A four-day summer school on reading and analyzing ottoman administrative sources was organized at the University of Jordan (UJ) during  the period from 31 August to 3 September.

Targeted  for young researchers and postgraduate students, the course took place at the Center for Documents, Manuscripts and Bilad al-Sham Studies and the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo).

The purpose of the course was to introduce the 23 trainees to reading and analyzing manuscript sources which have been issued by the Ottoman administrative institutions at both provincial and imperial levels, in Arabic or ‘Osmanli’, to provide the future historians with the skills necessary to use such sources within the framework of their research.

The school was an initiative of the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo), the Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFÉA), the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) and the University of Jordan (UJ) with the support of the French research interest group GIS Middle East/Islamic World.

The instructors were Prof. Adnan Al-Bakheet (UJ), Dr. Hind Abu Shaar (Āl al-Bayt University), Dr. Metin Atmaca (Ankara Sosyal Bilimler University), Philippe Bourmaud (IFEA), Şerife Eroğlu (Hacettepe University), Dr. Vanessa Guéno (Ifpo), Dr. Astrid Meier (OIB), Mrs. Abla Muhtadi (independent researcher), Dr. Falestin Naili (Ifpo), Dr. Norig Neveu (Ifpo), Dr. Murat Siviloglu (independent researcher), Dr. Mahmoud Yazbak (University of Haïfa).