School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics & Near and Middle East Section

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School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Near and Middle East Section Senior Lecturer in Turkish Centre for Ottoman Studies Advisory Board Member Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies Member
Department
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics & Near and Middle East Section
Qualifications
BA, MA, PhD(Harvard)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
424
Email address
gd5@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
+44(0)20 7898 4344

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Language and literature; history

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Frontier epics: early Ottoman literature and language (influence of Persian and Greek); Balkan (especially Greek) Muslim literature (al Jamiada)

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Miss Senem Gökel Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: the case of Cyprus under Ottoman and British rules, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries
Seda İzmirli Karamanlı Theodosia Sophroniades: An Ottoman Greek and Circassian Female Intellectual Espousing Women’s Rights In Late Ottoman Istanbul
Ummugulsum Kurukol Riḥla: Interpreting the Islamic city through Muslim Travellers by revisiting the meaning of travel from the medieval period to early modern times.
Aydin Ozcandan An Islamic Visual Culture Analysis of Early Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Fountains and Their Epigraphs
James Scott The usage of Neo-Ottoman architectural styles in contemporary Turkish religious contexts

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Email
gd5@soas.ac.uk
Telephone
+44(0)20 7898 4344

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