Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS)

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2006 Social Science Research Council/School of American Research Science  and Religion program Residency Award (declined)

2005                 Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio Center (postponed)

2004-2005        Faculty Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities

2003-2004 Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, The University of Chicago

Director, Sawyer Seminar, “From Medieval to Modern in the Islamic

World,” The University of Chicago

1999-2000 Phi Beta Kappa Scholar

1997-- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1996-98 President, Turkish Studies Association

1990 Corresponding Member (elected), Turkish Historical Society,

Ankara, Turkey

1990 Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio Center

198893 MacArthur Prize Fellowship

1986 Book Prize (Humanities), Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (for Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire)

198687 FulbrightHays Islamic Civilization Research Grant

198687 Social Science Research Council, Research Grant

1986 American Research Institute in Turkey, Summer Research Grant

1985 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Fellowship

1984 National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant

1984 Social Science Research Council, Research Grant

198385 Summer Research Grants, Graduate School

Washington University

1982 Middle East Studies Association of North America Dissertation Prize, Humanities

197879 Research Grant, Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

197678 FulbrightHays Doctoral Research Grant (Turkey, Iran, Egypt)

197376 NDEA Title Vl Grants

197273 Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Fellow (Cairo)

1972 Graduation magna cum laude, Princeton University

1972 Phi Beta Kappa Society

1971 Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, Summer Fellow

TEACHING POSITIONS:

1998-- Kanuni Süleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies,

University of Chicago

Professor of Islamic and Ottoman History,

University of Chicago

198993 Professor of Islamic History,

Washington University

1992 (Spring) Visiting Professor of History,

University of California at Berkeley

198589 Associate Professor of Islamic History,

Washington University

198586 Visiting Associate Professor of Turkish and Islamic Studies, 

Ohio State University

198285 Assistant Professor of Islamic History, Washington University

197982 Instructor of Persian and Turkish,

Ohio State University

1979 Lecturer in Islamic History,

Bogazici University, Istanbul

INVITED APPOINTMENTS:

1997 Directeur d’Etudes Associe, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

1994 Visiting Professor, Istituto di Glottologia, Universita di Bologna

1995 Visiting Professor, Center for Non-Western Studies, Universiteit Leiden

1992 (Fall) Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

199698 Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies,

The University of Chicago

198691 Founder and Director, Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations, Washington University

198891 Site Director, Rockefeller Residency Program in the Humanities, Washington University

LANGUAGES:

Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian,

French, German, Italian (fluency); Azeri, Chagatay, Modern

Uzbek, Russian, Latin, Spanish (reading)

RESIDENCE ABROAD:

Egypt: 195860, 1971 (Summer), 197273, 197778

Turkey: 197679, 198687, Summers 198386, 1998-99, 2002

Iran: 1973 (Summer), 1977 (Winter)

Iraq: 1961 63

Germany: 196769

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

American Historical Association

Middle East Studies Association

Society for Iranian Studies

Turkish Studies Association

Turkish Historical Foundation (Tarih Vakfi)

Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu)

PUBLICATIONS:

“Of Gender and Servitude, ca. 1520: The Kul Kizi of Bergama,” in Abdeljelil Temimi, ed., Melanges Prof. Dr. Suraiya Faroqhi,2009.

“Shadows of Shadows,” fin International Journal of Turkish Studies, Fall 2007.

A Mediterranean Apocalypse: Empire and Prophecy, 1453-

1550 (forthcoming, University of California Press, 2010).

“Seer to Sultan: Haydar-i Remmal and Süleyman the Lawgiver,” in Jayne Warner, ed., Cultural Horizons: Studies in Honor of Talat Sait Halman, Syracuse, 2001

Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (15411600) Princeton University Press, 1986 (also to appear in revised paperback edition from University of California Press, 2002); Turkish translation by Ayla Ortac , Tarihci Mustafa Ali, Tarih Vakfi, Istanbul, 1996.  Electronically published as ACLS E-Book, 2003.

