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Tuna Artun
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
002A Van Dyck Hall
16 Seminary Pl
New Brunswick NJ 08901
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
History Of Science
13th-18th Centuries
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Balkans
Islamic World
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Alchemy
Social & Cultural History Of Knowledge
Scientific Authority & Manuscript Cultures
Languages
Turkish (native)
Greek (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
MA | 2008 | History | Princeton University
MA | 2006 | History | Bogazici University
BA | 2001 | History & Economics | New York University
Abstracts
Phenomenal Spiritualism and the Medical Establishment in Late Ottoman Istanbul The Alchemical Corpus of Eshrefzade Ali Chelebi and the Sufi Circles of the Early Modern Ottoman World Forty Years of Disappointment: Osman Bilani's Majmua and 18th Century Alchemical Texts as Ego Documents From Najaf to Hyderabad: Reading Ottoman Alchemical Works in the Turn of the Twentieth-Century Deccan An anonymous notebook from seventeenth-century Istanbul and the popularization of alchemy Sheikh Ilyās b. ʿIsā Aḳḥiṣārī and his intellectual milieu