Reasons for the Development and Decline of Persian Language in the Ottoman Empire) by Mostafa Lal Shateri

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Filiation: A Historical Term the COVID-19 Outbreak Recalled in Turkey by Türev Demirtaş, Halil Tekiner

“…Filiation became a widely used medical term in the first quarter of the 19th century, primarily in French medical literature, soon adapted to English and some other languages. In the Ottoman Empire, it appeared in medical journals in the 1850s, used primarily by some European physicians practicing in the country. …”
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Défis, limites et promesses d’une sémantique historique en études ottomanes by Erdal Kaynar

“…It cautions against scientific and political pitfalls that may arise from a simplistic and uncritical adaptation of an historiographical trend and invites for a reflective approach to the study of Ottoman socio-political language primarily of the 19th/20th centuries. The language of the Ottoman Empire differs fundamentally as an object of historical study from Western European cases, where studies on conceptual history have proliferated, which poses a real challenge to historical semantics in Ottoman studies. …”
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