Cemal Kafadar

This dissertation examines the urban, architectural, and infrastructural transformation of the city of Amasea/Amasya—situated in the Iris River (Yeşilırmak) valley in the central Black Sea region of Turkey—during the late medieval period by foregrounding...

Despite substantial scholarship on Rumi’s poetry and biography, the roles of his shrine and Sufi lodges in shaping his legacy remain largely unexplored. This dissertation explores the entangled, shifting networks of patronage, the complex relationships...

Regulating Commerce narrates how a distinct Ottoman jurisdiction for adjudicating commercial life emerged in the nineteenth century, and how this legal system worked in practice. The nineteenth century was a period of intense legal and economic change in...

Greenhouse tomato farming has arrived in Antalya at the same time as its ancient Roman sites are revived in what has become cast as the quintessential Mediterranean city of Turkey. Becoming a major off season vegetable production center with a new...

This study explores significant aspects of the history of Islamic higher education in the central Ottoman lands (Bilād al-Rūm) and Greater Syria (Bilād al-Shām) during the approximate period 1530-1650. Two general themes constitute the greatest part of...

This dissertation explores the multifaceted nature of early Ottoman temporal culture, arguing against its characterization as a monolithic entity. Temporal culture here refers to the system of practices, beliefs, and attitudes through which Ottomans...

Mediterranean seafarers engaged in various forms of armed conflict throughout the seventeenth century. Among their career options, piracy existed as an alternative that bore high risks and offered attractive returns. This profession became especially...

Envisaged as a contribution to the early modern Ottoman social and intellectual history, this dissertation focuses on the region of the Ottoman-ruled South-Slavic Europe in the period between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries and investigates...

This dissertation investigates how early modern Ottoman medical scholars viewed the concept of novelty and how it manifested itself in the socio-political domain. Appearing in the mid-seventeenth century and maintaining its substantial impact throughout...