Historian, Research Assistant at Pamukkale University

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Aydın Vilayeti’nde Suç ve Ceza (1866-1877), Istanbul 2016

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Head of the Oriental Collections Department, National Library of Bulgaria

Among her publications:

• 2014: Към историята на българската текстилна промишленост (Документи за фабриката на Добри Желязков в Сливен). В: Библиотека, 6:21-3/ To the History of the Textile Industry in Bulgaria (Ottoman-Turkish documents about the factory of Dobri Jelyazkov in the town of Sliven)
• 2015: Късчета семейна история в огледалото на османотурските документи (тезкире-и османийе ­като документален извор) В: Библиотека, 6: 247-253 / Family History Reflected in the Mirror of Ottoman-Turkish Documents (tezkire-i osmaniyye as a documentary source)
• 2016: Пътници и пътни разрешителни в Османската империя: мюрур тезкирета от 19. век (под печат)/ Travelers and Travel Permits in the Ottoman Empire: murur tezkire of the 19.c. (under print)

Historian, Institute of Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Among his publications:

• İbrahim Müteferrika ya da İlk Osmanlı Matbaa Serüveni (1726-1746). Yeniden Değerlendirme. İstanbul: Yeditepe Yayınevi, 2006, 470 p. (in Turkish)
• Spiritus Roberti: Shaping New Minds and Robert College in Late Ottoman Society (1863-1923). İstanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2014, 512 p. (in English)
• Ottoman Waqf and Muslim Education in Rumeli: Theory, Tradition, Practice. – Études balkaniques, 3-4, 1998, 130-145.
• The Legend of Köse Mihal: Additional Notes. – Turcica, 34, 2002, 241-253.
• Private Book Collections in Ottoman Sofia, 1671-1833 (Preliminary notes). – Études balkaniques, 1, 2003, 34-82.
• Du Patchwork vers le Puzzle: Structure de la société ottomane avant et pendant le Tanzimat (Conceptions). – In: Alexandre Exarh et les routes bulgares vers l’Europe XIXe début du XXe siècle. Stara Zagora, 2007, 87-102.
• The First Ottoman Turkish Printing Enterprise: Success or Failure (A Reassessment). – In: Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee. Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth century, ed. Dana Sajdi. London-New York: I. B. Tauris & Co, 2007, 63-89.
• Rich Men, Poor Men: Ottoman Printers and Booksellers Making Fortune or Seeking Survival (Eighteeenth-nineteenth Centuries). – Oriens, 37, 2009, 177-190.
• En attendant Godot. La formation d’une culture imprimée ottomane. – Études balkaniques Recherches interdisciplinaires sur les mondes hellénique et balkanique Cahiers Pierre Belon, 16, 2009, 219-237.
• In Search of Lost Time: How “Late” was the Introduction of Ottoman-Turkish Printing? – In: Europa und die Türkei im 18. Jahrhundert /Europe and Turkey in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Bonn University Press by V&R unipress, Göttingen, 2011, 447-456.
• A Tower of Babel in Constantinople: Robert College’s Students and Their Nationality. – Études balkaniques, 2011, 2-3, 117-159.
• A Virgin Deserving Paradise or a Whore Deserving Poison: Manuscript Tradition and Printed Books in Ottoman Turkish Society. – In: The History of the Book in the Middle East, ed. Geoffrey Roper, London: Ashgate, 2013, 143-164.
• “European ‘Seraglios’ and ‘Strange Arts’ as Seen by Ottoman Encounters from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century”, Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, vol. IV: Seraglios in Theatre, Music and Literature, eds. Michael Hüttler and Hans Ernst Weidinger, Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2016, 231-244.

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Graduate Student, Social Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University

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PhD Candidate, Marmara University / University of Birmingham

Among her publications:

• The Life of Emine Naciye Sultan (1896 – 1957), Master Thesis, Thesis supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Yüksel Çelik, Marmara University, Institute of Turkic Studies, İstanbul 2011.

• “Aşiret Mektebi-i Hümayunu”, Rengahenk Dergisi, KOCAV Yayıncılık, İstanbul 2011.

• “Darülmuallimat”, Rengahenk Dergisi, KOCAV Yayıncılık, İstanbul 2011.

• “Enver Paşa ve Naciye Sultan Aleyhine Bir Dava: Gayrimenkul Alımında İzlenen Gayrimeşru Yol”, Toplumsal Tarih Dergisi, İstanbul 2014.

Archivist, Bulgarian National Library, Sofia

Among her publications:

• Svedeniya al-Idrisi o Balkanah i ih istotchniki (Les informations d’al-Idrisi sur les Balkans et ses sources). Thèse soutenue en 1996 dans l’Institut des Etudes orientales auprès de l’Académie des Sciences de la Russie à Sanct Petersbourg; dirigée par le prof. Oleg G. Bolchakov (texte en russe).
• Bibliothèques et livres musulmans dans les territoires balkaniques de l’Empire ottoman (Le cas de Samokov XVIII^e-première moitié du XIX^e siècle). Thèse préparée en vue de doctorat en Histoire et civilisations de l’Europe, dirigée par le prof. P. Dumont. Strasbourg, Université Marc Bloch, 2000, 585 p. Publié en 2002 par Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. Villeneuve d’Ascq CEDEX France.
• Balkanskiyat poluostrov izobrazen v kartite na al-Idrisi (La Péninsule Balkanique représentée sur les cartes d’al-Idrisi. Etude paléographique et historico-géographique). Sofia, 1990, 200 p.+23 illustr. (co-auteur B.Bechevliev; texte en bulgare, résumé en français et anglais).
• Knigi, biblioteki i tchitatelski interesi sred myusyulmanite ot Samokov (Livres, bibliothèques et centres d’intérêts chez les musulmans de la ville de Samokov XVIIIe – première moitié du XIXe siècle). Sofia, 2002, 352 p. (texte en bulgare, résumé en français).
• Bolnitsi za bedni i preselnitsi v Dunavskiya vilaet. Ejednevna i ejemesetchna statistika (Les Hôpitaux pour pauvres et émigrants dans le Vilayet de Danube. Statistique quotidienne et mensuelle). Sofia, 2015, 178 p. (texte en bulgare, résumé en français).
• Inventory of the Documents in Arabic Language Kept in the Oriental Department of Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia. Sofia, 1984, 400 p.
• Opis na djizie registri (Inventaire des registres de djizye, conservés dans le Département oriental de la Bibliothèque nationale de Bulgarie) (texte en bulgare) (co-auteur). Sofia, 1983, 228 p.
• From the Collections of Ottoman libraries in Bulgaria during the 18^th-19^th centuries. Sofia, 1999, 144 p. (co-auteur Z.Ivanova)
• Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in SS Cyril and Methodius National Library Sofia, Bulgaria. Hadith Sciences. Ed. by M. I. Waley. London, 1995, XXX+460 p.
• Catalogue des manuscripts orientaux du Département d’Etudes turques de l’Université de Strasbourg. Roma : Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino et CNRS “Mondes iranien et indien”, 2009, 272 p.
• Bulgaristan Milli Kütüphanesi Belgeleri Işığında Edirne’de Yaşam. Istanbul, 2010 (Trakya Universitesi Yayınları, 113). Catalogue d’exposition. 70 p. (co-auteur S. Ali).
• Brief Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts Preserved in St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library. Vol. І. ОR К1 – К19; ОR 1- ОR 200 (Co-auteur A. Stoilova). Sofia, 2013, 292 p.

General Director of Turkish National Historical Archives

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