Publications
TIOL3 Publication
A selection of papers from the TIOL3 Seminar in Istanbul April 2025 will be published in due course.
Key Dates:
10 September 2025
Membership of the Editorial Committee to be agreed by the TIOL committee.
14 September 2025
Information about the preparation of submissions and the publication process to go to all potential contributors.
In the week beginning 15 September, the TIOL3 style sheet will be sent to all potential contributors and will be available on this website.
31 December 2025
Final date of submission of papers, biodata of the author(s), images and figures in digital form, lists of figures, revised abstracts and keywords. Peer review process begins.
By mid-January 2026, after peer review, authors will be notified of the decision via email. Authors will be provided with anonymous peer review feedback and any relevant comments from the editors. Papers will be accepted, returned for revision with specific concerns before resubmission, or rejected.
TRAVELLERS IN OTTOMAN LANDS
THE BOTANICAL LEGACY
Edited by Ines Aščerić-Todd, Sabina Knees, Janet Starkey and Paul Starkey
ISBN 978-1784919153
Published by Archaeopress
Rrp £60, PDF also available
Paperback, 358 pages, 2 maps, 139 colour plates
This collection of around twenty papers has its origins in a two-day seminar Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The botanical legacy (TIOL1), organised by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction with the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (RBGE), with additional support from Cornucopia magazine and the Turkish Consulate General, Edinburgh. This multi-disciplinary event formed part of the Ottoman Horizons festival held in Edinburgh in 2017 and attracted a wide range of participants from around the world, including several from Turkey and other parts of the Middle East.
This splendidly illustrated book focuses on the botanical legacy of many parts of the former Ottoman Empire — including present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, and the Arabian Peninsula — as seen and described by travellers both from within and from outside the region. The papers cover a wide variety of subjects, including Ottoman garden design and architecture; the flora of the region, especially bulbs and their cultural significance; literary, pictorial and photographic depictions of the botany and horticulture of the Ottoman lands; floral and related motifs in Ottoman art; culinary and medicinal aspects of the botanical heritage; and efforts related to conservation.
Travellers in Ottoman Lands was nominated by the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (of North America) for their Annual Literature award in 2020. Read the review by Gerald McLean in the Bulletin of the British Association for Turkish Area Studies BATAS 33 page 56
TRAVELLERS IN OTTOMAN LANDS II
THE BALKANS, ANATOLIA AND BEYOND
Edited by Ines Aščerić-Todd, Aid Smajić, Janet Starkey and Paul Starkey
ISBN 978-1-80327-859-9
Archaeopress, 2025
The twenty-six chapters of this volume have their origins in a three-day seminar organised by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction with the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, with additional support from Cornucopia magazine.
This multi-disciplinary event attracted a wide range of participants from around the world, including Europe, the United States of America, the Balkans, Türkiye and other parts of the Middle East.
This volume has a special focus on the Balkans and Anatolia, as seen and described by travellers from both within and outside the region. Much still remains to be learnt about travellers in the Ottoman Balkans, who can shed valuable light on the topics of Christian-Muslim and East-West relations, and the transition from the Ottoman Empire to successor nation-states in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The chapters cover a variety of subjects, with sections on landscapes; religion and travel; European travellers from merchants to kings; Fantasies, images and folktales; and Imperial discourse, the rise of nations, and rapportage. Contributors to the book are specialists from a range of academic disciplines and draw on a wide selection of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies.