Associate Professor of Ottoman and Middle Eastern History

Georgetown University

Gábor Ágoston was born and educated in Hungary. He earned his M.A. and University Doctorate (Doctor universitatis) from the University of Budapest (ELTE) and his Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Between 1985 and 1998 he taught Hungarian, Ottoman and Balkan history at the Universities of Budapest and Pecs (JPTE), Hungary. Since 1998 he has been a faculty member of Georgetown’s History Department, where he teaches courses on Ottoman and Middle Eastern history, the Balkans and the Black Sea. In 2003 he was Gastprofessor at the Institute of History, University of Vienna, Austria. His field of research includes Ottoman military, economic and social history from the fifteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, early modern Hungarian history, and the comparative study of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires. His latest book, Guns of the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2005; paperback edition, 2009; Turkish- and German-language editions, 2006 and 2009) challenges the sweeping generalizations of Eurocentric and Orientalist scholarship regarding Ottoman and Islamic societies. In addition to four Hungarian-language books, he has published more than fifty scholarly articles and book chapters in English, Hungarian, Turkish, German, French and Italian on Ottoman, European and Hungarian history.

Books

Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

and Bruce Masters, ed. Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Facts On File, 2009.

Articles in Journals

Gabor Agoston. "The Image of the Ottomans in Hungarian Historiography." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 61.1-2 (2008): 15-26.

"A Flexible Empire: Authority and its Limits on the Ottoman Frontiers." International Journal of Turkish Studies 9.1-2 (2003): 15-31.

"Merces Prohibitae: The Anglo-Ottoman Trade in War Materials and the Dependence Theory." Oriente Moderno 20.1 (2001): 177-192.

"Habsburgs and Ottomans: Defense, Military Change and Shifts in Power." The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 22.1 (1998): 126-141.

"Karamania, the Anti-Ottoman Christian Diplomacy and the Non-Existing Hungarian-Karamanid Diplomatic Relations of 1428." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48.3 (1995): 267-274.

"Ottoman Artillery and European Military Technology in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 47.1-2 (1994): 15-48.

"Gunpowder for the Sultan’s Army: New Sources on the Supply of Gunpowder to the Ottoman Army in the Hungarian Campaigns of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." Turcica 25 (1993): 75-96.

"Muslim Cultural Enclaves in Hungary under Ottoman Rule." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 44.2-3 (1991): 181-204.

Articles in books

"Empires and warfare in East-Central Europe, 1550-1750 : the Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry and military transformation." European Warfare, 1350-1750. Ed. Frank Tallett and D. J. B. Trim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

"The Ottoman Challenge: The Conquest of Constantinople and Military Expansion in Europe, 1350-1550s." The Medieval World at War. Ed. Matthew Benneth . New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009.

"Where environmental and frontier studies meet: rivers, forests and fortifications along the Ottoman-Habsburg frontier in Hungary." Ottoman Frontiers. Ed. A.C.S. Peacock. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

"János Hunyadi: Hungarian National Hero who Defeated the Turks." Great Military Leaders and Their Campaigns. Ed. Jeremy Black. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008.

"Information, Ideology, and Limits of Imperial Policy: Ottoman Grand Strategy in the Context of Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry." The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire. Ed. Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

"Ottoman artillery and European military technology in the 15th and 17th centuries." Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450–1660. Ed. Paul E.J. Hammer. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

"Disjointed Historiography and Islamic Military Technology: The European Milirtary Revolution Debate and the Ottomans." Essays in Honour of Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu. Ed. Mustafa Kaçar and Zeynep Durukal . Istanbul: IRCICA, 2006.

"’The Most Powerful Empire’: Ottoman Flexibility and Military Might." Empires and Superpowers: Their Rise and Fall. Ed. George Zimmar and David Hicks . Washington, DC: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 2005.

"Behind the Turkish War Machine: Gunpowder Technology and War Industry in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1700." The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment. Ed. Brett Steele and Tamera Dorland. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.

"Ideologie, Propaganda und politischer Pragmatismus. Die Auseinandersetzung der osmanischen und habsburgischen Großmächte und die mitteleuropäische Konfrontation." Kaiser Ferdinand I. - Ein mitteleuropäischer Herrscher. Ed. Martina Fuchs, Teréz Oborni, and Gábor Újváry. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2005.

"The population of Hungary in the Turkish period, Migration and stability,Coexistence of ethnic groups." A Concise History of Hungary. Ed. István György Tóth. Budapest: Corvina and Osiris, 2005.

"The organization and structure of Ottoman Hungary, Ottoman administration in Hungary, Ottoman taxation, The condominium." A Concise History of Hungary. Ed. István György Tóth. Budapest: Corvina and Osiris, 2005.

"Coexisting cultures in Ottoman Hungary, Jewish religious and cultural life in Ottoman Hungary, Muslim culture in an occupied land, Dervishes and their orders, Muslim libraries in Hungary." A Concise History of Hungary. Ed. István György Tóth . Budapest: Corvina and Osiris, 2005.

"Early Modern Ottoman and European Gunpowder Technology." Multicultural Science in the Ottoman Empire. Ed. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Kostas Chatzis and Efthymios Nicolaidis. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003.

"Ottoman Conquest and the Ottoman Military Frontier in Hungary." A Millennium of Hungarian Military History. Ed. Béla Király and László Veszprémy. Boulder, Co.: Atlantic Research and Publications, 2002.

"Politics and Historiography: The Development of Turkish and Balkan Studies in Hungary and the Hungarian Research Institute in Istanbul." The Turks, vol. 4.. Ed. Hasan Celal Guzel, C.Cem Oguz, Osman Karatay. Ankara: Yeni Turkiye Publication, 2002.

"The Costs of the Ottoman Fortress-System in Hungary in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." Ottomans, Hungarians and Habsburgs in Central Europe. The Military Confines in the Era of Ottoman Conquest. Ed. Géza Dávid and Pál Fodor . Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2000.

"The Ottoman-Habsburg Frontier in Hungary (1541-1699): a Comparison." The Great Ottoman, Turkish Civilization, vol 1. Politics. Ed. Güler Eren, Ercüment Kuran, Nejat Göyünç, Ilber Ortayli and Kemal Çiçek. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2000.

Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History and Professor of History

Brown University

Akarlı studied economics at Robert College (BA '68), southeast European history at University of Wisconsin (MA '72), and Middle East history at Princeton (MA '73, Ph.D. '76). He taught at Bosphorus University in Istanbul (1976-83), Yarmouk University in Jordan (1983-89), and Washington University in St. Louis (1989-96) before joining Brown. He held research fellowships at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1985-86), at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2003-04), and at the Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School (2005-06). He taught courses in economic history of the world and the Middle East and wrote on Ottoman demographic, fiscal and political history earlier in his career. His later works explore the history of geographical Syria under Ottoman rule. His book on Ottoman Lebanon in 1860-1920 won the Best History Book Prize of the Missouri Historical Society. Currently, he works on themes related to the legal history of the region.

“Islamic Law in Asia Minor (Turkey) and the Ottoman Empire” in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2009), vol. 6.

“Law and Communal Identity in Ottoman Lebanon, 1893‐1912” (with Abdul‐Rahim Abu‐Husayn) in Dirasat (Beirut: American University of Beirut), Jan. 2008.

“Daughters and Fathers: A young Druze Woman’s Experience (1894‐97)” in Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman Middle East and the Balkans, edited by K. Barbir and B. Tezcan (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), pp. 167‐83.

“Ottoman Encounters with the West and Problems of Westernization,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 26/3 (2006): 353‐366.

“Lebanese Dilemmas” (in Turkish), Birikim (Sept. 2006).

“The Subordination of the Hawran Druze in 1910: The Ottoman Perspective” (with Abdul‐Rahim Abu‐Husayn) in The Druze: Realities and Perceptions, ed. by Kamal Salibi (London: The Druze heritage Foundation, 2005), pp. 115‐128.

“Law and Communal Identity In Ottoman Lebanon, 1909‐12" [in Turkish], in Ä°lhan Tekeli için ArmaÄŸan Yazılar, ed. by S. Ä°lkin, O. Silier, and M. Güvenc (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2004), pp. 237‐262.

“Law in the Marketplace, 1730‐1840,” in Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgments, ed. by M. Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David S. Powers (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 245‐270.

"Gedik: A Bundle of Rights and Obligations for Istanbul Artisans and Traders, 1750‐1840," in Law, Anthropology and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things, ed. by Alain Pottage and Martha Mundy (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 166‐200.

"The Tangled Ends of an Empire and Its Sultan," in Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, ed. by Leila Fawaz and Christopher Bailey (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002) pp. 261‐284.

"Rights and Conditions of Religious Communities in Ottoman Lands: Preliminary Observations" (In Turkish) in Osmanlı Devleti'nde Din ve Vicdan Hürriyeti, ed. by Azmi Özcan (Istanbul: ISAV, 2000), pp. 27‐40 & 369‐374.

“The Reign of Abdülhamid II,” Yeni Türkiye 2000. “Particularities of History” Armenian Forum (1998).

“Ottoman Historiography,” MESAB (1996).

The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).

