Cemal Kafadar

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...

This dissertation is a study of an Arab-Muslim family from Jerusalem during the early seventeenth century. It examines the life and times of the ’Alamī family, an ‘ulamā’ family of long-standing social and cultural prestige that had been living in...

My dissertation investigates the articulation and dissemination of radicalism in and between Beirut, Cairo and Alexandria in the late 19th and early 20th century. It argues that there existed a deep connection between the brand of radicalism that emerged...