Dr. Sara Nur Yıldız

Medieval Anatolia

Early Modern Ottoman History

Cultural History

Intellectual History

Religious History

Muslim-Christian Interaction

Islamization

Textual Production

Transfer of Knowledge

Ottoman Medicine

Anadolu Selçuklu Devleti

Davetli konuşmalar

2016 Şubat. “Islamization and the Ilkhanid Cultural Legacy in Late Fourteenth-century Western Anatolia: Textual Production at Aydınoğlu ‘İsa Bey’s Court”. Lecture Series: Transfer of Knowledge in the Turco-Iranian World. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

2011 “The Sultan Weds a Georgian Princess: Inter-Dynastic Marriage Ceremony, Bagratid Prestige, and the Seljuk Sultanate in the Mid-Thirteenth Century”. Tbilisi State University, Tiflis, Gürcistan.

2009 “The Rise and Fall of a Tyrant in Seljuk Anatolia, 1237-1238”. Institut für Turkologie, Freie Üniversität, Berlin, Almanya.

2007 “Ala al-Din Ata Malik Juvayni’s patronage of Seljuk history under the Ilkhanid Regime”. Sabanci University, Orhanlı-Tuzla, İstanbul.

2007 “Gendering the Ilkhanate: Exploring the ordu as the locus of royal women’s political and economic power”. “Genghis Khan and His Successors: the Mongol Empire” sergisi içinSakıp Sabancı Müzesi konferans serisi, İstanbul

2006 “Defending Islam in the Western Mongol Empire: A look at Juvayni’s Patronage of Ibn Bibi’s Dynastic History of the Anatolian Seljuks (1282)”. American Research Institute of Turkey (ARIT), İstanbul.

2006 “The Composition of Anatolian Seljuk Dynastic History under Ilkhanid Sovereignty: Juvayni’s Patronage of Ibn Bibi’s History of the Seljuks”. Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA), İstanbul.

2004 “Freeing Beylik History from Ottoman Stereotypes and Paradigms: Re-examining the Emergence of Karamanid Power According to the Persian Sources”. Orient-Institut Istanbul.

Mesleki Toplantılar ve Uluslararası Konferanslar

2016 “The Disease Landscape of Medieval Anatolia and the Early Modern Ottoman World”. Conference: “Disease and Disaster in Ottoman Anatolia”, Skilliter Centre of Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, 18–19 Mart.

2015 “Traveling Pharmaceutical Knowledge: Abridgements and Translations of Ibn al-Baytar’s Compendium of Simples (14^th-17^th centuries)”. Middle Eastern Studies Association of American, Annual Meeting, Denver, Co., Kasım.

2014 “Commentary Writing and the Intellectual Genealogies of Religious Texts in the Early Ottoman Tradition”. Middle Eastern Studies Association of American, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2013 “Revisiting the akhi phenomenon in medieval Anatolia: a historiographical essay and suggestions for new directions in research”. British Institute of Persian Studies Workshop: The Idea of Chivalry (Javanmardi), Londra, Mart 2013.

2013 “The amir system of the Anatolian Seljuk sultanate and its transformation under Mongol rule”. Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT) Symposium: Emperors, Sultans, Khans. Dynastic Rulership at the Crossroad between East and West, İstanbul, 22 Şubat 2013.

2011 “Towards historicizing Sufi communities in medieval Anatolia: reconsidering the dominant paradigms of syncretism, heterodoxy and high/low Islam”. Conference: The Alevi-Bektashi Communities in the Ottoman Geography: Historiography, Sources and Paradigms, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul.

2011 “The Development of a Turcophone Rūmī Culture in Western Anatolia in the Fourteenth Century: Aydınid and Germiyanid Patronage and the Ehl-i Rūm Scholars”. Middle Eastern Studies Association of American, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2010 “Persian verse shahname-style historical writing at the Ottoman court in the late fifteenth century: Firdawsi and Malik Ummi’s Shahnama”. The Shahnama Millenium Conference, Cambridge.

2009 “Possessing Kemah, Kilid-i Jahan (the Key to the World): Selim I’s conquest of fortresses along the Ottoman-Safavid frontier in the early sixteenth century”. Middle Eastern Studies Association of American, Annual Meeting, Boston.

2009 “Rivaling for the Khan’s favor: Seljuk-Armenian relations according Ibn Bibi’s discourse of conquest and loyalty”. Society for Armenian Studies, 35th Anniversary Conference, University of California, Los Angeles.

