Abstract This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group Catholics in Ottoman Empire, Diyarbakır Chaldeans, late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for flexible definition archives, based not on traditional characteristics such as links to defined institutional repository, but their purpose community formation. The loose structure Chaldean Church resulted ...

Although the history of modern medical reforms in nineteenth-century Egypt has received considerable attention from historians and scholars, the history of medicine when the country was under Ottoman rule from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, is still largely unexplored.1 In the opinion of many scholars this was a time when the medical sciences in Egypt declined, qualified learned physi...

In the nineteenth century, Britain had intense political, economic, and cultural relations with Ottoman Empire: they were political allies during Crimean War; for several decades, British creditors ran economy via Public Debt Administration; many institutions, such as Imperial Museum, modeled after their counterparts. Given this interconnected history, essay argues that Empire could provide a r...