“Ottoman Attitudes Towards Lebanon, 1885‐1910” in Lebanese and the World, ed. by A. Hourani and N. Shehadi (London: I.B. Tauris, 1992).

“Economic Policy and Budgets in Ottoman Turkey, 1876‐1909,” Middle Eastern Studies 28 (1992).

"Defense of Libya, 1882‐1902” in Studies on Ottoman Diplomatic History: Ottomans in Africa, ed. by S. Deringil and S. Kuneralp, Istanbul, 1991.

Ottoman Documents on Jordan (Amman: University of Jordan, 1989).

“Provincial Power Magnets in Ottoman Bilad al‐Sham and Egypt, 1740‐1840” in La vie sociale dans les provinces arabes a l’époque ottomane, ed. by A. Temimi (Zaghouan, Tunisia, 1988).

“Gedik: Implements, Mastership, Shop Usufruct, and Monopoly among Istanbul Artisans, 1750‐1850” in Wissenschaftskolleg Jahrbook 1986 (Berlin, 1987).

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

University of Virginia

Ahmed H. al-Rahim (PhD, Yale University) is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA). His areas of research
cover medieval Muslim intellectual history, broadly conceived but especially the reception history of Avicennan philosophy, medieval biography, the curricula of the medieval madrasa, as well as modern Islamic political thought. Professor al-Rahim is currently researching and writing a monograph on medieval Muslim conceptions of virtue ethics (ādāb) as they specifically relate to the professional life and (expected) moral conduct of the various classes of scholars, including philosophers, theologians, jurists, sufis, and madrasa professors (shaykhs) and students (ṭalabat al-'ilm).

Before and After Avicenna, co-editor (Leiden, 2003).

"Avicenna's Immediate Disciples: Their Lives and Works," in Avicenna and His Legacy: A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy, ed. Y.T. Langermann (Turnhout, Belgium, 2009).

The Creation of Philosophical Tradition: Biography and the Reception of Avicenna's Philosophy from the 11th to the 14th Centuries AD (forthcoming).

"The Sistani Factor" (2005) and "Inside Iraq's Confessional Politics" (2008), both published in The Journal of Democracy

George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago

University of Chicago

Muzaffar Alam is a historian trained at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), Aligarh Muslim University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), where he obtained his doctorate in history in 1977. Before joining the SALC at the University of Chicago in 2001, he taught for three decades at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has held visiting positions in the Collège de France (Paris), Leiden University, University of Wisconsin (Madison), and the EHESS (Paris). His working languages include Persian, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu. Professor Alam has taught courses on the history of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal empire, and he has also worked closely with students on advanced Urdu and Persian literary and historical texts.

Books

The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986).

The Mughal State 1526-1750 (edited with Sanjay Subrahmanyam) (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998).

A European Experience of the Mughal Orient (with Seema Alavi) (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001).

The Languages of Political Islam in India: c. 1200-1800 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discovery: 1400-1800 (With Sanjay Subrahmanyam) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Articles and Book Chapters

"Assimilation from a Distance: Confrontation and Sufi Accommodation in Awadh Society," in R. Champakalakshmi and S. Gopal (eds.) Tradition, Dissent and Ideology: Essays in Honour of Romila Thapar, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

"Shari`a and Governance in Indo-Islamic Context," in David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence (eds.), Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.

"The Culture and Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hindustan," in Sheldon Pollock (ed.), Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

"The Afterlife of a Mughal Masnavi: The Tale of Nal and Daman in Urdu and Persian," (with S. Subrahmanyam), in Kathryn Hansen and David Lelyveld (eds.), A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 46-73.

Professor of History and Director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies

Project Director, George Mason University

Dr. Aydin studied at Boğaziçi University, İstanbul University, and the University of Tokyo before receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 2002 in the fields of history and Middle Eastern studies. He was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies.

Dr. Aydin has previously taught at Harvard College, Princeton University, Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Since 2009, Dr. Aydin has been a faculty member at George Mason University, where he holds the IIIT Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies.

Books

The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, Global and International History Series, 2007)

Articles and Book Chapters

“Orientalism and Civilizational Paradigm in Pan-Islamic Thought,” in Mapping Difference: Asia, Europe and the Dialectic of Modernity, Thierry Blanca, Sucheta Mazumdar and Vasant Kaiwar, eds. (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2009).

“Japan’s Pan-Asianism and the Legitimacy of Imperial World Order, 1931–1945” in Japan Focus: An Asia Pacific E-Journal, (March 2008) accessible at http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2695.

“Emperyalizm Karşıtı Bir Ä°mparatorluk: Osmanlı Tecrübesi Işığında 19. Yüzyıl Dünya Düzeni (An Anti-Imperialist Empire? Ottoman Lessons on the Nature of 19th Century World Order ),” Divan, Disiplinler Arası Çalışmalar Dergisi (Divan: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Istanbul), . 12: 22 (2007/1): 39-85.

“A Global Anti-Western Moment? The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization and Asian Modernity” in Conceptions of World Order, ca. 1880-1935. Global Moments and Movements, Sebastian Conrad/Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds., (New York City: Palgrave Transnational History Series, 2007), 213-236.

“Between Reverse Orientalism and the Global Left: Islamic Critiques of the West in Modern Turkey” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 26: 3 (Fall 2006): 446-461.

“Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism and the Revolt against the West” Journal of Modern European History, 4:2 (Fall 2006): 204-223.

"Beyond Culturalism? An Overview of the Historiography on Ottoman Science in Turkey," in Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu et. al. Multicultural Science in the Ottoman Empire.  Tumhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2003.

“Overcoming Eurocentrism? Japanese Orientalism on the Muslim World (1913-1945),” Princeton Papers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, (Fall 2006): 139-164.

“Orientalism, Imperialism and the Renan Debates: The Formation of Modern Muslim Narratives on Islamic Science,” in Essays in Honor of Ekmeleddin Ä°hsanoÄŸlu, compiled by Mustafa Kaçar and Zeynep Durukal (Istanbul: IRCICA Publications, 2006), 817-832.

“Orientalism by the Orientals? The Japanese Empire and Islamic Studies,” Ä°slam AraÅŸtırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Islamic Studies, ISAM, Istanbul) No. 14 (2005): 1-36.

“The Politics of Conceptualizing Islam and the West” Ethics and International Affairs, 19:1 (Winter 2005): 93-100. “Türk Bilim Tarihi Yazımı’nda ‘Zihniyet’, ‘Din’ ve ‘Bilim’ Ä°liÅŸkisi: Osmanlı ÖrneÄŸi (Mentality, Religion and Science in Turkish Historiography: The Case of the History of Ottoman Science)” in Türkiye AraÅŸtırmaları Literatür Dergisi (TALID), 2:4 (Istanbul: Bilim ve Sanat Vakfi 2004): 29-44.

“Beyond Culturalism? An Overview of the Historiography on Ottoman Science in Turkey” in Multicultural Science in the Ottoman Empire, eds. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Kostas Chatzis, Efthymios Nicolaidis (Brepols, Belgium 2003), 201-215.

“Modern Japon Tarihinde Batı Karşıtlığı: Ôkawa Shûmei’nin Asyacılık Düsüncesi (Anti-Westernism in Modern Japanese History: Pan-Asian Thought of Ôkawa Shûmei)” in Divan: Ä°lmi AraÅŸtırmalar, 13:2 (Istanbul: Bilim ve Sanat Vakfi 2002): 107-133.

“Nihon Wa Itsu Tôyô No Kuni Ni Natta No Ka? Chutô Kara Mita Kindai Nihon” (When Did Japan Become an “Eastern” Nation? Modern Japan in the Imagination of Middle Eastern Nationalists), in Atarashi Nihongaku no Kôchiku -Constructing Japanese Studies in Global Perspective, (Tokyo: Ochanomizu University 1999), 81-88.

Edited Journal Issue Cemil Aydin and Juliane Hammer, “Critiques of the ‘West’ in Turkey, Iran and Japan: Occidentalism, the Crisis of Global Modernity and the Politics of Nationalism,” special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26:3 (Fall 2006). (Editor’s Introduction: 347-352)

Assistant Professor of History

Furman University

Cengiz completed his dissertation in the Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. His studies focused on Early Modern and Modern Middle Eastern, Ottoman, Mediterranean and Jewish histories. Currently, he is revising a book manuscript titled "Sabbatai Mehmet Sevi and the Sabbataians: A Messiah in the Ottoman Court and Emergence of a Messianic Judeo-Islamic Sect (17th-20th centuries)." There, he argues that members of the Jewish Sabbataian movement in the seventeenth century slowly turned into idiosyncratic Muslim mystics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and eventually emerged as secular Muslims in the twentieth century.

More recently he has been working on contemporary debates around this idiosyncratic Muslim community (e.g. accusations of being "crypto-Jewish") and its relation to the rise of Islamism, anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism in Turkey and the Middle East. Some of his findings were already published in his book in Turkish, which concentrated on the Sabbataianism and minority issues in the contemporary Islamic world. His third book, co-edited with Yaron Ben-Naeh, analyzing interactions between Muslims and non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, is going to be published by the Brill Publication.

