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Sohbet-i Osmaniye is pleased to present
Suraiya Faroqhi
Professor Emerita of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany; and Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Suraiya Faroqhi is a professor Emerita of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University and currently Professor of History at Istanbul Bilgi University. She is regarded as one of the most important economic and social historians of the Ottoman Empire working today. Professor Faroqhi has written substantially on Ottoman urban history, arts and crafts, and the hitherto underrepresented world of the ordinary people in the empire. She is well known for her distinctive approach to Ottoman everyday life and public culture. She has published numerous books and articles in the field of premodern Ottoman history. Her books include Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, Crafts, and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520-1650 (1984); Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources (2000); The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It (2004); Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (2005); Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans (2009). She is also the editor of The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 3 (2006) and, most recently, of Animals and People in the Ottoman Empire (2010). In 2008, her colleagues published the festschrift Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community: Essays in Honour of Suraiya Faroqhi.
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