Research Terms
Middle Eastern Studies Turkish Studies European Studies Mediterranean Studies Intellectual History Social History Modern History History of Religion Protestantism Sociology of Religion International Studies East-West Relations
Keywords
Christian-Muslim Relations Government And Society Immigration History Islamic Identities Modern Middle East Ottoman Empire Political Violence Turkey And Europe Us In The Middle East
Monograph and Edited Volumes
2018 |
Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire. Part of the McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion Series. Chicago, Kingston, London, Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. • 04/2016. Winner of the Sabanc? International Research Award • 10/2018. Winner of the Award to Scholarly Publications Program • 07/2019. Public interview with the author at New Books Network • 11/2020. Turkish version of the book in press with Tima? Yay?nlar? • Reviewed in: |
2017 |
Once upon a Time America and the Turks: Political, Social, Religious, and Commercial Exchanges. Istanbul: Libra Books [as editor of the Turkish volume, Bir Zamanlar Amerika ve Türkler: Siyasi, Sosyal, Dini ve Ticari Temaslar]. |
2013b |
Clockwork Game: The Illustrious Career of a Chess-Playing Automaton. By Jane Irwin. Michigan: Malloy (co-editor of this graphic novel, a widely accessible work that narrates Muslim perceptions in Europe and U.S. based on a true story of the world’s first chess-playing machine named the Turk). |
2013a |
Black Pearl and White Tulip: A History of Ottoman Africa. Istanbul: Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (editor of the English version). |
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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (*) and Invited Book Chapters
2021c |
* Dogs and Caravan: State Regulations and Evangelical Literature in the Middle East (under review). |
2021b |
* Voices of Unchained Women in a Turkish Tavern: A Vignette of Hüseyin Rahmi’s 1924 Novella. Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature (with Janna Tamargo, under review). |
2021a |
* Myth of the Eternal State: Outlaws, Outsiders, and the Ottoman Search for Order. The Journal of Historical Sociology (invited and refereed; forthcoming). |
2017d |
So far yet so close: Ottoman-U.S. rapprochement. In Emrah Sahin, ed., Once upon a Time America and the Turks: Political, Social, Religious, and Commercial Exchanges [Bir Zamanlar Amerika ve Türkler: Siyasi, Sosyal, Dini ve Ticari Temaslar]. Istanbul: Libra Books, 75-88. |
2017c |
America and the Turks in the past tense. In Emrah Sahin, ed., Once upon a time America and the Turks [Bir Zamanlar Amerika ve Türkler]. Istanbul: Libra Books, 15-21. |
2017b |
Surely they will convert: Americans from an Islamist perspective. In Emrah Sahin, ed., Once upon a time America and the Turks [Bir Zamanlar Amerika ve Türkler]. Istanbul: Libra Books, 43-53. |
2017a |
One state one nation: A socio-political comparison of early America and modern Turkey. In Emrah Sahin, ed., Once upon a time America and the Turks [Bir Zamanlar Amerika ve Türkler]. Istanbul: Libra Books, 145-69 (with Timothy Roberts. |
2016 |
Money, Power, and the Bible: America, the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans [Para, ?ktidar ve ?ncil: Amerika, Osmanl? ve Balkanlar]. In Sava? Kafkasyal?, ed., Islam in the Balkans: From Times of Glory to Times of Humility. Ankara: Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency, vol. 4, 101-18. |
2014 |
* Sultan’s America: Lessons from Ottoman Encounters with the United States. Journal of American Studies of Turkey 39: 55-76 (invited but refereed). |
2012d |
Ottoman Society. In Andrea Stanton, et al., eds, Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. California: SAGE, vol. 1: 185-90. |
2012c |
Millet System. In Andrea Stanton, et al., eds, Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. California: SAGE, vol. 1: 181-3. |
2012b |
Institutions: Capitulations. In Andrea Stanton, et al., eds, Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. California: SAGE, vol. 1: 177-9. |
2012a |
Ottoman Decline and Fragmentation. In Andrea Stanton, et al., eds, Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. California: SAGE, vol. 1: 172-4. |
2010 |
* Construction of National Identities in Early Republics: A Comparison of the American and Turkish Cases. The Journal of the Historical Society 10 (4): 507-31 (with Timothy Roberts). |
2009 |
Review Article: Jewish Emigration to Turkey in the 1930s. International Journal of Turkish Studies 15: 115-9. |
2008b |
Home Away from Home: Early Turkish Migration to the United States Reflected in the Lives of Bayram Mehmet and HazimVasfi. In Kemal Karpat and Deniz Balgam??, eds, Turkish Migration to the United States: From Ottoman Times to the Present. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 87-101. |
2008a |
An Ottoman traveler’s view of Islam in the United States [Bir Seyahatnamenin I????nda Amerika ve ?ttihad-? ?slam: Mirza Abdurrahim Efendi’nin Amerika’da ?slamiyeti]. Klavuz 48: 97-103. |
