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ILCAA Joint Research Project

Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives (jrp000238)

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Keywords

  • Ottoman Empire
  • documents
  • archives
  • diplomatics
  • palaeography
  • Islamic Law

Areas

  • West Asia
  • East Europe
  • North Africa

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2017–March, 2020

The Ottoman Empire, ruling the vast territories spreading over West Asia, South-East Europe and North Africa, developed highly complicated bureaucratic system. It bequeathed an enormous amount of documents mainly written in Turkish with Arabic script, as is seen today in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives, Topkapı Sarayı Museum in Istanbul, and SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia and so on. These documents are crucially essential sources for historical study not only of the Ottoman domains but also of the surrounding world. The project is aimed at comprehension of morphology and functions of various types of the Ottoman documents, such as emr-i şerif, berat, hatt-ı hümayun, telhis, irade-i şerif, mektub, kaime, hulasa, arzuhal, mahzar, mazbata, hüccet, ilam, fetva, vakfiye and tezkires, comparing with similar documents issued in other Muslim states. The results of the project is also expected to serve training young researchers through annually organized “Seminars of Ottoman palaeography and diplomatics”.

Yoichi TAKAMATSU, Project Coordinator (Professor, ILCAA)

Members

Coordinator

  • Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

  • Hiromitsu KUROKI
  • Nobuaki KONDO
  • Wakako KUMAKURA

Joint Researchers

  • Naofumi ABE
  • Jun AKIBA
  • Keinichi ISOGAI
  • Keiko IWAMOTO
  • Satoru KIMURA
  • Madoka MORITA
  • Tomoki OKAWARA
  • Kumiko SAITO
  • Kazuaki SAWAI
  • Yasuhisa SHIMIZU
  • Mamoru TADA

Outputs

Meetings

The 6th meeting

  • Date/Time: Sat 26 Sep 2020　14:00–17:30
  • Venue: Online meeting
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “A diachronic and synchronic study on bookkeeping and registers in the Muslim societies” (Principal Investigator: Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) Project Number: 17H02398)
  • Pre-registration is required. For registration, please contact to Yoichi TAKAMATSU: ytakamatsu[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to @) by 25 September.
  • 14:00–14:15
    Introduction
    14:15–15:45 Jun AKIBA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo)
    “The Potential of Population Registers (Nüfus Defterleri) in the reign of Mahmud II as Historical Source”
    Comment: Kumiko SAITO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Sacred Heart)
    16:00–17:00 All participants
    General discussion
    17:00–17:30 All participants
    Review of the research project

[This meeting has been postponed]
The 6th meeting

  • Date/Time: Sat 14 Mar 2020 14:00–17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Resarch Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “A diachronic and synchronic study on bookkeeping and registers in the Muslim societies” (Principal Investigator: Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) Project Number: 17H02398)
  • 14:00–14:15
    Introduction
    14:15–15:45 Jun AKIBA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo)
    “The Potential of Population Registers (Nüfus Defterleri) in the reign of Mahmud II as Historical Source”
    Comment: Kumiko SAITO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University)
    16:00–17:00 All participants
    General discussion
    17:00–17:30 All participants
    Review of the research project

The 5th meeting/ The 12th Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics

  • Date/Time: Sat 11 Jan 2020 14:00–18:00, Sun 12 Jan 2020 13:00–18:00
  • Venue: Room 303, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Core Project “Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World”(MEIS2), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “A diachronic and synchronic study on bookkeeping and registers in the Muslim societies” (Principal Investigator: Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) Project Number: 17H02398)
  • 11 Jan
  • 14:00–14:15
    Introduction
    14:20–16:00
    Lecture on Ottoman waqfiyyas (endowment documents)
    16:20–18:00
    Reading Ottoman waqfiyyas
  • 12 Jan
  • 13:00–14:40
    Reading Ottoman documents on waqf system
    15:00–16:40
    Reading Ottoman registers on waqf system
    17:00–18:00
    General Discussion

The 4th meeting

  • Date/Time: Wed 27 Feb 2019 14:00–17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Grant-In-Aid (B) for Scientific Research “A diachronic and synchronic study on bookkeeping and registers in the Muslim societies” (Principal Investigator: Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) Project Number: 17H02398)
  • 14:00–16:00 Keiko IWAMOTO (ILCAA Junior Research Fellow)
    “When did the tahrir defters disappear? :Study on the development and decline of the tax investigation register books”
    Commentator: Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA)
    16:30–17:30
    General Discussion

The 3rd meeting

  • The 11th Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics
  • Date/Time: Sat 12 Jan 2019 14:00–18:00, Sun 13 Jan 2019 13:00–18:00
  • Venue: Room 303, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Core Project “Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World”, ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research(Principal Investigator: Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) #17H02398)
  • 12 Jan
  • 14:00–14:15
    Introduction
    14:20–16:00
    Lecture on Ottoman financial documents and the siyakat script
    16:20–18:00
    Reading Ottoman financial documents in the siyakat script I
  • 13 Jan
  • 13:00–14:40
    Reading Ottoman financial documents in the siyakat script II
    15:00–16:40
    Reading Ottoman financial documents in the siyakat script III
    17:00–18:00
    General Discussion

The 2nd meeting

  • The 10th Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics
  • Date/Time: Sat 20 Jan 2018 14:00–18:00, Sun 21 Jan 2018 13:00–18:00
  • Venue: Room 303, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Core Project “Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World”, ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research(Principal Investigator: Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) #17H02398)
  • 20 Jan
  • 14:00–14:15
    Introduction
    14:20–16:00
    Lecture on Ottoman financial registers and siyakat scripts
    16:20–18:00
    Reading Ottoman financial registers I
  • 21 Jan
  • 13:00–14:40
    Reading Ottoman financial registers II
    15:00–16:40
    Reading Ottoman financial registers III
    17:00–18:00
    General Discussion

The 1st meeting

  • Date/Time: Sat 25 Nov 2017 14:00–18:00
  • Venue: Room 303, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator: Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) #17H02398)
  • 14:00–15:30 Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA)
    “Current situation and issues of studies on Ottoman documents and archives”
    16:00–16:15 Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA)
    “Comment 1 (from a perspective of study of Iranian History)”
    16:15–16:30　Keiko IWAMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/JSPS)
    “Comment 2 (from a perspective of study of Ottoman History)”
    16:30–18:00　All members
    “General discussion”

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