Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18 th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

“You are [Turkish state] banning people to learn their mother language. You are saying that there won’t be education in mother language. Then you are saying that children can’t read gravestone in ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan stirred fierce criticism on Tuesday with plans to make lessons in Ottoman Turkish mandatory in high schools, prompting one opposition politician to ...

With: Key to the Ottoman-Turkish conversational-grammar / by V.H. Hagopian. London : Julius Groos 1908.

A Quran printing company in Turkey has produced an Ottoman Turkish keyboard which is attracting great interest, the company’s chief executive said. The language has seen a marked increase of interest ...

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This sparks the question: are these words Arabic or not? With each passing day in this country, the familiar words such as "mescit" for mosque and "Kahve" for coffee as well as the Muslim greeting ...