2007d |
Thinking Religion Globally, Acting Missionary Locally: Last Century’s American Missionary Experience in the Near East. World History Bulletin 23: 33-6. |
2007c |
Prayer, faith, and holy professions. In ?lber Ortayl? and Bayram Bilge Tokel, eds, Islamic Culture and Civilization in Anatolia [Anadolu’da ?slam Kültür ve Medeniyeti]. Ankara: Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs, 28-32. |
2007b |
Educational institutions in republican Turkey. In ?lber Ortayl? and Bayram Bilge Tokel, eds, Islamic Culture and Civilization in Anatolia. Ankara: Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs, 165-76. |
2007a |
Daily life in Anatolia. In ?lber Ortayl? and Bayram Bilge Tokel, eds, Islamic Culture and Civilization in Anatolia. Ankara: Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs, 75-81. |
2006b |
* I am not Collecting Money like Apples from Trees: Case Studies of Two Turks Who Shared a Common American Past. International Journal of Turkish Studies 12: 83-96. |
2006a |
Review Article: American-Turkish Relations in Retrospect. International Journal of Turkish Studies 12: 195-8. |
Book Reviews
2021c |
Violence and Militants: From Ottoman Rebellions to Jihadist Organizations, by Baris Cayli. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Maydan Reviews (invited). |
2021b |
Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire, by Richard Antaramian. California: Stanford University Press. Journal of Church and State (invited). |
2021a |
Protestants, Gender, and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria, by Deanna Womack. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Maydan Reviews (invited). |
2020 |
Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925, by Stacy Fahrentold. New York: Oxford University Press. Tropics of Meta: Historiography for the Masses |
2019c |
American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Missionary Narrative, 1820-1898, by Hami Gumus. Bielefeld: Transcript. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 88 (2): 552-3. |
2019b |
The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History, by Cemil Aydin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Maydan Reviews |
2019a |
America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture, and Political Alliances, by Ali Erken. London: I.B.Tauris. Nazariyat Journal of History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences 5 (1): 231-5. |
2013b |
Localizing Islam in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands, by Ahmet Yükleyen. New York: Syracuse University Press. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 30 (2): 112-5. |
2013a |
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa, by Sebouh Aslanian. California: University of California Pres. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 56: 309-11. |
2009 |
In Alternatives International Journal; short reviews of the titles as follows:
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2007b |
The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, by David Abernethy. New Haven: Yale University Press. World History Connected 43 (3): 17 pars. |
2007a |
The Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Kirsten Schulze. London: Longman. World History Connected 43 (3): 17 pars. |
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Member; 2020 - present
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Member; 2018 - present
Modern Greek Studies Association, Member; 2015 - present
American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages, Member; 2012 - present
Turkish Cultural Foundation, Fellow; 2010 - present
International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Member; 2008 - present
Middle East Studies Association, Member; 2007 - present
American Studies Association of Turkey, Member; 2006 - present
World History Association, Member; 2004 - present
Delivering Justice in a Multi-Religious City: An Argument from Islamicate; Invited talk; Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies; 2020
Debating European Identities: Muslim Athletes in Focus; Invited talk; Institute for Learning in Retirement; 2019
Channeling a Forked-Tongue: A Time-honored Muslim Response to European Modernity; Invited talk; Penn State University-Abington; 2019
Missionaries and Traitors: Turkish-US Hostage Diplomacy; Invited talk; Royal Military College of Canada; 2018
Elephant in the Classroom: New Perspectives on Teaching Islam and Europe; Invited talk; New Look at the Old World Daytona; 2015
Wigs and Figs: Significance of the Bostonians in the Mediterranean World; Invited talk; Turkish Consulate General Boston; 2017
Year: | 2019 |
Link Address: | https://newbooksnetwork.com/emrah-sahin-faithful-encounters-authorities-and-american-missionaries-in-the-ottoman-empire-mcgill-queens-up-2018/ |
Keywords: | Middle East; US; Islam; Christianity; Ottoman Empire |
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Duration: | 01:09:43 |