This talk examines the nexus of demography, sovereignty, and political legitimacy in the late Ottoman Empire after the Congress of Berlin (1878). It argues that the Congress marked a decisive turning…
Event Type: Lecture
The period after the so-called “Golden Age of Islam” has been largely dismissed as a time of radical "decline," often blamed on the “dogmatism” of Islam and evidenced by a deluge of derivative…
Charting the Ottoman Empire (COE) is a digital humanities project that reconstructs the economic, political, and financial networks of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by…
Sponsored by Structured Liberal Education (SLE) and the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies Join us in welcoming Haleh Liza Gafori back to campus for a talk on Rumi. She is a New York…
How does poetry resist erasure? How do oral traditions protect collective memory across generations, especially in times of political rupture and displacement? Join us for From Verse to Vinyl: Tracing…
Nükhet Varlık's research traces the emergence and evolution of healthscaping efforts and their broader political implications in the context of Ottoman early modernity. She examines how the Ottoman…
The Israel-Syria-Turkey triangle has long been shaped by a mix of historical grievances, shifting alliances, and pressing security concerns. Today, the region faces overlapping crises—from the Syrian…
In this event, Professor Mota will discuss his forthcoming book Global Islam from Africa: Islamic political culture in Senegambia and its reverberations in the Atlantic World (1400–1850), which traces…
Date: Thursday | October 9 Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Place: Bldg 200, Rm. 307 At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was…
This lecture focuses on the contributions of Black Atlantic and African Diaspora Muslims to the global transmission, circulation, and preservation of the centuries-old Islamic intellectual heritage…