Aleksandar Shopov

Niermeier-Dohoney, J., & Shopov, A. (Eds.). (18 Dec. 2025). Toward a Global History of Soil. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004748484

 “Three Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Books on Flower Breeding (terbiye-i ezhar) and the Formation of a Science of Soil in Istanbul” in Toward a Global History of Soil: Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300-1750, edited by Justin Niermeier-Dohoney and Aleksandar Shopov (Brill, 2026). Co-authored with Himmet Taskomur.

Hybridizing Camels in Sixteenth-Century Selanik Mobility, Natural Knowledge, and Ottoman Debates about the Breeding of the Rumis

“Flower-Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds”Isis 113/3(2022): 588-596. 

In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman Egypt

‘Fezzan is the Siberia of Africa’: Desert and Society in the Prison Memoir of Pavel Shatev (1882–1951), An Anarchist from Ottoman Macedonia

“Books on Agriculture (al-filāḥa) Pertaining to Medical Science” and Ottoman Agricultural Science and Practice around 1500

The Vernacularization of Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Agricultural Science in its Economic Context

Cities of rice: risiculture and environmental change in the Early Modern Ottoman Balkans

When Istanbul Was a City of Bostāns: Urban Agriculture and Agriculturists

Langa Cucumber

Grafting in Sixteenth-Century Mamluk and Ottoman Agriculture and Literature

An Archaeology of Sustenance: The Endangered Market Gardens of Istanbul

“Osmanlı Istanbul’unda Kent Içi Tarımsal Toprak Kullanımı ve Dönüşumleri: Yedikule Bostanları [Urban agricultural land use and its transformations in Ottoman Istanbul: Yedikule gardens],” Toplumsal Tarih, 236 (2013): 34-38.

In Search of the Spring Floods: On the Questions of How and When the Ottomans Started Rice Production in the Balkan Peninsula

Hybridizing Camels in Sixteenth-Century Selanik: Mobility, Natural Knowledge, and Ottoman Debates about the Breeding of the Rumis