Books

Eighteen Commandments: Sabbatai Mehmed Sevi and the Ottoman Sabbataians (1666-1924). Stanford University Press, forthcoming.

Mission to Jews, Sabbataians and Muslims of the Ottoman Empire: Early Encounters of Americans with the Middle Easterners. Under review.

Sabatay Sevi ve Sabataycılar: Mitler ve Gerçekler (Sabbatai Sevi and Sabbataians: Myths and Realities), Ankara, January 2008.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Save the Sabbatai Sevi House from Oblivion,” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 40:1 (2008).

“In search of the Name: A History of Naming Ottoman/Sabbatian Communities,” in Studies on Istanbul and beyond: the Freely Papers, ed. Robert G. Ousterhout, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2007: 37-53.

“A Jewish Messiah from Tartaria in 1671: A New Source on the Lives of Lesser Sabbatian Prophets, Sabbatai Raphael and/or Shilo Sabbatai,” Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, Fall 2003: 63-75.

"A Survey on the status of the Turkish and Ottoman Studies in North America", published in Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, 5, (2000): 103-124.

Associate Professor of Iranian Culture and History

University of Michigan

Kathryn Babayan is Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture at the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Department of History, University of Michigan. She specializes in the cultural and social histories of early modern Iran. She is the author of Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran (2003); co-author of Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavi Iran, with Sussan Babaie, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, and Massumeh Farhad (2004). Most recently, together with her colleague Afsaneh Najmabadi, they have co-edited a volume entitled Islamicate Sexualities Studies: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire, (2008). She is currently working on a monograph that explores the history of friendship and the culture of epistolarity in early modern Isfahan.

Books

Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran (Cambridge: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 2002).

Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavi Iran. Joint monograph with Sussan Babaie, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, and Massumeh Farhad (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004).

Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire. Co-editor with Afsaneh Najmabadi (Cambridge: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 2008).

Articles and Book Chapters

“The Safavi Synthesis: From Qizilbash Islam to Imamite Shi'ism,” Iranian Studies 27 (1994).

“Sufis, Darvishes, and Mullas: The Controversy Over Spiritual and Temporal Dominion in 17th Century Safavi Iran,” Safavi Persia, ed. Charles Melville (London: I.B. Tauris, 1996).

 “The ‘Aqa’id al-Nisa’: A Glimpse at Safavi Women in Local Isfahani Culture,” Women in the Medieval Islamic World, ed. Gavin Hambly (London: St. Martin's Press, 1998).

“The Safavid Household Reconfigured: Concubines, Eunuchs, and Military Slaves,” Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavi Iran, Joint monograph with Sussan Babaie, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, and Massumeh Farhad (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004).

“The Ever-Tempting Return to an Iranian Past in the Islamic Present: Does Lotman’s Binarism Help?” Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions, eds. Andreas Schönle (Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2006).

“In Spirit We Ate of Each Other’s Sorrow:” Female Companionship in Seventeenth Century Safavi Iran, Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire, eds. Babayan & Najmabadi (Cambridge: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 2008).

“The Comsological Order of Things in Early Modern Safavi Iran,” Book of Omens: The Falnama, ed. Massumeh Farhad (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 2009).

Professor of History

University of Hawaii, Manoa

Jerry H. Bentley is professor of history at the University of Hawaii and editor of the Journal of World History. His early publications focused on European cultural history, particularly on the religious, moral, and political thought of Renaissance humanists. More recently his research has concentrated on the history of cross cultural interactions. His recent publications include Old World Encounters: Cross Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre Modern Times (1993), Shapes of World History in Twentieth Century Scholarship (1996), and (with Herbert F. Ziegler) Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past (2000, 2003). When he is not attempting to peer into the global past, he can usually be found either on the tennis courts or in the swimming pool.

Books

Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983)

Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987) Italian translation: Politica e cultura nella Napoli rinascimentale (Naples: Guida, 1995), translated by Cosima Campagnolo.

Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

(with Herbert F. Ziegler) Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000; second edition, 2003; third edition, 2006; fourth edition, 2008).

Edited Works

Journal of World History (1990- )

(with Renate Bridenthal and Anand A. Yang) Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2005).

(with William H. McNeill, David Christian, David Levinson, J.R. McNeill, Heidi Roupp, and Judith P. Zinsser) Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, 5 vols. (Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005).

(with Renate Bridenthal and Kären E. Wigen), Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2007).

(with Charles H. Parker) From the Middle Ages to Modernity: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

The Oxford Handbook of World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

(with Sanjay Subrahmanyam) The Cambridge History of the World, volume 6, part 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

(with Sanjay Subrahmanyam) The Cambridge History of the World, volume 6, part 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Articles

"Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History," The American Historical Review, Vol. 101, No. 3 (Jun., 1996), pp. 749-770.

"Sea and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis,"  Geographical Review, Vol. 89, No. 2, Oceans Connect (Apr., 1999), pp. 215-224.

Professor of History, Middle East Institute

Columbia University

Richard Bulliet is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Columbia University where he also directed the Middle East Institute of the School of International and Public Affairs for twelve years. Born in Rockford, Illinois, in 1940, he came to Columbia in 1976 after undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard and eight years as a faculty member at Harvard and Berkeley. He is a specialist on Iran, the social history of the Islamic Middle East, and the 20th century resurgence of Islam.

Books

The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization, Columbia University Press, 2004.

The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century, editor, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998 (translations into Chinese, Croatian, and Polish).

The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, co-author, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997; third edition 2004.

The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, co-editor, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996.

Under Siege: Islam and Democracy, editor, The Middle East Institute, Columbia University, Occasional Papers 1, 1994.

Islam: The View from the Edge, Columbia University Press, 1993.

Crisis in the Middle East, supplementary high school current events book, Grolier, Inc., 1992.

Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History, Harvard University Press, 1979 (Persian translation, Tehran: Nashr-e Tarikh-e Iran, 1987).

The Camel and the Wheel, Harvard University Press, 1975; Morninside Edition with new preface, Columbia University Press, 1990.

The Patricians of Nishapur: A Study in Medieval Islamic Social History, Harvard University Press, 1972.

Articles and Book Chapters

"Pottery Styles and Social Status in Medieval Khurasan," and "Annales and Archaeology," in A. Bernard Knapp, ed., Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 75-82, 131-134.

"Determinism and Pre-Industrial Technology," in Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx, Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994, 201-215.

"Orientalism and Medieval Islamic Studies," in John Van Engen, ed., The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

"The Individual in Islamic Society," in Irene Bloom et. al, eds., Religious Diversity and Human Rights, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, pp. 175-191.

“Of Encyclopedias and the End of a World," Biblion. The Bulletin of The New York Public Library, 3/1 (Fall 1994), 49-58.

"Islamic World to 1500," in Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi, eds., The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 3d ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, vol. 1, pp. 498-526.

“Themes, Conjunctures, and Comparisons,” in Heidi Roupp, ed., Teaching World History: A Resource Book, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997, pp. 94-109.

“Day After Tomorrow: The Future of Islamic Movements,” Harvard International Review XIX/2 (Spring 1997), pp. 34-37, 66-67.

“Twenty Years of Islamic Politics," The Middle East Journal, 53/2 (Spring 1999), pp. 189-200.

“Economic Systems and Technologies” and “Communication and Transport” in M. E. Bakhit, et al. Eds., History of Humanity: Scientific and Cultural Development. Volume IV, From the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, Paris and London: UNESCO and Routledge, 2000, 71-83, 84-95.

"The Crisis of Authority in Islam,” Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2002.

Professor Emeritus, Presidential Chair and Director of the Center for World History

University of California, Berkeley

Edmund Burke III is Professor of History at the University of Santa Cruz, where he directs the Center for World History. His recent publications include: World History: the Big Eras (National Center for History in the Schools, 2000), The Environment and World History, 1500-2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), and Geneologies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics (Lincoln, NB: Nebraska University Press, 2008), all of which are co-edited or co-authored. He is currently completing The Ethnographic State: France, Morocco, and Islam 1890-1925 (Princeton). He is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a seminar project titled Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1914.

Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics ed. with D. Prochaska. University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

The Environment and World History, ed. with K. L. Pomeranz (under submission).

Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, ed. with D. Yaghoubian. Berkeley: University of California Press, Second edition, 2005.

"The Deep History of the Middle Eastern Environment, 1500 BCE-1500 CE", UC World History Workshop. Essays and Positions from the World History Workshop. Paper 3, April 27, 2005.

"Theorizing the Histories of Colonialism and Nationalism in North Africa: Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in North Africa", Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Spring, 1998.

24 Hour Scholar "Collective Action and Discursive Shifts: A Comparative Historical Perspective"

"Orientalism and World History: Representing Middle Eastern Nationalism and Islamism in the Twentieth Century," Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1998 (UC eScholarship Repository).

