Orient Institute Istanbul
| Orient Institute Istanbul | |
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 OIIST logo |
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| Category: | Scientific institution |
| Carrier: | Max Weber Foundation - German humanities institutes abroad |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Federal direct foundation |
| Seat of the wearer: | Bonn |
| Facility location: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Type of research: | Research in the humanities and social sciences in the Middle East, especially Turkey, Iran and Central Asia. |
| Subjects: | Interdisciplinary research (Turkish studies, Ottoman studies, Islamic studies, history, political science, anthropology, literary studies, etc.) |
| Areas of expertise: | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Basic funding: | Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| Management: | Raoul Motika |
| Employee: | approx. 20 |
| Homepage: | http://www.oiist.org/ |
The Orient-Institut Istanbul (OIIST) is a Turkish and regional scientific German research institute. It is one of the ten German institutes abroad of the direct federal Max Weber Foundation .
history
From 1989 to 2008 the OIIST worked as a branch of the Orient Institute in Beirut , which was founded in 1961 by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG). In 2009 the OIIST became an independent research institute, independent of the parent company in Beirut.
Tasks and academic profile
The task of the OIIST is on the one hand the scientific exchange between Germany and Turkey. The OIIST operates historical and contemporary related research in the fields of Turkic , Ottoman , Central Asia Science , Islamic Studies and Iranian Studies ; Furthermore, regional research in the humanities and social sciences.
Library
The publicly accessible library comprises around 39,000 monographs and 1320 Ottoman, Turkish and other language journal titles. Approx. 140 current magazines are kept.
Publication series
- Pera sheets online
- Istanbul texts and studies
- Orient-Institut Studies together with the Orient-Institut Beirut.
director
Raoul Motika has been director of OIIST since 2010 .