Just as every society that is within Islamic culture and civilization, Prophet Muhammed's miracle named 'miraj' is an important date for Turkish society as well. The night of miraj has been accepted as the date of inception ...

The purpose of this research is to determine what sort of effects the Mongols, who appeared as an important military power in 13th century, had in world politics, and to question what the Catholic World attempted to in ...

Following its foundation in 552, the Gokturk (Tu-jue 突厥) Qaghanate was divided into two rival qaghanates in the year 583. One of these, the Eastern Gokturk Qaghanate, was destroyed by the Tang 唐 Dynasty of China in 630 ...

This Ph. D. Dissertation aims to study how the Dardanelles were defended during the final period of declineand dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1770-1918). The research period of this dissertation is 150 years.It extends ...

The aim of present dissertation is to develop new concepts for the study of the relation between urban space and public sphere in Istanbul during XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries. To this end, we intended to benefit from the ...

The object of this study is to analyze the administrative, social and economic structure of the city of Vidin in the 18th century in the light of provincial court registers (şeriye sicilleri). The 18th century represents ...

In 1582, Nurbanu Valide Sultan (d. 1583), the mother of Ottoman Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-95), found a pious foundation (Ar. waqf, Tur. vakıf) in Üsküdar İstanbul, which would be called later on "Valide-i Atik Sultan ...

Anatolia witnessed an intensive Turk immigration during the following years of the Battle of Manzikert and underwent a process of ethnic transformation. This process was unveiled by the new wave of the immigrations which ...

This thesis deals with the history of Emir Taharten who founded his emirate in Erzincan, in 1379. Emir Taharten, who is one of the most important figures of Anatolian history had a voice in ruling a wast area including ...

With the conquest of Anatolia by the Turks and the beginning of the process of Islamization and Turkification, Akhi nicknamed persons and their monotheisms began to appear almost everywhere in the region. The famous traveler ...