IFAO

In the framework of the fifth edition of the international winter school devoted to reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources, Nelly Hannna is presenting the topic: "Egypt and the Ottoman Empire: a Historiographic Approach" in a lecture open to public.

The winter school aims to overcome the initial difficulties researchers often face when working with archival documents from the Ottoman period, one of which has to do with technical terminologies no longer in use today. Today, early-career scholars often feel helpless when faced with Ottoman archival material in Ottoman Turkish or other languages used in the Empire, and they need to develop their skills in palaeography and philology. Besides, dialogue and exchange remain limited between the different schools of Ottoman history, particularly between scholars focusing on the analysis of imperial dynamics (who are generally specialists in the Ottoman language) and those who concentrate on the provinces of the Empire and who therefore work on sources produced in local languages.