Ertuğrul Ökten
Ertuğrul Ökten
Position:
Post-doctoral Research Assistant on the ERC Project IMPAcT; Junior Research Fellow of Pembroke College
Faculty / College Address:
Oriental Institute / Pembroke College
Email:
ertugrul.okten@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Intellectual and religious movements in the later middle period, especially in the 15th century
- Scholarly networks in the Islamic world, 14th-15th centuries
- Cultural and intellectual capitals (Herat, Tabriz, Istanbul, and a growing interest in Cairo)
- Language and its consciousness as a part of intellectual history
- Contextualizing/making sense of intellectual history
Current Projects:
- Timurid Intellectual and Spiritual Contests: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (1414-1492)
- “Intellectual ramifications of Arabic instruction: Locating the Fawāʼid al-Żiyāʼiyya in the tradition of Arabic instruction.”
- “Reconstructing the Taftazānī-Jurjānī Debate.”
Courses taught in the past:
- Islamic Civilization
- History of Civilizations
- History of the Middle East
- Ottoman History
- The Modern Middle East
- Ottoman Turkish
- Modern Turkish
