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Authored Books

Fortna, Benjamin (2010) Learning to Read in the late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fortna, Benjamin (2002) Imperial Classroom. Islam, Education and the State in Late Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Fortna, Benjamin, Katsikas, Stefanos, Kamouzis, Dimitris and Konortas, Paraskevas, eds. (2013) State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East)

Amin, C. M., Fortna, Benjamin and Frierson, E. B., eds. (2005) Modern Middle Eastern History: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Wirtz, Philipp (2016) 'Presenting Ottoman childhoods in post-Ottoman Autobiographies.' In: Fortna, Benjamin, (ed.), Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After. Leiden: Brill, pp. 223-249. (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage; 59)

Fortna, Benjamin (2011) 'Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire and After.' In: Cummings, Sally N and Hinnebusch, Raymond A., (eds.), Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Fortna, Benjamin (2010) 'The Ottoman Educational Legacy.' In: Kerslake, Celia, Öktem, Kerem and Robins, Philip, (eds.), Turkey's Engagement with Modernity: Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 15-26.

Fortna, Benjamin (2008) 'The reign of Abdülhamid II.' In: Kasaba, Resat, (ed.), The Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 38-61.

Fortna, Benjamin (2007) 'Emphasizing the Islamic: Modifying the Curriculum of Late Ottoman State Schools.' In: Kreiser, Klaus and Georgeon, François, (eds.), Enfance et jeunesse dans l'islam – Chilhood and Youth in the Muslim World. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, pp. 193-209.

Fortna, Benjamin (2007) 'Reading, Hegemony and Counterhegemony in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic.' In: Chalcraft, J. and Noorani, Y., (eds.), Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-54.

Fortna, Benjamin (2002) 'Turkey - Education System.' In: Levinson, David and Christensen, Karen, (eds.), Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 547-549.

Fortna, Benjamin (2000) 'The Kindergarten in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.' In: Wollons, R., (ed.), Kindergartens and Cultures: The Global Diffusion of an Idea. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 251-273.

Journal Article

Fortna, Benjamin (2010) 'Reading between Public and Private in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 30 (3). pp. 563-573.

Fortna, Benjamin (2004) 'Change in the School Maps of the Late Ottoman Empire.' Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 57 (1). pp. 17-28.

Fortna, Benjamin (2001) 'Education and Autobiography at the End of the Ottoman Empire.' Die Welt des Islams, 41 (1). pp. 1-31.

Fortna, Benjamin (2001) 'Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 21 (1-2). pp. 33-41.

Fortna, Benjamin (2000) 'Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “SECULAR” Schools.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 32 (3). pp. 369-393.

Fortna, Benjamin (2000) 'Remapping Ottoman Muslim Identity in the Hamidian Era: The Role of Cartographic Artifacts.' Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam, 3. pp. 45-56.