Ottoman Empire

Dear members we have the honour to announce the first of the facsimile books that contain illustrations of daily life and scenes and persons from 16th century Ottoman empire. 

Details:  

Scenes From The 16th Century Ottoman Empire I

Türkische Manierenbuch From Kassel University Library 40 Ms. Hist. 31

ISBN: 978-90-6921-30-8,

Edited by: Mehmet Tütüncü & Ömer Erdem with contributions from Magnus Reesel (Frankfurt) & Zeynep Öztürk (Istanbul) and Paul Brood (Groningen) Graphic Designer: Omer Erdem

Dear all,

On Friday (Oct. 8) at 2:30 pm EST, the Department of History and the Committee for Early Modern Studies at Penn State University will host Professor Gábor Ágoston (Georgetown University) for a talk about his much anticipated book, The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe (Princeton University Press, 2021). The talk will be delivered on Zoom and will be open to the public. Registration is required through this link:

Purdue University Press is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies is now online. Volume 39, no. 2, is a regular issue. 

You can access the issue online at JSTOR and Project MUSE using an institutional log-in:

The Scuola Superiore Meridionale invites applications for six 1-year (renewable for up to 3 years) postdoc fellowships in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples (Italy) for the academic year 2021-2022

Host Institution: Scuola Superiore Meridionale at the University of Naples Federico II, Napoli (Italy) Website: www.ssm.unina.it/en

Conditions:

Scholarship amount: € 35,000 per year (in Italy scholarships are almost tax exempted).

Extra research funds up to € 3,500 per year

World History Connected, a 14-year-old affiliate of the World History Association published by the University of Illinois Press (https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/index.html), is seeking papers for its Forum, a section of topically articles devoted to research and also the scholarship of teaching on the topic “Empires in World History” that are germane to the interdisciplinary field of world history.

Sociology of Islam

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Dear Colleagues,

I would like to inform you about the upcoming workshop “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th - 20th Centuries)”, co-organized by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna and the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) on September 27-30, 2021.