People’s Orders, Riots and Coffee: How Can We Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire

Ali Yaycıoğlu, the faculty director of the Abbasi Program and a historian specializing in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, delves into economic, political, and legal institutions, focusing on social and cultural aspects in southeastern Europe and the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire. His book Partners of the Empire: Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford University Press, 2016) provides a fresh perspective on the Ottoman Empire within the global context of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Currently, Yaycıoğlu is engrossed in a new project titled "The Order of Debt: Power, Wealth and Death in the Ottoman Empire," examining transformations in property, finance, and statehood during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Additionally, he is actively exploring the history of democratic practices and thoughts in the Ottoman World and post-Ottoman.