Archivum Ottomanicum concerns itself primarily with Ottoman history and Ottoman philology. However, the editors also welcome articles on subjects related to Ottoman studies in the history and culture of Europe, including in particular Danubian Europe, the Black Sea area and the Caucasus, and in the history and culture of the Arab and the Iranian lands, and Byzantium. The publication of historical documents and records and their interpretation are of special interest.

From the Content:

- A. Tietze: Der türkeitürkische Wortschatz
- H. Stein: Das türkische Sprachgut im „Tractatus de Moribus, Condictionibus et Nequicia Turcorum“ (1481) des Georg von Ungarn
- D. A. Howard: Historical Scholarship and the Classical Ottoman Kanunnames
- R. Murphey: The Conceptual and Pragmatic Uses of the „Summary“ (Idjmal) Register in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Administrative Practice
- G. Hagen: Überzeitlichkeit und Geschichte in Katib Çelebis Gihannüma
- E. Ihsanoglu: Genesis of Learned Societies and Professional Associations in Ottoman Turkey
- C. E. Farah: Reassessing Sultan Abdülhamid II’s Islamic Policy
- G. M. Smith: The Kasgarî Dergâh in Istanbul
- G. Hazai: Ein „Iskendername“ als politische Zweckschrift aus der Zeit von Süleyman dem Prächtigen