3. THE ARABIC SCRIPT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 8
4. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OF PERIODICALS AND SOCIETIES 10
5. EDITOR'S NOTE 12
6. I. INTRODUCTION
7. 1. DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF ORIENTAL PALEOGRAPHY AND DIPLOMATICS 13
8. 2. HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF ORIENTAL DIPLOMATICS 14
9. 3. COLLECTIONS OF ORIENTAL DOCUMENTS IN TURKEY AND IN OTHER ASIATIC COUNTRIES 24
10. 4. COLLECTIONS OF ORIENTAL DOCUMENTS IN EUROPE 33
11. 5. PUBLICATIONS OF ORIENTAL DOCUMENTS 59
12. II. PALEOGRAPHY
13. 1. WHITING MATERIALS 104
14. 2. WRITING IMPLEMENTS 106
15. 3. THE ARABIC SCRIPT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT 106
16. 4. TYPES OF SCRIPT USED TN OTTOMAN DOCUMENTS 119
17. 5. ABBREVIATIONS 128
18. 6. CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYMBOLS 133
19. III. DIPLOMATICS
20. 1. TERMINOLOGY OF OTTOMAN DOCUMENTS 135
21. 2. DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENTS 138
22. 3. METHODS OF FOLDING AND PRESERVING DOCUMENTS 139
23. 4. ARRANGEMENT OF COMPONENTS OF DOCUMENTS 139
24. 5. COPIES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF DOCUMENTS 149
25. 6. FORGERIES OF DOCUMENTS 151
26. 7. TRANSLATIONS OF DOCUMENTS 151
27. 8. DOCUMENTS OF THE CRIMEAN TATARS 152
28. 9. BASIC FACTS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE OTTOMAN CHANCERY 159
29. 10. SOURCES FOR OTTOMAN HISTORY 168
30. 11. POLAND'S RELATIONS WITH ORIENTAL COUNTRIES 170
31. IV. ANCILLARY DISCIPLINES
32. 1. CHRONOLOGY 186
33. 2. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES OF RULERS 191
34. 3. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY 197
35. 4. NUMISMATICS 198
36. 5. ELEMENTS OF TURKISH HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 200
37. APPENDIX 202
38. INDEX 213