Interests

Prof. Kafadar is interested in social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era. He teaches seminars on archival research and on popular culture. His latest publications include 'The Ottomans and Europe, 1400-1600' and a book on the rise of the Ottoman state.

Selected Publications

• "The Question of Ottoman Decline"
  in Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review
  (1999)
• Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995)
• Suleiman the Second and His Time edited with Halil Inalcik (1993)

 

Contact Info

Robinson Hall

Room l-01

35 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

kafadar@fas.harvard.edu

617.496.5389