Associate Professor of History (Islamic World), 2009-2011 McKnight Land Grant Professor

University of Minnesota

Giancarlo Casale received his PhD in history and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 2004, and is currently Associate Professor of the History of the Islamic World and 2009-2011 McKnight Land Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught since 2005. He is the author of a recent scholarly monograph, The Ottoman Age of Exploration (Oxford University Press, 2010), as well as numerous articles
and book chapters, and is also executive editor of the Journal of Early Modern History. His current areas of scholarly interest include the history of Ottoman expansion in the early modern Indian Ocean, the translation of Arabic and Persian "classics" into Ottoman Turkish, and the development of ethnographic modes of writing in Ottoman Turkish during the early modern period.

and Carla Rahn Phillips, Lisa Norling. "Introduction to 'The Social History of the Sea' Special Issue." Journal of Early Modern History 14/1-2 (2010): 1-7.

The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford University Press, 2010.

"Global Politics in the 1580s: One Canal, Twenty Thousand Cannibals, and an Ottoman Plot to Rule the World." Journal of World History 18 (2007): 267-296.

"The Ethnic Composition of Ottoman Ship Crews and the 'Rumi Challenge' to Portuguese Identity." Medieval Encounters 13 (2007): 122-144.

"The Ottoman 'Discovery' of the Indian Ocean in the 16th Century." Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Global Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges (2007): 87-104. "

The Ottoman Administration of the Spice Trade in the Sixteenth-Century Red Sea and Persian Gulf." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49 49/2 (2006): 170-198.

"His Majesty's Servant Lutfi: The career of a previously unknown sixteenth-century Ottoman envoy to Sumatra based on an account of his travels from...." Turcica 37 (2005): 43-81.

"An Ottoman Intelligence Report from the Mid Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean." Journal of Turkish Studies 31/1 (2007): 181-88.

"Ottoman 'Guerre de Course' and the Intercontinental Spice Trade." Itinerario 32/1 (2008): 59-79.

Professor of History

Ohio State University

B.A. Carleton College, Russian History, M.A. and Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, South Asian and Islamic History. Dissertation research conducted in Kerala, Southwestern India, Portugal and Gt. Britain on the oldest Muslim community in South Asia, the Mappilas, subsequently published as book by Clarendon Press, Oxford. Subsequent research conducted on the Eurasian trading network of Indian merchants in the 17th and 18th centuries in Russian sources, published by Cambridge University Press in 1994, and a biography of the founder of the Mughal Empire of India, based on research in Chaghatai Turkish, Persian and Russian sources, which was published by Brill in 2004. Most recent work was a comparative study of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires, supported by NEH, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. At present he is working on a study of Ibn Khaldun, and acting as the South Asian History editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.

Islamic Society on the South Asian Frontier: the Mappilas of Malabar, 1498-1922 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).

South Asian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

“The Islamic World in the Age of European expansion, 1500-1800,” in Francis Robinson ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 62-89.

“Afghanistan,” in Grolier On-Line Encyclopaedia.

The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India 1483-1530 (Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2004).

“Indo-Persian Studies,” Special Issue of Iranian Studies 36.2 (June 2003), edited, introduction and article, “”A Safavid Poet in the Heart of Darkness: The Indian Poems of Ashraf Mazandarani,”197-212.

“The Later Timurids,” in Peter Golden and Nicola di Cosmo ed., The Cambridge History of Inner Asia, (Cambridge, 2009), 199-17.

The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, Cambridge University Press, 2010).

“The Mughal Empire,” in David Morgan ed., The New Cambridge History of the Islamic World, III, (Cambridge, forthcoming, 2010).

“Indo-Persian Historiography,” in Ehsan Yarshater and Charles Melville ed., Persian Historiography, X in Ehsan Yarshater ed. A History of Persian Literature ( I.B. Tauris, forthcoming October, 2010).

“Autobiography and Biography: the Turco-Mongol Case: Babur, Haidar Mirza, Gulbadan Begim and Jahangir,” forthcoming in Louise Marlowe ed., Muslim Biography, (Harvard University Press, Forthcoming, 2010).

Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Massumeh Farhad, currently Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries, has been appointed to a dual position there as Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art. Massumeh Farhad was educated at Wellesley College, and Harvard University from which she received a Ph.D. in Islamic Art History. She was artistic director of the Zamana Gallery, London and a Research Assistant/Associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. before taking a post as Research and Coordinating Curator at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the National Museum of African Art. She has been Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer and Sackler galleries since 1995 and served as Coordinating Curator for the departments of Islamic Art, and South Asian Art and Ancient Near Eastern Art from 2000 to 2002. Farhad has curated and co-curated innumerable exhibitions at the Freer and Sackler galleries and at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard and has contributed extensively to the scholarly literature on the subject of Islamic art. A frequent lecturer, Farhad is fluent in German, French, and Persian, and is on the editorial boards of Ars Orientalis and Muqarnas. She has served as President of the Historians of Islamic Art and is an Institutional Trustee for the American Institute for Iranian Studies.

Falnama: The Book of Omens with Serpil Bağcı, Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2009.

“Isfahan XI. School of Painting and Calligraphy,” in Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 13 (2007), pp. 40-43.

“Arts of the Islamic World,” Arts of Asia (2006).

Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran, with Susan Babaie, Kathryn Babayan, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.

“Esfahan School of Painting,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 11, in press 2003.

“‘Searching for the New’: Later Safavid Painting and the Suz u Gawdaz (Burning and Melting) by Nau‘i Khabushani,” in The Journal of the Walters Art Museum, no. 59 (2001), pp. 115-129.

Asian Traditions in Clay: The Hauge Gifts, with Cort, L. and Gunter, A., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC., 2000.

Arts of the Islamic World in Beyond the Legacy. Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 1998.

Contributions to Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Deluxe Manuscript from Sixteenth Century Iran by Marianna Shreve Simpson. Freer Gallery of Art, 1997.

Visiting Scholar and ISMI Project (Advisor and Senior Research), Islamic Studies Institute

McGill University

He was born in Ankara in 1966 and completed studies at İstanbul Üniversitesi in the Department of Philosophy in 1989, his M.A. in the history of science in 1993, and his PhD in Philosophy. He conducted research at the University of Jordan (Amman) and the Arab Institute for the History of Science in Aleppo on the history of science and mathematics. He also worked as a researcher in the Department of Manuscripts at the International Research Center of Islamic Culture and Arts (IRCICA) from 1987-1996, including a period in Cairo during 1994. What was the Department of Philosophy (1996) and his Ph.D. from the same department (1988). At the University of Oklahoma, he conducted research from 2001 to 2002 as Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow. He focuses on the history and philosophy of mathematics in Islamic and Turkish History. Fazlıoğlu is a Teaching Fellow at the Foundation of Science and the Arts in Istanbul, holds a teaching post at Istanbul University, and is a Visiting Scholar and Senior Researcher and Advisor on the ISMI Project at McGill University.

Books

Encyclopedia of Ottomans-Their Lives and Works, as member of Editorial Team, vol. I, XVIII + 692 pp., vol. II, 704 p., Yapi Kredi Publications, Istanbul 1999.

History of Ottoman Astronomy Literature. Prepared by: Ramazan Sesen – Cevat Izgi – Cemil Akpinar – Ihsan Fazlioglu (Editor: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu), vol. I-II (CCIII+1146p.), Istanbul 1997.

Introduction to the History of Pratical Geometry [ilm al-misaha], 168p., Ä°stanbul 2004

Articles and Book Chapters

“From Semanîye to Süleymanîye: Theoretical Philosophy that Produced a ‘Küllî’ye/ the complex-university” Türkiye GünlüÄŸü, Kış 100, Ankara 2010, s. 29-41.

“Keeping the Account of State: Of the Technical Content of Ottoman Mathematical Accountancy”, Kutadgubilig Felsefe-Bilim AraÅŸtırmaları, Sayı: 17, Ä°stanbul/Mart 2010, s. 165-178.

“Philosophy in Turkey/Turkish: VII. Session”, Discourses on Philosophy in Turkey/Turkish [Türkiye'de/Türkçede Felsefe Üzerine KonuÅŸmalar], Ä°stanbul 2009, s. 201-255.

“The Samarqand Mathematical-Astronomical School: A Basis for Ottoman Philosophy and Science”, Journal for the History of Arabic Science, Aleppo 2008/XIV, No. 1, 2, pp. 3-68.

(English "The First Book on Mathematics in the State of Altın-Ordu: A Masterpiece in Arithmetic [et-Tuhfe fî ilmi'l-hisâb], Teoman Duralı'ya ArmaÄŸan [Essays in Honor of Teoman Duralı][Bir Felsefe-Bilim ÇaÄŸrısı], Ä°stanbul 2008, pp. 224-259.

“Introduction to the History of Turkish Philosophy and Science During the Period of Seljuks of Anatolia and Beylikates”, Anadolu Selçukluları ve Beylikler Dönemi Uygarlığı[The Civilization of Anatolian Seljukites and Beylikates], edited by Ahmet YaÅŸar Ocak, v. I (Sosyal ve Siyasal Hayat), Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara 2006, pp. 413-427.

“How can We Benefit from the Manuscripts in Urban Studies?”, Türkiye AraÅŸtırmaları Literatür Dergisi, v. III, no. 6, Ä°stanbul 2005, pp. 517-526.

