Books and Articles about Turkish Names

Sources about Period Onomastics

ONOMASTICON TURCICUM. (L. Rásonyi’s Collection of Turkic Personal Names and the Method of its Publication).

(T) M. Mehdi İlhan, “Some Pointers on the Importance of Personal Names in the Ottoman Detailed Cadastral Registers

Post-Period and Undated Sources

While these sources don’t address period names directly, they often shed light on the history or translation of period names.

(T) Oğuz ERGENE, “Syntactic Structures Exemplifying in Turkish Personal Names

Fidan Gurbanova, “Linguistic Peculiarities of Azerbaijani Anthroponyms

Edwin D. Lawson, “The Onomastic Treasure of the CIA

(T) Nesrin Bayraktar, “Coining proper names through colour terms in Turkish

Sasha Weitman, “Some Methodological Issues in Quantitative Onomastics

Secondary Sources for Ottoman Turkish Names

Any article about Ottoman Turkey can be a resource for names, but the only names one is guaranteed to find are the names of freeborn Muslim men. This is a handful of the articles I’ve found that can be mined for names of less commonly represented groups, particularly women and slaves.

(T) Mustafa AKKAYA, “Slave Trade in the First Quarter of the XVIIth Century in Üsküdar

Boğaā A. Ergene, “Evidence in Ottoman courts: oral and written documentation in early-modern courts of Islamic law

(T) Hava Selcuk, “Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman City of Kayseri, 1645-1665 (According to the Ser’iyye Sicils of Kayseri)

(T) Gökhan CİVELEK, “Estate of an Elite Woman in the Mid-18th Century: Aise Hatun

(T) Behset Karaca, “The Waqfs of Megri (Fethiye) District in the 16th Century

(T) Saadet Maydaer, “Means of Acquisition of Assets for Women in the Classical Period of the Ottoman State (Bursa Case)

A. Mingana, “LIST OF THE TURKISH GOVERNORS AND HIGH JUDGES OF ALEPPO FROM THE OTTOMAN CONQUEST TO A.D. 1747

(T) Muhammed Yazici, “SOME OBSERVATIONS RELATING THE CRIME OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN OTTOMAN WORLD (XVIth CENTURY)

(T) Bülent YILDIRIM, “Slaves and Concubines [Male and Female Slaves] in Edirne in the XVIth Century

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