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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

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Publications Prior to SU

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)

Book Chapters

“The Kalam Section in the Topkapı Palace Library in 1503/1504,” in Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4), ed. Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell Fleischer (Leiden: Brill, 2019)

“Ottoman Religious Rulings Concerning the Safavids: Ebussuud Efendi’s Fatwas,” in Empires of the Near East and India: Sources for the Study of Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Societies, ed. Hani Khafipour (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019)

“Osmanlı Klasik Döneminde Eğitim: Medreseler [Education in the pre-modern Ottoman world: Madrasas],” in Kronolojik ve Tematik Türk Eğitim Tarihi, ed. Mustafa Gündüz (Istanbul: İdeal Kültür, 2018)

“Mobility of Scholars and the Formation of a Self-Sustaining Scholarly System in the Lands of Rum during the Fifteenth Century,” in Literature and Intellectual Life in Medieval Anatolia, ed. Andrew Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2016)

2015   “‘Osmanlı Devleti’nin Ulemâsı’ / Osmanlı Âlim-Bürokratlar Sınıfı (1453–1600),” [‘Scholars of the Ottoman State’ / Ottoman scholar-bureaucrats (1453–1600] in Osmanlı’da İlim ve Fikir Dünyası: İstanbul’un Fethinden Süleymaniye Medreselerinin Kuruluşuna Kadar, ed. Ömer Mahir Alper and Mustakim Arıcı (Istanbul: Klasik, 2015)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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