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Indiana University Bloomington
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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty : People

NAMEHakki Erdem Çıpa

  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Education

  • B.A. at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1994, Economics
  • M.A. at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997, History
  • M.Phil. at Birmingham University, Birmingham, England, 2000, Medieval History
  • Ph.D. at Harvard University, 2007, History and Middle Eastern Studies

Research Interests

  • History and historiography of the Ottoman Empire
  • Dissident movements, rebellions, succession struggles
  • Socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Empire
  • Feudalism
  • Agrarian societies of the late middle ages and the early modern era

Contact Information

ecipa@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 331
(812) 855-2233

Courses Recently Taught

  • Ottoman Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Modern Metropolis
  • Ten Sultans, One Empire: The Ottoman ‘Classical Age,’ 1300-1600
  • Religion and Revolutions
  • Introduction to Islamic Civilization

Publication Highlights

  • “Bir Defterin Anlattıkları: I. Selim Döneminin İlk Mevacib Defteri (TSMA D.2921-1)” (Notes on the First Salary Register of Selim I’s Reign), Filiz Çagman Festschrift (forthcoming, 2007).
  • Review of Heath Lowry’s The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003), The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies (MIT-EJMES) (Spring 2006).
  • “Contextualizing Sheikh Bedreddin: Notes on Halil b. Ismail’s Menakıb-ı Şeyh Bedreddin b. Isra‘il,” Şinasi Tekin Anısına: Uygurlardan Osmanlıya / In Memory of Şinasi Tekin: From the Uygurs to the Ottomans (Istanbul: Simurg Publications, 2005): 285-295.
  • “McNeill’in ‘Salgınlar ve Halklar’ı Üzerine Düşünceler” (Ideas on McNeill’s ‘Plagues and Peoples’), Toplumsal Tarih (Social History), October 1995: 21-26.