individuals from the 19th century onwards."

Digital archive of Ottoman periodicals currently kept at the Beyazıt State Library in Istanbul

Internet Archive digital collection of Ottoman Turkish material from the Osman Nuri Karabıyık Collection preserved at Duke

Source materials and secondary literature on the history of the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey of which a significant portion have been digitized and made accessible via MENAdoc

Includes several important collections of digitized periodicals (including Ottoman official yearbooks ie salnameler), photographs, maps, and other material

Database of articles from Ottoman periodicals

Bu veri tabanı Osmanlı devlet ve vilayet salnameleri ile Nevsal’leri kapsamaktadır
This database includes Ottoman imperial and provincial salnāmes and nevsāls

Guide to Ottoman local newspapers

" ...showcases data on Istanbul’s grocers as documented in inheritance inventories from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For the eighteenth century, a total of 392 kadi sicills were scanned, of which 77 include grocers' inheritance inventories with 88 entries in total from the years 1701 to 1795, covering three judicial districts (kadiships) of Istanbul: Galata (37 inventories), Üsküdar (21 inventories), and Eyüp (19 inventories). For the nineteenth century, 124 kadi sicills from the Üsküdar kadiship were scanned, yielding 29 grocers’ inheritance inventories from the period between 1803 and 1851. The website will soon incorporate an additional 150 Eyüp grocers’ inheritance inventories, covering the years 1798 to 1906. By the first quarter of 2025, the data from the Galata grocers will also be added to the database. The data can be explored in detail through five dedicated tabs: “Documents,” “Grocers,” “Groceries,” “Grocery Categories,” and “Locations.” Additionally, the “Dashboard” tab offers detailed graphs and visualizations of the data, facilitating deeper analysis. The site also includes a list of “paraphernalia” documented in the grocers’ inheritance inventories and will soon feature a separate database of pricing information"

Catalog and digital collection of Turkish Islamist journals and magazines from roughly 1908-2010

Thousands of digitized engravings --- illustrations and maps --- with descriptions in Turkish and English

Guide to the collections, links to catalogue search portals for the library and archives, including digitized materials

Search and browse digitized collection material from the library and archives

Now preserved at the Getty Research Institute, more than 6,000 images collected by Pierre de Gigord that document the Ottoman Empire and its transformation into the Republic of Turkey from 1852 to 1950.

"Selected inventory of the Library’s Ottoman Turkish Collections of manuscripts, books, periodicals, maps, photographs, videos, and other helpful resources."

"This monumental collection portrays the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II. The 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893. They highlight the modernization of numerous aspects of the Ottoman Empire, featuring images of educational facilities and students; well-equipped army and navy personnel and facilities; technologically advanced lifesaving and fire fighting brigades; factories; mines; harbors; hospitals; and government buildings. Most of the places depicted are within the boundaries of modern-day Turkey, but buildings and sites in Iraq, Lebanon, Greece and other countries are also included."

Digitized collection of Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Arabic works gifted to the Library of Congress by II. Abdülhamid

Modern Turkey, from its late Ottoman roots in the early 19th-century to its emergence as a republic following the First World War, is traced here

"archival records and published material related to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), one of the most active US-based international missionary organizations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as several contemporary scholarly journals that are difficult to obtain outside of Turkey"

Digital access on the SALT Research platform to the American Board Archives -- chiefly records held by the Amerikan Bord Heyeti (ABH), Turkish office of the ABCFM. Includes reports, correspondence, photographs, and many other documents.

"digital archive of Arabic newspapers and journals primarily from late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine. The titles include a wide variety of political, cultural, religious and economic viewpoints, and span dailies to quarterly periodicals. This archive is searchable by title and author name, and can be browsed by date, title, city and frequency.
This collection contains 30,706 issues comprising 206,594 pages and 453,604 articles."

"The goal is to record all current and historic place names within the borders of Turkey and adjoining lands. Use search boxes to look for current place names (ex: Şeyhli), historic names (ex: Saneva / Çanava), or district and province (ex: Onikişubat). Use star (*) as joker to check multiple spellings (ex: Mahmut*, P*sor). Click on map to find places by location or area."

Platform presents a series of historical maps, aerial imagery, historical photos, geographical features like historical transportation routes, as well as many points of interest such as the historical beaches of Istanbul

Scanned and geo-referenced topographical maps of Eastern Turkey and the lands of the broader Ottoman Empire, mainly compiled at the British Intelligence Division War Office in 1915 derived from map and survey data collected during multiple expeditions 1839-1906

OpenOttoman Gazetteer Institutional Repository, Pleiades, and other online gazetteers of interest to Ottomanists

List of Historical Map Web Sites from the Perry-Castañeda Library

Historical map collection with over 86,000 maps and related images online

Database of maps for Istanbul and Turkey from the French Institute of Anatolian Studies

Bio-bibliographical sources, reading lists, catalogs and digitized manuscripts, palaeography resources, etc especially useful for working with Ottoman manuscripts, Persian manuscripts, Arabic manuscripts