"The logbook of the History of Turkish Philosophy and Science (an Introduction", Dîvân Ä°lmî AraÅŸtırmalar Dergisi, Ä°stanbul 2005/1, no. 18, pp. 1–57.

“A Bridge with Two Vague Edges: ‘History’ with ‘Science’ or ‘History of Science’, Journal of Literature for Turkish Researches, - History of Turkish Science-, V. 2, No. 4, Ä°stanbul 2004, pp. 2-27.

“Alemuddin Kaysar and a Theorem of Geometry”, Kutadgubilig, Studies of Philosophy-Science, No. 5, Istanbul March 2004, pp. 199-208.

“Kelam Books as ‘Political Texts’ in the Ottoman Intellectual Tradition, Journal of Literature for Turkish Researches, -Turkish Political History-, V. 1, No. 2, Ä°stanbul 2003, pp. 379-398.

“The Place and Importance of Scientific Works Written in or Translated into Turkish in the Formation of Language Consciousness in the Ottoman Period”, Kutadgubilig, Studies of Philosophy-Science, No. 3, Istanbul March 2003, pp. 151-184.

Professor of Middle Eastern History and Chair of the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations

The American University of Cairo

Hanna earned her Doctorat d’Etat at the University of Aix en Provence in France. She has been teaching full-time at AUC since 1991. She has also been professor/ guest lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (May-June 1998), at Harvard University (January-June 2001), and at Waseda University, Tokyo (December 2008-January 2009).
Hanna's research interests are in the Ottoman history of the Arab world (1500-1800) with special focus on the economic, social and cultural aspects of this period. Her interest in this period started with a study of middle class housing in 17th and 18th century Cairo, undertaken both as an archival study based on court records and a study of the architecture of remaining houses. While researching this subject in the archives, she became interested in the material she found on a 17th century merchant, who eventually became the subject of a book on his life, his business ventures and his family. The research for this book entailed much reading on economic history. Hanna is still pursuing this channel in her current research.

Books

Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900, Essays in Honor of Andre Raymond, edited by Nelly Hanna and Raouf Abbas, AUC Press, Cairo, 2005.

In Praise of Books, a Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class 16-18th centuries, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2003.

Money, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean, edited with an introduction by Nelly Hanna, I.B. Tauris in association with the European Science Foundation, London, 2002.

Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of Isma`il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1998.[Co-published at AUC Press, Cairo, 1998. Translated into Arabic, 1998; translated into Turkish, 2006.]

The State and its Servants, editor and contributor, AUC Press, Cairo, 1995.

Articles and Book Chapters

" `Abd Allah al-Shubrawi," in Essays in Arabic Literary Bibliography, 1350-1850, (eds.) Joseph E. Lowry and Devin J. Stewart(Wiesbaden: Harrassowiz, 2009) p. 376-85.

“Guilds in Recent Historical Scholarship,” in The City in the Islamic World, edited by Salma K. Jassuyi, Renata Holod, Attilio Petruccioli, Andre Raymond, Brill, Leiden, Boston, 2008, p. 895-922.

“Literacy and the ‘Great Divide” in the Islamic World, 1300-1800,” Journal of Global History, 2007, vol. 2 p. 175-194.

"Sources for the Study of Slave Women and Concubines in Ottoman Egypt," in Beyond the Exotic, Women’s Histories in Islamic Societies, edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, p. 119-130, Syracuse Univ Press, Syracuse, 2005.

"Ottoman Egypt and the French Expedition: Some Long-Term Trends," in Napoleon in Egypt, edited by Irene Bierman, with an introduction by Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot, Ithica Press in association with the Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center, Los Angeles, 2003, 5-12.

“The Chronicles of Ottoman Egypt: History or Entertainment?” in The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800), edited by High Kennedy, Brill: Leiden, 2001, p. 237-250.

“Coffee and Coffee Merchants in Cairo, 1580-1630,” in Le Commerce du café avant l’ere des plantations coloniales, edited by Michel Tuscherer, Cairo: Institut francais d’archeologie orientale, 2001, p. 91-101.

“Cairo at the Turn of the Century,” in Dirasat fil-Tarikh wal-Thaqafa al-‘Arabiyya, edited by ‘Ubada Kuhayla, al-Dar al-Misriyya al-Lubnaniyya, Cairo, 2001, p. 13-26.

“Merchants and the Economy in Cairo, 1600-1650.” In Etudes sur Les Villes du Proche-Orient XVIe-XIX siecle, Hommage a Andre Raymond, edited by Brigitte Marino, Damascus: Institut francais d’etudes arabes de Damas, 2001, p. 225-236.

 "The Urban History of Cairo around 1900: A Reinterpretation” in Historians in Cairo, Essays in Honor of George Scanlon, edited by Jill Edwards, AUC Press, 2002, p. 189-202.

Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

Harvard University

Dr. Kafadar received his PhD from McGill University in 1987 and taught for two years in Princeton's Near Eastern studies department before coming to Harvard. Dr. Kafadar teaches seminars related to popular culture, hagiography and Ottoman historiography as well as the early modern history of the Middle East and Balkans, and is a member of the editorial board of the Historians of the Ottoman Empire. He is a leading documentary critic and was a member of the jury of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in 2009. Prof. Kafadar is interested in social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era. He teaches seminars on archival research and on popular culture. His latest publications include 'The Ottomans and Europe, 1400-1600' and a book on the rise of the Ottoman state.

Kim Var Ä°miÅŸ Biz Burada YoÄŸ Ä°ken Dört Osmanlı: Yeniçeri, Tüccar, DerviÅŸ ve Hatun (2009).

"The Question of Ottoman Decline" in Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review (1999).

Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995).

Suleiman the Second and His Time edited with Halil Inalcik (1993).

"Self and Others: The Diary of a Dervish in Seventeenth Century Istanbul and First-Person Narratives in Ottoman Literature" in Studia Islamica (1989).

Professor of South Asian Politics, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

Columbia University

Sudipta Kaviraj is a specialist in intellectual history and South Asian politics. He works on two fields of intellectual history - Indian social and political thought in the 19th and 20th centuries and modern Indian literature and cultural production. His other fields of interest and research include the historical sociology of the Indian state, and some aspects of Western social theory. He received his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to joining Columbia University, he taught at the Department of Political Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has also taught Political Science at JNU, and was an Agatha Harrison Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.

The Imaginary Institution of India (2010)

Civil Society: History and Possibilities co-edited with Sunil Khilnani (2001)

Politics in India (edited) (1999)

The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India (1995).

Assistant Professor

Northwestern University

Rajeev K. Kinra (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2008) specializes in South Asian intellectual history, particularly early modern Indo-Persian literary culture and political Islam under the Mughal and British Empires (16th-19th centuries). His research draws on several linguistic traditions (especially Persian, but also Hindi-Urdu and Sanskrit), using archival sources to investigate diverse modes of civility, tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and modernity across the Indo-Persian world. Many of these themes are explored in his work on the life, Persian writings, and cultural-historical milieu of the celebrated Mughal litterateur, Chandar Bhan “Brahman” (d. 1662-3), part of a book project tentatively titled Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. Kinra is on leave through Fall 2011, while this project is supported by a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and his research has also been supported by the Fulbright commission, the Franke Institute for the Humanities (University of Chicago), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Eastern Consortium on Persian and Turkish, and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS). He has given lectures at conferences and other academic meetings around the world, and served in Spring 2009 as the visiting Virani Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Closer to home, Kinra has also been invited to give seminars for the Newberry Library’s teacher’s consortium, the Chicago chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War, and other groups in and around the Northwestern community.

Kinra regularly teaches a two-part course on the history of South Asia from roughly 1500 to the present, as well as a popular seminar called “Indiana Jones in Historical Context: Heroic Scholarship and the Imperial Imagination.” In Winter 2012 he will be teaching Part 1 of the History Department’s new sequence on Global History and the Making of Modernity, and he is also developing a new seminar on the history of Afghanistan.

In press: “Make it Fresh: Time, Tradition, and Indo-Persian Literary Modernity,” in Time, History, and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia, edited by Anne C. Murphy (London: Routledge, 2011).

In press: “Mirrors for Poets, Mirrors of Places: The Culture and Politics of Indo-Persian Comparative Philology, ca. 1000-1800 CE,” in South Asian Texts in History: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock, edited by Yigal Bronner, Lawrence McCrea, and Whitney Cox (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2011?).

“Master and MunshÄ«: A Brahman Secretary’s Guide to Mughal Governance,” Indian Economic and Social History Review 47, 4 (2010): 527-61 .

“Infantilizing Bābā Dārā: The Cultural Memory of Dārā Shekuh and the Mughal Public Sphere,” Journal of Persianate Studies 2 (2009): 165-93.

“Fresh Words for a Fresh World: Tāza-GÅ«’Ä« and the Poetics of Newness in Early Modern Indo-Persian Poetry,” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 3, 2 (2007): 125-49. Special number: “Time and history in Sikh and South Asian Pasts,” edited by Anne C. Murphy.

