Publications by Faculty & Alumni

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...

Oman’s borderlands with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are beset with curiosities. At a time when the Omani state has been pursuing policy to incorporate peripheral, non-coastal regions into the Sultanate of Oman’s national territory, inhabitants of the...

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...

The fortieth-anniversary volume of Muqarnas begins with a preface by Gülru Necipoğlu, addressing the historical trajectory of this groundbreaking publication and its sister series, Muqarnas Supplements, against the backdrop of a changing scholarly...

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...

In pieces drawn from over the course of his distinguished career, pre-eminent historian Roy Mottahedeh explores such diverse topics as the social bonds that connected people in the early Islamic Middle East, the transmission of learning in the Muslim...

This book tells the story of Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul’s urban memory. At its peak, however...