Soon after Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals annulled Ataturk’s 1934 decision to convert Hagia Sophia into a museum, President Erdogan, flanked by the Turkish flag and a photo of the museum’s interior, delivered a speech…
Croats are Catholic south Slavs with a distinct identity from their Orthodox and Muslim kin brothers, namely Serbs and Bosnians. The Kingdom of Croatia, which lasted from the tenth to twelfth centuries, was established along…
AVACGIS Director Huseyin Yilmaz joined Istanbul-based Medyascope TV’s Kültür ve Tarih Sohbetleri hosts Cengiz Özdemir and Ozan Sağsöz for a conversation on Ottoman Political Thought. The conversation is in Turkish.
I have been teaching courses on Islam and world religions for almost a decade now. I have not only taught undergraduate and graduate courses at various institutions, but also engaged with local faith communities. Throughout…
On a hot summer day in June 2015 I arrived in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina to conduct my fieldwork for my doctoral dissertation which focuses, broadly, on the revival of Sufism. More narrowly,…
At the level of naturalization – the process through which an immigrant becomes an American – there was no discrimination against Muslims as a matter of official policy. Jews, Armenians, Christians, and Muslims who were…
Brown Bag Lecture by Akin Kiren, Dissertation Fellow, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies: Iranians had probably constituted the largest group of foreign subjects in the Ottoman Empire since its establishment in the…