Some recently published books in Ukrainian language on such topics as history of Islam in Ukraine and Ukrainian-Turkic frontier. In fact, a very good trend.
Islam in Ukraine. History and modernity
This book of Mykhaylo Yakubovych is an overview of emergence and formation of Muslims communities in Ukraine from the Middle Ages until today. Some chapters are devoted to Islamic culture – handwritten books, mosques, etc.
Philosophic Thought of the Crimean Khanate
Another book of Mykhaylo Yakubovych. As the author himself says about his work:
“This book is a complex scientific study of religious and philosophical heritage of the Crimean Khanate XV-XVIII century, showing the development of its major intellectual traditions – law and apologetics, discursive theology and mysticism (Sufism) – in the context of the global Muslim philosophy of post-classical period. In addition, I managed to reconstruct the biographies of the greatest thinkers of the Crimean Khanate, and appendixes contains fragments of their works, translated directly from handwritten and printed sources. A significant part of sources introduced into scientific circulation for the first time in orientalist world practice ”.
Intellectual traditions of Ukrainian-Turkic frontier XVI-XVIII centuries
Another book of Mykhaylo Yakubovych, this time in collaboration with Petro Kraluk. The book deals with the Muslim and Ukrainian cultural traditions of Ukrainian-Turkic frontiers in the Early Modern period. Particular reference made to the Muslim philosophic thought, that was present in the Crimean Khanate. At the same time, it is a research of image of Ukrainian-Turkic relations in Ukrainian literature XVI-XVIII centuries.
Ottoman-Ukrainian Steppe Frontier in Ottoman-Turkish sources XVIII century
The author of this book is Oleksandr Sereda. This is a historical-documental study that proposed a wide range of Ottoman Turkish sources on the hository of Southern Ukraine. In particular, it attracted more than thirty different in scope and content Ottoman documents that allow to recreate a picture of the Ottoman-Ukrainian relations in the early XVIII century; the fate of the Cossacks during the Ottoman-Crimean patronage; settlement and migration in the area between the Bug and Dniester; administrative-territorial entities of Ochakiv land; a wide range of socio-economic aspects of the population of the region.
Naima’s History
This book is partial translation of the famous Ottoman chronicle by Mustafa Naima, known as Ta’rīkh-i Na’īmā. Oleksandr Galenko and Oles Kulchinsky translated those parts of chronicle that speak on the events in Ukraine, which the Ottomans considered the dangerous frontier. The book deals with the events in Khotin, Ochakiv, Budjak lands, as well with the Ottoman-Crimean relations, and with Ukrainian Cossacks.
Cossack Mamay 