Pre-Census (Yoklama) Registers from Ottoman Palestine: Gaza and Hebron, 1850–1851
Enes Niziplioglu Introduction This brief research note examines two clusters of yoklama defterleri – pre-census population registers – from the Palestinian...
Notes from our ongoing research
Enes Niziplioglu Introduction This brief research note examines two clusters of yoklama defterleri – pre-census population registers – from the Palestinian...
Artas Series, Part 3 Sarah Buessow and Johann Buessow The Finnish ethnographer Hilma Granqvist used a pioneering ethnographic study of...
by Moritz Böing, Marco-Sebastian Jusman, Sarah Büssow, Johann Büssow
by Moritz Böing, Marco-Sebastian Jusman, Sarah Büssow, Johann Büssow · Published 15/04/2026
Roma Series, Part 1 Moritz Böing, Marco Jusman, Sarah Büssow and Johann Büssow Introduction Although Romani people constituted a significant...
Artas Series Part 2 Nils Riecken1 Introduction – approaching past knowledge production and assessing its place in the present The...
Artas Series Part 1 Johann Buessow and Sarah Buessow This article is the first installment in a new series of...
by Emanuel Beska, Sarah Büssow
by Emanuel Beska, Sarah Büssow · Published 14/11/2025 · Last modified 13/03/2026
Emanuel Beška, Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences1Sarah Büssow, Ruhr University Bochum In late Ottoman Palestine, newspaper articles...
Katharina Krause The following two images (figures 1 & 2) show the observations (mülahazat) added to the entry for Maḥmūd...
Johann Buessow Introduction State administration can decisively shape people’s lives. A single line on a bureaucratic map may determine which...
by Johann Büssow, Olaf Berg · Published 29/09/2025 · Last modified 13/03/2026
Johann Buessow and Olaf Berg Introduction This blog post proposes a typology of settlements in late Ottoman Palestine, intended as...
by Sarah Büssow, Johann Büssow
by Sarah Büssow, Johann Büssow · Published 19/09/2025 · Last modified 13/03/2026
Sarah Buessow and Johann Buessow Mortality and life-course patterns are key to understanding how past populations lived, reproduced, and organized...
This is the blog of the research project LOOP, "Late Ottoman Palestinians", funded by the European Research Council and directed by Johann Büssow at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Here we present our research questions, report on our activities and publications, and provide insights into ongoing research.

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