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History

University of Pittsburgh

Patrick Manning is director of the World History Center, located in the Department of History and affiliated with the Global Studies Program and the University Center of International Studies. Trained as a specialist in the economic history of Africa, he has become a specialist in world history. His research has focused on demographic history (African slave trade), social and cultural history of francophone Africa, global migration, the African diaspora as a dimension of global history, and an overview of the field of world history. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology (BS in Chemistry, 1963) and the University of Wisconsin - Madison (MS in History and Economics, PhD in History 1969).

He served as Vice President of the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association, 2004-2006. Before moving to the University of Pittsburgh in 2006, Manning was at Northeastern University for two decades. There he directed the World History Center, 1994-2004, and directed PhD students writing world historical dissertations. Manning now serves as President of the World History Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation fostering research in world history. His current research centers on global social movements, 1989-1992, African population 1650-1950, and on an interdisciplinary history of early humanity in collaboration with Christopher Ehret.

Books

Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development: Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations (London: Routledge, in press [2011]). An edited collection of essays in honor of Andre Gunder Frank.

Co-edited with Barry K. Gills. Migration History: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Leiden: Brill, 2010). An edited collection of multidisciplinary approaches to migration. Co-edited with Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen.

Articles and Book Chapters

“The Global Social Insurance Movement since the 1880s.” Journal of Global History 5, 1, pp. 125-148. Forthcoming.

“Epistemology.” Jerry H. Bentley, ed., Oxford History Handbook: World History. Oxford University Press.

“African Population: Projections, 1851-1961.” Karl Ittmann, Dennis D. Cordell, and Gregory Maddox, eds., The Demographics of Empire: The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press).

Professor of English, History and Religious Studies

University of Minnesota

Nabil Matar studied English Literature at the American University of Beirut where he received his B.A. and M.A. In 1976, he completed his Ph.D. at Cambridge University on the poetry of Thomas Traherne. He taught at Jordan University and the American University of Beirut, and received postdoctoral grants from the British Council (Clare Hall, Cambridge University) and from Fulbright (Harvard Divinity School). In 1986, Dr. Matar moved to the United States and started teaching in the Humanities Department at Florida Institute of Technology. In 1997, he became the Department Head and served until 2007 when he moved to the English Department at the University of Minnesota. He is Presidential Professor in the President’s Interdisciplinary Initiative on Arts and Humanities and teaches in the departments of English and History, and in the Religious Studies Program.

Dr. Matar’s research in the past two decades has focused on relations between early modern Britain, Western Europe, and the Islamic Mediterranean. He is author of numerous articles, chapters in books and encyclopedias, and the trilogy: Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 (Cambridge UP, 1998), Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery (Columbia UP, 1999), and Britain and Barbary, 1589-1689 (UP of Florida, 2005). He wrote the introduction to Piracy, Slavery and Redemption (Columbia UP, 2001) and began a second trilogy on Arabs and Europeans in the early modern world: In the Lands of the Christians. (Routledge, 2003), Europe through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727 (Columbia UP, 2009). He is currently working on the third installment. His next publication is forthcoming with Professor Gerald MacLean, Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713 (Oxford UP, 2010). With Professor Claire Jowitt, he is preparing an edition of three early modern English plays featuring Muslim women (forthcoming, the Revels Series, Manchester UP, 2012); and with Professor Judy Hayden he is co-editing a collection of essays on travel to the Holy Land in the early modern period (forthcoming Brill, 2012).

Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Director of the Aga Khan Program of Islamic Architecture at Harvard, History of Art and Architecture Department

Harvard University

Gülru NecipoÄŸlu has been Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art at Harvard University since 1993 where she earned her Ph.D in 1986. Professor NecipoÄŸlu is the author of Architecture, Ceremonial Power: The Topkapi Palace (1991); The Topkapi Scroll, Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995); and The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (2005). She is also the editor of Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture and Supplements to Muqarnas. Her Topkapi Scroll won the Albert Hourani Book Award and the Spiro Kostoff Book Award. The Age of Sinan has been awarded the Fuat Koprulu Prize. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Palladio Center for Study of Architecture in Vicenza. Professor NecipoÄŸlu's articles include interpretations of various aspects of Ottoman visual culture, comparative studies on early modern Islamic art and architecture (particularly Safavid, Mughal, Ottoman), and deal with cross-cultural artistic exchanges between Byzantium, Renaissance Italy, and the Islamic lands. Her publications also address questions of premodern architectural practice, plans and drawings, the aesthetics of abstract ornament and geometric design. Her critical interests encompass methodological and historiographical issues in modern constructions of the field of Islamic art.

The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. Princeton [New Jersey]: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York, N.Y: Architectural History Foundation, 1991.

"Framing the Gaze in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Palaces," Ars Orientalis, Vol. 23, Pre-Modern Islamic Palaces (1993), pp. 303-342.

"From International Timurid to Ottoman: A Change of Taste in Sixteenth-Century Ceramic Tiles," in Muqarnas VII: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Oleg Grabar (ed.). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990.

"Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels,"  in Timurid Art and Culture: Iran and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century. Lisa Golombek and Maria Subtelny (ed.s). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992.

Editor, Muqarnas Volume XI: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994.

Editor. Muqarnas Volume XII: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995.

Editor. Muqarnas Volume XIII: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. Gülru Necipoglu (ed.). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.

Reader in Islamic Studies and Persian; Director, Graduate School, School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

University of Edinburgh

Dr Newman holds a BA in History, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, and an MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Dr Newman joined IMES in 1996, having been a Research Fellow at both the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford and Green College, Oxford, whilst researching topics in the history of Islamic medicine.

Dr Newman's interests include the history of Twelver Shi'ism, the history of Islamic law, hadith studies, the evolution of the legal bases of Islamic medical theory and practice, the history of Iran and Persian language and literature, and modern Arabic literature.

Books

Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006). Winner, International Book of the Year Prize, Iran, 2008.

The Formative Period of Period of Shi’i Law: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad (Richmond: Curzon, 2000.

Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East, Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period (Leiden: Brill, 2003). Islamic Medical Wisdom: the Tibb al-A’imma, Batool Ispahany, transl., (London: Muhammadi Trust, 1991).

Articles and Book Chapters

‘Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late 17th Century Persia, II: al-Ḥurr al-`AmilÄ« (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghinā’ in, Y. Suleiman, ed., Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, 192-207.

‘The Vezir and the Mulla: a late Safavid period debate on Friday prayer’, in M. Bernardini, M. Haneda and M. Szuppe, eds., Études sur L’Iran Médiéval et Moderne Offertes à Jean Calmard, Eurasian Studies, v. 1-2 (2006), 237-69.

‘Between Qum and the West: The Occultation According to al-Kulayni and al-Katib al-Nu’mani’ in F. Daftary, ed., Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam: Essays in Honour of Wilferd Madelung (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003), 94-108.

‘Baqir al-Majlisi and Islamicate Medicine: Safavid Medical Theory and Practice Re-examined’, in A. J. Newman, ed., Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East, Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 371-96.

‘Fayd al-Kashani and the Rejection of the Clergy/State Alliance: Friday Prayer as Politics in the Safavid Period’, in The Most Learned of the Shi’a, L. Walbridge, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 34-52.

‘Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia: Arguments Over the Permissibility of Singing (Ghina)’, in L. Lewisohn and D. Morgan, eds., The Heritage of Sufism, Vol. III: Late Classical Persianate Sufism: the Safavid and Mughal Period (1501-1750), (Oxford, 1999), pp. 135-64.

‘The Role of the Sadat in Safavid Iran: Confrontation or Accommodation?’, Oriento Moderno (Rome), XVIII (LXXIX), n.s., ii/1999, pp. 577-96.

‘Sufism and Anti-Sufism in Safavid Iran: The Authorship of the “Hadiqat al-Shi’a” Revisited ‘, IRAN, XXXVII (1999), pp. 95-108 (refereed).

‘The Myth of the Clerical Migration to Safawid Iran: Arab Shi’ite Opposition to Ali al-Karaki and Safawid Shi’ism’, Die Welt des Islams, Vol. 33 (1993), 66-112.

‘The Nature of the Akhbari/Usuli in Late-Safawid Iran. Part Two: The Conflict Reassessed’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 55, ii (1992), 250-261.

 ‘The Nature of the Akhbari/Usuli Dispute in Late-Safawid Iran. Part One: Abdallah al-Samahiji’s “Munyat al-Mumirisin” ‘, BSOAS, Vol. 55, i (1992), 22-51.

‘Towards a Reconsideration of the Isfahan School of Philosophy: Shaykh Baha’i and the Role of the Safawid Ulama’, Studia Iranica (Paris), Tome 15, fasc. 2 (1986), 165 199.

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

Columbia University

George Saliba is a historian of Arabic and Islamic Science. He has been teaching at Columbia University since 1978. After completing a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.A. at the American University of Beirut, he received another M.A. and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Saliba studies the development of scientific ideas from late antiquity to early modern times, with a special focus on the transmission of astronomical and mathematical ideas from the Islamic world to Renaissance Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He received the History of Astronomy Prize from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science in 1996, and the History of Science Prize given by the Third World Academy of Science in 1993. He has also been selected as Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress (2005-6), and at the Carnegie Scholars Program (2009-10).

Books

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, MIT Press (2007).

A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam (NYU Press 1995).