"Between the Lines: Realities of Scribal Life in the Sixteenth Century," Studies in Ottoman History in Honour of Victor Menage, Istanbul, 1994.

"Secretaries' Dreams: Augury and Angst in the Ottoman Scribal Service," Armagan: Festschrift fur Andreas Tietze, Prague, 1994.

"The Lawgiver as Messiah," in Soliman le magnifique et son temps, ed. Gilles Veinstein, Paris, 1992.

"From Sehzade Korkud to Mustafa Ali: Cultural Origins of the Ottoman Nasihatname," in The Economic and Social History of Turkey. Third International Congress, Istanbul, 1990.

"Preliminaries to the Study of the Ottoman Bureaucracy," in Raiyyet Rusumu: Festschrift Halil Inalcik (Turkish Studies, 1987).

"Mustafa Ali's Curious Bits of Wisdom," Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morganlandes, 76 (1986), 103109 (Festschrift Andreas Tietze).

"Royal Authority, Dynastic Cyclism, and 'Ibn Khaldunism' in SixteenthCentury Ottoman Letters," Journal of Asian and African Studies, 18/3-4 (1983), 198220.

Catalogue of the Persian and Turkish Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library, Volume II of Catalogue of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library, ed. Dr. David King (in Arabic), Cairo, 1982.

Articles, 2002,000 words, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Encyclopaedia of

Islam, Lexikon des Mittelalters, Great Historians.

IN PROGRESS:

Master of the Age: Süleyman the Lawgiver and the Remaking of Ottoman Sovereignty (15201566) (Manuscript under contract to Princeton University Press).

"Before Orthodoxy, Without Heterodoxy: Literacy, Mysticism, and Occultism in FifteenthCentury Islamdom" (a study of the occult polymath 'Abd al-rahman alBistami, d.1455).

"Christian Renovatio and Islamic Tajdid; Convergent Concepts of Religious and Social Purification in the Renaissance Mediterranean," for Journal of Early Modern History.

"Apocalypticism, Cultural History, and Braudel's Mediterranean." Article to be submitted to Past and Present.

“Prognostication and Divination in the Ottoman Palace, 1542-1600,” in Falname, eds.

S. Bagci and M. Farhad, Smithsonian 2008 (catalogue of exhibition to open 2008).

“Math for the Empire: A Palace Pay Register of 1525 and the Ottoman Organization of Knowledge (with C. Kafadar).

EDITORSHIPS:

Historians of the Ottoman Empire (with Cemal Kafadar, Hakan Karateke, Harvard University).

Associate editor, Cambridge History of Turkey, with Metin Kunt (General Editor, Cambridge), Suraiya Faroqhi (Associate Editor, Munich), Feroz Ahmad (Associate Editor, Univ. of Massachusetts).

Editor, The Ottoman Empire, 14531603 (Volume II, Cambridge History of Turkey).

Editorial Board Member, Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History.

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

Advisory Board Member, E.J. Brill, The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy.

SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS:

Robert Olson, The Siege of Mosul and OttomanPersian Relations, 17031743, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, May, 1976.

Christine Woodhead, Ta'likizade's Sehnamei humayun: A History of the Ottoman Campaign into Hungary, 1593-94, in The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 8/1 (1984).

Rudi Paul Lindner, Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, December, 1984.

Adel Allouche, Origins and Developments of the OttomanSafavid Conflict (906962/15001555), in Der Islam, 1986.

SELECTED INVITED LECTURES:

"From Frontier Principality to Islamic Empire: Law, Legitimacy, and Bureaucracy in the Ottoman State," Stanford University, History Department, 1983.

"The Turkic and Mongol Legacy to Ottoman Ideology," The Ohio State University, Conference on Central Asia, 1983.

"Origins of Ideology in the Literature of the OttomanSafavi Rivalry," University of Pennsylvania, Symposium on NonWestern Literatures, 1983.

