Cornell Fleischer is the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago

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Dr. Fleischer received his PhD from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1982. After leaving Princeton, Dr. Fleischer held teaching posts at Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

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 and the Ohio State University

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. In 1988, Dr. Fleischer was awarded a genius grant under the prestigious MacArthur Fellows Program

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. In 1993, Dr. Fleischer joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. Professor Fleischer focuses primarily on Ottoman history, specializing in the Age of Suleyman. Currently he is working on a major work on Suleyman the Lawgiver as well as a number of papers dealing with the time period. In addition, he has begun work on Apocalypticism and its relationship to his field of study. Professor Fleischer also sits on the editorial board of a number of publications, including the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History and the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Fleischer is also a past director of the University Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago

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 and a member of the editorial board of the Historians of the Ottoman Empire

Historians of the Ottoman Empire

Historians of the Ottoman Empire is a project intending to produce a ‘Bio-bibliographical Reference Work for Ottoman literature’, covering all Ottoman works. The editorial committee consists of Hakan Karateke and Cornell Fleischer from the University of Chicago, and Cemal Kafadar form Harvard...

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Recent Publications

• "Shadows of Shadows: Prophecy in Politics in 1530s Istanbul," International Journal of Turkish Studies 13 (2007): 51-62.

• "A Different Sort of Scholar: 'Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami (d. 1454) and the Science of Letters," Festschrift Hans Georg Majer (Munich, forthcoming, 2000).

• “Seer to the Sultan: Haydar-i Remmal and Sultan Süleyman,” in Cultural Horizons. A Festschrift in Honor of Talat S. Halman, ed. Jayne L. Warner. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001), pp. 290-99.

• "The Lawgiver as Messiah: The Making of the Imperial Image in the Reign of Süleymân," in Soliman le magnifique et son temps, ed. Gilles Veinstein (Paris: La Documentation Française, 1992), pp. 159-77

• "Imperialism and the Apocalypse, 1450-1550," (Annales, forthcoming).

• "Between the Lines: Realities of Scribal Life in the Sixteenth Century," in Studies in Ottoman History in Honour of V. L., eds. Colin Heywood and Colin Imber (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1994), pp. 45-61.

• "Secretaries Dreams: Augury and Angst in the Ottoman Scribal Service," Armagan: Festschrift fur Andreas Tietze. Prague, 1994.

• "From Şeyhzade Korkud to Mustafa Âli: Cultural Origins of the Ottoman Nasihatname," in IIIrd Congress on the Social and Political History of Turkey. Princeton University 24-26 August 1983, eds. Heath W. Lowry and Ralph S. Hattox (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1990), pp. 67-77.

• Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli (1541-1600). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.

See also

• Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago
  Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago
  The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago is a National Resource Center for the study of a region extending from Morocco in the West to Kazakhstan in the East. As a result, this Area Center covers some of the most important and controversial regions - including North...
  
  
• Islamic scholars

External links

• Center for Middle Eastern Studies website (University of Chicago)
• Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations page
• Department of History page