Rethinking the Roots of Modern Science: Arabic Manuscripts in European Libraries. Washington, DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1999

"Greek Astronomy and the Medieval Arabic Tradition,” American Scientist, Jul/Aug 2002. Vol. 90, Iss. 4; p. 360.

“Islam and Modern Science: Lessons from the Past,” Oxygen: La Scienza per Tutti, April 2008.

The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004.

Provost and Professor of History

George Mason University

Peter N. Stearns became Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University on January 1, 2000. He has taught previously at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Rutgers, and Carnegie Mellon; he was educated at Harvard University.

Dr. Stearns has authored or edited over 100 books, publishing widely in modern social history, including the history of emotions, and in world history. He has also edited encyclopedias of world and social history, and since 1967 has served as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Social History. As Provost at George Mason, Dr. Stearns has worked to expand research capacities, to add or enhance centers of strength such as the arts, biomedical research and education, and public health, and to increase the global activities and educational goals of the University. He has helped establish new facilities to promote teaching excellence and has encouraged a range of interdisciplinary and interunit programs. While under Dr. Stearns' leadership, George Mason University was awarded the 2006 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education. Also in the area of international education, Dr. Stearns wrote Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities, published in December 2008, and teaches a course on International Higher Education.

In his research and writing, Dr. Stearns pursues three main goals. As a social historian he is explores aspects of the human experience that are not generally thought of in historical terms, and with attention to ordinary people as well as elites. Second, he seeks to use an understanding of historical change and continuity to explore patterns of behavior and social issues. Finally, he is concerned with connecting new historical research with wider audiences. Dr. Stearns also promotes comparative analysis and the assessment of modern global forces for their own sake and as they illuminate the American experience and impact.

Books

Stearns, Peter N. 1848: the revolutionary tide in Europe. New York: Norton, 1974.

Stearns, Peter N., ed. American behavioral history : an introduction. New York : New York University Press, c2005.

Stearns, Peter N. American cool : constructing a twentieth-century emotional style. New York : New York University Press, c1994.

Stearns, Peter N. American fear : the causes and consequences of high anxiety. New York : Routledge, c2006.

Stearns, Peter N. Anxious parents : a history of modern childrearing in America. New York : New York University Press, c2003.

Stearns, Peter N. Battleground of desire : the struggle for self-control in modern America. New York : New York University Press, c1999.

Stearns, Peter N. Be a man! : males in modern society. New York : Holmes & Meier, 1990.

Stearns, Peter N. Childhood in world history. New York, London : Routledge, 2006.

Stearns, Peter N. Consumerism in world history the global transformation of desire. New York : Routledge, 2001.

Stearns, Peter N. Cultures in motion : mapping key contacts and their imprints in world history. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.

Stearns, Peter N. A day in the life : studying daily life through history. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 2006.

Stearns, Peter N. Educating global citizens in colleges and universities: challenges and opportunities. New York : Routledge, 2009.

Stearns, Peter N. European society in upheaval : social history since 1750. New York : Macmillan, 1975.

Stearns, Peter N. Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West. New York: New York University Press, c1997.

Professor and Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History, Department of History

University of California, Los Angeles

At the outset of his career, from 1983 to 1995, with brief interruptions, he taught economic history and comparative economic development at the Delhi School of Economics, where he was named Professor of Economic History (1993-95). Thereafter, Subrahmanyam taught at Paris as Directeur d’études in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where he was from 1995 to 2002.

In 2002, Subrahmanyam was appointed as the first holder of the newly created Chair in Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford. Since July 2005, he has served as founding Director of UCLA's Center for India and South Asia. In UCLA, Sanjay Subrahmanyam teaches courses on medieval and early modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history; the history of European expansion, the comparative history of early modern empires, and world history. He is also Joint Managing Editor of the Indian Economic and Social History Review, besides serving on the boards of a number of other journals in the US, UK, and Portugal. He serves on the editorial board of the multi-volume Cambridge History of the World, and will jointly edit Volume VI (in 2 parts) with J.H. Bentley.

The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, C. 1760-1840. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: PalgraveMacmillan, 2010.

The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. From the Tagus to the Ganges. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.

and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Mughals and Franks. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.

The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

(Ed.) Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1700, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History, London and New York: Longman, 1993.

(Ed.) Money and the Market in India, 1100-1700, Delhi: Oxford University Press, (Series: Themes in Indian History), 1994.

(Ed.) Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World (Series: An Expanding World, Vol. 8), Aldershot: Variorum Books, 1996.

The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

(Ed. with Muzaffar Alam) The Mughal State, 1526-1750, Delhi: Oxford University Press (Series: Themes in Indian History), 1998.

Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India, Delhi/Ann Arbor: Oxford University Press/University of Michigan Press, 2001.

(ed. with Claude Markovits and Jacques Pouchepadass) Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003.

Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.

(with Muzaffar Alam) Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

(Ed. with David Armitage) The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Preceptor in Ottoman and Modern Turkish, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Harvard University

Books

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Documents at Khalidiyya Library in Jerusalem: a Critical Edition, al-Furqan Institute in London, 2009, forthcoming

Endowment Deed of Khurram Sultan in Jerusalem: Study and Critical Edition of Arabic and Turkish Endowment Deed from the Khalidiyya Library in Jerusalem, 2009, forthcoming.

Istanbul Kadi Sijills (1574-1675). IV volumes, Sabanci University and the Packard Humanities Institute. Forthcoming.

Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies

University of California, Davis

Tezcan received his B.A. in International Relations from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey (1994), and his M.A. and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University (1996, 2001). His research interests are mainly pre-modern Middle Eastern history, focusing on such topics as Ottoman political history in the 16th-18th centuries; pre-modern ethnic and racial identities in the Islamic world; Ottoman perceptions of others; Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography; fiscal and monetary history; Islamic law, and the intellectual tradition of Islam. His next book project is tentatively entitled Imperial Visions: Africans, Americans, Asians, and Europeans in the Early Modern Ottoman World.

Books

The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Co-edited with Donald Quataert. Beyond Dominant Paradigms in Ottoman and Middle Eastern/North African Studies: A Tribute to Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj. Istanbul: SAM, 2010.

Co-edited with Karl K. Barbir. Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Center for Turkish Studies, 2007.

Articles and book chapters

“Some Thoughts on the Politics of Early Modern Ottoman Science.” In Beyond Dominant Paradigms in Ottoman and Middle Eastern/North African Studies: A Tribute to Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj, edited by Donald Quataert and Baki Tezcan, pp. 135-56. Istanbul: Ä°SAM, 2010.

“The Ottoman mevâlî as ‘lords of the law,’” Journal of Islamic Studies 20 (2009): 383-407.

“The Ottoman Monetary Crisis of 1585 Revisited,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52 (2009): 460-504.

“Lost in Historiography: An essay on the reasons for the absence of a history of limited government in the early modern Ottoman Empire.” Middle Eastern Studies 45 (2009): 477-505.

“The Multiple Faces of the One: The Invocation Section of Ottoman Literary Introductions as a Locus for the Central Argument of the Text.” Middle Eastern Literatures 12 (2009): 27-41.

“The History of a ‘Primary Source:’ The making of Tûghî’s chronicle on the deposition of Osman II.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 72 (2009): 41-62.

“Dispelling the Darkness: The politics of ‘race’ in the early seventeenth century Ottoman Empire in the light of the life and work of Mullah Ali.” In Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz, edited by Baki Tezcan and Karl K. Barbir, pp. 73-95. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Center for Turkish Studies, 2007.

“The Politics of Early Modern Ottoman Historiography.” In The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire, edited by Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman, pp. 167-98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

“The 1622 military rebellion in Istanbul: a historiographical journey.” International Journal of Turkish Studies 8 (2002): 25-43.

“Ethics as a domain to discuss the political: Kınalızâde Ali Efendi and his Ahlâk-ı Alâî.” In Proceedings of the International Congress on Learning and Education in the Ottoman World, Istanbul, 12-15 April 1999, edited by Ali Çaksu, pp. 109-20. Istanbul: IRCICA Publications, 2001.

“The development of the use of ‘Kurdistan’ as a geographical description and the incorporation of this region into the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century.” In The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation, 4 vols., edited by Kemal Çiçek et al., vol. 3, pp. 540-53. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2000.

“The ‘Kânûnnâme of Mehmed II:’ a different perspective.” In The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation, 4 vols., edited by Kemal Çiçek et al., vol. 3, pp. 657-65. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2000.

Professor of Islamic History and Associate Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

Georgetown University

John O. Voll is professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He taught Middle Eastern, Islamic, and world history at the University of New Hampshire for thirty years before moving to Georgetown in 1995. He graduated from Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. He has lived in Cairo, Beirut, and Sudan and has traveled widely in the Muslim world. The second edition of his book Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World appeared in 1994. He is co-author, with John L. Esposito, of Islam and Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam and is editor, author, or co-author of six additional books.

He is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association and also of the New England Historical Association. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs, and the Sudan Studies Association. He was the chair of the program committee for the 1999 annual meeting of the American Historical Association. In 1991 he received a Presidential Medal in recognition for scholarship on Islam from President Husni Mubarak of Egypt. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on modern Islamic and Sudanese history.