"Cultural Origins of the Ottoman Nasihatname," Congress on the Economic and Social History of Turkey, Princeton, August, 1983.

"Companions to a King Errant," Ohio State University Conference, "Babur and the Society and Culture of Central Asia," 1984.

"Slaves and Bureaucrats: Administrative Consolidation and Classicism in the SixteenthCentury Ottoman Empire," University of Michigan, Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, 1985.

"Bureaucratism and Classicism in the SixteenthCentury Ottoman Empire," University of Chicago, Middle East Center, 1986.

"Ethnicity and Elite Identity in the Ottoman Empire," Princeton University, 1986.

"Administrative Experimentation in the Reign of Suleyman the Lawgiver,"

IV. Internationaler Kongress fur Turkische Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte, Munich, August, 1986.

"Kul and Ehli kalem in the Sixteenth Century," Congress of Turkish Historical Society, Ankara, September, 1986.

"Historical Perspectives on Sultan Suleyman the Lawgiver" and "The Political Thought of Sultan Suleyman," both at symposium, "The Age of Suleyman the Magnificent," University of Chicago, June, 1987 (held in conjunction with opening of exhibition of same title).

"Master of the Age: Millenarian Elements in the Evolution of Ottoman Ideology," School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, January, 1988.

"Historical Consciousness and Conceptions in the Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire," in lecture series, "Ottoman State and Society in the Sixteenth Century," Cambridge University and Oxford University, January, 1988 (to be published in series volume).

"Individuality in the Sixteenth Century: Islamdom," in Humanities Symposium, Ohio State University, “Renaissance Perspectives: Italy, the Islamic World, and China in the Age of the Italian Renaissance," April 2830, 1988.

"The Rule of Law in The SixteenthCentury Ottoman Empire," at "Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire," University of Bochum, December, 1988.

"Ottoman Literature of Advice to Kings," University of Arizona, January, 1989.

"Centralization and Decentralization in Ottoman Ideology" at "Centralization, Decentralization, and TaxFarming in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Moghul Empires," University of Munich, May, 1989.

"The End of The World and the Remaking of Ottoman Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century," University of California, Berkeley (January, 1989), Indiana University (October, 1989), UCLA (December, 1989), University of Washington, Seattle (December, 1990), Free University of Berlin (May, 1990).

"The Lawgiver as Messiah," at symposium, "Soliman le magnifique et son temps," Ecole du Louvre, March, 1990.

"The End of the World in the 16thCentury Mediterranean," University of California, Berkeley, and University of Pennsylvania, February, 1991.

"Islamic State, Ottoman State," in symposium, "Others' Orients: Soviet and American Perspectives on Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies," Dartmouth College, April, 1991.

"Realities of Scribal Life in the Sixteenth Century," Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

"Prophecy, Politics, and the Ottoman Legend of the Last Roman Emperor," Harvard University and Free University of Berlin, 1992.

"Ottoman Law and Ottoman Imperialism," Yale University, conference on Islamic Law and Religion, September, 1993.

"Imperialism and the Apocalypse in the Mediterranean, 14501550," University of Leiden, (weeklong seminar under auspices of Center for Non-Western Studies, Leiden, February, 1995).

“The Renaissance from Eastern Mediterranean Perspectives," in History Colloquium Series, Pennsylvania State University, March, 1995.

"Ottoman History and Cultural Studies," at Munir Ertegun Foundation Symposium, Princeton University, April, 1995 (with E.D. Akarli).

"Renaissance Themes in Ottoman Lands: Occultism, Prophecy, Literacy, and Politics," Mellon Lecture in Turkish Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April, 1995.

"Apocalypticism East and West in the Early Modern Era," Mellon Seminar, Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center, Vanderbilt University, November, 1995.

"Without Inquisition: The Construction of Heresy and Creation of Orthodoxy in Ottoman Lands, 14501550," Sawyer Seminar in the Humanities Conference, Toleration, Repression, and Authority in the Early Modem Period: Forbidden Practices, University of Chicago, Dec. 12, 1995.

