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Morgan Sinan Tufan
Stanford University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
I am studying early modern Ottoman and Safavid empires at Stanford University. I started my program in 2016. My research focuses on the formation of the Ottoman-Safavid borderland in the sixteenth century. I am particularly interested in Mongol and Timurid conceptions of political allegiances and their afterlives in Ottoman, Safavid, and Kurdish notions of sovereignty. My other research interests include Ottoman bureaucratic networks in the Arab Peninsula and the Indian Ocean as well as the anthropology of criminal justice in early modern Eurasia.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Ottoman Studies
Iranian Studies
Kurdish Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Kurdistan
Indian Ocean Region
Central Asia
Specialties
Ottoman-Safavid
Kurdistan
Borderlands
Languages
French (native)
Persian (fluent)
Turkish (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
Russian (elementary)
Education
MA | 2013 | Histoire et Civilisations | EHESS
BA | 2010 | Political Science | Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Abstracts
Allegiance and Autonomy in Early Modern Kurdistan One Sovereign, Two Timelines: Turkī dating in early Safavid Iran "Otlu Sulu Yol Var Mı?" The Role of Cartographic Intelligence in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Expansion