2008 “The Development of a Persian Literary Culture at the Seljuk Court in Konya: Ravandi’s instructions in adab (courtly behavior and culture) for Sultan Kaykhusraw I (1205)”. Middle Eastern Studies Association of American, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2008 “The Politics of Cosmology in Shukrullah’s Fifteenth-Century Ottoman World History”.

American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2007 “Guarding the Frontier: Conflict and Alliance among Latin Crusaders, Seljuks and Cilician Armenians, 1200-1216”. “The Eastern Mediterranean: Between Christian Europe and the Muslim Near East, 11^th-13^th Centuries”, Orient Institut Beirut/Istanbul ve German Historical Institute (Londra, Paris ve Roma) tarafından düzenlenen konferans, İstanbul.

2007 “Eastern Anatolia: A Valid Geographical Unit for the 14th and 15th Centuries?” Açılış konuşması. Konferans: At the Crossroads of Empire: 14^th-15^th Century Eastern Anatolia, Istanbul.

2005 “Persian Models and Ottoman Chronicles: Shukrullah’s Bahjat al-tavarikh, a Mid-Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Universal History and Persian Traditions of Historical Writing”, The Medieval Chronicle Conference, Reading.

2004 “Political Structures and the Exercise of Power in 13^th-century Seljuk Anatolia”. Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS), Second Biennal Conference of the Association of Persianate Societies, Erivan.

2002 “Persian as a Literary Means for Historical Composition during the Ottoman Period”. Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS), Second Biennal Conference, Duşanbe.

2002 “Persian Historical Writing in the Ottoman Empire”. Society for Iranian Studies (SIS), Fourth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, Bethesda, Maryland.

2002 “Reconceptualizing the Seljuk-Cilician frontier: Armenians, Latins and Turks in Conflict and Alliance during the Early 13^th Century”. American Historical Association (AHA), San Francisco.

Atölyeler, Uluslararası Seminerler ve Kolokyumlar

2015 “Hacı Paşa: An Anatolian Philosopher-Physician?” Inaugural Workshop of the International Associated Laboratory (LIA): “The Reception of Arabic Philosophy in the Ottoman Empire” 2–4 Kasım, İstanbul, sponsored by CNRS, Paris, Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes Istanbul ve Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi.

2015 “Anatolia under Mongol Rule and the Ilkhanid-Mamluk Conflict, 1260-1277”. Workshop: Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Middle Age, II: Ilkhanids in Anatolia, Koç Üniversitesi ve Vehbi Koç  Ankara Araştırma Merkezi (VEKAM), Ankara, 21–22 Mayıs 2015.

2015 “Seeking Perfection through Purity: Islamic Alchemy and Distillation (Kīmīyā wa Taqṭīr)”. Workshop: Recovery of Traditional Technologies I: A Comparative Study of Past and Present Fermentation and Associated Distillation Technologies in Eurasia and Their Roots, Salzburg, 10–13 Mayıs.

2014 “Aydınid Literary Patronage and Textual Communities of Fourteenth-century Western Anatolia”. Workshop: Literature and Intellectual Life in Islamic Anatolia in the 14th–15th Centuries: Historical, Social and Political Perspectives, Istanbul, Orient-Institut Istanbul, 12–13 Eylül.

2014 “Space and Conversion in Late-Medieval Anatolia”. Workshop: Natur und Kult in Anatolien, Deutsche Archaeologische Institut, Istanbul, 21–22 Mart.

2013 “Vernacularizing Sufi Knowledge in the Kırşehir Region: Gülşehri’s 14th-century Persian and Turkish Works in Verse”. Workshop: Reception of Islam in Anatolia, Istanbul, 6–7 Eylül 2013.

2010 “Post-Mongol pastoral polities in Eastern Anatolia in the Late Middle Ages”. Workshop: Spatial Dimensions of Power: Coexistence, Cooperation and Conflict in Eastern Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Northwestern Iran, 11^th-16^th centuries, Bamberg, 16–18 Nisan.

2009 “Adab for the sultan: Rāvandī and the Anatolian Inheritance of the Great Seljuk Sultanate’s Dynastic Legacy”. Workshop: Court and Society in Seljuk Anatolia, Orient-Institut Istanbul.

2008 “Ibn Bibi: Between Muslims and Mongols”. Kologyum, Orient-Institut Beirut, Beyrut.

2008 “Medieval History and Language Reform in Kemalist Turkey: Karamanoğlu Mehmed Bey and the Celebration of the Turkish Language Festival in Karaman Turkey, 1960-present”. Workshop: “Religion, Ethnicity and Contested Nationhood in the Former Ottoman Space”, İsveç Başkonsolosluğu, Istanbul ve Swedish Research Centre, İstanbul.