“1000 AH (AD 1591/2,” The Apocalyptic Year 1000: History and Historiography, Boston University, November 2-5, 1996.

“The Magic of Writing in Early Modern Islamdom,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, March 25, 1997.

“The Apocalypse in Early Modern Islamdom,” University of Michigan, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Distinguished Lecturer Series, December, 1997.

“The Idea of the Rule of Law and Ottoman Ideology,” Symposium on Law in the Ottoman Empire, Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton, March, 1998

“A Mediterranean Apocalypse: Imperialism and Prophecy 1450-1550,” Princeton University, Martin B. Dickson Memorial Lecture, April 28, 1998.

“Shah Isma’il and Uzun Firdevsi,” in Symposium, The Safavids and their Neighbors, University of Utah, May 8-10, 1998.

“Ottoman Imperial Ideology,” in Symposium on Ottoman Culture in the Sixteenth Century, Sad Berk Hanim Museum, Istanbul, February 28, 1999 (In Turkish)

“Latifi’s Sharaf al-Insan and the Court of Süleyman,” in Symposium in Honor of Barbara Flemming, Latifi and his Milieu, Riksuniversitet te Leiden, September 23-25, 1999.

“Braudel’s Mediterranean through the Apocalyptic Prism,” Yale University, Sawyer Seminar Lecture, April 18, 2000.

10 Lectures on Islamic subjects as Phi Beta Kappa Scholar,  Elmira College, St. Olaf College, Wabash College, Washington and Jefferson  College, Coe College, Washington State University at Pullman,  University of South Carolina at Columbia, Illinois College, 1999-2000.

Plenary Lecture, Folger Institute Symposium, “The Ottoman Impact on Early Modern Europe,” Folger Shakespeare Library, March, 2002.

Loew Lecture, “Which Rome, Which Jerusalem?”  Western Michigan University, April, 2002

Stanton Sharp Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, Empires through Time: From Rome to Washington, “Rome as Muslim: The Ottoman Empire in the Making of Modernity,” October 22, 2003

Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies Visiting Scholar Lecture, Tufts University, “Thirty Years with the Middle East,” May 20, 2004.

Faculty Seminar, Dept. of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, seminar and lecture, “Renaissance Themes in Ottoman Lands,” April, 2006.

“History Seen from Bursa as Impetus, Before and After 1453: Introductions of ‘Abd al-rahman al-Bistami (d. 1455) and Lami’I Celebi (d. 1432),  Sebeb-i Telif: A Symposium on Ottoman Primary Sources, Harvard University, Nov. 16-17, 2006.

“The Formation of Ottoman and Habsburg Imperialisms,” Symposium on Turkish-European Integration, Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 12-14, 2007.

“Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in the Sixteenth Century: Is Translation Needed?”, Symposium, “Imperial Models in the Early Modern World,” UCLA Center for 17^th- and 18^th Century Studies, Feb. 9-10, 2007.

NEH Lecture Series, “Ottoman Rome,”  Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Kansas, April 2007.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:

"Turks and Mongols in Ottoman Historical Literature," American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, August, 1981.

"The Role of Context in Ibn Sa'd,” in panel "New Ways of Interpreting

Biographical Literature," Middle East Studies Association Meeting, November,

1982.

"Scribal Training and Medrese Education in the SixteenthCentury Ottoman Empire," in panel, "Historical Perspective in Islamic Education" Middle East Studies Association Meeting, November, 1983.

"'Ethical' adaptation: Tusi's Akhlaqi Nasiri through Aqqoyuniu and Ottoman Eyes," in panel, "Sources for the Study of Medieval Islamic Statecraft," Middle East Studies Association Meeting, November, 1984.

"Poetry and Personality," in panel, "Approaches to the Individual and Islamic Literature" Middle East Studies Association Meeting, November, 1985.

