#  Cemal Kafadar 

Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies

Ph.D. McGill University

 

 

 



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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).



 

 

 





 

 

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