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The international workshop entitled “The Long Tanzimat (1826–1876): From the Abolition of the Janissaries to the Kanun-ı Esasi”, organized under the leadership of Asst. Prof. Alp Eren Topal was held at the Salis Madrasa.

Our History graduates Enes Polat, Dzemil Niksic and Hümeyra Tuğba Öztürk has been accepted into the master’s programs of universities in Vienna and Florence.

Our graduate student, Ulaş Can Zorlu, has been accepted into the MA in History program within the Department of Historical Studies at Central European University.

The workshop titled “Plague in Southwestern Eurasia and the Mediterranean: Burrows, Reservoirs, Trade, Demographics and Epidemiology” was held at Ibn Haldun University’s Süleymaniye Campus, featuring researchers from various universities around the world.

Dr. Giorgios Theotokis’s book, prepared together with Dr. Mamuka Tsurtsumia, titled “Nikephoros II Phokas and Warfare in the 10th-Century Byzantine World”, has been published by E. J. Brill.

Gizem Dik and Mehmet Sadin Kara, graduates of the History Department at Ibn Haldun University, achieved significant success by being accepted into the master's programs at Oxford University.

A conference titled 4th International Conference on the Military History of the Mediterranean Sea will be held by Ibn Haldun University, University of Ioannina and Hellenic Historical Society in Ioannina, Greece, on 9-11 June 2025.

Our students visited important historical and cultural sites for 4 days under the guidance of Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi.

Our faculty member Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi spoke about her life and career in a program on A Para TV channel.

With Assoc. Prof. Günhan Börekçi’s appointment formalized as of last month, IHU’s History Department looks stronger than ever as it enters the 2024-2025 academic year.

The papers presented at the III. International Suleymaniye Symposium were published by Ibn Haldun University Publications.

Our Research Assistant Zeynep Yıldırım translated our esteemed academician Suraiya Faroqhi's book on the Ottomans and Mughals was published by Kronik Publications.

The new and expanded Turkish translation of Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi's How to Study Ottoman History, one of the esteemed academicians of our department, was published by Kronik Publications.

Turkey’s Higher Education Board (YÖK) has publicly announced the outcome of the Higher Education Entrance and Placement Exam (YKS). Hence it is now official that all ten Turkish citizens joining IHU History starting from the 2024-2025 academic year have achieved Verbal exam scores putting them in the first 1000 nationwide.

Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi will give the keynote address titled "Carrying Silver Coins Through Rivers in Spate and Bypassing Customs Officials: Eastern European Traders in the Late 1500s" at the 38th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference, which will be held at the University of Chicago, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies on May 3rd.

The lecture will be given by Dr. Henry Shapiro, Lecturer in the Department of History at our University. Armenian classes are beginning

Prof. Faroqhi Contributes to the Symposium on Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Journal TURCICA in Paris

Doctoral Student Saeedi Participates in CEST "Cultural Exchange and Heritage" Summer School in Vienna

10th Annual MUBIT doctoral workshop: Palestine Versus the Palestinians? Writing Palestinians into History

The 3rd International Congress on Ottoman Studies (OSARK) will be held in Istanbul between the 7-9th of September this year, with the participation of two faculty members from the History Department at Ibn Haldun University.

Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy for the year 2022, under the "Early Modern History to 1850" category.

The departments of history at Ibn Haldun University and Penn State University are happy to announce an intensive summer school on environmental history titled, “Environment and Society in Turkish and Global Contexts.”

Our part-time faculty member, Dr. M. Fatih Çalışır will attend a workshop organized by the Orient Institut Beirut, titled “Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire.”