"Travel as Topos in Turkic Literatures," in panel, "Travel and Identity,” Middle East Studies Association Meeting, November, 1988.

"'Islamic History," in workshop, "Teaching the Islamic Humanities to the American Undergraduate,” Middle East Studies Association Meeting, November, 1989.

"Istanbul," in SSRC Workshop, "Culture and Society of Port Cities from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, ca. 18901920's," Maison Mediterraneene des Sciences de l'Homme, AixenProvence, September, 1996.

"Egypt from Mamluk to Ottoman," in American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting Workshop, "Egypt from Mamluk to Ottoman," St. Louis Art Museum, April 1012, 1996.

"The Genesis of Islamic Apocalyptic," in panel, "Apocalypse East and West," Medieval Institute Annual Meeting, Kalamazoo, May, 1996.

“The Ottoman Experience,” Empire of Faith, PBS, 2001.

“Sultan Suleyman,” The Ottoman Empire, History Channel, 2006.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:

198485, 1988 Grant Review Panelist, FulbrightHays Postdoctoral Grant Program, Washington, D.C.

198587 Elected Member, Executive Board, Turkish Studies Association

19861994 CoDirector, American Research InstituteBogazici University Intensive Summer Language Program.

198895 Delegateatlarge, American Research Institute in Turkey

199092 Trustee, American Institute of Iranian Studies

1991 External Evaluator, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Board of Directors, American Research Institute in Turkey

199496 Organizing Committee, Sawyer Seminar in Early Modern Studies,

University of Chicago

Manuscript reviewer, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, E.J. Brill, Reaktion Press, Broadview Press, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Iranian Studies, Comparative Studies in History and Society, History and Theory, Journal of World History, Renaissance Quarterly, The Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Early Modern History, Sixteenth Century Journal.

Grant reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT:

Bogazici University

Islamic History, 13001800

Ottoman Institutions 13001700 (seminar in Turkish)

Ohio State University

Turkish 101, 102, 103, 104 (ElementaryIntermediate Turkish)

Turkish 294 (Advanced Modern Turkish: Modern Literature)

Turkish 694 (Ottoman Turkish)

Persian 101, 102, 103, 104 (ElementaryIntermediate Persian)

Persian 294, 694 (Advanced Persian, Medieval and Modern Literature)

Judaic and Near Eastern Languages 294 (Introduction to Islamic Literatures in translation)

Arabic 102 (Elementary Arabic)

Arabic 627 (Modern Arab Drama; in Arabic)

History 140.03 (Introduction to Islamic Civilizations)

History 258 (Religion and Politics in the Islamic World)

History 827 (Graduate seminar in PostMongol Islamic History)

Washington University

History 302 (Builders of Islamic Empires: Mehmed the Conqueror, Shah Isma'il, and Babur. Sophomore Honors Tutorial)

History 313 (Islamic History 6221200)

History 314 (Islamic History 12001800)

History 315 (The Middle East 1800present)

History 4100 (The Ottoman Empire, 13001700)

History 495 (Undergraduate Honors Seminar: The Ottoman Empire)

History 493 (Undergraduate Honors Seminar: Iran)

Literature and History 497 (The Literature of Islamic Courts; with Peter Heath) History 327 (University College. The Middle East: History, Culture, Politics. Cotaught with V. LeVine, L. Beck)

MLA U98 (The Civilization of Islam. Masters of Liberal Arts Core Course) International Affairs seminar U86 (Middle East in Modern Times)

Proseminar in Islamic Historiography

Seminar in Iberian History, 7001600

University of Chicago

The Ottoman World in the Age of Suleyman the Magnificent (2quarter seminar)

Ottoman Diplomatics and Paleography

Ottoman Historical Texts

Introduction to the Study of Islamic History (Graduate Proseminar, with J.

Woods)

Islamic Civilization III (1450modern times)

Islamic History and Society 1 (600-1150)

The Renaissance East and West, 1400-1600

Radical Islamic Pieties, 1200-1600