Cihan Y眉ksel
Cihan Y眉ksel
Associate Professor
Phone: (713) 743-TBA
Email: ecyuksel@central.uh.edu
Office: 541 Agnes Arnold Hall
CV
Dr. Cihan Y眉ksel is a specialist of Ottoman history. Her current work focuses mostly on the interactions between two major Muslim Empires, the Ottomans and the Mamluks. Her next major project explores the impact of fifteenth-century Ottoman court culture, politics, and networks on imperial politics and the images of sovereigns. Before joining the UH History Department, she was a faculty member at University of Texas at Dallas (2007-2015). During the academic year 2022-23, she serves as the Acting Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies.
Education
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Ph.D.: History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (2007).
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B.A.: Ko莽 University, Turkey (1999).
Teaching
Dr. Y眉ksel teaches courses on Ottoman Empire, comparative imperial histories with a particular emphasis on Ottoman and Mamluk empires, Islamic history, travel and knowledge in the medieval and early modern Islamic world.
Research Interests
Networks between medieval and Early Modern Muslim powers/societies; diplomacy; sovereignty; formation of perceptions and identities; imperial transitions; travel; Mediterranean history.
Selected Publications
Book:
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The Ottomans and the Mamluks: Imperial Diplomacy and Warfare in the Islamic World. London: I.B.Tauris, 2014.
- Turkish translation: Osmanl谋lar ve Memluklar: 陌slam D眉nyas谋nda 陌mparatorluk Diplomasisi ve Rekabet. Istanbul: Kitap Yay谋nevi, 2016.
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鈥淧atterns of Mobility between Ottoman and Mamluk Lands.鈥� In The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History. Edited by Reuven Amitai and Stephan Conermann. Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2019.
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鈥淣omadic Borders of Ottoman Provinces during the Mamluk-Ottoman Imperial Transition.鈥� In The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition. Edited by Stephan Conermann and G眉l 艦en. Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2017.
- 鈥淎ttempting to Understand the Language of Diplomacy between the Ottomans and the Mamluks.鈥� Archivum Ottomanicum 30 (2013): 247-69.
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鈥淥ttoman-Mamluk Relations and the Complex Image of Bayezid II.鈥� In Conqu锚te ottomane de l'Egypte (1517): arri猫re-plan, impact, 茅chos. Edited by Benjamin Lellouche and Nicholas Michel. Leiden: Brill, 2013.