Keşf-i Yeni Redhouse

Keşf-i Yeni Redhouse is a searchable interface for The New Redhouse Turkish–English Dictionary, designed to make a large printed reference work faster and easier to consult. It was developed in part to overcome the limitations of existing OCR for the dictionary, which can make reliable digital searching difficult. The interface allows users to search Turkish headwords with or without diacritics, including approximate and fuzzy matches, and links results directly to the relevant dictionary entry. The tool works with a user-supplied scan stored locally in the browser, combining improved searchability with access to the original printed pages without uploading the source PDF.

ŞERḤ: A Unified Workflow for Ottoman Manuscripts

Şerḥ — Intelligent Ottoman Manuscript Transcription is a browser-based workspace, with an optional desktop app, for annotating, transliterating, and translating Ottoman manuscripts and archival documents. Developed out of my own research workflow, it brings manuscript images, word processing, and dictionary tools into a single environment, with optional AI assistance for reading and interpretation. The aim is to streamline the transcription process and reduce the clutter of windows, tabs, and disconnected tools that this work normally requires.

A Few Thoughts on İbrahim Metin Kunt’s "Derviş Mehmed Paşa, Vezir and Entrepreneur" and the (Mis)interpretation of Cāh/Jāh

A few informal and decidedly in the weeds thoughts on İbrahim Metin Kunt’s 1977 Turcica article, "Derviş Mehmed Paşa, Vezir and Entrepreneur: A Study in Ottoman Political-Economic Theory and Practice," and what appears to me to be a misreading at the heart of the article when Kunt attempts to explain how early modern and pre-modern authors conceptualized cāh, which he translates as (political) ‘rank’. I argue cāh is likely a much more capacious concept for early modern Ottoman and Islamicate authors.

Ottoman Transcription Keyboard

This is a keyboard layout package I designed specifically for transcribing Ottoman Turkish. It contains dedicated key combinations for a number of characters not frequently found in Latin diacritical keyboard layouts and is compatible with both Mac and Windows.

A NELC Silsile

This project offers a visual representation of academic lineages in Middle Eastern and particularly Ottoman studies, inspired by the spiritual geologies (silsiles) of Sufi tarikats.