Mid-Atlantic Ottoman Studies Workshop Program 2019

2021

Since man has a natural aptitude for comprehending past and future affairs, and perhaps also for unlocking the secrets of eternities past and future, humanity's spiritual need for this science [history] is evident.

Course Description: This course is a seminar exploration of the Ottoman Empire’s history and cultural legacies from its formation in the late 13th century until 1789 – with a strong concentration on the “classical age” of Ottoman rule. The course will concentrate on the historical evolution of the Ottoman Empire’s political, religious, cultural, and institutional aspects. There is no prerequisite for this course, although it is preferred that students have taken at least one Middle East History course prior to enrollment. This course also covers intellectual issues the face Ottomanists. We explore how Ottoman historians think about, analyze, and interpret the past; discuss the nature of our historical knowledge; and evaluate different theories that ground our view of that history. Finally, we examine the role of historiography in shaping Ottoman historians’ work.

Journal of Islamic Studies, 2009

4 0 4 T H E H I S T O R I A N 4 0 5 B O O K R E V I E W S of a constructive model for the ideal Islamic democracy of the twenty-first century.

H-Ideas, H-Net Reviews, 2018

2014

There have been a number of publications and conferences recently which methodologically deal with the frontiers, encounters and interchange between different units within the Ottoman Empire throughout the long history of Ottoman times. 1 The present twovolume work is an end product of the 15 th Symposium of the Comité International d’Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, held in London from 8 July to 12 July, 2002. It contains a selection of the presented papers: thirty three papers which seek to extend the frontiers of Ottoman studies either with new methodological approaches or by “reading” new historical sources and materials for the sake of Ottoman studies. These articles are arranged into four chapters per volume.

Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey by Kemal H. Karpat; The History of Turkey by Douglas A. Howard; The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire by Martin Sicker; Turkey at the Crossroads: Ottoman Legacies and a Greater Middle East by Dietrich Jung; Wolfango Piccoli; Crisis of the Ottoman Empire: Prelude to Collapse, 1839-1878 by James J. Reid; The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State by Kemal H. Karpat Review by: Virginia H. Aksan

Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, 2020

Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural 1 (2020). Available at https://doi.org/10.26225/weyr-2s98