A historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Itzkowitz transferred to emeritus status in 2001 after 42 years on the faculty. Itzkowitz’s scholarship covered a range of topics and periods in ...

Dedicated to documenting the Ottoman period in Iraq, a new museum powered by artificial intelligence technologies recently opened in Baghdad.

Standing among the most distinguished achievements of Ottoman architecture, the Sultanahmet Mosque has, for more than four ...

Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, which are ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

Suleyman the Magnificent had his hand on Christendom’s throat. He could paralyze all of Europe’s trade at the drop of a Turkish turban and had more Christian subjects massed under his rule than any ...

In a new book, a Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (SFS) professor challenges the traditional notion that the Ottoman Empire crumbled slowly, as a result of ethnic and religious ...

“In the Kızlan Ottoman Wreck Underwater Excavation, weapons, porcelain, chess sets, and unique findings illuminating history have recently been uncovered,” said Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister ...

Father Theophilos, a Pantokrator monk, left, Byzantine scholar Yiannis Niehoff-Panagiotidis, center, and Anastassios Nikopoulos, a jurist and scientific collaborator of the Free University of Berlin, ...