Research Profile 2012

One of three state-of-the-art reviews in the revived Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies - the others on republican Turkey ("Children of Ozal: the New Face of Turkish Studies"), by Howard Eissenstat and, Digital Frontiers of Ottoman Studies by Chris Gratien, Michael Polczynski and Nir Shafir

A review of Ottoman historiography of the last twenty years with a special emphasis on Gabi Piterberg's An Ottoman Tragedy (2003).

This dissertation examines the Ottoman grand strategy during the turbulent years of war and reform between 1826 and 1841.The concept of grand strategy utilized in my thesis does hereby not refer to purely military matters. It is rather a notion that explains how a political authority strives to realize its long-term aims through mobilization of its available instruments and resources. During 1820s-1840s, facing grave internal and external threats, the Ottoman grand strategy was directed at defending its existing possessions and re-establishing the center’s authority throughout the empire. To ensure their aims, Ottoman decision-makers initiated a radical bureaucratic-military reform agenda and mobilized available fiscal, military and ideological resources at their disposal. The majority of the existing scholarship tend to interpret the Ottoman reforms in an overly descriptive or superficial manner, therefore neglecting the Ottoman decision-makers’ perceptions, plans, and broader goals as well as the subsequent effects (and repercussions) of those policies within the empire. The “Eastern Question” literature, which is mainly based on European sources, often ignores the Ottoman agency and obscures the rather complex nature of Ottoman policy-making by assessing it within a facile “modernist-reactionary” bipolarity for the period in question. With my holistic approach and utilization of unused archival material, I will contribute to the existing knowledge about Ottoman policy-making and political-military transformation during the era in question. I argue in my thesis that the imperial center consciously, if frantically, responded to the internal and external challenges by tightening its grip around its subjects and making far-reaching changes in its governmentality. Aided by an expanding and diversifying military-administrative bureaucracy, Ottoman rulers managed to collect more taxes, create and expand a disciplined army, limit the power of provincial notables, standardize governing practices and pragmatically used their newly established European embassies to achieve their foreign goals. The social and economic costs of these policies were also immense, as I clearly underline in my study. Many common subjects and members of the higher classes expressed neither optimism nor pleasure about the top-down reforms and state policies. They were heavily taxed, suffered from rampant inflation, while tens of thousands of men were pressed into the new military formations to serve until they became disabled, deserted or died.

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Howard A.Reed in 1997, “Turkish Studies in North America” has informed the public by publishing this article. After more than 15 years of this study, making it a bit more specific, we refer to the work done Turcology in Canadian universities today. We have also added an element of comparison in terms of Canadian studies and documents about the Turkish Republic in the university archives. Between the years 1914-1947 a thesis information Turcology made in the areas of Canadian universities are absent, at McGill University in 1948, When examining the period 1948 to the present day;T.L.B. O'Neill's work began with data entry. Canada is working with insufficient Turcology studies but gradual increase shows that it is possible to have a bigger research one day.

in Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West, R. Tottoli ed. (London: Routledge, 2022), 89-104.

Dove va la storia economica? Metodi e prospettive. Secc. XIII-XVIII = Where is Economic History Going? Methods and Prospects from the 13th to the 18th centuries : atti della Quarantaduesima Settimana di Studi, 18-22 aprile 2010 / a cura di Francesco Ammannati. Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2011. (Atti delle Settimane di Studi e altri Convegni ; 42) http://digital.casalini.it/9788864532875 ISBN 978-88-6453-287-5 (online) ISBN 978-88-6453-283-7 (print) La Settimana di Studi è stata realizzata con il contributo di: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam, ed. Armando Salvatore et al, 2018.

This chapter traces the emergence of intellectuals as not only thinkers but also critics, cultural mediators, and shapers of discourse across the Islamic ecumene between the late 17th and late 19th centuries. Focusing on major polities of the day, it reveals a highly dynamic and interconnected world in which individuals and ideas moved freely. Whether for political reform, religious revival, or social critique, these intellectuals traveled unimpeded across national boundaries and contributed to what was a truly global discourse.

Study of the Ottoman empire has flourished in the past two decades. Reaching beyond the imperial centre, new work probes the problem of living in far-flung peripheries and what it meant to negotiate religious and ethnic differences in times of upheaval and change. With a remarkable array of languages and grasp of the complexity of early modern societies, young scholars are exploring not just the representation and practice of Ottoman sovereignty and the response of elites but also the experience of the frontier, and survival strategies of slaves, prisoners of wars, converts and captives.