Publications

Previous work of the research team related to the GHOST project

• M. Sariyannis, “Of Ottoman Ghosts, Vampires and Sorcerers: An Old Discussion Disinterred”, Archivum Ottomanicum 30 (2013), 195-220.
• M. Sariyannis, “Ajâ’ib ve gharâ’ib: Ottoman collections of mirabilia and perceptions of the supernatural”, Der Islam 92/2 (2015), 442-467.
• M. Sariyannis, “The Dead, the Spirits, and the Living: On Ottoman Ghost Stories”, Journal of Turkish Studies / Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları 44 (2015) [Çekirge Budu: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Dankoff], 373-390.
• Aslı Niyazioğlu, Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth Century Biographer’s Perspective (Routledge, 2017) https://www.routledge.com/Dreams-and-Lives-in-Ottoman-Istanbul-A-Seventeenth-Century-Biographers/Niyazioglu/p/book/9780367881450
• Feray Coşkun, “An Ottoman Preacher’s Perception of a Medieval Cosmography: Mahmûd al-Hatîb’s Translation of Kharîdat al-‘Ajâ’ib wa Farîdat al-Gharâ’ib”, Al-Masâq 23/1 (2011), pp. 53-66.
• Harun Küçük, “Early Modern Ottoman Science: A New Materialist Framework,” Journal of Early Modern History 21 (2017): 407-419.
• Harun Küçük, “The Copernican Rhetoric of Ibrahim Müteferrika,” in Sietske Fransen, Niall Hodson and Karl Enenkel eds.  Translating Early Modern Science, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 258-285.
• Harun Küçük, “New Medicine and the Hikmet-i Tabi’iyye Problematic in Eighteenth Century Istanbul,” in Tzvi Langermann and Robert Morrison, eds. Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2016; pp. 222-242.
• Ethan L. Menchinger, “Freewill, Predestination, and the Fate of the Ottoman Empire”, Journal of the History of Ideas 77/3 (2016), 445-466.
• A. T. Şen, « Reading the Stars at the Ottoman Court: Bâyezîd II (r. 886/1481-918/1512) and his Celestial Interests », Arabica 64 (2017), p. 557-608.
• A. T. Şen, « Practicing Astral Magic in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul: A Treatise on Talismans Attributed to Ibn Kemāl », Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (2017), p. 66-88.

Work done during the GHOST project

• Aca’ib: Occasional Papers on the Ottoman Perceptions of the Supernatural (four issues)

• M. Sariyannis, Perceptions ottomanes du surnaturel. Aspects de l’histoire intellectuelle d’une culture islamique à l’époque moderne [Les conférences de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 13], Paris: Les éditions du Cerf 2019.
  https://books.openedition.org/ephe/1377
• M. Sariyannis, The limits of going global: The case of “Ottoman Enlightenment(s)”. History Compass. 2020;e12623. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12623
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hic3.12623
• Z. Aydoğan, “Gāzīs and Cādūs at the Margins: Conversion at the Point of Sword and Enchantment”, Aca’ib 1 (2020), 21-48. https://doi.org/10.26225/mwxa-w561
• M. Sariyannis, “Knowledge and Control of the Future in Ottoman Thought”, Aca’ib 1 (2020), 49-84. https://doi.org/10.26225/weyr-2s98
• F. Coşkun, “Working Paper: ‘Ajā’ib wa Gharā’ib in the Early Ottoman Cosmographies “, Aca’ib 1 (2020), 85-104. https://doi.org/10.26225/trtz-qq38
• E. L. Menchinger, “Revisiting “Turkish Fatalism”; Or, Why Ottoman Theology Matters”, Aca’ib 2 (2021), 9-37. https://doi.org/10.26225/rnyr-ar56
• M. Sariyannis, “Languages of Ottoman Esotericism”, Aca’ib 2 (2021), 39-75. https://doi.org/10.26225/pc9c-vv54
• A. T. Şen, “Manuscripts on the Battlefields: Early Modern Ottoman Subjects in the European Theatre of War and Their Textual Relations to the Supernatural in Their Fight for Survival”, Aca’ib 2 (2021), 77-106. https://doi.org/10.26225/08gv-3v52
• M. Litinas, “The Views of Gerasimos Vlachos on Astral Influences: Aristotelic, Hermetic, and Astrological Approaches to the Heavenly Bodies”, Aca’ib 2 (2021), 147-168, https://doi.org/10.26225/2mpd-7×13
• M. Sariyannis, «Nous étions tous stupéfaits et effrayés» : Émotions ottomanes face au surnaturel. Turcica 53 (2022), 
  277-306.  https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3291340&journal_code=TURC
• A. Niyazioğlu, “Into the Deep Past of the Ottoman Istanbul: The Bronze Horseman of Constantine in Sixteenth-Century ʿAcāʾibs”, Aca’ib 3 (2022), 13-34. https://doi.org/10.26225/vyny-yb65
• M. Sariyannis, “Ottoman Occultism and its Social Contexts: Preliminary Remarks”, Aca’ib 3 (2022), 35-66. https://doi.org/10.26225/txbk-hk21
• M. Sariyannis, “A Tale of Two Cities: Jābarṣā/Jābalqā and Their Metamorphoses”, Der Islam 101/1 (2024), 162-192. https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2024-0006  
• D. Giagtzoglou, “Political advice and ethics in an occult framework: Alai Muhibbi Şirazi’s Düstûru’l-vüzerâ as an example of 16th century Ottoman lettrism”, Aca’ib 4 (2023/2024), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.26225/d9qr-tm50
• G. Işıksel, “L’harmonie des affaires d’Orient et d’Occident. Un aperçu sur la cosmovision ottomane et la théorie musicale du XVe siècle”, Aca’ib 4 (2023/2024), 121-132. https://doi.org/10.26225/4a3x-bd34
• M. Litinas, “Navigating the currents: exploring the esoteric threads in the Greek Orthodox Church of the 15th to 18th centuries”, Aca’ib 4 (2023/2024), 133-142. https://doi.org/10.26225/nvtp-7f62
• M. Sariyannis, “The Ottoman Hermes: notes on the reception of the Hermetic tradition in Ottoman scholarship”, Aca’ib 4 (2023/2024), 157-170. https://doi.org/10.26225/nqwj-ta51
• Z. Aydoğan, Forging Paths of Continuity: Borderline Miracles in the Early Menākıbnāme Literature, 13th-15th Centuries, Rethymno: IMS 2024.
• M. Sariyannis,  Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming)