Mustafa Uzel is an independent researcher and publisher specializing in Ottoman history, with particular focus on the Janissary corps, Ottoman material culture, epigraphy, and historiography.


His research is grounded in primary sources, archival materials, and extensive fieldwork. Over the course of many years, he has conducted detailed documentation studies on Ottoman tombstones, Janissary symbolism, institutional structures, and overlooked historical materials that remain insufficiently examined within modern scholarship.


One of the central areas of his research concerns the Janissary corps and its cultural, symbolic, and institutional dimensions. His work on Janissary tombstones brings together approximately 1,500 gravestones in a single corpus, accompanied by transcription studies, regimental identifications, and analyses of symbolic elements associated with Ottoman military culture, Ottoman Sufism, Slavery in the Ottoman World, Turkish Culinary History.


In addition to military and institutional history, his research also focuses on Ottoman religious and cultural life, including Sufi lodges, printing houses, and regional historical studies related to Ottoman Empire Region.


Uzel is also the creator of a large-scale digital database dedicated to Ottoman calligraphers and their works. Developed over more than a decade, this project contains approximately 4,000 entries and represents one of the most extensive digital resources in its field.


His publications are indexed in WorldCat and are in the process of being included in major international research library collections.

Ottoman history, Janissaries, epigraphy, tombstones, manuscripts and material culture research from archival sources. Ottoman army, Ottoman Empire, sufizm, Janissary

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