Witnessing Ottoman Studies’ recent integration of AI is exciting for the field’s development in terms of its inclusion of wider, more global audiences, the emergence of new research fields, the application of advanced technologies to archival collections, and the discovery of new materials for study. Hence, while technological innovations have been reshaping historical research and methodology, they have also added new dimensions to historiography and contributed to the development of Digital Ottoman Studies.

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Or the Ottoman Election that Never was

Abstract. Starting in 1812, a plague epidemic killed a third of the population in Istanbul and a third of the population of Izmir. It lasted at least until

This article analyses the making and remaking of the Ottoman–Greek border as a “natural boundary” between 1832 and 1912. It argues that mountains, rivers, and watersheds did not function as self-ev...

Opening the JHI Blog’s technology forum, Kapp Singer critiques the history of science’s late-twentieth-century fixation on “living technologies.” Instead of historicizing the standpoint of the ascenda...

Ottoman Demographic, Social and Family History Research Group at Binghamton University

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Abstract. Drawing on Ottoman official correspondence, an informer’s report, and palace-sponsored tracts and chronicles, this article challenges the widely-

"On an Eighteenth-Century Sephardic Trade Manual from Constantinople" published on 30 Jul 2026 by Brill.

Abstract This article examines the persistent yet unstable entanglement between sultanic authority and the miraculous in the Ottoman Empire. It argues that kerâmet was never a routine attribute of kin...

Abstract. This article examines connections and influences between Muslim polities across the Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century through the legacy of an embassy sent by Tipu Sultan of Mysore to t...

Abstract. This chapter explores the ways in which the field of natural sciences—that is, the portion of the world that was considered understandable and co

Erkin Özdemir, Erken Modern Osmanlılarda İnançsızlığın Tarih Öncesi: Kutsala Sövgü, İlhåd ve Tanrıbilmezler kitabında ağırlıkla 16.-17. yüzyıllara denk düşen mühimme defterleri ve kadı sicilleri gibi ...

with A. Tunç Şen hosted by Maryam Patton | What did it mean to know the future in the early modern Ottoman Empire? And wh...

Eric Hobsbawm’s enduring power lay in his ability to synthesize vast historical processes into compelling narratives that made the modern world legible. Yet, argues Traverso, the celebrated Marxist hi...