The Orient-Institut Istanbul is pleased to invite applications for Ph.D. research grants for 2018 and for the academic year of 2018/19. The purpose of the grant is the support of field research in Istanbul/Turkey for Ph.D. students not living in Turkey. Grants are available to support research in one of the research areas of the Institute including the following research fields:

• Musicological research on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
• Narrative sources on Istanbul and the late Ottoman Empire
• Historic and contemporary forms of religious expression in Anatolia since the 11th century
• Manuscript cultures in the Ottoman Empire and Iran, in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Center 950 of the University of Hamburg
• Human, medicine, and society, in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (ITAS)