Erken modern Osmanlılar'ın küçük bir beylikten cihanşümül bir imparatorluğa dönüşmesi esnasında karşılaşılan zorluklar ve ihtiyaçlar Devlet-i Al-i Osman'ın yönetici elitleri arasındaki ilişkilerin ve dengelerin sürekli bir şekilde

It is an unfortunate legacy of colonialism that to write the history of the Middle East, historians must inevitably utilize archives and libraries in Europe and the United States. However, the location of these archives and the biases of the governments t

Justifiable moral outrage over the recent use of chemical weapons in Syria has brought the US government to the brink of military intervention in a now over two-year-old conflict as debates surrounding the wisdom of such a measure fill the American and gl

Osmanlı'nın erken dönemlerinden beri önemli ticaret yolları üzerinde bulunan Bursa, kimi tarihçilere göre imparatorluk sınırları içinde kapitalist ilişkilere erken giren Osmanlı şehirlerinden biridir. On dokuzuncu yüzyıla gelindiğinde Bu

While World War I was the result of a political conflict, it touched the lives of nearly every segment of Ottoman society in often tragic ways. Yet, the lived experience of Ottoman citizens on the home front is often an ignored aspect of the war's histori

During the nineteenth century, the increasing professionalization of medical practice led to the emergence of new institutions and laws governing legitimate use of medical knowledge. In the Ottoman Empire, the arrival of European medical schools and estab

Sufism has played an important role in Muslim spiritual, intellectual, and political life since the earliest periods of Islam's spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa. In this episode, John Curry discusses the history of Sufism and its place d

The situation of Kurdish language and culture in Turkey is one that has been very much in flux within an ever-changing political climate. The Kurdish music industry has become increasingly lively in recent years under more favorable legal conditions, thou

Osmanlı tarihyazımında cevabı aranan önemli bir soru da Osmanlı kültüründe günlük, anı, hatırat gibi ben anlatılarının bulunup bulunmadığıdır. Bu bölümümüzde Selim Karahasanoğlu ile son çalışması Sadreddinzade Telhisi Mustafa

During the interwar period, nationalist and socialist movements throughout the world looked to the peasant as both the source and object of state programs wherein establishing a link between the center and the provinces was a critical part of fostering th