Cemal Kafadar

Cemal Kafadar (born 1954) is the Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies at Harvard University. He is an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society.[1]

Kafadar graduated from Robert College, and received his PhD from the McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies in 1987 and taught for two years in Princeton's Near Eastern Studies department before going to Harvard.[2] Kafadar teaches seminars related to popular culture, hagiography and Ottoman historiography as well as the early modern history of the Middle East and Balkans,[3] and is a member of the editorial board of the Historians of the Ottoman Empire. He is a leading documentary critic and was a member of the jury of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in 2009.[4]

Selected publications
  • Kafadar, Cemal (1989). "Self and others: the diary of a dervish in seventeenth century Istanbul and first-person narratives in Ottoman literature". Studia Islamica. 69 (69): 121–150. doi:10.2307/1596070. JSTOR 1596070.
  • Kafadar, Cemal (1991). "On the purity and corruption of the janissaries". Turkish Studies Association Bulletin. 15 (2): 273–280. JSTOR 43385269.
  • İnalcık, Halil; Kafadar, Cemal, eds. (1993). Sülaymân the Second and His Time. Istanbul: Isis Press. ISBN 978-975-428-052-4.
  • Kafadar, Cemal (1995). Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20600-7.
  • Kafadar, Cemal (1999). "The question of Ottoman decline". Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review. 4 (1–2): 30–75.
  • Kafadar, Cemal (2009). Kim Var İmiş Biz Burada Yoğ İken Dört Osmanlı: Yeniçeri, Tüccar, Derviş ve Hatun (in Turkish). Istanbul: Metis. ISBN 978-975-342-706-7.
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References
  1. "Şeref Üyeleri". www.ttk.gov.tr (in Turkish). THS. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. "Harvard Gazette - Cemal Kafadar". Harvard Gazette. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-25. Retrieved 2009-11-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "nic.tr: alan adı duraklatılmış." www.altinportakal.org.tr. Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
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