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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Political Thought with Huseyin Yilmaz (video interview in Turkish)

By Maydan Editors  //  August 22, 2019August 22, 2019

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.

An Islamic Jihad of Nonviolence: Said Nursi’s Model

By Salih Sayilgan  //  April 30, 2019May 1, 2019

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…

“An Education of the Heart”:  Revival of Sufism in Bosnia-Herzegovina

By Zora Kostadinova  //  January 22, 2018

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,…

Becoming US Citizens: Muslims and Christians From the Middle East in US Official Records

By Randa Kayyali  //  November 11, 2016November 11, 2016

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…

“Iranians in the Ottoman Territories During the Reign of Abdulhamid II” by Akin Kiren

October 12, 2016September 30, 2016

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…

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