Crafting History
Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar
It would not be an overstatement to say that Cemal Kafadar has transformed the field of Ottoman history. As a result of his pathbreaking books and articles, the field is experiencing a turn within itself as well as recasting its relationship with world history. This volume acts as a tribute to Kafadar and the important interdisciplinary work he has both done and inspired in the field. In line with the intellectual pluralism that Kafadar has cultivated over his career, readers will find a number of articles engaging with a wide range of questions, approaches, perspectives, and sources across Ottoman history. Kafadar's students and friends, individually or in pairs, researched and crafted contributions to this volume with a variety of conceptual premises, theoretical approaches, and interpretive tools to celebrate his thirty years of teaching, research, and mentorship, in addition to the overwhelming generosity of his intellectual and personal engagement.
Rachel Goshgarian is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College. She completed her Ph.D. under Cemal Kafadar’s supervision at Harvard University in 2008. Her first monograph, The City in Late Medieval Anatolia: Inter-faith Interactions and Urbanism in the Middle East, will be published in 2023.
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi is Associate Professor of Middle East and World History at Northeastern University, Boston. She completed her Ph.D. under Cemal Kafadar’s supervision at Harvard University in 2003. She is a social and intellectual historian of the nahda and the late Ottoman period, and the author of The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914 (2010).
Ali Yaycıoğlu is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. He studied under Cemal Kafadar at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2008. He is the author of Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (2016).
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