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The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents
A conversation about Hüseyin Yilmaz's new book, with the author and guests
Hüseyin Yilmaz is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Dr. Yilmaz holds a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. His research interests focus on the early modern Middle East including political thought, geographic imageries, social movements, and cultural history. His most recent publications are The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire: The Genesis of the Near and Middle East in the Nineteenth Century and From Serbestiyet to Hürriyet: Ottoman Statesmen and the Question of Freedom During the Late Enlightenment. Prior to his appointment at George Mason, Dr. Yilmaz taught for the Introduction to the Humanities Program and Department of History at Stanford University and the Department of History at University of South Florida. Prior to that, he was appointed Research Fellow with the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna, Austria. His new book, Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought, is the first comprehensive study of pre-modern Ottoman political thought, and was published by Princeton University Press in January 2018. Dr. Yilmaz is also the Director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University.
Chair: Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Professor of Political Science, Sabancı University, Istanbul; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Center for European Studies
Panel:
Cemil Aydin, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Cengiz Sisman, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston, Clear Lake
Hayrettin Yücesoy, Associate Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, International and Area Studies, and History, Washington University, St Louis
Discussant: Intisar Rabb, Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Editor-in-Chief, SHARIAsource, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Contact: Liz Flanagan