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Turkish Studies: Getting Started

Noteworthy Online Links

Historians of the Ottoman Empire (UChicago)

Links (Ottoman & Turkish Studies, UChicago)

Mamluk Bibliography Online (U. of Chicago)

Access to Middle East Resources (AMIR)

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Reference

Online:

Books:

Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938.
Atatürk'ün bütün eserleri.
Beyoğlu, İstanbul: Kaynak Yayınları, 1998-2011.
Library Service Center DR592.K4 A2 1998 v.1-30 Check availability @ Duke
 
Çağatay, Ergun and Doğan Kuban.
The Turkic speaking peoples : 2,000 years of art and culture from Inner Asia to the Balkans.
Munich ; New York; The Netherlands: Prestel; Prince Claus Fund Library, 2008.
Lilly Library DS26 .T877 2008 Check availability @ Duke
Gabain, Annemarie von, et al.
Altaistik.
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 5. Bd.
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1963-
Perkins/Bostock Library P81.M628 H363 Bd.5 Abschn.1-3, 5 Check availability @ Duke
Table of Contents: 1. Abschnitt. Turkologie, mit Beiträgen von A. von Gabain, et al.--2. Abschnitt. Mongolistik, mit Beiträgen von N. Poppe, et al.--3. Abschnitt. Tungusologie, mit Beiträgen von W. Fuchs, et al.--5. Abschnitt. Geschichte Mittelasiens, mit Beiträgen von K. Jettmar, et al.
Güzel, Hasan Celâl, et al.
The Turks
Ankara : Yeni Türkiye, 2002.
Perkins/Bostock International & Area Studies Reading Room DS26 .T874 2002 6 vols. Check availability @ Duke
İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin.
History of the Ottoman state, society & civilisation.
İstanbul: Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture, 2001.
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room DR486 .O82513 2001 v.1-2 Check availability @ Duke
İnalcık, Halil.
Ottoman civilization.
Ankara : Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture, 2003-2004.
Perkins/Bostock International & Area Studies Reading Room DR486 .O886 2003 2 vols. Check availability @ Duke
v. 1. State, society, economy. Religion and thought. Science and education. Daily life and communications. Genealogy, chronology -- v. 2. Literature. Architecture and fine arts. Performing arts and music. Europe and the Ottomans.
Koçu, Reşad Ekrem.
İstanbul ansiklopedisi.
İstanbul: İstanbul Ansiklopedisi ve Neşriyat Kollektif Şirketi, 1958
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room DR719 .I68 1958 v.1 Check availability @ Duke
Table of Contents: v. 1. Aba, abacılar-Alafranga Baloz.--v. 2. Alageyik sokağa-Aşirefendi Kütübhânesi.--v. 3. Aşiret mektebi-Baba.--v. 4. Baba-Barbunya balığı.--v. 5. Bardakçı sokağı-Berduş.--v. 6. Boğaziçindeki iskele, kayık ve sandalları-Cemil.--v. 7. Cemil Bey-Çiray.--v. 8. Çiroz-Dişbuğdaycılar Sokağı.--v. 9. Dişci-Erişteci Sokağı.--v. 10. Eritmek-Fırın.--v. 11. Fırın-Gökçınar.
Kültür Bakanlığı. Tarih Vakfı.
İstanbul ansiklopedisi : dünden bugüne.
İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı. Tarih Vakfı, 1993-1995.
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room AE75 .I883 1993 cilt.1-8 Check availability @ Duke
Menges, Karl Heinrich.
The Turkic languages and peoples : an introduction to Turkic studies.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995.
Perkins/Bostock Library PL21 .M4 1995 Check availability @ Duke
Quataert, Donald.
The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922.
Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambrige University Press, 2005.
Perkins/Bostock Library DR542 .Q38 2005 Check availability @ Duke
Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı. İslâm Ansiklopedisi Genel Müdürlüğü.
Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm ansiklopedisi.
Üsküdar, İstanbul: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, İslâm Ansiklopedisi Genel Müdürlüğü, 1988-2013.
Perkins/Bostock Library BP40 .T857 1988 International & Area Studies Reading Room v.1-44 Check availability @ Duke
 

Subject Librarian

On the Internet

İslam Araştimaları Merkezi
The Islamic Studies Centre in Üsküdar offers three online collections of Ottoman printed materials in facsimile images:1) Salnâmeler: the official yearbooks, important sources of statistical and other information on all the Ottoman provinces. Over 520 are available here; 2) Osmanlıca Risaleler: over 2400 pamphlets or “treatises” in Ottoman Turkish, mainly on political, religious and educational subjects; 3) Osmanlıca Makaleler: articles from 20 Ottoman Turkish periodicals. The facsimiles are provided as PDF files.
Milli Kütüphane: Süreli Yayınlar Bilgi Sistemi
This database of Ottoman newspapers and periodicals is maintained by the Turkish National Library in Ankara. It contains full-text images of a wide range of serials from 1840 (Ceride-i Havadis) to 1928.

Yasak/Banned: political cartoons from late Ottoman and republican Turkey.

Yasak/Banned: Political Cartoons from Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey, on display 30 October 2017-24 March, 2018 in the Mary Duke Biddle Room of the David M. Rubenstein Library at Duke University. The exhibition showcased the complex history of the Ottoman Empire up to the present Republic of Turkey through the lens of political cartoons. The exhibition also highlighted the significant Ottoman and Turkish collections held at Duke University Libraries. 

A conference, YASAK/BANNED: Print Media and Cultural Spaces from Abdülhamid to Erdogan was held in conjunction with the exhibition bringing renowned scholars from North America and Turkey to discuss aspects of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey. See DUMESC. 

In addition to these activities, the Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies (JOTSA) had a special issue featuring papers from the conference. JOTSA Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2018

Yasak/Banned : Political Cartoons from Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey exhibition catalogue.

 

Image from Amcabey, 1944.