New Area Studies

Transottoman Perspectives
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1829-9
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 011, gebunden

Reihe: Transottomanica / Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken

The New Area Studies enable a rethinking of world history and a more critical approach to traditional historical writing. An additional factor contributing to the critical reflection on traditional area studies was the contemporary political context. We contend that there is a need for greater supra-regional integration and transboundary as well as cross-border perspectives within historical research. This process should be accompanied by the diversification of research within the traditional area studies disciplines and the adoption of an approach that considers regions from a cross-cultural perspective. The nine case studies presented in this volume exemplify the transottoman perspective in examining the intertwined history of Eastern, South-Eastern Europe and the Near and Middle East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conermann, Stephan

Gasimov, Zaur

Wagner, Veruschka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Conermann, Stephan
Stephan Conermann, PhD, is the Speaker of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn. His research interests include slaveries, narrative strategies in historiographic texts, transition periods, reconciliation processes, global history, and rule and power. His work is focused on the Mamluk and Delhi Sultanates, the Mughal and Ottoman Empires, and the Crossroads Area “Transottomanica.”

Wagner, Veruschka
Veruschka Wagner, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Department for Islamic Studies and Middle-Eastern Languages at the University of Bonn and Affiliated Researcher of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS). Her research focuses primarily on Ottoman slavery and dependencies, as well as late Ottoman and early Republican satire and caricatures.

Gasimov, Zaur
Zaur Gasimov, PhD has been co-leading the Faculty of Economics and Administration at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul on behalf of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) since the beginning of 2024. From 2009 to 2023, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, the Orient Institute Istanbul and the Department of East European History at the University of Bonn, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His academic focus is Soviet and Russian policy towards Turkey, Iran, and Egypt. He regularly comments on current politics in Russia and the Middle East for the BBC, RFI, ZDF, Voice of America and many other news outlets.