Graduate Colloquium in Ottoman Studies | August 3 2019, Istanbul | Final Program

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Graduate Colloquium in Ottoman Studies

August 3, 2019

Marmara Üniversitesi Rektörlüğü

İshakpaşa Mah., At Meydanı Sok. No:1

Sultanahmet / Fatih, İstanbul

 

The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University

&

The Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries Studies, Marmara University

 

Presenters

Ahmet Tahir Nur, Yale University

Attila Babadostu, University of Vienna

Elif Sezer Aydınlı, Istanbul Şehir University

Fikriye Karaman, Istanbul Şehir University

Mehmet Ali Ҫelik, University of California, Davis

Nihad Dostovic, Boğaziçi University

Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak, McGill University

Veliye Ay, University of Maryland

 

Organizing Committee

Hüseyin Yılmaz, George Mason University

İsmail Sefa Üstün, Marmara University

Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis

Tijana Krstic, Central European Univesrsity

Heather Ferguson, Claremont McKenna College

Abdulhamit Kırmızı, Istanbul Şehir University

Himmet Taşkömür, Harvard University

 

 

Program

9:00-9:30

Introduction

9:30- 10:10

Attila Babadostu, University of Vienna

As-Suyūṭī’s Claim to the müceddid-Title Revisited: Some Thoughts on Kemālpaşazāde’s Pertinent View in the Context of the Developing Ottoman Legitimacy Argumentation

Discussant: Hüseyin Yılmaz, George Mason University

10:15-10:55

Veliye Ay, University of Maryland

The Question of Spirit and the Three Groups of Intellectuals in Nasafī’s Zubdat al-ḥaqāyik

Discussant: Aslıhan Gürbüzel, McGill University

11:00: 11:40

Ahmet Tahir Nur, Yale University

Mapping the Territory of Knowledge in Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda

Discussant: Abdurrahman Atçıl, Istanbul Şehir University

11:45-12:25

Nihad Dostovic, Boğaziçi University

A Sufi Provincial Mufti Muniri-yi Belgradi (d. c. 1620-1628) and His Work: Nisābü᾿L-Intisāb Ve Ādābü᾿L-Iktisāb

Discussant: Himmet Taşkömür, Harvard University

1:30-2:10

Mehmet Ali Ҫelik, University of California, Davis

The Emergence of a New Rural Gentry in the Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire

Discussant: Mehmet Kuru, Sabancı University

2:15-2:55

Elif Sezer Aydınlı, Istanbul Şehir University

Text as Public Space: Reader Notes on the Manuscripts of Ottoman Heroic Stories

Discussant: Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis

3:00-3:40

Fikriye Karaman, Istanbul Şehir University

A Governor of Abdülhamid II: Mehmed Memduh Pasha

Discussant: Sena Hatip Dinçyürek, Ankara TED University

3:45-4:25

Yusuf Karabıçak, McGill University

‘Why would we be limberte?’ Liberté in the Ottoman Empire, 1792-1800

Discussant: Abdulhamit Kırmızı, Istanbul Şehir University