2008 “Language Politics in the Provinces: Karamanoğlu Mehmed Bey, the ‘father of Tukish” and the Turkish Language Festival”. Orient-Institut Istanbul.

2007 “Going beyond the vatan: a critique of Turkish nationalist historiography of the Seljuk, Karamanid and Ottoman periods”. Workshop: “A Post-Ottoman Historiography?” Düzenleyenler: Swedish Institute, Istanbul ve Danish Institute, Şam; yer: İsveç Konsolosluğu, İstanbul.

2007 “A View from the Periphery: Turkmen Resistance to the Ottoman Order in the Rough Cilician (İç-il) Frontier, 1468-1535”. Workshop: “Frontiers of the Ottoman World: Fortifications, trade, pilgrimage and slavery”, The British Academy sponsorluğunda, Londra.

2003 “Persian in the Service of the Sultan”. Early Ottoman History Lecture Series, Istanbul Bilgi University, İstanbul.

2001 “Re-reading Ibn Bibi as a Source for Early Karamanid History”. Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University, Cambridge.

2001 “Metaphorical Coherence, Narrative and the Byzantine Past in a Sixteenth-century Turkish Text: Shikari’s History of the Karamanids”. Medieval European Research Seminar, University of Manchester, Manchester.

2001 “Where was Kamar al-Din? Re-examining Seljuk Conquests and Karamanid Settlement along the Seljuk-Cilician Frontier”. Workshop: “Land and Power in Anatolia and the Balkans, ca. 1000–1700”. Düzenleyenler: University of Manchester ve the University of Birmingham; yer: University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

2001 “Examining the Historicity of Shikari’s History of the Karamanids”. Araştırma semineri, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester.

Kitaplar

The Seljuks of Anatolia: the Political Culture of Empire-Building on the Frontiers of the Muslim World. Edinburgh University Press (Islamic Empire Series, Netton yay. haz.). (Planlanan tamamlanma tarihi: 2017.)

Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia: the Politics of Conquest and History Writing, 1243-1282. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill 2017

Yayına Hazırlanmış Kitaplar

2016 (A. C. S. Peacock ile birlikte) Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Anatolia. (Istanbuler Texte und Studien 34) Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

2015 (A. C. S. Peacock ve Bruno de Nicola ile birlikte) Islam and Christianity in Mediaeval Anatolia. Surrey, UK: Routledge.

2013 (A.C.S Peacock ile birlikte) The Seljuks of Anatolia. Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. Karton kapaklı basım: 2015. (Türkçe yayın hakları Yapı Kredi Yayınları tarafından alınmış durumda.)

Dergi Yazıları

2016 “A Hanafi Law Manual in the Vernacular: Devletoğlu Yūsuf Balıḳesrī’s Turkish Verse Adaptation of the Hidāya–Wiqāya Textual Tradition for the Ottoman Sultan Murad II (827/1424)”. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (baskıda).

2014 “From Cairo to Ayasuluk: Hacı Paşa and the transmission of Islamic learning to western Anatolia in the late fourteenth century”. Journal of Islamic Studies 25, no. 3, 263-297.

2005 “Persian in service of the state: the role of Persophone historical writing in the development of an Ottoman imperial aesthetic”. Studies on Persianate Societies 2, 145-163.

Kitap Bölümlere

2016 “Aydınid Court Literature and the Formation of an Islamic Identity in Fourteenth-century Western Anatolia”. A. C. S. Peacock ve S. N. Yıldız (Haz.), Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Anatolia içinde. (Istanbuler Texte und Studien 34) Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 197-241.

2016 “Introduction”. A. C. S. Peacock ile birlikte. A. C. S. Peacock ve S.N. Yıldız (Haz.), Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Anatolia içinde. (Istanbuler Texte und Studien 34) Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 19-45.

2015 “Battling Kufr (Unbelief) in the Land of Infidels: Gülşehrī’s Early Fourteenth-century Turkish Adaptation of ‘Aṭṭār’s Manṭiq al-ṭayr.” A. C. S. Peacock, Sara Nur Yıldız and Bruno De Nicola (Haz.), Islam and Christianity in Mediaeval Anatolia içinde. Surrey: Routledge, 329-347.

2015 “Introduction.” A. C. S. Peacock ve Bruno De Nicola ile birlikte. A. C. S. Peacock, Sara Nur Yıldız ve Bruno De Nicola (Haz.), Islam and Christianity in Mediaeval Anatolia içinde. Surrey: Routledge, 1-20.

