Centre's Main Research Interest on Ottoman Studies

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• Religion and Society

• The effect of religion on the structuring / implementation of politics

• Muslim-non-Muslim relations

• State and society

• Conversions-apostates

• Dissident movements

• Foundations and their place in the social structure

• Politics and Law

• Administration

• Administrative and bureaucratic structure

• Legal thought and practice

• Legal and political changes in the classical-modern period

• Economy

• Production-consumption relations

• Financial-financial structure

• Functioning of the commercial structure

• International trade

• Mining

• Army and War

• Army organization

• Expedition organization

• War industry

• War-economy relationship

• Ottoman navy

• Ottoman historians

• Suleiman The Magnificent

• Ottoman taxation and finance

• Sultan III. Selim's reign

• Ottoman navy

• Ottoman Architecture

• Ottoman land army

• Education in the Ottoman world

• Minority groups under Ottoman rule

• The role of women in Ottoman rule

• Science, Technology and Thought

• Philosophy, theology and mysticism thought

• Science

• Medical sciences

• Industrial, military production

• Cultural / intellectual interactions

• Health in the Ottoman Empire

• Health policies

• Folk medicine

• Diseases

• Recreation, entertainment

• Ottoman kitchen

• Costume and decoration

• Ottoman explorers, geographers and cartographers

• Zionist movement in the Ottoman period

• Crimean Tatars and Cossacks

• Old and New Turkish poetry

• Entry into the Caucasus region

• Ottoman Transylvania

• Ottoman-Kurdish relations

• Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman world

• Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and the Ottomans

• Rhodes and Malta in the Ottoman period

• Tanzimat, an age of reform

• Young Turks "

• "New Ottomans"

• Ottomans in World War I

• The rise of the Republic of Turkey

• The role of the armed forces in modern Turkish politics

• Islamic revival and anti-republican tendencies in modern Turkey

• International Relations and Diplomacy

• Foreign policy

• Testaments and treaties

• Embassies

• Security and intelligence

• The foreign relations of the Ottomans with any of the following:

  • Hungary

  • Poland

  • Russia

  • the Hapsburgs

  • France

  • Venice

  • Safavid Iran

• The Ottoman legacy and the nationalist movement in:

  • Greece

  • Armenia

  • Yugoslavia

  • Albania

  • Bulgaria

  • Rumania

  • Cyprus

  • Palestine

  • Israel

  • Egypt

  • Sudan

  • Iraq

  • Syria

  • Lebanon

  • Arabia

  • Yemen

  • the Gulf States

  • Libya

  • Tunisia

  • Algeria

  • Azerbaijan

  • Chechniya