Dr. Side Emre

Biography

Side Emre specializes in late medieval and early modern history, particularly focusing on the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2009. His book, "Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani Order: Power Brokers in Ottoman Egypt," published by Brill in 2017, explores the historical trajectory and socio-political cultural impact of the Khalwati-Gulshani order of dervishes on local and inter-regional communities within the pre-modern Muslim world. Emre's research integrates aspects of Near and Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and North African history, aiming to establish dialogues between medieval, early modernist, and modernist scholars across various disciplines. His current research interests include visual representations in Ottoman mystical texts, esoteric sciences in medieval and early modern Ottoman culture, Anatolian Turkish literature, and the intersections of law, heresy, and the intellectual cultural history of the Ottoman period, with particular focus on Sufism and its reflections on political and societal dynamics within the historical contexts of the Ottoman and Mamluk eras.

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