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…