• Janissary Aghas Yeniçeri Ağaları

(Ağayân-ı Yeniçeriyân Dergâh-ı ‘Âli Kuruluşundan Lağvedilişine)
2025 — 742 pages

A comprehensive chronological study of the aghas who administered the Janissary corps from its foundation to its abolition. The work examines biographies, political developments, and institutional transformations through primary Ottoman sources.

  • Janissary Tombstones and Their Symbols Yeniçeri Mezar taşları ve Remizleri

(Kitâbe-i Seng-i Mezar-ı Yeniçeriyân)
2025 — 916 pages

An extensive corpus bringing together approximately 1,500 Janissary tombstones. The volume includes Ottoman Turkish transcriptions, regimental identifications, and analyses of Janissary symbols and military affiliations.

  • Janissary Symbols (forthcoming) Yeniçeri Remizleri

2026 — 845 pages

A comprehensive study dedicated to Janissary symbolism and regimental emblems, prepared with the valuable support of the A.V. Suvorov Museum in St. Petersburg, drawing in part on Janissary-related collections preserved in the museum.

The work will be published in two separate editions: Turkish and English

  • Printing Houses of Sufi Lodges in Istanbul İstanbul’da Tekke Matbaaları ve Basılan Eserlerin Bibliyografisi

2019 — 93 pages

A bibliographical and historical study on printing houses established within Ottoman Sufi lodges, including information on publications, surviving copies, and their present archival locations.

  • The Mevlevi Lodge of İzmir

İzmir Mevlevihânesi
2018 — 249 pages

A detailed historical study examining the establishment, development, and closure of the İzmir Mevlevi lodge through archival and historical sources.

  • Izmiroğlu Cüneyd Bey, Sheikh Bedreddin, Börklüce Mustafa, and Torlak Kemal

2021 — 317 pages

A critical re-evaluation of the Sheikh Bedreddin revolt based on Ottoman and Western primary sources, including translated contemporary accounts and historiographical analysis.

  • From Andronovo to Anatolia: Turkish Culinary and Food Culture

Andronovo’dan Anadolu’ya Türk Mutfak ve Yemek Kültürü
2022 — 240 pages

A long-term historical study tracing the development of Turkish culinary culture from the Andronovo period to the late Ottoman Empire.

  • Inscriptions and tombstones of the Tahtachı Alevi Tekke in Yanyatır, Narlıdere, Smyrna.

İzmir Narlıdere Yanyatır Tahtacı Alevi ocağı Kitâbe ve Mezar Taşları

2021 — 98 pages

  • Tangle Arapsaçı

(Hoca Yusuf Baba Edhemi Zaviyesi, Bayezid Baba Bektaşi Tekkesi, Bahri Baba Mevlevi Zaviyesi)

2019 — 121 pages

DIGITAL PROJECTS

A long-term digital humanities project dedicated to Ottoman and Islamic calligraphers and their works.

Developed over more than a decade, the database contains approximately 4,000 entries and represents one of the largest digital compilations in its field.

Abstracts

Headgear constitutes an important field of study within research on Ottoman costume history. However, when the literature produced in Turkey on Ottoman headgear is examined, it becomes evident that significant methodological problems exist in this field. In a large portion of the existing studies, the typology of headgear has been constructed on the basis of a limited number of local sources and has not been systematically compared with Western visual sources. Over time, this situation has led to the emergence of a terminology that does not fully correspond to historical evidence. In this article, the literature on Ottoman headgear is examined critically, and typological problems are discussed particularly through the examples of dardağan and makdem. In addition, by evaluating the data provided by early visual sources such as the Rålamb Album in terms of morphological analysis, it is argued that the typology of Ottoman headgear should be reconsidered.

2026-04-24