Derin Terzioğlu

PhD., 1999, Harvard University

(90) (212) 359 6964

 

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Research Interests: 

Ottoman history, history of early modern Islam, social and political history of religion, history of Sufism, history of books and reading, history of political thought, history of childhood

Research Projects: 

OTTOCONFESSION - ERC Horizon 2020   "Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the Entangled Histories of Confession Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-17th Centuries"  (Completed)

Teaching: 

HIST 320 Ottoman History 1590-1790

HIST 58Y SP. TP. Ottoman Manuscript Culture

HIST 222 Ottoman History 1300-1600

HIST 586 SP. TP. Sufism and Sunni Revivalism in the Ottoman Empire 1580-1800

 

Selected Publications: 

Books

Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu (eds), Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community-Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th Centuries. Gorgias Press, 2022

Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu (eds), Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750, Islamic History and Civilizations Series 177. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Articles

Hülya Canbakal, Meredith Quinn, Derin Terzioğlu, “Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620-1840.” In Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi and Ali Yaycıoğlu (eds), Festschrift for Cemal Kafadar, The Ottoman Studies series, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022 (Forthcoming), 145-176.

Derin Terzioğlu, “Confessional Ambiguity in the Confessional Age: Philo-Alidism, Sufism and Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, 1400-1700.” In Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu (eds), Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives onthe Politics of Piety and Community-Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th Centuries. Gorgias Press, 2022, 563-624.

Derin Terzioğlu, “Bid‘at, Custom and the Mutability of Shar‘i Judgments: the Debate on the Congregational Performance of Supererogatory Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire,” in Akşin Someland Seyfi Kenan (eds), Realms of Transformation in the Ottoman World: Articles in Honor of Metin Kunt, Leiden: Brill, 2021, 323-366.

Derin Terzioğlu, “Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-Shar‘iyya and the Early Modern Ottomans.” In Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu (eds), Historicizing Sunni Islam in the OttomanEmpire, c. 1450-c. 1750, Islamic History and Civilization series, Leiden: Brill, 2020, 101-154. 

Derin Terzioğlu, “Power, Patronage and Confessionalism: Ottoman Politics as Seen through the Eyes of a Crimean Sufi, 1580-1593.” In Marinos Sariyannis (ed.), Halcyon Days in Crete IX, Political Thought and Practice in the Ottoman Empire, Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 2019, 149-186.

Derin Terzioğlu, "Where İlm-i Hal Meets Catechism: Islamic Manuals of Religious Instruction in the Ottoman Empire in the Age of Confessionalization," Past and Present 220 (2013), 79-114. (Indexed by SSCI and AHCI)

Derin Terzioğlu, "How to Conceptualize Ottoman Sunnitization: A Historiographical Discussion," Turcica 44 (2012-3), 301-338.