(To be updated as I find accessible, shareable resources)
Many of my resources are academic, accessed through my university. Unfortunately I can’t share them here, as this breaches the T&Cs a.k.a it would be pirating, despite these articles being my primary sources. So I’ve to look for alternatives.
- Coffee
Wiki | History - Dondurma
Wiki | My favourite video of the dondurma man - Caravanserais
- The intellectual legacy of Islamic scholars
The Golden Age of Islam | The history of the madrasah | Turkish academia | - The Cultural History of Turkey, from Roman to Greek to Byzantine to Ottoman to Republic
- Women in Islam (academics, scholars, businesswomen, poets, politicians)
- The difference between Ottoman Turkish vs Modern Turkish (the language)
- The Languages of the Ottoman Empire
(Zeynel is an educated man, so he knows Ottoman Turkish, normal Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Ladino (Ladino being his paternal family’s native tongue)) - The diverse population of Istanbul