Cemal Kafadar

Cemal Kafadar is a social and cultural historian of the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the late medieval and early modern era. He teaches courses on Ottoman history, urban space, travel, popular culture, cinema, with a particular interest in the literary and popular history of Istanbul and its denizens. He is the author or editor of a number of volumes, including Treasures of Knowledge: an Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (Brill, 2019), Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (University of California Press, 1995), and Suleiman the Second and His Time (Isis Press, 1993).