2013 “The rise and fall of a tyrant in Seljuk Anatolia: Saʿd al-Din Köpek’s reign of terror, 1237-8.” Robert Hillenbrand, A. C. S. Peacock ve Firuza Abdullaeva (Haz.), Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran. Art Literature and Culture From Early Islam to Qajar Persia. Studies in Honour of Charles Melville içinde. Londra ve New York: I.B. Taurus & Co, Ltd., 92-101.

2013 “Introduction.” A. C. S Peacock ve Sara Nur Yıldız (Haz.), The Seljuks of Anatolia. Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East içinde. Londra ve New York: I.B. Taurus & Co, Ltd., 1-22.

2013 “A nadīm for the Sultan: Rāvandī and the Rūm Seljuks.” A. C. S Peacock ve Sara Nur Yıldız (Haz.), The Seljuks of Anatolia. Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East içinde. Londra ve New York: I.B. Taurus & Co, Ltd., 91-111.

2013 “In the Proximity of Sultans: Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq, Ibn ‘Arabī and the Seljuk Court.” Haşim Şahin ile birlikte. A. C. S Peacock ve Sara Nur Yıldız (Haz.), The Seljuks of Anatolia. Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East içinde. Londra ve New York: I.B. Taurus & Co, Ltd., 173-205.

2012 “Ottoman historical writing in Persian, 1400-1600.” Charles Melville (Haz.), A History of Persian Literature. Vol. 10, Persian Historiography içinde. Londra ve New York: I.B. Taurus & Co, Ltd., 436-502.

2012 “Pastoral Polities in the Post-Mongol World: Contextualizing Eastern Anatolia within the Geographical and Political Dynamics of the Mongol Successor States in the Middle East.” Deniz Beyazid ve Simon Rettig (Haz.), At the Crossroads of Empires: 14^th and 15^th Century Anatolia içinde. Paris ve İstanbul: Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes Georges-Dumezil and De Boccard, 27-48.

2012 “Karamanoğlu Mehmed Bey: Medieval Anatolian warlord or Kemalist language reformer? Nationalist historiography, language politics and the celebration of the Language Festival in Karaman, Turkey, 1961-2008.” Jorgen Nielsen (Haz.), Religion, ethnicity and contested nationhood in the former Ottoman space içinde. Leiden: Brill, 147-170.

2011 “Manuel Komnenos Maurozomes and His Descendants at the Seljuk Court: The Formation of a Christian Seljuk-Komnenian Elite.” Stefen Leder (Haz.), Crossroads between Latin Europe and the Near East: Corollaries of the Frankish Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean (12^th to 14th Centuries) içinde. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 55-77.

2009 “Razing Gevele and Fortifying Konya: the Beginning of the Ottoman Conquest of the Karamanid Principality in South-Central Anatolia, 1468.” A. C. S. Peacock (Haz.), Frontiers of the Ottoman World içinde. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 307-329.

2005 “Reconceptualizing the Seljuk-Cilician Frontier: Armenians, Latins and Turks in Conflict and Alliance during the Early Thirteenth Century.” Florin Curta (Haz.), Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis: Frontiers in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages içinde. Turnhout, Belçika: Brepols Publishers, 91-120.

Ansiklopedi Maddeleri

2016 “Döger (Ghuzz)”. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3^rd edition (baskıda).

2011 “Şikârî”; “Şükrullâh”. Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi, Cilt 39, Istanbul: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Yayını.

2004 “Historiography. xi. Persian Historiography in the Ottoman Empire”. Encyclopaedia Iranica, 12, fasc. 4, 403-411.

Kitap Değerlendirmeleri

2015 Dissertation review, “Science and Society in Medieval Islam: Nasir al-Din Tusi and the Politics of Patronage” by Hadi Jorati. http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/12644

2015 Review of Edmund Herzig and Sarah Stewart (eds). The Age of the Seljuqs. London and New York: I.B. Taurus & Co., 2015. Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 2, no. 2. (baskıda).

2003 Review of Minna Rozen, A history of the Jewish community in Istanbul: the formative years, 1453–1566, H-Turk Review.

2002 Review of Angus Donal Stewart, The Armenian Kingdom and the Mamluks: War and Diplomacy During the Reigns of Het’um II (1289–1307), H-Medieval, The Medieval Review.

1995 Review of Refet Yinanc, Dulkadir Beyligi in al-’Usur al-Wusta (Bulletin of the Middle East Medievalists).