ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS IN GREEK LIBRARIES

The territory of Greece, which had been under Ottoman rule for centuries, constitutes an important part of the Ottoman history archive as a result of the administrative, historical and cultural relations covering a long period. The Greek historical Ottoman archive, which could be considered as the most important source of Ottoman history research, especially Ottoman-Greek relations, was unfortunately negatively affected by the disturbances and extraordinary events of the 19th century and some of the important ones were damaged. However, a significant portion of this valuable archive is still preserved in some archives of the country. We searched the Islamic manuscripts in Greece, which are the subject of our research, in these archives and some other libraries, and we reviewed the almost all works made in this field so far and tried to determine these manuscripts. The lack of Islamic manuscripts we have identified in the libraries of Greece is striking. As mentioned, the chain of events in a period of more than a century, from the beginning of the 19th century, is capable of clarifying this issue