Ottoman studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

that addresses the

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religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

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, such as

literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

and

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

economy An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...

, and

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. It is a sub-category of

Oriental studies Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studi ...

and

Middle Eastern studies Middle Eastern studies (sometimes referred to as Near Eastern studies) is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is gene ...

, and also

Turkish studies Turkology (or Turcology or Turkic studies) is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative conte ...

. According to

Marc David Baer Marc David Baer is a Jewish American historian and Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Life Baer received his PhD from the University of Chicago. A scholar of Middle Eastern and European Hi ...

, Ottoman studies is an "ethically challenged field" because "

Armenian genocide denial Armenian genocide denial is the claim that the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), did not commit genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War I—a crime documented in a large body of ...

is widespread".

Institutions specializing in Ottoman studies

Turkish Studies Association The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (formerly the Turkish Studies Association) is a learned society established in 1971 for the promotion of Turkish and Ottoman studies Ottoman studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities tha ...

*Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies *Centre for Ottoman Studies at SOAS, University of London *Ottoman and Turkish Studies, University of Chicago *Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Stanford University *Center for Ottoman Studies, Belgrade * Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

Academic journals

*''Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association''

Notable people

* Maurits van den Boogert (born 1972), Dutch historian *

Suraiya Faroqhi Suraiya N. Faroqhi (born 1941 in Berlin, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member sta ...

(born 1941), German historian *

Caroline Finkel Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Publications Her book ''Osman's Dream, History of the Ottoman Empi ...

, British historian * Thomas Day Goodrich (1927–2015), American historian *

Halil İnalcık Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed h ...

(1916–2016), Turkish historian *

Kemal Karpat Kemal Haşim Karpat (15 February 1924, Babadag Tulcea, Romania – 20 February 2019, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States) was a Romanian- Turkish naturalised American historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Earl ...

(1923–2019), Turkish historian *

Hans-Lukas Kieser Hans-Lukas Kieser (born 1957) is a Swiss historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Professor of modern history at the University of Zurich and president of the Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey in Basel. He is an author of books and ar ...

(born 1957), Swiss historian *

Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near E ...

(1916–2018), British-American historian *

Heath W. Lowry Heath Ward Lowry (born 23 December 1942) is the Atatürk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies emeritus at Princeton University and Bahçeşehir University. He is an author of books about the history of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Tur ...

(born 1942), American historian * Albert Howe Lybyer (1876–1949), American historian * Justin McCarthy (born 1945), American historian * Ali Kemal Meram (1914–2000), Turkish historian *

Donald Quataert Donald George Quataert (September 10, 1941 – February 10, 2011) was a historian at Binghamton University. He taught courses on Middle East/Ottoman history, with an interest in labor, social and economics, during the early and modern periods. H ...

(1941–2011), American historian *

Stanford J. Shaw Stanford Jay Shaw (5 May 1930 – 16 December 2006) was an American historian, best known for his works on the late Ottoman Empire, Turkish Jews, and the early Turkish Republic. Shaw's works have been criticized for their lack of factual accurac ...

(1930–2006), American historian * A. Holly Shissler, American historian *

Elizabeth Zachariadou Elizabeth A. Zachariadou ( el, Ελισάβετ Α. Ζαχαριάδου, 1931 – 26 December 2018) was a Greek scholar on Turkish studies, specializing in the early Ottoman Empire (ca. 1300–1600). Biography In 1966 she married the Byzantinist ...

(1931–2018), Greek historian *

Ara Sarafian Ara Sarafian (Armenian: ) is a British historian of Armenian origin. He is the founding director of the Gomidas Institute in London, which sponsors and carries out research and publishes books on modern Armenian and regional studies. Early li ...

(born 1961), British-Armenian historian

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Institutions specializing in Ottoman studies

Academic journals

Notable people

See also

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