“Islam as Community of Discourse and a World-System,” in The Sage Handbook of Islamic Studies, ed. Akbar Ahmed and Tamara Sonn, London: Sage, 2010, pp. 3-16.

“Reform and Modernism in the middle twentieth century,” in The New Cambridge History of Islam, volume 6: Muslims and Modernity, Culture and Society since 1800, ed. Robert Hefner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 148-172.

Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1982. (2nd ed., Syracuse University Press, 1994)

and John Esposito and Osman Bakar, Asian Islam in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 2007.

and John L. Esposito, Makers of Contemporary Islam. Oxford University Press, 2001.

and John L. Esposito, Islam and Democracy. Oxford University Press, 1996.

and Yvonne Y. Haddad and John L. Esposito, The Contemporary Islamic Revival: A Critical Survey and Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1991.

Guest editor, special issue on “Pluralism and Religions in Iranian History,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14, No. 4 (October 2003).

editor, Sudan: State and Society in Crisis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

and Nehemia Levtzion, editors, Eighteenth Century Renewal and Reform in Islam. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987.

Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978. Second edition, with Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Richard Lobban, 1992.

and Sarah Potts Voll, The Sudan: Unity and Diversity in a Multicultural Society. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1985.

“Sufi Brotherhoods: Transcultural/ Transstate Networks in the Muslim World,” in Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History, ed. Jerry Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, and Anand Yang (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 2005).

“African Muslims and Christians in World History: The Irrelevance of the ‘Clash of Civilizations’,” in Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa, ed. Benjamin Soares (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.17-38.

“Transnational Islamic Trends,” in From Baghdad to Beirut… Studies in Honor of John J. Donohue, s.j., ed. Leslie Tramontini and Chibli Mallat. Beirut 2007.

Assistant Professor of History, College of Arts and Sciences

University of South Florida

Hüseyin Yılmaz is an assistant professor in Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa. He is currently on leave and based as research fellow at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna. He received his PhD in 2005 from Harvard University in History and Middle Eastern Studies where his research has focused on the cultural and intellectual history of the early modern Middle East. From 2005 to 2008 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Introduction to the Humanities Program at Stanford University. In 2008-9 he taught in the Department of History, Stanford University as acting assistant professor. His research interests include geographical imaginations, social stereotyping, translation, cultural formation, and political thought in early modern era. He published articles and book chapters on Ottoman constitutionalism, imperial ideology and historiography. He is currently working on a book project examining imageries of leadership in sixteenth century Ottoman Empire.

“The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire: The Genesis of the Near and Middle East in the Nineteenth Century,” in: A. Amanat, M. Bonine (eds.), Where is the Middle East, Stanford 2010 [forthcoming].

“Containing Sultanic Authority: Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire before Modernization,” in: S. Hashmi, H. Chehabi (eds.), Islam and Constitutionalism, Cambridge, MA 2010 [forthcoming].

“Imperial Ideology,” Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, New York 2008.

“Constitutional Developments in the Ottoman Empire before the Westernization,” in: Divan Disiplinlerarasý Çalýþmalar Dergisi, 13, 2008, pp. 1-30.

“Approaches to Pre-Tanzimat Political Thought in Ottoman Historiography, “in: Türkiye Araþtýrmalarý Literatür Dergisi, 1/2, 2003, pp. 231-298.

Associate Professor, Department of History

St. Louis University

My primary research interests have been in medieval Islamic history, in particular political practice and thought in early centuries of Islam, historiography, messianic thought and movements, and cross-cultural encounters. I see my research as situated in the history of thought, with a particular dynamic of bringing a consciousness of historical process to challenge normative and essentialist perceptions. In the Development of Sunni Political Thought, I examine the historical context in which Sunni political thought's major themes and arguments were formed and articulated. By setting the development of Sunni political thought against the background of the caliphate from the middle of the seventh to the early tenth centuries, I illustrate how Sunni political thought was formed and evolved in negotiation with religio-political movements of early Islam.

In my second book, Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam, I examined how charismatic leadership might have inspired political and institutional changes in medieval Islamic history. In general, I study the relationship between rulers and religion in order to understand political action. More specifically, I attempt to understand the role of messianic and apocalyptic beliefs in shaping Abbasid political behavior. The caliphs were inspired by messianic beliefs and relied on them to craft, support, and justify their imperial policies. By focusing closely on the period between 809 and 833 I attempt to link the civil war and the policies of al-Ma'mun to the ideological context created by the early ninth-century Muslim and non-Muslim prophecies. I am currently working on the the caliphate, political practice and thought, messianic movements, and universal historiography in medieval Islam. Finding world history curious and inspiring, I have been developing a research agenda that studies Islamic history and thought in a world historical context.

Books

Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

Tatawwur al-Fikr al-Siyasi 'inda Ahl al-Sunna: Fatrat al-Takwin [The Development of Sunni Political Thought: The Formative Period], (Amman: Dar al-Bashir, 1993).

Articles and Book Chapters

"Translation as Self-Consciousness: The Abbasid Translation Movement, Ancient Sciences, and Antediluvian Wisdom," Journal of World History, 2009.

Allahin Halifesi ve Dunyanin Kadisi: Bir Dunya Imparatorlugu Olarak Hilafet," [God's Caliph and World's Judge: The Caliphate as a World Empire,] Divan: Disiplinlerarasi Calismalar Dergisi, 22 (2007).

"Ancient Imperial Heritage and Islamic Historiography: Al-Dinawari's Secular Perspective," Journal of Global History 2 (2007).

"Meta Narratives: Political Legitimacy, Fate and Piety in the Narratives of the Abbasid Civil War," Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies 10 (2005).

"Between Nationalism and the Social Sciences: A History of Modern Scholarship on the 'Abbasid Civil War and the Reign of al-Ma'mun," Medieval Encounters 8 (2002): 56-78.

"Ortacag Evrensel Islam Tarihciligi ve Katip Çelebi: Bir On Inceleme," [Medieval Islamic Universal Historiography and Katip Celebi: A Preliminary Investigation,] Proceedings of the International Symposium on Katip Celebi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009.

"Bir Kurgu Olarak Klasik Islam Siyaset Dusuncesi: Dini ve Rasyonel Ahlak Hakkindaki Ana Anlatiya Alternatif Yaklasimlar," [Classical Islamic Political Thought as a Construction: Alternative Approaches to the Master Narrative on Religious and Rational Morality], in Sami Erdem and M. Cuneyt Kaya, eds., Islam ve Klasik (Istanbul: Klasik Yayinlari, 2008).

Assistant Professor of Religion

Trinity College

Homayra Ziad teaches courses on Islam at the Department of Religion. Her scholarly interests include intellectual and cultural trends in Muslim India, theoretical Sufism, Sufism and language, women’s religious production, and Qur’anic hermeneutics. Her dissertation analyzed the writings of a key Sufi thinker and his interpretive project of moral reform in late Mughal India.

Homayra compares the classroom to a spiritual voyage – a vehicle of transformation for both student and teacher. A teacher is a guide, and her job is to find a structure and style that allows a student's mind to open. At the same time, she values a fresh perspective and urges students to help her find new ways of approaching her subject matter. Her first hope is that students should not leave the classroom thinking that they know all there is to know about Islam. Her second hope is to kindle a spark of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and a sense of humility that will help them on their voyage through every religious tradition.

In graduate school, Homayra was both an independent instructor and teaching assistant for courses on Islam, and worked as an Associate at the Chaplain’s Office. She earned her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies and an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University, and her B.A. in economics from Bryn Mawr College.

“Poetry, Music and the Path of Muhammad: How Khvajah Mir Dard brought three worlds together in eighteenth-century Delhi,” Journal of Islamic Studies 21:3 (2010) pp. 345–376 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

“Grassroots Scriptural Reasoning on Campus,” (co-written with Peter Ochs) Journal of Inter-religious Dialogue Issue 4 (June 2010).

"Women and Islam" in Essays on Islam, ed. Roger Allen and Shawkat Toorawa (Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans, 2011) (forthcoming).

“I transcend myself like a melody: Khwajah Mir Dard and the Art of Sama‘ in Eighteenth-century Delhi,” Muslim World, Special Issue on Qawwali Volume 97 Issue 4 (Hartford: Hartford Seminary, 2007).

“The Nature and Art of Discourse in the Religious Writings of Khwajah Mir Dard,” The Annual of Urdu Studies (Wisconsin: University of Madison, 2005), 145-165.

Encyclopedia Articles “Liberation Theology,” Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard Bowering (Princeton University Press, 2010) (in preparation)

“Andalib, Khwaja Muhammad,” Encyclopedia of Islam Third Edition, eds. Gudrun Kramer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson (accepted for publication)

“Banu Israil,” “Battle of Badr,” “Silsilah,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, ed. John L. Esposito (Oxford University Press, 2008).

“Mahmud of Ghazna,” Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume 2, ed. Joseph W. Meri, (New York: Routledge, 2006), 458.

“Ghaznavids,” Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, ed. Joseph W. Meri, (New York: Routledge, 2006), 293-294.