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When the heir apparent Yusuf İzzeddin Efendi passed away in 1916, Mehmed Tevfik Bey (Biren) assumed the administration of his estate as guardian. The documents, which were shaped around issues such as the distribution of income among family members, expenditures made, and the administration of the estate, reached a significant volume and eventually became an independent collection. The collection, consisting of 4,048 documents produced between 1916 and 1968, is organized in 17 folders and 1,330 files.

The Veysel Pasha Papers belong to Veysel Pasha (1866-1892) and his son Ali Rıza Pasha (1901-1923), who were among the last of the Ottoman State’s Grand Mushirs. The collection consists of correspondence regarding their administrative, military, and political activities in the regions of Manastir, Prizren, Yakova, Ipek, and Kosovo in the Balkans, as well as their personal affairs. The collection, dating from 1866 to 1923, is organized in 141 documents, one folder and 85 files.

Timur Kocaoğlu (1947-), a Turkish historian and political scientist of Uzbek origin, was the first Uzbek scholar to defend his doctoral dissertation at Colombia University. The document was sent to ISAM as a donation by Kocaoğlu along with some books from the United States of America.
The collection features items dated between 1968 and 2019 and is categorized in 11 folders and 168 files. It contains many academic studies, personal correspondence, and documents belonging to Timur Kocaoğlu. The prominent documents in the collection include: notebooks containing poems, stories, and plays written in the handwriting of Dr. Captain Şerafeddin Bey, a martyr of the War of Independence; letters written by Şerafeddin Bey to his wife Hasine Hanım, his brother, poet Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, and his father; Ottoman postcards; photocopies of correspondence between Timur Kocaoğlu’s father Osman Kocaoğlu and Kazakh political leaders Mustafa Çokay and Ahmet Zeki Velidi Togan.

Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı (1869-1949), known as “Feylesof” (philosopher) was a poet, literary figure, politician, and philosopher of the Second Constitutional Monarchy period. He studied medicine, served as a member of parliament during the Ottoman period, and lived in exile for many years, as he was among the “Hundred and Fifty” of the Ottoman delegate who signed the Treaty of Sevres.
The collection spans the period between 1856 and 1997 and has been categorized in 32 folders and 925 separate files. Consisting primarily of correspondence with prominent people and institutions in Turkey and around the world, as well as manuscripts, photographs, and newspaper clippings, the collection contains 12,978 pages and 3,998 documents. This represents an important source for the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic.

Orhan Şaik Gökyay (1902-1994) was a literary historian, language researcher, and important poet. The collection contains Gökyay’s personal documents (diplomas, identity cards, certificates of honor, and photographs), his correspondence with many individuals and institutions in Turkey and abroad, his published poems and essays about poetry, manuscript copies of all his works, various works in the fields of literature, history, and folklore, and documents related to the Turanism Trial. The collection features items dated from between 1940 and 1992 and is categorized in 106 folders and 2,069 files.

Prof. Dr. Muḥammad b. Tāwīt al-Ṭanjī (1918-1974) was a Moroccan scholar of literature, fiqh, and history known for his scholarly publications. The collection includes works on history, literature, philosophy, hadith, astronomy, and many other subjects. The collection, which consists of notebooks, miscellaneous documents, and bibliographic fiches, is organized in three groups. Notebooks constitute a significant portion of the 550 documents. These notebooks, which largely contain academic notes, include bibliographical information, indexes, and various works, as well as research that al-Ṭanjī started but did not complete. The miscellaneous papers include 189 letters. The collection, which dates from 1814 to 1997, is classified in 96 folders and 768 files.

Mehmed Safayhi (1890-1977) served as a sorting officer at the Süleymaniye Library Directorate between 1937 and 1970. The 216 files of this collection are categorized under seven headings: bibliographic works, index and miscellaneous works, letters, family, professional documents, miscellaneous, poetry, prayers, and notes. The notebooks, which are available in full text, contain bibliographic information on hundreds of works. The alphabetically successive notebooks were prepared by Mehmed Safayhi during his tenure as a sorting officer at the Süleymaniye Library and can be used as a guide for cataloging manuscripts.

The presence of Hamparsum sheet music and original sheet music in the collection written by Kemal Batanay (1893-1981), a composer of Turkish music and ta‘līḳ calligrapher, makes this archive valuable. The collection mostly consists of rare works written by musicians. Among the most prominent documents in the archive are 1,342 pieces of sheet music written in Kemal Batanay’s own handwriting, 789 printed and 860 photocopied sheet music, 55 original and photocopied notebooks, and 396 compilations. The collection, which covers the dates when the owner of the collection lived, is organized in 30 folders and 2,137 files.

The collection of correspondence of Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, who was the Grand Vizier at the time of the March 31st Incident, is an important source for researchers interested in late Ottoman history, the Committee of Union and Progress, the Balkans and Macedonia. Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha's official and personal correspondence is an important primary source for national and international political developments in the Balkans, especially during his Rumelia Inspectorate. The documents from this inspectorate period account for more than half of the collection.

The digital copies of 6,835 personal files, the originals of which are housed in the Istanbul Muftī’s Office Mashīkhat Archive, can be examined in the ISAM Library Archive. The files consist of a variety of documents, such as status translations, ijāzatnāme, population and salary certificates of civil servants who served in different accidents, and regions and levels under the office of the shaykh al-islām (grand muftī). Some of the files consist only of envelopes and do not contain the status translations.