Hamid Bozarslan: History of Conflicts in the Middle East: An Ibn Khaldunian Reading

Hamit Bozarslan, Professor of History and Social Sciences at L’École des hautes Études en sciences sociales, is one of the leading scholars of history of the Modern Middle East. His research interests include the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, the Kurdish Question, violence and revolutions in the Middle East, Ibn Khaldun, and minorities in the Islamic world. His books include Que’est-ce qu’une revolution?: Amérique, France, monde arebe 1763-2015 (with Gaëlle Demelemestre) (2016); Le luxe et la violence: domination et contestation chez Ibn Kaldun (2012)

This event is sponsored by Department of History; The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies; CREES; Stanford Global Studies; Freeman Spogli Institute; Anthropology; Humanities Center; Modern Middle East Workshop (Stanford Humanities Center); France-Stanford Center