If you’d like to know more about this project and see a complete bibliography, you can read the full written thesis here.
There are many wonderful resources on Ottoman history, culture, and coffeehouses. I’ve listed some of the sources that were most important for this thesis, and which are a good place to begin further research.
Books on Ottoman history and culture:
Faroqhi, Suraiya. Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000.
Faroqhi, Suraiya. Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources. Cambridge l New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uoregon/detail.action?docID=202027&pq-origsite=primo.
Faroqhi, Suraiya. A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and Its Artefacts. I.B.Tauris, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350985025.
İnalcık, Halil, and Donald Quataert, eds. An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
For more information on the religious and political aspects of coffee culture:
Hattox, Ralph S. Coffee and Coffeehouses : The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East. Seattle, UNITED STATES: University of Washington Press, 1986. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uoregon/detail.action?docID=3444597.
For consumption and food studies approaches to coffee and Ottoman history:
Akçetin, Elif, and Suraiya Faroqhi, eds. Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century. Rulers & Elites : Comparative Studies in Governance, Volume 13. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2018.
Quataert, Donald, ed. Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922: An Introduction. SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Singer, Amy, ed. Starting with Food: Culinary Approaches to Ottoman History. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2011.
For more information on archaeology and material studies:
Artan, Tülay. “The Illuminated Table, the Prosperous House: Food and Shelter in Ottoman Material Culture; Ottoman Costumes. From Textile to Identity.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52, no. 3 (2009): 583–91.
Baram, Uzi. “Clay Tobacco Pipes and Coffee Cup Sherds in the Archaeology of the Middle East: Artifacts of Social Tensions from the Ottoman Past.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3, no. 3 (1999): 137–51. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021905918886.https://doi.org/10.1163/156852009X458269.
The Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire : Breaking New Ground. First edition 2002. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000.
For more information on women and gender in the Ottoman Empire:
Peirce, Leslie P. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Studies in Middle Eastern History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Sajdi, Dana, ed. Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century. London ; New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. (Especially Alan Mikhail’s essay “The Heart’s Desire: Gender, Urban Space and the Ottoman Coffee House.”
Primary sources:
The Digital Ottoman Studies website is a resource for locating and accessing digital archives and resources for studying Ottoman history. https://www.digitalottomanstudies.com/
Coffee House Scene (Recto) and Persian Calligraphy (Verso), Folio from an Ottoman Album.
https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/T_439_9/1/
Evliya Çelebi, Hâfız Mehmet Zıllî, Sooyong Kim, and Robert Dankoff. An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi. London: Eland, 2010.
Many American museums and repositories have collections of Ottoman manuscripts and artifacts, including:
The Met’s Islamic Art collection: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?department=14&showOnly=highlights
The Harvard Art Museums’ Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art: https://harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/1860/the-edwin-binney-3rd-collection-of-turkish-art-at-the-harvard-university-art-museums
The Pera Museum’s Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Kutahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection: https://www.peramuseum.org/collection/kutahya-tiles-and-ceramics-collection/17