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Abdurrahman Atçıl Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Member (216) 568 7121 abdurrahmanatcilsabanciunivedu

Personal Web

https://hist.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/faculty/detail/3636

Jobs

Faculty Member

Education

The University of Chicago, PhD, 2010

Bilkent University, MA, 2002

Areas of Interest

Law, politics, religion and bureaucracy in the early modern Ottoman Empire; Islamic history in general; history of education and science in the Islamic world; history of Islamic manuscripts and libraries

Atçıl, Abdurrahman and Markiewicz, Christopher (2024) "Shari'a and governance in Ottoman Egypt: the waqf controversy in the mid-sixteenth century", International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol.56, No.1, 55-74 (SSCI)

Atçıl, Abdurrahman and Günaydın, Salih and Kami, Gürzat and Karaarslan, Abdullah (2022) "Building a digital Tabaqat: challenges, opportunities, and research prospects", Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Vol.9, No.2, 243-266 (NA)

Atçıl, Abdurrahman and Kami, Gürzat (2022) "Studying professional careers as hierarchical networks: a case study on the careers of chief judges in the Ottoman Empire (1516–1622)", Journal of Historical Network Research, No.7, 1-32 (NA)

Books

Scholars and Sultans in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Turkish Translation: Erken Modern Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Âlimler ve Sultanlar (Istanbul: Klasik, 2019)

(with Ercan Alan), XVI. Yüzyıl Ulema Defterleri (Ankara: Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi, 2018)

Articles

“The Safavid Threat and Juristic Authority in the Ottoman Empire during the 16th Century,” The International Journal of Middle East Studies 49 (2017)

“Memlükler’den Osmanlılar’a Geçişte Mısır’da Adlî Teşkilât ve Hukuk (922-931/1517-1525),” İslâm Araştırmaları Dergisi 38 (2017)

“Decentralization, Imperialism and Ottoman Sovereignty in the Arab Lands before 1914: Shakib Arslan’s Polemic Against the Decentralization Party,” Die Welt des Islams 53 (2013)

“Greco-Islamic Philosophy and Islamic Jurisprudence in the Ottoman Empire (1300–1600): Aristotle’s Theory of Sciences in Works on Usul al-Fiqh,” The Journal of Ottoman Studies 41 (2013)

"The Route to the Top in the Ottoman İlmiye Hierarchy of the Sixteenth Century,” The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 72 (2009)