Omer Topal
Graduate Associate
Near Eastern Studies
Princeton University
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Omer Topal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His research interests include the nineteenth century Ottoman modernization, social and political history of the Middle East, Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. His articles appeared in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Turkish Studies. His contribution to the inaugural Conference of the Association for Global Political Thought, "Ottoman Internationalism" is published in International History Review.
Selected publications
- Article · 2024 Rethinking Turanism beyond Expansionism Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Argues that Turanism was not only expansionist but was also a modern idea of solidarity and sovereignty.
- Article · 2024 The Ālūsī Family between Baghdad and Istanbul: Imperial Connections and the Development of Salafi Commitments Die Welt des Islams The Alusi family of Baghdad: Salafi scholars who held office within the late Ottoman state.
- Article · 2023 Ottoman internationalism The International History Review Presented at AGPT 2022
- Article · 2021 Friday sermons and the complexities of standardization in the late Ottoman Empire British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
- Article · 2021 The politics of male circumcision in the late Ottoman Empire Middle Eastern Studies
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